Reading Time: 4 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | Deputy Managing Editor | @tiffany_mf The Peace & Justice Studies and the Integrated Studies departments at Utah Valley University joined forces to host a symposium entitled, “Terrorist Violence and Free Expression: France and Charlie Hebdo.” The symposium held on Jan. 26 in the Sorenson Student Center, included presentations about terrorist violence, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tiffiany Frandsen | Deputy Managing Editor | @tiffanymf Utahns gathered to memorialize Becky Lockhart’s life at the Utah State Capitol building on Thursday, Jan. 22. Former Utah House Speaker Lockhart, the first female to hold the position, died on Saturday, Jan. 17 from a brain disorder, Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease. To honor all of the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Carrie Laudie | News Editor | @carrielaudie UVU’s Office of Internation Affairs and Diplomacy is sponsoring a lecture from Rudolph “Rudy” Moise, Ambassador at large for the Republic of Haiti. The lecture will be held in the Sorenson Center 206bc at 11:30 a.m. Moise was born in Port-Au-Prince and moved to the United States at […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer | [email protected] Technology is everywhere, from corresponding with the internet to helping our computer, there’s always something new cropping up. But alas, I can’t list them all. Instead, I’ll just list three. NUMBER 3 -Skype’s live translator service You might have already heard about this feature, but if […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ryan Dangerfield | Staff Writer | @ryandanger23 Photo Credit: Gabi Campbell Over a thousand students and community members crowded into the Grand Ballroom at Utah Valley University on Dec. 10 to hear Elizabeth Smart speak about her kidnapping and her struggle to get back to her family. “Everyone has problems, in fact I do […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The old adage “Talk is cheap” is a decent place to start if we want to understand the growing divide between slacktivism and activism. Slacktivism is defined as actions performed via the Internet in support of a political or social cause but regarded as requiring little time or involvement, e.g., signing an online petition or joining a campaign […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Gabi Campbell UVU’s Peace and Justice Studies club has organized a book drive to help create a Peace Library in the Pax Christi Community and Peace Center in Citi Solei, Haiti. Pax Christi means “peaceful Christ” and is an international Catholic Center. It is located in Citi Solei which is a suburb of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Brooke Morrill “Please pass the salt” is not code for “please pass the pepper”. But sometimes it seems to be taken as such. No, I’m not really referring to condiments; I’m referring to how well we take breakups. For example, when someone says they want it to be over, it means it is […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf I had the pacific pizza, which is pineapple and ham. How boring of me, when there are choices like the CCB, which is chicken and bacon bits, or the zim, which is a pizza with sauerkraut. The cheese was so a melty and hot that it set the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kyle Bruderer, Sports Writer Matt Baiamonte, Sports Brodcaster Valley Episode 3 Yes you’ve missed it. The podcast on all things UVU Sports is back.