Reading Time: 2 minutes Ryan Dangerfield | Staff Writer | @ryandanger23 Testing requires confidence. The more confident a student is about a test, the better he or she is likely to do. However, confidence can be there one moment and gone the next. The Testing Center should be a place that reaffirms confidence when taking a test. It allows […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Photos by Brooke Morrill Except for the students who have been lucky enough to go there, a lot of the student body has no idea that three hours south of campus is hidden gem of UVU’s. Tucked away in the vast expanse of the Capitol Reef National Park is UVU’s field station, where students and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ryan Dangerfield | Staff Writer | @ryandanger23 In the five years since Utah Valley University created its public relations chapter, UVU has begun to receive national attention for the public relations program. Since UVU does not have the major selling points other areas of the nation can use when attracting conferences, UVU Public Relations […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Carrie Laudie | Staff Writer | @carrielaudie When the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics and English literacy were released on June 2, 2010 they became a hotly debated topic. There has been a lot of information going around the internet about the frustration parents, and some teachers are feeling about its implementation […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tim Castaneda, Sports Writer, @xTIMBOxSLICEx UVU men’s soccer concluded its first regular season of home matches for the program in big fashion as it defeated Houston Baptist University by a score of 3-0 Sunday afternoon at Clyde Field. UVU’s captain Karson Payton proved to be a huge factor in the match as he lead his […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf Monday night was the second alt-J concert at the Complex in Salt Lake, and they have developed a cult following. Fans threw up the band’s sign (a triangle with your pointer fingers and thumbs). It’s a tribute to the band’s name; press alt + J on a Mac […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf Watching bands play at Kilby Court is sort of like watching a friend’s band play in their garage; it’s a small, intimate venue. Desert Noises, a band from Provo, opened the Apache Relay and Wild Feather concert at Kilby on October 21. They have been touring – seemingly […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor |@tiffany_mf Somini Sengupta, the United Nations bureau chief for the New York Times, spoke about Ebola, ISIS, the Syrian war and other global crises at Utah Valley University on October 29. She had been a foreign correspondent in Liberia in 2003 and told the story of the civil war […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor |@tiffany_mf Dr. Emily Hoffman and Speaker of the House of Representatives Becky Lockhart (R-Provo) spoke about perception and working relationships in the workplace, and verbal and non-verbal cues at Utah Valley University as the second installment of the UVU’s Utah Women & Leadership Project Talk Like A Girl series […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Rinamay Rhoten | Staff Writer | @rinamaylopez On Monday, October 20 and Tuesday, October 21, Utah Valley University students viewed an issue that affects our entire community – domestic violence. The Clothesline Project hang lines of shirts across an entire room to bring awareness of abuse in our community. Around 1,515 people attended this […]