Reading Time: 2 minutes Many UVU groups, clubs, teams and activities supply resident students with funding for their education as support and reward for their participation and achievement. However, non-residential students are not allowed to receive scholarships and waivers from the University for participating in these same activities, even if they are just as deserving and qualified as a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Walking through the west entrance to the bookstore with its new pseudo renovations is like wandering through a wasteland of a post-apocalyptic school supplies. There are random piles of mismatched notebooks, multipacks of mechanical pencils, and foreign-made hoodies bearing our blessed Willy the Wolverine. It’s a little disheartening and feels more like entering a Salvation […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It would seem that experiences of failure are honed during the golden college years. This is doubly true when making and inevitably breaking New Year’s resolutions. This year, your formula of failure should be in the form of a new club. There are many clubs to rummage through and successfully fail at participating fully, but […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes In an executive order, Governer Gary Herbert added insult to injury by heaping an additional three percent budget cut onto Utah’s higher education budget for 2010. More cuts are possible depending on what the state’s revenue numbers say come February. All told, UVU’s 2010 budget will loose approximately $2 million. This, of course, does not […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week, a group of seven prospective Goshute students visited campus as part of an effort by Children First Utah, a non-profit charitable organization, to encourage these students to graduate high school and explore academic opportunities as multicultural students at Utah colleges. Although on the rise since 2005, according to the National Center of Education […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes For students preparing to enter the professional work force, working abroad is an avenue that is often overlooked. Those who speak a foreign language, have an interest in international business or finance and enjoy a challenge, may possibly consider job searching outside of the United States. What may have seemed a daunting task 10 or […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Editor’s Pick of the Week: Every Monday night until the end of April, Muse Music will be showing a free music documentary film. This Monday they will be showing THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON. Come watch this compelling documentary that won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival and Best […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The men’s basketball team played the Fighting Sioux of North Dakota in its second Great West Conference game of the season, losing 67-62. This was North Dakota’s first conference game and they came into the game with a dismal record of 2-14 overall, losing 11 of its last 12. However, don’t let the record fool […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes First place visual arts Artist: A group effort by the Water Media I classes of Jana Parkin Medium: Watercolor collage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “She put 2 inch by 2 inch pieces of paper in a bowl, had us each pick one out and told us it was our final project. We didn’t […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Velour Live Music Gallery (or, alternatively for BYU students, “The Velour”) has been a local treasure ever since it first opened its doors in January 2006. My memories of the venue stretch back to Fall 2005, when a bunch of local musicians, myself included, got together to help Velour owner Corey Fox renovate his newly […]