Reading Time: 2 minutes As a college student, many opportunities unique to students become available, especially when it comes to traveling. One of the most popular destinations in the United States is the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. Although D.C. is defined by a rich cultural heritage, the political center of our country offers many alternative attractions most tourists seem […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Opportunities come in many different packages, and for Kevin Bowden, a digital media major here at UVU, his latest opportunity came just in time for Christmas. In mid-December he was fortunate enough to win the “Creative Concept Award” in the 2009 Utah Film Commission “Spot On” Commercial Contest. The commercial is entitled “Utah: Paint Your […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes America, a country seen by other nations as a world power, has for many reasons attracted millions of international students to come and further their education. These students come with many expectations and the hope that America is what they really imagined it to be. They are often shocked with how the American culture varies from […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Involving both innovative percussion and dancing, Provo will finally be able to experience the international phenomenon known as Stomp. For almost two decades, the group has thrilled and astounded its audiences with intensely creative, choreographed percussion utilizing everything from playing cards, to brooms, to that favorite urban childhood instrument, the trash can. It may sound […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s very probable that anyone reading this article has at some point in their life played a Super Mario game. The tale of the portly Italian plumber and his never-ending quest to save the princess of a fungal kingdom from a marauding dragon-turtle and his army of flying turtles and fire-spitting piranha plants is … […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s been a big decade for comic books, and there is plenty of amazing stuff to pick from when looking for the decade’s best. It’s no easy task to sort through ten years’ worth of comics, but if you did, one title consistently rises to the top of even the staunchest critics’ “best of” list. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Being the connoisseur of new-age narcissism that I am, I delight in making my yearly New Years Rezes. With the beginning of a new year, we have a prime opportunity to change ourselves for the better and reach the goals in our life that we just haven’t yet been able to attain. Here are just […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Try harder. —Meggie Woodfield To plan a trip for this summer covering most of Asia and tell everyone I know about how cool it is going to be. —Trent Bates Learn to play the harmonica. —Emma Hunt Graduate this year. Or next. Probably next. Or maybe I’ll drop out. Yeah, I’ll drop out. My goal […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It is the year two thousand and ten, in the far-flung future of a distant past. Armed gangs of criminals run the streets of the nation’s largest cities. Democracy has become gridlocked as partisan politics thinly veil the machinations of the politicians’ corporate overlords. The poor have no voice, the rich have no souls, and […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I was supposed to be a French-speaking guitarist with a love for swimming by December 2009. Instead I was an English-speaking girl with no musical talent whatsoever and who swims like a stone. In other words, the resolutions I made last New Year’s Day of learning how to speak French, play the guitar, and swim […]