Masters of Business Administration

October 12, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute With the growth-oriented environment of Utah’s community, more higher education classes and programs are becoming available. One such program is the new Masters in Business Administration program.With two tracks in Management and Accounting, the new program will be headed by Dr. Taggart Ford Frost. Though the Woodbury School of Business has been on campus helping […]

Law School Anyone?

October 12, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes For many UVU students planning on continuing their education after their bachelors, there is help on campus from councilors able to point them in the right direction. But for those students planning on attending law school after graduation, they have an expert at their beck and call. UVU is the proud home to one of […]

Help families in Africa with a few clicks a day

October 12, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Abe Niederhauser came up with the idea for Ads4Africa this past summer because he wanted to find a way to help people now. “I have always had a desire to help people in need, but I thought it would be something I would do when I was older and wealthier,” said Niederhauser. According to the […]

Stick it to student housing

October 12, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Between classes, work, relationships and extra-curricular activities, students hardly have time to breathe, let alone fight apartment complexes for their rights. Without sufficient time and without legal knowledge, students are often cheated out of what they are legally entitled to. From not fulfilling maintenance requirements to ignoring requests for deposit checks, student housing often takes […]

Top eight best 80s love songs

October 6, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute 8. Love of my Life – Queen 7.Without You – Motley Crue 6. “November Rain – Guns and Roses 5. Wicked Game – Chris Isaak 4. I Just Called to Say I Love You – Stevie Wonder 3. Endless Love – Diana Ross and Lionel Richie 2. Smooth Operator – Sade 1. Careless Whisper – […]

Putting the fun in the factorial function

October 6, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Picture this. You’re sitting in your math class while the professor is explaining order of operations  — and you actually GET it. Don’t think it’s possible? Would it help if your professor was wearing leopard skin boxers over his pants? Mathematics professor Ben Moulton thinks it might. Moulton believes that every student has a different […]

Love, or something like it

October 6, 2009

Reading Time: 3 minutes I should have known when she walked into my aikido class that she would be the one to break my heart. Let me tell you about the woman who ruined my life and my summer. I was filling in as instructor one week in May, while Sensei Jeff was away auditioning for Deadliest Catch. Jeff […]

Stimulant abuse nationwide

October 6, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Dr. Sean Esteban McCabe and colleagues at the University of Michigan and Harvard University analyzed the answers from the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, which in 2001 surveyed 10,904 randomly selected students enrolled at 119 colleges across the United States. Overall, four percent of the respondents reported having taken a stimulant medication […]

The trick of the fix

October 6, 2009

Reading Time: 3 minutes “I’ll take a little anxiety and insomnia if it means getting a good grade point average,” Lisa comments matter-of-factly. Lisa, a current Utah Valley University student, sounds similar to the majority of her peers. Who in college hasn’t distressed over deadlines or pulled an all-nighter cramming for that Biology final? What’s different about Lisa’s situation is where her anxiety […]

30 days of ‘ween

October 5, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ello all, it’s that time again. Every year around this period, I start feeling it in my body. Cramps, irritability, anxiety, mood swings, angry outbursts and tender mamas are all signs that my favorite holiday – I like to call it ‘ween – is here. I hear some of you dissenters whispering that it’s too […]