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Controversy, violence and the vagina make their way to UVSC for the fifth year in a row, presenting The Vagina Monologues.

The United States Air Force Academy’s Latter-day Saint Cadet Choir gave a great concert honoring both our country and the LDS church. They sang some beautiful songs, including the national anthem, “The U.S. Air Force,” “I Know That My Redeemer Lives,” “Praise to the Man,” and “Come Thou Fount.” The students also enjoyed a piano solo of the song “I Stand All Amazed.”

Kiddus Yohannes, the former student who was arrested June 2007 on charges of purchasing guns illegally and unlawfully possessing his roommates debit card, was convicted on Feb. 15 and may face life in the custody of immigration officials.

In 1908, famed sociologist Thomas F. O’Dea published a monumental work on the LDS church titled THE MORMONS, a commentary that is now a staple in the collections of many contemporary Mormon theologists, researchers and critics. In celebration of the publication’s 50th anniversary, UVSC’s Behavioral Science department will host an on-campus conference titled “Thomas F. O’Dea’s THE MORMONS: A Reconsideration Fifty Years Later.”

Each year a local beneficiary is chosen and spotlighted. The beneficiaries of The Vagina Monologues ticket sales have been Turning Point at UVSC, Promise for Women and Children, the Donner/Galbraith Scholarship, House of Hope, and this year’s Center for Women and Children in Crisis.

Across the United States, schools join together to celebrate the National Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month. The month of February is used yearly to promote and inform students about the benefits of CTE programs. UVSC is no exception.

July 1, UVSC will take the next step in its evolution, becoming the newest university in the state. This long anticipated upgrade has prompted a lot of questions within the student body, and most of all they are asking, “How much will this cost me?”

New York Times deputy foreign editor, Ethan Bronner, spoke on campus last Monday in a speech titled, “War and Terror: How the New York Times Covers Today’s Big Global Conflicts.”

When the new Utah Transit Authority express bus route 808 began last fall, not only did students start taking the route, but faculty and staff members started to participate as well.