Reading Time: 2 minutes There comes a time when you’re hit once again with reality. Not the reality of school, work or even life — but with something greater and more terrible. That is what UVU professor Laura Hamblin experienced this last year. Hamblin spoke on Sept. 16 as part of Ethics Week and drew a large crowd as the aisles and walls were packed to capacity and beyond.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Because two pedestrians were hit by a car on campus this past week, UVU Review has compiled a list of pedestrian and driver tips: Pay attention to your surroundings. Hold hands while crossing the street. Look both ways before crossing a road. Do not jaywalk: use sidewalks and crosswalks.

Reading Time: < 1 minute In response to Hurricane Ike’s destroying sections of the Gulf Coast, two Utah organizations are stepping in to help. Smith’s Food & Drug Store has teamed with the Mountain Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross to accept donations for its Disaster Relief Fund for the next two weeks, ending Oct.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Every year, a handful of students at UVU attempts suicide. Suicide Prevention Week will occur on our campus Sept. 22-26 to raise awareness of and to show support for people struggling with suicide-related issues.

As a part of Suicide Prevention Week, Elsie West will be performing on Wednesday, Sept.

Reading Time: < 1 minute A time capsule representing our school becoming a university this year has been prepared and will be placed in UVU’s new library. The time capsule, to be opened in 50 years, contains many objects that will give insight about us to those who open it. The time capsule was set up as part of Founder’s Day, a celebration of our school’s birthday.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you want to have your creative works recognized and published? Touchstones, a university journal of literature and art, is looking for student submissions. “Eleven years after the original Touchstones, we are excited to produce the first Touchstones literary journal as Utah Valley University,” said Loran Cook, editor-in-chief of Touchstones.

Reading Time: < 1 minute A day of service and free breakfast began early last Saturday morning for the participants in UVUSA’s first Adopt-a-Highway service project. This year, UVUSA adopted a two-mile stretch of Geneva Road extending from mile marker four to mile marker six, which is located near Parkway Crossing Apartments in Orem.

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Were you one of the many students enjoying a delicious J-dawg amidst the Founder’s Day festivities? Well wipe your face and smile because chances are you’re being caught on the UVUreview candid camera.

Reading Time: < 1 minute If Nate Bagley’s plan succeeds, Stephen Colbert, America’s favorite Republican conservative, may find a home on campus.

While spending time in the new library, Bagley, a communications student and longtime Colbert fan, noticed that the rooms need names.

Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU welcomed a speaker whose published work concerning Sept. 11 has triggered a great deal of speculation as to the happenings of that fateful day in history. Dr. Steven E. Jones, a former BYU professor, has taken his research dealing with the physics of the falling twin towers that comprised the former buildings of the World Trade Center.