GMAIL ADDS VIDEO AND AUDIO CHAT – Google announced it will join Yahoo and Microsoft in the race to make Web communication more social by adding video and audio chat to its free e-mail service. Currently, Gmail is the third largest e-mail service, serving 113 million users worldwide.
Did you get your economic stimulus check this year? If you did not, but you thought you were entitled to one, it may have been returned to the Internal Revenue Service because of an incorrect address. There have been 279,000 checks, totaling $163 million, that were “returned to sender” due to bad addresses.
Reasons for transferring out of state can be anything from a purely academic standpoint to something as simple as a form of escape to live away from home and independently. Many are often drawn solely into the social aspects of a university, such as sporting events, a large student body, the nightlife or the close proximity to ski resorts or famous beaches.
Over the past few years, headlines across the country have readily mentioned shootings on college campuses. Shootings and other emergencies could happen here at UVU. Knowing when it happens and what to do is important. Around campus there are red and black booklets titled Emergency Procedures that contain information on what one should do in a given situation.
The youth did it. The sour economy coupled with the fact that this was the first presidential race with a black nominee leading a major-party ticket make it appropriate that this historic race produced seismic increases in the young voter registration and turnout in America.
INTERESTED IN ROCKET SCIENCE? – On Nov. 13, the UVU College of Science and Health will present a lecture on rocket propulsion from noon to 12:50 p.m. in LI 120. Michael Jacobs of ATK Launch Systems will be talking about the Ares I rocket program. Ares I is the fleet of rockets being developed by NASA to replace the Space Shuttle fleet.
New experiences and learning opportunities await students with the opening of the Capitol Reef Field Station. “You can read about it in a book, but seeing it is a different thing. When you’re there and seeing it, it becomes much more powerful,” said Kim Reynolds, manager of the Outdoor Adventure Center, which plans on using the field station for its next excursion.
Newsflash — every human being who wears trousers has, at some time, soiled them. But despite the widely accepted cultural conviction that bodily function management is a core component of the social contract, not everyone finds the composure to take a moral lesson away from such foul experience.
When students returned for fall semester, they found that the high traffic hallway between the computer science building and the old library was closed off. The hallway was converted to temporary offices, making it harder to get around campus without going outside but not impossible.
How would you like to live in Walt Disney World for five to eight months? Or maybe Disneyland in Anaheim is more your style. These options are available to those who are accepted into the Disney College Internship Program. Disney recruiters visited the Student Center last Wednesday to recruit UVU students for the Disney College Internship Program for the sixth year in a row.
