Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97 Fred Adams, founder of the Utah Shakespearean Foundation, was the guest speaker at this month’s Master Mind Lecture for the Center for the Advancement of Leadership program. Adams spoke about having a focused vision and how the Shakespeare Festival started in Cedar City. Adams, originally […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes According to a Be Ready Utah Earthquake scenario video, the Wasatch Fault has a major earthquake every 350-400 years. The last major earthquake in the area was 350 years ago. The four-minute video depicts a major earthquake happening and effecting 80 percent or 2.7 million Utahn’s who live and work in the region. In […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Mike Richardson Hours before the graduation of UVU’s Firefighter Recruit Candidate Academy spring class #71, the new graduates won the RCA’s traditional Fire Games, where they got to compete against RCA alumni in activities such as, pulling fire engines full of 500 gallons of water and breaching sheetrock walls. The event […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A panel discussion on student fees capped off this semester’s Student Voice forum—but only a small number participated. The panel included Student Body President Dylan Swartz, Executive Vice President Phil Varney and Phil Clegg, an associate dean over students. Kari Dennis, Senator over College of Aviation, who organized the event alongside business school senator […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97 The first semester of the Pizza and Politics series ended with Rep. Brad Daw of the Utah State Legislature walking a few dozen students through what he called “the adventure we’ve had in Utah over the last few years with Obamacare.” The lecture and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Lee Thomas | Lifestyle Editor | [email protected] Peter Thomson, Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the U. N. told UVU students Dec. 7 why small island nations should matter to the U.N. Out of 193 nations, 40 of them are designated small-island developing states (SIDS) he said. Together as the Alliance of Small Island […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes David Knowlton, Behavioral Science professor at Utah Valley University and sociocultural anthropologist spoke about nativism in the U.S., immigration in the 19th century and current immigration in the U.S. at the Multicultural Student Council’s Diversity Lecture Dec. 9. In the 19th century, Scandinavians in Utah were immigrants who were often blamed for many problems […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kimberly Bojorquez | Senior Staff Writer Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97 Carol Tuttle, alternative therapist and author, discussed her life before she started her lucrative career in healing people using energy psychology as part of CareerPassport Lecture Series Thursday, Dec. 4. As a mother of four, Tuttle started small businesses […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kasey Johnson|Staff Writer Photo credit: Jeanette Blain | News Editor | [email protected] Pete Robinson shed some light on the concept that satire need not be ugly during a speech on Dec. 1. He inferred that Canadians are more than happy to make fun of just about anything—even themselves. Robinson, who has spent 13 years living […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Free tuition supporters face an uphill battle Jared Stirland | Assistant Lifestyle Editor Photo credit: Valor McNeely The Million Student March movement held an event Dec. 1st at the University of Utah where a small group of students gathered to pursue the organization’s goal of making bachelor’s degrees free at public universities nationwide. “It is […]