The Dream turns 50
Reading Time: 3 minutes Commemorating the 50-year anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famed “I have a Dream” speech, UVU hosted King’s speechwriter Dr. Clarence B. Jones on Jan. 24.
UVU takes second place at Skills USA National Competition
Reading Time: 2 minutes Students take home three Gold Medals, four Silver and two Bronze at Thursday’s award ceremony.
Learning as you go
Reading Time: 2 minutes College is the place where we gain knowledge to better ourselves for the future, or, it used to be
Status Updated, and Tracked
Reading Time: 2 minutes All forms of social media come with perks and costs. Sharing with your friends may mean sharing with their friends. Depending on your settings, more people than you know may be tracking your usage.
THE ATHEIST CLOSET
Reading Time: 2 minutes As an adult who had become comfort- able with my Cedar Hills neighbors for the last twelve years, I was apprehensive about relocating to Provo just to be closer to my daughter’s school. This move deep- er into Utah County had the potential for culture clash and new Mormon neighbors that typically keep me from […]
MY NAME IS MICKEY: I’M A TEACHER, A WIFE, A VEGAN, AND I’M AN EX-MORMON
Reading Time: 3 minutes I was raised to be a hearty, world-fear- ing, God-loving Mormon. I sang the songs in primary, I took notes in sacrament, I eagerly – and happily – took on any service roles or callings thrown my way. As the hymn says, the chapel doors seemed to say to me, shhh, be still. And so […]
PERSPECTIVE FOR TODAY’S CHANGES
Reading Time: 2 minutes I suppose the re-interpretation of what humans are, instigated by the industrial revolution, was the beginning of an ideological shift that is relevant even today. It couldn’t be said any better than by Charles Dickens in the first sentence of his book, A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was […]
Down but not out
Reading Time: 2 minutes With Ben Aird, back spasms, and Alfonzo Hubbard, ACL, sidelined with injuries, the Wolverines were forced not only to play without two of their starters but two of their top three scorers. The absence of such vital cogs showed in a loss at Chicago State on Saturday, Jan. 26. Despite owning an 8-2 record against […]
Kant may be Smart, But Dickens is a Better Moral Guide: Moral Stories over Moral Theories
Reading Time: 2 minutes Most ethical theories will typically give us a formula that we are meant to use when making ethical and moral decisions. The question for me, however, is not how to decide between right and wrong. We all have our own peculiar ways of handling ethical and moral situations, and as far as I can tell, […]
NIHILISM
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am a nihilist. Nihilism is a lovely way of viewing the world: one believes in nothing. In short, I will deny nothing, but am inclined to question everything. Let me explain. The only modes of perception we have are incongruous with reality, which is occasionally qualified objectively by something like relativity, or quantum mechanics. […]