Reading Time: 3 minutes The fifth annual Symposium on Restorative Justice, Punishment and the Death Penalty will be held on Nov. 19 in the UVU Library Lecture Hall (LI120). Speakers, panel discussions and book signings will be between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. (see sidebar for the day’s schedule). The symposium is sponsored by the Peace and Justice Studies […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes by Matthew Beaudry Two reports of women being groped in the library prompted police to issue a text alert early Friday morning and police state that the gropings may be connected to two flashing incidents in the library back in August. The morning of Friday November thirteenth, police sent a safety alert about the gropings, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On Nov. 9 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the hall of flags, the German Club hosted 500 students from all over the valley to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Students from local junior high and high schools were invited to participate by recreating their own section of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Barbed and Dangerous” was the title of the most recent Integrated Studies lecture, examining the history of barbed wire and its role in advertising. Presented by Dr. Lyn Bennett, associate professor of History and Political Science and Dr. Scott Abbott, director of Integrated Studies and professor of Philosophy and Humanities, the lecture took place on […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A steady stream of guests filled The Alumni Center Wednesday morning, attending the free breakfast. Through the breakfasts, held weekly from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. for students and alumni, The Alumni Center hopes to raise awareness of its purpose. Nov. 11‘s breakfast, complete with green Wolverine pancakes, was in celebration of Homecoming week. The […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Middle-aged women are infatuated with teen vampire romance Don’t assume that the normal-looking mother buying a poster of vampire Edward Cullen is getting it for her teenage daughter. There is a good chance she’s keeping it for herself. “Twilight Moms” is a demographic of adult women who are enthralled by Stephenie Meyer’s TWILIGHT series and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although women nationwide enroll in and obtain degrees from institutions of higher education at a greater rate than men, these are not the dynamics seen throughout Utah. Dr. Susan Madsen, associate professor of Management, began researching this anomaly in May and will continue to do so through fall of 2010 at the request of Utah […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes We’ve all been there: a busy week, lots of homework, you’ve hit all your classes and still worked enough shifts to survive until the next pay period. But then one of your professors decides to throw down; it’s time to prove what you’ve learned. Now you’ve got three days to head over to the testing […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU has a unique history of inviting eccentric speakers to campus. There was of course the cataclysmic 2004 Michael Moore/Sean Hannity episode. Then there was Ralph Nader conducting an alternative commencement for disgruntled BYU students in 2007. Well, the good news is, it seems, we intend to continue this tradition. On Nov. 18, Joe the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU has been a university for almost a year and a half now, yet it seems that the general attitude towards our school from the community has not changed much. We are in the shadows of the two biggest schools in Utah and far younger than any of the other universities. These facts may lead some […]