Reading Time: 3 minutes Reporting by: McKhelyn Jones & Kimberly Bojorquez Melissa Frost, UVU’s former Title IX coordinator, is suing the school for wrongful termination in retaliation for whistleblowing on university practices, according to documents filed at the Third District Court in Salt Lake County May 8. According to Scott Trotter, senior director of communication, UVU leaders took “immediate […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes By McKhelyn Jones | Copy Editor Kimberly Bojorquez | Editor-in-Chief UVU Student Affairs has requested funding for a victim’s advocate through the university’s Planning, Budgeting, and Assessment process; however, the status of the request will not be revealed until April 2018. If approved, the position will be filled by July 1, 2018. Student Affairs, the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo by Nathan Gross When Matt Holland was chosen to be the new president of Utah Valley University in 2009, my partner and I sent him an e-mail at his BYU address. We welcomed him to UVU and said we looked forward to working with him. We were concerned, we wrote, that he was a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blake Oakey has resigned from his position on UVUSA as vice president of clubs, which was confirmed by UVU student body president Birch Eve, and a post on Oakey’s Facebook page. The resignation comes in the midst of controversy surrounding a letter to the editor that Oakey wrote to the UVU Review during the 2016-2017 […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently, the Deseret News published an article reflecting on an increase of gonorrhea cases in Utah, particularly through groups that have usually been considered low-risk when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases. Cases have quadrupled in the last five years, going from 310 cases in 2010 to 1,564 in 2015. Why does this matter to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Utah broke national headlines recently with how close it came to legalizing medical marijuana with Senate Bill 73. Had it done so, Utah would have been the 24th state to legalize, excluding D.C. The controversy behind whether or not pot should be legalized is an ongoing battle between the states conservative beliefs, and the not […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo credit: Collin Cooper | Photo Senior Staff | @coop.97 Former Washington Post journalist and Pulitzer Nominee Wil Haygood told an audience at Utah Valley University on Jan. 14 how Eugene Allen, a former White House butler, became the inspiration for his New York Times bestseller, “The Butler: A Witness to History.” Haygood, speaker at […]
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 Carrie Laudie | Editor in Chief Policy changes for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints listed in Handbook 1, a resource used for lay clergy in the church, were leaked on Thursday, Nov. 5. The document was posted on the Facebook page of John Dehlin, a former member of the LDS church and creator […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wolverines ranked 25th in recent poll Kyle McDonald | Sports Editor | @kylesportsbias Photos courtesy of James Durrant For the first time ever at Utah Valley University, a team sport has cracked the national polls. The UVU men’s soccer team is ranked 25th in the most recent NSCAA Coaches Poll. It is the highest that a UVU […]