UVU Review’s terrible horrible no good very bad month

February 27, 2012

Reading Time: 5 minutes On Dec. 21, 2011, five members of our UVU Review staff received the email they were waiting for, informing them that their Media Spring Scholarship had been awarded. This is the scholarship that staff members get for their various duties and contributions to the paper.   On Jan. 3, 2012, these same students received emails […]

UVU reps petition at the capital

January 23, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Holland’s goal this year: focus on more classroom space   Some students here at UVU have had to postpone graduation because a class was full. And waitlists are getting more and more unbearable for students because of the soaring enrolment.   Unfortunately, this will not get better without another building. Luckily this is President Holland’s […]

Breaking the stigma by shopping at pawn shops in Provo

January 16, 2012

Reading Time: 5 minutes My wedding ring came from a pawn shop. It holds a large, sparkling diamond and looks like a delicate rose. My fiancé found it himself and I love it. I’m marrying into a family with a crazy knack for finding amazing things in unlikely places.   Even still, I feel a little like I should […]

Conversation club helps students learn English

January 16, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Venturing onto the second floor of the Liberal Arts building or even removing one’s almighty earbuds while meandering between classes reveals populations more than just those hailing from Utah. Native Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Russian and, of course, Spanish speakers populate UVU with rapidly increasing numbers. The English as a Second Language program currently […]

Student thanks taxpayers for keeping her alive

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes To read the article from the Tampa Bay Times, visit http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/thank-you-us-taxpayers/1205370   Sitting on the floor of her furnished living room, Keira Sloan Scholz stacks blocks with her  son. As soon as she builds a tower, her son knocks it down with his chubby hand, squealing with laughter. The gregarious little boy is a smaller, […]

‘Merry Wives’ delights audience with holiday show

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes There is an old adage that states “Hell hath no fury like a women scorned.” However, as the Grassroots Shakespeare Company’s latest production illustrates, hell hath no fury like two clever women scorned. In its latest production over the holiday break, GSC performed “Merry Wives of Windsor,” a story of what happens when husbands falsely […]

Faculty scholarhsips created for students

December 5, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Tiffany Thatcher Asst. News Editor   Two students have come back to school to finish what was started years ago. The scholarship these students have received is in place to help non traditional students in their times of financial need.   Of the 44 students who applied this year for PACE, eight fit the […]

“What’s in a name?” Apparently a lot

November 8, 2011

Reading Time: 5 minutes So you made it through Monday. Now what? Procrastination has a way of gripping any college student…so give in to it. Take a trip on a tangent with us, and put off your week for one more day.   My grandfather had a saying, “When you decide to have a kid, you decide a lot […]

“Eurydice” invites confrontation of difficult feelings

October 18, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes   An old bicycle, a battered mailbox and a discarded tennis racket hung as if suspended in the faint mist that filled the Noorda Theater. Each item was stark white, as if all color had been drained.   The eyes of about 60 audience members, in the intimate setting of the Noorda, were riveted on […]

Oh thank heaven! No more 477

March 28, 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutes Legislators repeal controversial anti-transparency bill Governor Gary Herbert has been surprisingly helpful lately. First, he pointed out the obvious: Closing down profitable liquor stores during a recession is fiscally idiotic. That’s something everyone was already thinking, rumpots and teetotalers alike. Second, and more importantly, he called for the repeal of HB477, a bill the Utah […]