Letter from the editor: March 7, 2011

March 7, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes Our Fellow Americans, Your baby is born with flippers. Your brother has Proteus syndrome, like the Elephant Man. Your mother has an unusually scaly epidermis.  In the old days, these people would be locked away in some kind of basement or crawlspace, so that their “abnormalities” wouldn’t offend the prudish senses of “polite society.” It’s […]

Letter from the editor: February 28, 2011

February 28, 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute Beginning transmission… …The future is apparently now. Like, as in the present. Nike is about to start producing the self-lacing high tops featured in Back to the Future II.  Video games are looking more realistic, more like movies even, and that’s making your latent attraction to Chun-Li seem less pathological.  Hell, by 2045, some of […]

Letter from the editor: February 21, 2011

February 22, 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute Attention V-Readers, Stop building your earthquake shelters now. You may not need it, and it would be useless anyway. Is the recent seismic turbulence God’s retribution for government-funded abortions? We can’t say. But if it is, make sure the Planned Parenthood you picket actually does what you think it does. Facts can take what looks […]

Letter from the editors: February 7, 2011

February 7, 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute Friends, Romans, V-Readers, Although this week’s theme is somewhat looser than issues past, we are proud to report that The V have not lost sight of this magazine’s established staples: crime, alcohol and guns. Sometimes we stray from the path, but we never lose sight of what’s truly important. While the 2011 legislature is a […]

Letter from the editor: January 31, 2011

January 31, 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute Howdy Pardners, Here at The V, we are constantly being reminded where the proverbial “line” is. Mostly because we not only cross that line frequently, we desecrate it. Like literary Vikings on the Irish coast of your morals. For example, somewhere in this issue is an article that references both diseases and deities. Can’t wait […]

Letter from the editor: January 18, 2010

January 18, 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hey kids, Lurid stories about mischief and mayhem get read.  Nice Stories about boy scouts and grandmas will likely fill your parrot’s cage five minutes off the presses. We slow down for horrifying bloody incidents; we trade fun tidbits of serial killer lore; and our favorite Television and Movie characters are at odds with good […]

Letter from the editor: December 6, 2010

December 6, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, Sing praises. The semester is nearly over. Now we’ll finally get to use all that brain power we waste on general education to focus on the world around us. In this issue we focus on the struggle between handmade local gifts and the assembly-line products of big business. We at The V […]

Letter from the Editor: November 8, 2010

November 8, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, As a media source, we at The V hear a lot about representing our demographic, meaning the student body at UVU, accurately and proportionately. What this means in our case is that we are constantly pegged as a liberal rag that is overly critical of the predominant culture. Granted, this is mostly […]

Letter from the Editor: October 25, 2010

October 25, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, Nov. 2 brings us the opportunity to shake up local politics. Midterm elections can be boring, and seem really pointless. But your vote counts more in these elections than it does in a national election by far.  Also, the lines at polling stations will be much shorter than they were in 2008. […]

Letter from the Editor: October 11, 2010

October 11, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, Halloween is so awkward. While I’m all for dressing my cat as my daughter and my daughter as my cat for a day, the social and moral implications behind this holiday are worth concern. For some, Halloween is to real violence as “heck” is to “hell.” Instead of doing something forbidden by […]