Reading Time: 5 minutes Michael Furguson talks about the marriage between Man and Machine Michael Ferguson and I are about to have a conversation, despite the fact that he’s up in Salt Lake City right now and I’m at my desk on campus at UVU, all thanks to the telephone. After that conversation, I’m going to remember every single […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes [monoslideshow id=20] Overlooking federal jurisdiction, the U.S. Constitution, and basic human rights, the Arizona copycat immigration bill has brought a lot of controversy to Capital Hill, bringing UVU students to its steps in protest. A melting pot of backgrounds and people. The land of the free and home of the brave. A land of opportunity. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “I could write one of those – ha, I could do it in two weeks.” Those were the words Shaun Roundy spoke after watching a trailer for the movie New Moon, based on the wildly popular novel by Stephenie Meyer. But what started out as a simple vampire story turned into an adventure novel meant […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Spring registration began Monday, Oct. 25. While many students choose to wait until the beginning of the semester to register, with constantly growing numbers, many academic advisors are encouraging students to register early in order to get into the classes they need and want. For those looking for an elective or even just an interesting […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute “I’ve never seen it that way. I celebrate Samhain, a festival for the dead and the ancestors whose guidance I seek. While others associate death with violence, to me it is simply an aspect of the life cycle to be celebrated like any other, rather than reviled, condemned or feared.” —Loraine Gholdston, features writer “Halloween […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes Almost 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the business of slavery is still alive and thriving in America. This illegal industry generates more income per year than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined. Its profitability is second only to that of the illegal drug industry, but is inarguably more insidious and vile by nature. Human trafficking […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Drilling into flesh with warmth, a bright sun bore down heavily on our skin as we approached the Capitol Building in Salt Lake City. All four of us are Latino UVU students: Agustin Diaz Jr. (Me), Tony Castillo, Betty Ruiz, and a prospective UVU student Albert Anzar. We were tense but excited riding from Provo […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes We no longer live in a time and place where we nurture and cultivate our own means of subsistence. With the realization of this fact, most people are unable to answer the seemingly simple question, where does your food come from and how is it produced? An opportunity for enlightenment came to UVU on March […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s hard to believe now, but zombies used to be scary. Before finding mainstream acceptance in video games and horror-comedies, these now-lovable walking corpses once served as a potent allegory for a society that has lost its soul, devolving into hordes of brain-dead flesh munchers. In the original “Dead Trilogy” by George A. Romero — […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Steve Wasserbaech has a unique opportunity that few will ever experience. While his day job for the past several years has consisted of teaching varying levels of physics to the students of UVU, he recently took a chance to work with CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, to help study breakthrough ideas in nuclear […]