Salsa Chocolate: Provo’s best-kept social secret
The art of dance is often described as an escape from reality, a tool for individual expression and even the window to one’s soul. But to this man, it’s more…
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Students’ ‘Lazy Jedi’ short goes viral
UVU student Mike Brown and BYU students Casen and Landon Sperry gain Internet fame with weekly YouTube shorts. Freshman Mike Brown, a 24-year-old Digital Media major, has been collaborating…
Confronting undocumented immigrant issues with art
A couple of shrouded figures on campus, huddled against a random wall, were enough to make some students feel like they were hallucinating. The figures, two students participating in…
Breathe, Bend, and Be- The 3 B’s of Yoga
Yoga is not just a word or practice, but a choice and a lifestyle. “Yoga is for everyone; there is no exclusiveness or hierarchy. If you can breathe, you…
Haley Hendrickson on American Idol
As she sang her heart out in front Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson she heard those four words every person auditioning for American Idol wants to hear: “You’re…
Getting drawn into Art Therapy
Life is a journey of mountains and molehills and rainstorms and rainbows. Sometimes when the going gets rough, a helping hand makes all the difference. Help can come in the…
No More Homeless Pets in Utah
Walking through the front door of the facility, visitors are greeted by the characteristic curiosity of the friendly felines who unabashedly jump up on the counter just inside the door….
UVU professor stars in Sundance Film
The Sundance Film Festival is a glorious celebration of movie making magic and artistic views. From its beginnings in 1978, the festival has attracted celebrities from across the globe. The…
Provo Library hosts book sale
Travel forward and back in time, around the globe and beyond; probe the psyches of housewives, heathens and heroes; explore universal conflicts and everyday events. Books can take us places…
Woodbury Art Museum presents Hidden Voices
Some wandered through the museum, chatting and even laughing with friends, both old and new. Others simply stood in silence, eyebrows furrowed as they shook their heads, as if they…
Guest writer Vegor Pedersen on quality education
Why 12 credits is just fine In my capacity as an academic advisor I interact with about 50 students a week on average. Of those 50 about 48 have…
Freemasons in Utah
One joins the Freemason fraternity for one of three reasons: to feel part of something, to gain a social network of people or to find out their secrets. Junior…
Calendar – Oct. 3-9, 2011
Monday, October 3 Arts Yankee Spirit All day, donation BYU Museum of Art North Campus Drive, Provo Entwined All day, donation BYU Museum of Peoples and Cultures…
Worst. Pollution. Ever.
There are now two ways in which Utah resembles a third world country. The first is our well-documented birthrate; the highest in the nation. But this month we managed to…
Utah: The Happiest or Most Depressed State?
On Sept. 23, Jack Jensen, director of UVU Mental Health Services and Cameron John, associate professor of psychology and licensed psychologist, will discuss two conflicting studies about the happiness of…
