Guest writer Vegor Pedersen on quality education

January 15, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 the exact same question every time they come see me. “How fast can I get the hell out of here?”   I sometimes feel like […]

Miss Danica Olsen has a shot at the crown

January 14, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Tonight in front of thousands of people, former Miss UVU and current Miss Utah Danica Olsen will be competing for the title of Miss America. She will be competing against representatives from all of the other 49 states, as well as contestants from the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.   Olsen […]

RISE lifts people with disabilities

January 14, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes As the county seat for Carbon County, Price sits just outside of Utah’s famous Castle Gate, at the mouth of Price Canyon on U.S. Highway 6. With a population around 8000, the town is not exactly a target for big business. One organization, however, decided last June to set up shop there with only three […]

Utah County construction update Jan. 13-19

January 13, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes With the inevitability of snow this winter, UDOT is proactively making its annual warnings about driving during bad weather. Be sure leave time for weather delays in your travel plans, make sure to keep plenty of distance between vehicles and keep speeds down.   Also, make sure to keep up to date on construction. Below […]

Wednesday woes: Bro grabs

January 11, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.   -Socrates   Hey, dude, it’s nice to meet you. My name is John-Ross. Most every calls me J.R., though. I wish I had a cool nickname that everybody called me, but the only alias that’s ever really stuck is […]

Mental health: Don’t be shy

January 10, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes One out of every four people in the U.S. are suffering from some sort of mental illness at any given moment. The odds that a person will experience mental illness at some point in their life are even higher, at about 50 percent.   While depressive illnesses are the largest contributors to mental illness, social phobia […]

Woodbury Art Museum exposes hidden voices

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes T-shirts, held by clothespins on lines hanging low across the room, displayed raw emotion, scrawled with permanent marker by victims of abuse and violence. The graphic nature of the personal feelings of pain and anger was countered by the simple, almost quiet attributes of the black-and-white prints in the main section of the museum, also […]

Men’s basketball season re-cap

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes This season has done little for the nerves of those associated with the men’s basketball team.   The Wolverines started out the season 4-4 and a little shaky, losing to some strong competition with the likes of Houston, Arkansas, Wyoming and Utah State. They played tough and hung in most games other than a 34 […]

Dating your professor

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes At UVU, a student tried to have a relationship with their current professor. The student brought the teacher gifts, visited the professor’s office, and even called the professor’s home and talked to his wife in attempts to reach him. The teacher immediately reported this situation to his department chair. After the school reviewed the situation, […]

2012 blues

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 4 minutes Sometime during the break I decided that I might want to purchase a gun. Some variety of pump action 12-gauge mangler, the kind that I would clean in the living room if I had a daughter and her boyfriend were coming to dinner for the first time.   I’m not certain where this sudden yen […]