Senior Theater Platform production: ‘Treasure Island’

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January 19, 2012

schedule 3 min read

Every year the theater department sponsors a project called the Senior Platform Series, allowing students to produce original work. Many theater majors use the opportunity for their senior project. For Marc Navez however, who graduated last December with a BA in theater with an emphasis in directing musical theater, there simply wasn’t enough time in […]

Woodbury Art Museum presents Hidden Voices

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January 16, 2012

schedule 3 min read

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 were trying to process the amount of pain being communicated through the artwork.   The Woodbury Art Museum held a reception for the opening of […]

Ryan Muirhead: Passion for photography

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January 16, 2012

schedule 3 min read

For Ryan Muirhead his trip into the world of photography started with a friend asking a simple phrase during lunch, “Hey, take a cool picture of me.”   That simple request from a friend looking for a good photo, launched Muirhead into a love affair of the art of photography.   “Days later I bought […]

Grotesque snacks at UVU Fear Factor

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January 16, 2012

schedule 2 min read

Josh Petersen ate his way through Bison testicles, cow tongue and live cockroaches and grasshoppers to secure the coveted $300 UVU Bookstore scholarship from UVUSA’s reproduction of NBC’s “Fear Factor.” The internet and local butcher shops were the sources for the edible portions of the competition.   The annual event drew approximately 50 spectators who […]

Cannonized Cinema: The Dark Knight’s Redemption

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January 16, 2012

schedule 7 min read

Sometimes when I look into the young faces of Batman fans eagerly talking about the final chapter of the Christopher Nolan Batman series, I feel both a sense of pride and anguish. These newly converted Batman lovers I speak of were either born in the late 1980s or some time in the 1990s. The Batman […]

Conversation club helps students learn English

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January 16, 2012

schedule 3 min read

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 […]

Mental health: Don’t be shy

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January 10, 2012

schedule 4 min read

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

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January 9, 2012

schedule 4 min read

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 […]

Student thanks taxpayers for keeping her alive

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January 9, 2012

schedule 5 min read

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

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January 9, 2012

schedule 4 min read

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 […]