UVU’s new mobile website offers live shuttle tracking

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February 6, 2012

schedule 2 min read

UVU has a new mobile website and app that seek to make life easier for smart phone users on and off campus, including even a real time shuttle tracker.   The new website replaces the full version of uvu.edu with an easy to use menu optimization for smart phones. This new menu gives students and […]

Know your ABC’s, Mind your P’s and Q’s

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February 6, 2012

schedule 5 min read

College is expensive and a lot of students pay dearly for it. This is why I’m always incredibly astounded by the lack of classroom etiquette that people seem to get away with.   There are some rules that warrant discussion or review. Admittedly, college is it’s own wild atmosphere and everyone’s learning about learning. But […]

Travel not just through study abroad anymore

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February 6, 2012

schedule 4 min read

Students have more options than just study abroad to expand their perspective.   International travel is alluring – seductive, even. Aside from the requisite bragging rights that go along with journeying to an exotic locale most people only experience via “National Geographic,” one breathes, sleeps and eats a life wholly different from what he or […]

State of the University

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February 6, 2012

schedule 3 min read

There was standing room only in the Ragan Theater Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 1, as President Matthew Holland delivered the annual State of the University address to an audience comprised of mostly faculty.   After touching on several points that the administration has been focusing on in the past years, like accessibility issues, technology-based and distance […]

Service is like riding a bicycle

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January 30, 2012

schedule 4 min read

Whirling spokes. Beard blowing in the wind. His grease stained hands gipping the handlebars. The click of gears shifting methodically. Rolling slowly to a stop, and dismounting. Meet Chris Manor, one of the founders of the Provo Bicycle Collective.   Opened in November 2011, the Provo Bicycle Collective bills itself as a one-of-a-kind. “It could […]

Bye bye good ole’ Bunnell house

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January 30, 2012

schedule 3 min read

Every student has walked by it. Many look in the windows, but for the most part, the Bunnell home, located near the Liberal Arts building has been underused.   This pioneer house, one of six remaining unchanged historical buildings in Orem, is about to be moved off the campus, but this is not its first […]

Reserves need to step up play

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January 30, 2012

schedule 4 min read

Starters are producing, but bench is lacking   There is nothing in sports quite like the emotions that are evoked by the senses. The smell of freshly cut grass and the sight of morning dew glistening in the early morning sunlight immediately bring to mind the joy of stepping on to the field for the […]

Road hazard: a warning

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January 30, 2012

schedule 5 min read

You just finished a test in the testing center. You have five minutes before your next class in the GT building. You haven’t eaten. The only thing on your mind is grabbing a pizza and hiking up five flights of stairs. You hurry across the crosswalk thinking how nice it is that someone actually stopped […]

Student entrepreneur offers convenience, affordability to students

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January 30, 2012

schedule 2 min read

Dickies to Film Flixs   Danny Keyes first caught wind of his inherent entrepreneurial spirit upon returning to Utah from an LDS mission in Texas. Keyes lamented the lack of Dickey’s Barbecue Pit locations in Utah after having frequented the Texas-based chain throughout his mission. Upon realizing that the start-up capital required to franchise Dickey’s […]

I am not just my vagina

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January 23, 2012

schedule 5 min read

“The Vagina Monologues” is a play written by Eve Ensler in the 1990’s. This play has been translated into 48 languages and been performed in over 140 countries. And everyone should see it, at least one time.   It’s a series of monologues performed by women talking about, well, vaginas.   The play discusses the […]