There is no swearing allowed inside the Haunted Forest. Or smoking. Or drinking. Lewd behavior of all kinds is frowned upon in both the Haunted Forest and the Psycho Manor. After all, this is a family establishment. You know, the kind where teenage girls get butchered right in front of you. Where blood-covered hillbillies […]
Steffani Nielson has spent the last year and a half putting her life back together. “I was completely broken,” she said. “Completely.” Seven years ago, Nielson married her sweetheart and they started their life together. Two children and five and a half years later their lives were rocked by a divorce, leaving her […]
Alisha Lee, a sophomore from Salt Lake studying social work, was crowned Miss UVU at the Miss UVU Scholarship Pageant on Friday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. in the UCCU Center. With 20 contestants, the pageant was the largest in UVU history. Lee’s new court includes Samantha Cummings, first runner-up; Bri Sorenson, second runner-up; […]
There are a number of reasons a student has a motive to play a sport. They might gain motivation, learn discipline, strive to succeed or maybe they just need some extra kick to get through a 15 credit-hour school week. For sophomore Brookelyn Campbell, it’s a little bit of everything. The setter from […]
“Are you black?” Entertaining as it’s been to just watch, Joey’s argument with his friend about racism has brought up Darwin, The Velvet Underground and a beer or two, and now he means to bring me up as well. But Joey, a former UVU student who was born in Memphis, means to shake […]
There is nothing apparently excellent or extraordinary about Cindy Oppel, a Business Student at UVU, yet this average UVU student has now made a large impact on this, the largest university in the state. Friday night, Oppel with teary eyes accepted a full tuition scholarship from President Holland himself. Because Oppel spoke up, she inspired […]
A year-long challenge pays off in a big way In general, a conversation in passing rarely turns into anything more than just that. But last year when President Matthew Holland spoke with a one student, Cindy Oppel, “a random conversation turned into a $4 million project,” Holland said. While many students struggle with personal […]
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 Warden of the Damascus number 10 chapter, Matthew Nelson, joined for what he describes as a healthy combination of the three. In the early 2000s, […]
It’s a sight not uncommon on campus. A student will bring their child to class because they have no other option. One student/mother brings her child to class regularly because of personal reasons. Her name is not disclosed to protect her identity for this story. She is a single mother, recently divorced with no money […]
For people who are not looking at the contract or agreement they sign when they get a new job, it’s time to start looking closely because the words “at will” may be embedded somewhere in there. Utah is one of the states with at-will employment laws, meaning an employer can fire an employee without […]