I have one semester of classes left; seeing the light at the end of the tunnel is wonderful. Starting college is a lot like driving a car: You look forward to it at the beginning, but pretty quickly you look for reasons get out. The freshmen who came to their first classes bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, […]
Photo by Melissa Henrie Construction workers are parking their cars in the already limited spaces in the free purple parking lot. “I’m furious about it. You have to arrive way early or pay to park closer,” said Sam Reece, a sophomore majoring in Biology. “It is ridiculously expensive to park outside [the purple parking lot].” […]
Photos by Blake McClary Without much of a commotion, Enterprise rental cars appeared mysteriously on the south visitor parking lot of campus on November 4. Since then, its car rental services have steadily gained interest and students can rent out the cars overnight, or hourly for a typical fee as low as $5 an hour. […]
Two students at UVU are developing a new security device designed to help people keep track of their property. The device is called the KeeperTI and it makes use of Wi-Fi networks and smart phone GPS abilities to provide the service. “We believe that KeeperTI is an excellent product,” Vini Vitaliano, KeeperTI business manager, said. […]
Photo by Laura Fox Governor Gary Herbert presented the budget recommendations for the fiscal year 2015 in the Computer Science building atrium on Wednesday, which included education as the top priority of the proposal. Out of the total budget, 41.7 percent is being allocated to education, with 11.6 percent going to higher education. This investment […]
The perfect 2-0 beginning to the season will seem like a distant memory when Utah Valley finally plays its third home game of the season Dec. 7 against St. Katherine. Beginning a season-high five-game road slate with losses at perennial national powers Oklahoma State and Oregon, the Wolverines were unable to come up with any […]
“Fifty Shades of Grey” is a New York Times best seller and is the best selling paperback of all time, beating out the beloved “Harry Potter” series. And that is what is wrong with the world. “Fifty Shades,” which has been described as “mommy porn” and “erotic romance,” is the story of a 21-year old […]
On Nov. 14, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences with the University of Utah’s Latin American Studies and UVU’s homecoming week co-sponsored a panel discussion on the Mexico drug war. The panel consisted of Dr. Michael Minch as the moderator from the Philosophy and Peace and Justice Studies departments, Dr. Lynn England, History department, […]
Photos by Laura Fox Universities across the nation were just delivered their annual sexual health report card for the eighth year in a row – and once again, UVU has some room for improvement. The Trojan Sexual Health Report Card is a study conducted by Sperling’s BestPlaces that ranks universities based on the sexual health […]
One of UVU’s strengths is its wide breadth of nationalities, ethnicities and backgrounds in a majorly white LDS community. Some come from the far corners of the country to gain their degree while some are from right around the corner. But there are few who have a similar history as Tito Momen. As we sit […]