On a recent trip to a journalism conference in New York, a number of our newspaper staff members were constantly asked about UVU. When we said that we’re a university near BYU, and that we have a larger student population than our neighbors, people were astounded to have never heard of us. “Is it a […]
As I was leaving the amazing Vagina Monologues performance tonight, I was talking to a friend who had tried to buy her tickets through Campus Connection, but they wouldn’t sell them to her. She found out later that some of the people who work there were “protesting” the Monologues by refusing to sell the tickets. […]
As of March 1, our Health and Wellness center has decided to stop providing condoms to students that wish to keep themselves sexually healthy and well. Thanks to the research done by Clay Neville for his story, we know it is because one or two students with very dirty hands were taking all of […]
It’s axiomatic today that organizations are best run like a business. In reality, however, it’s because we’ve been running everything like a business that our civilization now faces a multitude of systemic, possibly fatal problems. Among these is the decline in the quality of education. Last week, I wrote about the compensation gap that […]
Morality is subjective and each person has their own interpretation, but it plays an integral role in the direction of our lives. It’s complicated, to say the least. There are games that claim they present the user with moral dilemmas, that they force you to make difficult decisions and that those decisions affect the […]
The other day, my friend Jarom was reborn. It was amazing. Walking through Times Square, Jarom was stopped by a random rap artist, peddling his wares among the tourists. “What’s your name, man?” “Jarom.” “Jared?” “Jarom.” “Cool,” said the rapper. “I’m gonna call you J-Smoove.” That’s right, Smoove, with […]
Our so-called privacy may as well be considered piracy and it seems like no one is fighting it. There are well over 800 million Facebook users and 100 percent of those users are making themselves vulnerable to data aggregation. Social media sites are getting smarter. Facebook made $3.2 billion in revenue last year from […]
Amidst all the scrapping and riffing and finger-pointing between Team Exelerate and Team Aspire, Team Impact stayed calm, sat quietly and won this year’s election. But Chad Workman, who will officially become UVUSA’s Student Body President on Graduation Day, doesn’t intend to remain quiet during his tenure in student government. “I was actually disappointed […]
In response to allegations of sexism, UVUSA officer Joe Jurisic wanted to make it absolutely clear, once and for all, that he is NOT a feminist. Yes, Joe, I think we knew that. But what does this imply? According to the very basic, Merriam-Webster definition, feminism is “the theory of the political, economic, […]
Some weeks ago, the UVU Review ran a story about the gap in pay for faculty men and women. According to the story, the average annual salary for male faculty at UVU is $73,000, while that for female faculty is $71,000. Clearly, despite official policy, sexual discrimination is alive at UVU. But women faculty […]