Dear downwithgays74, I know who you are. I don’t see you often, but often enough to make an impression on you. It’s a strong one, I can tell. Friends, ones truer than you, ask me if I’ve heard what you’ve done or said recently. We are almost like old friends. We talk […]
Dear students of UVU, First and foremost I would like to sincerely apologize to any student who was or still is offended by any of my tweets. I take full responsibility for all of the tweets mentioned on my Twitter page. Although the inappropriate tweets were lyrics from songs, they were still hurtful to […]
“I wasn’t involved at all. It seemed fishy with all that drama. I know they get a lot of money but I don’t know where it goes.” -Aaron Mccarter, Marketing “I voted. I don’t know who won. Did they post it somewhere?” – William Bates, Behavioral Science “I voted. There was a girl […]
After weeks of coverage and conversation, the votes came in last Wednesday to reveal who over two thousand students elected for our student government. Three days before Wednesday, I wrote the following sentence: Each team clearly worked hard during this election, but in my opinion, Team Aspire worked the hardest, and yet I […]
Students across campus are beginning to ask me the same question: “We have a student government? What do they do? Why do we even need one?” I’ve paid close enough attention to three elections, now going on four, to feel somewhat confused about what all the fuss is really for when I spend much […]
If you’re reading this article, then you’ve hopefully read the letter from former Student Body President Richard Portwood. He suggests that we create a fully independent Elections Committee, in order to help restore the student’s confidence in UVUSA. I agree with Portwood’s suggestion. I agree with Portwood because of what the Elections Committee does. […]
For much of the academic year the UVU Review and many students are silent or otherwise ambivalent about student government (UVUSA). Now that elections are upon us, UVUSA and its aspiring leaders are taking center stage – literally (for Tuesday’s debate) and figuratively in the public arena. As in past years, opinions articles have recently […]
“I feel a bit jaded about student government because they always seem like the same people. When I pass posters in the halls, their faces are like cogs in a machine to me.” – Michael Booth, anthropology student “After I was told we hadn’t done things in the right order, I was told we […]
On Dec. 21, 2011, five members of our UVU Review staff received the email they were waiting for, informing them that their Media Spring Scholarship had been awarded. This is the scholarship that staff members get for their various duties and contributions to the paper. On Jan. 3, 2012, these same students received emails […]
“I didn’t even know we had a student government,” Sariah Gutierrez tells me. “Then I found out they’re the ones who put up all the stupid decorations. Why do we need so many cardboard cutouts of Harry Potter everywhere?” Perplexed, Gutierrez asks, “What else do they even do?” The election process is flawed, […]