After a devastating fire and a century and a half of decline following an economic nosedive, by 1920 Bodie, California — once a booming Wild West metropolis — remained home to fewer than 150 people. Today, Bodie is home only to a transitory community of state employees and museum guides who work to preserve it […]
Whilst waiting at a bus-stop on a little Island off the coast of Morocco, I was approached by a middle-aged American man sporting a Red Sox T-shirt. He heard my British accent and we immediately struck up a conversation concerning England. The man raved for a good ten minutes about the beauty and culture of […]
As a teaching-based school, we are especially concerned with the aspect of tenure that allows for free expression and flow of ideas in a classroom without fear of reprehension or job loss for professors. “Students benefit from the tenure system because their professors will feel more freedom to talk about controversial ideas in the classroom,” […]
We are concerned that students are dangerously ignorant of jaywalking. Last Monday, a student was life-flighted from in front of the Testing Center to the hospital. He had been struck by a car going 25 MPH while listening to music with headphones. He now has a metal plate in his skull. He was the fourth […]
This year, I have had the opportunity to attend some Utah Valley University classes and to be on campus there on many occasions. The unprofessional attire by the staff there is sub par. Recent articles in the Daily Herald and other media hail the “all Steinway campus” and the dreams and visions for the music […]
Some around campus have taken exception to the politics of school administration, criticizing brief appearances by President Matthew Holland at some events, claiming it was face time with the cameras. One has to ask, ‘Is that really what his primary function is?’ Examine the role of the university; its entire existence, especially here, is to […]
The ways in which student fees are handled could not be better. The money is allocated to meet the needs of students. Without the extra fees that students pay, accessibility to computer labs, wireless Internet and even the student center would not be available. Paying student fees, a process designed by the student government, adds […]
M. Night Shyamalan has gotten his turn of critical praise and abuse over the years. His first box-office smash, The Sixth Sense, grossed 293.5 million dollars and was given the Academy nod with six nominations including Best Director. He followed up this success with other mind bending mysteries like Unbreakable and Signs, but soon after, […]
If, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said in his Essays, “Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind,” then the new exhibit at the Woodbury Art Museum could inspire enough marches to inspire entire albums full of theme music. Now open, and running until Dec. 17, “Art Through the Cultural Revolution” features the art […]
Name: Vanim “Van” Zetreus Year: Junior Major: Integrated studies with emphases in Philosophy and Cinema Studies. Minor in Gender Studies. Where were you born? I was born in a small town called Kristianstad, in the south of Sweden about 27 years ago. What was the coolest or most unique part of your childhood? I actually […]