World travel is cheap and easy. In fact, with a little practice and effort, you can travel the world for a lot cheaper than you might think. Summer is just around the corner, which is optimal for traveling students. This semester I’m going to give you travel tips that I’ve picked up throughout my travels […]
In the landlocked state of Utah, there is often too little exposure to foreign cultures. The objective here is to stimulate an interconnection between two societies. This week, we have the privilege of being enlightened in regard to the Mongolian culture by Selenge Ulziibayar, a UVU nursing student who left Mongolia for the U.S. one […]
Coffee shops are especially difficult to come by in Provo and Orem. Of course, there are the many cafés within book stores and restaurants that offer coffee, but in these caffinated enclaves, the nature of the coffee shop experience is lost. For an ideal experience, there are a few coffee shops which are equally different and […]
It’s very probable that anyone reading this article has at some point in their life played a Super Mario game. The tale of the portly Italian plumber and his never-ending quest to save the princess of a fungal kingdom from a marauding dragon-turtle and his army of flying turtles and fire-spitting piranha plants is … […]
Many students at UVU roll out of bed at around 10 a.m. and lethargically amble into class. While this is sometimes the case for our Student Body President, Trevor Tooke, the typical morning for him begins a little before 6 a.m. “Although I may not seem like a morning person, sometimes I do enjoy getting […]
Many UVU groups, clubs, teams and activities supply resident students with funding for their education as support and reward for their participation and achievement. However, non-residential students are not allowed to receive scholarships and waivers from the University for participating in these same activities, even if they are just as deserving and qualified as a […]
Walking through the west entrance to the bookstore with its new pseudo renovations is like wandering through a wasteland of a post-apocalyptic school supplies. There are random piles of mismatched notebooks, multipacks of mechanical pencils, and foreign-made hoodies bearing our blessed Willy the Wolverine. It’s a little disheartening and feels more like entering a Salvation […]
It would seem that experiences of failure are honed during the golden college years. This is doubly true when making and inevitably breaking New Year’s resolutions. This year, your formula of failure should be in the form of a new club. There are many clubs to rummage through and successfully fail at participating fully, but […]
In an executive order, Governer Gary Herbert added insult to injury by heaping an additional three percent budget cut onto Utah’s higher education budget for 2010. More cuts are possible depending on what the state’s revenue numbers say come February. All told, UVU’s 2010 budget will loose approximately $2 million. This, of course, does not […]
Last week, a group of seven prospective Goshute students visited campus as part of an effort by Children First Utah, a non-profit charitable organization, to encourage these students to graduate high school and explore academic opportunities as multicultural students at Utah colleges. Although on the rise since 2005, according to the National Center of Education […]