A new year, a new start

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January 11, 2010

schedule 4 min read

Being the connoisseur of new-age narcissism that I am, I delight in making my yearly New Years Rezes. With the beginning of a new year, we have a prime opportunity to change ourselves for the better and reach the goals in our life that we just haven’t yet been able to attain. Here are just […]

Staff infection: What is your New Year’s resolution?

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January 11, 2010

schedule 1 min read

Try harder. —Meggie Woodfield To plan a trip for this summer covering most of Asia and tell everyone I know about how cool it is going to be. —Trent Bates Learn to play the harmonica. —Emma Hunt Graduate this year. Or next. Probably next. Or maybe I’ll drop out. Yeah, I’ll drop out. My goal […]

Top Four (for Parkour)

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January 11, 2010

schedule 2 min read

It is the year two thousand and ten, in the far-flung future of a distant past.  Armed gangs of criminals run the streets of the nation’s largest cities.  Democracy has become gridlocked as partisan politics thinly veil the machinations of the politicians’ corporate overlords. The poor have no voice, the rich have no souls, and […]

Karma & Meg: The Five Precepts

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January 11, 2010

schedule 4 min read

I was supposed to be a French-speaking guitarist with a love for swimming by December 2009. Instead I was an English-speaking girl with no musical talent whatsoever and who swims like a stone. In other words, the resolutions I made last New Year’s Day of learning how to speak French, play the guitar, and swim […]

Finish it!: Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

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January 11, 2010

schedule 4 min read

The plot of Illuminatus! is difficult to describe, but I’ll try. The offices of a magazine are bombed, supposedly by a militant conservative group of some sort. The editor of the magazine has disappeared without a trace. Detectives assigned to the case discover that the cause is actually much more confusing than they originally supposed. […]

Critique of the Week: In-N-Out Burger

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January 11, 2010

schedule 2 min read

You’ve seen the lines as you’ve driven by and wondered what all the excitement was about. Is Bon Jovi doing autographs at that In-N-Out place up the road? Does the meal come with a raffle ticket for the new Lamborghini Reventon? Nope. People are simply lined up for … wait for it … a cheeseburger. […]

Wolverine grapplers continue to progress

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January 11, 2010

schedule 2 min read

After traveling to Nevada, Nebraska and Illinois in the month of December, the UVU wrestling team continues to maintain a high standard of competition. “The season is going great,” said coach Greg Williams. “We are still undefeated in duals and the guys are progressing.” Over Christmas break five of the team members were invited to […]

Letters to the editor

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January 11, 2010

schedule 2 min read

Dear Editor, As a student I am constantly running around UVU campus, from one class to another.  Usually after a couple of weeks I find the most time-efficient paths to follow as I travel.  Sometimes these paths take you across grassy lawns.  Honestly I know that I’m not the only person on campus who values […]

Clash of the Tenets

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January 11, 2010

schedule 3 min read

It’s fairly hard to ignore the fact we live among a highly concentrated population of LDS members. Yet even though there is a high percentage of single faith followers in this area and at our school, one does not have to strain to find the perspective of the non-LDS community.  They tend to speak a […]