Recently, problems surrounding nude models have caused great commotion in the Art and Visual Communications department. Although there are general rules in the selection and protection of nude models on most college campuses, UVSC is only now changing, creating, and implementing them.

With five weeks left until the last day of spring semester, it can only mean that summer is just around the corner. This summer offers the opportunity for students to take classes and be part of the last semester at UVSC before the transition to UVU.

Twice each year, the Equity in Education Center presents the Clothesline Project, a traveling display of shirts that stands as a poignant witness of violence in our local communities.

The governor of the state of Utah will address graduates at this year’s commencement ceremonies, scheduled for April 25 in the McKay Events Center.

Feb. 29, 2008 brought great joy to Christina Lowe, who was crowned Miss UVU for the 2008-2009 school year. Lowe competed against 13 other female UVSC students, a first in the school’s history, for the honor of being named the first Miss UVU. Lowe’s attendants are Stephanie Millard, Libby Chatfield and Katie Angerbauer.

“I am a champion of the abolition of nuclear weapons,” said the keynote speaker at the Third Annual Dialogue on Peace and Justice, Friday, March 7.

The official debut of Utah Valley University will feature big name celebrities for the festivities on June 30.

The banners that covered the campus are gone. The fliers that once were littering the hallway are a thing of the past, and cotton candy machines and fragrant popcorn no longer linger through the hall of flags.

Decades of government corruption, drug trafficking and unethical free trade agreements with the U.S. have sparked the re-emergence of La Santísima Muerte, “Most Holy Death,” which is beginning to pervade throughout Mexican culture as a fashionable, deified, archetype, according to a Mexican photojournalist.

The UVSC Center for Service & Learning was recently named on the U.S. President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This award was given from the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal service agency.