There is an old adage that states “Hell hath no fury like a women scorned.” However, as the Grassroots Shakespeare Company’s latest production illustrates, hell hath no fury like two clever women scorned. In its latest production over the holiday break, GSC performed “Merry Wives of Windsor,” a story of what happens when husbands falsely […]
Another year has come and gone. Memberships at fitness gyms are on the rise and wedding dress shops are busy with the rush of newly engaged women. As people begin to adjust to writing ’12 instead of ’11 on lines labeled date, let us reflect on what the cinema gods have given us over this […]
A chain link fence stands, checkering the land. Gear teeth churn the machine heart to life. A tree, a plant, a weed nestles the sidewalk in the middle of urbanization, its stems and fronds and leafs a blueprint of natural jigsaw. Alise Allen is in her closing semester of finishing her Bachelor of Fine […]
On Saturday, Jan. 14, 53 ladies from across the U.S. will compete for the title of Miss America in Las Vegas. UVU’s own Danica Olsen of Tooele, Utah, will represent the state in the pageant’s 91st event. Olsen will be sponsored by the Miss Utah Valley University Pageant and Miss Utah Scholarship Organization at the […]
By Kelly Cannon Life Editor At first glance, the work of Patric Bates intrigues the viewer. His pieces in watercolor and pen seem like something out of a dream. Muddied reds and blues splash on the pages, reminiscent of free floating water stains, are in stark juxtaposition to the tiny lines that are the […]
By Kelly Cannon Life Editor After over a year of trying, Kappa Sigma received its charter from their international headquarters, making them the first official fraternity on campus. Kappa Sigma first came to campus back in Nov. 2009. Though the intention was to become an official chapter by the end of 2010, those plans […]
By Kelly Cannon Life Editor The student run speculative fiction journal released their tenth issue and a retrospective issue highligahting the past ten issues. The words washing over the audience spoke of an apocalyptic nuclear war, of robots and genetic modifications, all while eating chocolate brownies and sipping on hot apple cider. On […]
By Deven Leigh Ellis Asst. Life Editor Monday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m., UVU’s Director of Choral Studies Dr. Reed Criddle will direct over 100 participating students at the annual community Christmas Sing-Along of Handel’s Messiah. The long-standing tradition used to take place at the Provo Tabernacle, but since a fire gutted the building’s […]
By Timothy E. Wood II Life Writer The theater department’s last production of the year tells the haunting true story of a town’s vengeance on an a murdering elephant. A tent reaches up high, red and white. The smell of hay and animal breath accompanies the trumpeting of elephants. It’s the circus […]
By Kelly Cannon Life Editor Standing in front of an audience of peers and a few faculty members, students read excerpts of their own creative writing. Ranging from poetry to creative non-fiction, the tone of the pieces changed from cringing humor to somber realism. In the second Open Mic Night hosted by the English […]