Members and non-members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints gathered together at the LDS Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City to listen to the LDS prophet and Apostles testify of Jesus Christ and give guidance April 1-2. During the Saturday afternoon session, the audience sustained all 12 apostles and the […]
The class is slowly filing in. Ross Hagen, assistant professor of music studies, is setting up for the day’s class. He’s put up a PowerPoint presentation titled Disco and Its Discontents and begins the lecture with a scene from Saturday Night Fever. He then asks why rock-n-rollers might dislike disco, setting the tone for the […]
Green Man Group returned home after being away at the WAC basketball tournament for a short performance March 27. Drumline is an exciting event to watch because each percussionist plays in perfect synchronization with each other to fast paced rhythmic beats. There is one characteristic that makes this drumline so popular among the other universities: […]
UVU alumnus Bonn Turkington, who graduated in 2009 with a degree in creative writing, wrote a fantasy/fiction novel End of the Past,Book 1. The story takes place in a world that Turkington created. Protagonist Vahn Baxendale is searching for meaning in his life. He is learning to deal with the impact of his mother vanishing […]
The School of Arts hosted a banquet in honor of students and faculty who have thrived in the music, dance, theatre and art & design programs on March 27 at Centre Stage. “It is always a privilege to be around those who are high achievers,” said K. Newell Dayley, dean of the School of Arts. […]
Photos by Julie Ostler The Utah Regional Ballet opened their annual spring fairy tale ballet, Snow White, at the Covey Center for the Arts March 10. The Grimm Brothers tale was adapted by artistic director Jacqueline Colledge. The URB is a professional ballet company in residence with UVU. However, there are some dancers from out-of-state […]
Now that midterms are over and we are well into the spring semester, our optimistic attitude from January has worn off. You might have lost track of your goals like keeping a perfect attendance at school or eating healthier. This, on top of the stress of being a college student with outside obligations, might have […]
After 17 minutes and 39 seconds, Ambree Gawrych, nursing junior, completed 90 push-ups, 86 sit ups and ran two miles during the ROTC physical fitness test (PT test) last Friday. Gawrych consistently beats every ROTC student in the state – regardless of gender. She is not a member of the army, but is a nursing […]
I am a 25-year-old college student, and I am unhealthy. Recently, I found out that I have high blood pressure combined with genetic markers for heart disease. It doesn’t help that I’m also considered obese by medical standards. However, that’s not what this column is about. It is about the transformation someone like me can […]
One prime aspect of being a human should be the drive to do good. Han Kang, a South Korean author and 2016 winner of the Man-Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, writes a simple, horror packed story that will stick with the reader for days. Human Acts is all encompassing of the 1980s Gwangju Democratic Movement […]