Valley Life

Coping with finals stress

With finals just around the corner, students, including myself, are finding ourselves more and more stressed with last minute projects, papers, tests and assignments. Sounds like the end of the semester is nearing! On top of all the multitasking that comes with school during finals week, we are also balancing jobs, social lives, and dating lives.

Senior films world documentary

Most students wait until after graduating to put mass amounts of time, effort and work into huge career building projects. For UVU senior Jonathan Martin, this is not the mold he’s going to follow. Last summer, Martin took a small crew to Europe, Canada and across the U.

Vintage movies

The sci-fi odyssey Dune, based on the novel by Frank Herbert, has garnered acclaim from respected critics and nerds alike since its release in 1984. Whether the success is because of a groundbreaking score by Brian Eno and the band Toto (seriously), the cult following for anything director David Lynch does, or the overall brilliance of the story itself, Dune is a film that should be watched by everyone at least twice a year and on birthdays.

Super bug

I’m hovering in your classes. I’m watching you on the computer and stalking you through the halls. I lurk under chairs and windows and desks, waiting. Waiting for you to lower your guard — waiting for the perfect time to strike. I am the flu. Many people mistake the flu for a cold.

Thanksgiving on a budget

Food, football and family are all common descriptions of Thanksgiving. One word that is usually excluded from this list is money. With costs rising as the economy is dwindling, this year’s Thanksgiving festivities may come up short. Fear not: Here is a Thanksgiving dinner for four that can be made with less than twenty dollars.

Bingo night

UV Mentor Club is hosting a bingo night for family, friends and those interested in becoming a mentor. Mentors are master students who are involved as coaches or mentors in the CLSS 1000 student success classes. They help students to become more connected on campus and more involved in their first year experience.

Woodbury Invitational

Bored? Explore something new. The Woodbury Art Museum can provide art and culture to uplift a boring day. The Woodbury Invitational, featuring artists from all over the country, will be exhibited until Feb. 20, 2009. “The artworks presented range from the clean aesthetic of restraint exercised in Robert Stuart’s explorations into material and simple geometric form, through the complex content laden images of Harvey Breverman, to the elaborate fantasy compositions of James C.

World of Warcraft

The second expansion of World of Warcraft was released on Nov. 13. Entitled “Wrath of the Lich King,” the game takes place on the mythical northern continents of Azeroth and sold more games within the first 24 hours of its release than any other PC game ever has to date.

Ask Cha-cha

What is the best way to hide the fact that you’re drunk from your family at Thanksgiving? -Drink coffee, stay quiet so you don’t say anything out of the ordinary, and so they can’t tell you are slurring your words. -Be sure to brush your teeth before you go and chew gum while there.

Change we can believe in

Marvel’s Ultimatum is changing things in a big way, for comic books at least By Nobody starts off an event like Marvel Comics. Did they just kill millions of people on the East Coast? Yep. Did half of the Fantastic Four just die? I think so. Were those X-Men being slammed by a tidal wave that consumed all of New York? Indeed they were.