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The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

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U Administrators Block Faculty Efforts to Address Climate Change

July 11, 2016

On May 25, the University of Massachusetts proudly announced it had become the first major public school to divest from fossil fuel equities. This decision came in response to threats posed by global climate...

An American flag flies upside down outside William Keeblers residence in Stockton, UT (Matthew Piper, The Salt Lake Tribune)

Right-Wing Extremists are Terrorists Too

July 9, 2016

In late June, a Utah man was charged with attempting to blow up federal property after a bomb failed to detonate outside a Bureau of Land Management cabin in Arizona. William Keebler, a leader of the anti-government...

The Myth Of The Good Guy With a Gun

The Myth Of The ‘Good Guy With a Gun’

July 6, 2016

Just days after one of the largest mass shootings in U.S. history, four separate measures addressing gun restriction failed on the Senate floor. There has once again been another unthinkable tragedy; and...

Its Time For BYU to Get Serious About Sexual Assault

It’s Time For BYU to Get Serious About Sexual Assault

July 5, 2016

Earlier this year, Madi Barney told Provo City police that she’d been raped last September during her sophomore year at Brigham Young University. Since her accused attacker was not a student, she did...

Brexit Looks Bad for Progress

Brexit Looks Bad for Progress

July 3, 2016

Britain has voted to leave the European Union, and it is not good. In a global age where the world grows closer every day, the British people have decided instead to close themselves off and face inward....

Freedom of Speech and Why a Trump Presidency Scares Me

Freedom of Speech and Why a Trump Presidency Scares Me

June 17, 2016

Anyone who knows anything about the United States knows how seriously this country takes freedom of speech. Whether it's used to protest an illegitimate war or to defend the use of racial and homophobic...

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started College at the U

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started College at the U

June 14, 2016

I wish I had known that I knew absolutely nothing. I wish I had known that I would switch—and contemplate switching—majors for the entirety of my first two years at the U, and that my emphasis would...

We Should Reconsider Ape and Primate Captivity

We Should Reconsider Ape and Primate Captivity

June 9, 2016
The shooting of a 17-year-old silverback gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo begs the question: what are gorillas doing in zoos in the first place?
Terry Tempest Williams Resignation Shames The U

Terry Tempest Williams’ Resignation Shames The U

May 31, 2016

Renowned environmental scholar Terry Tempest Williams announced earlier this month that she’ll be stepping down from her fellowship position in the U’s Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, a...