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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

Trump to be 45th President, America is in Uncharted Waters

Trump to be 45th President, America is in Uncharted Waters

November 9, 2016

Waking up this morning will be a sobering experience for many.  Regardless of who you supported, the result of the 2016 election is unprecedented. Polls, political bloggers, betting markets. None of them...

Nintendo Switch May Prove Viability of Tablets/Smartphones in VGs

Nintendo Switch May Prove Viability of Tablets/Smartphones in VGs

November 8, 2016

THE NINTENDO SWITCH Nintendo recently announced the Switch, a console that combines a tablet with two removable controllers, transforming it into a portable gaming machine. It comes at an important time...

Clown Costumes Create Chaos

Clown Costumes Create Chaos

October 25, 2016

Lock your doors, shut the blinds and hide your kids because there’s an epidemic sweeping the nation. It’s not smallpox or zombies. Even worse – it’s clowns. Forget the presidential election, forget...

Cultural Costumes are Harmless, Have No “Ill Intent”

October 20, 2016

Halloween costumes give people a chance to be someone or something else for a night. They are meant to be fun and lighthearted. After all, it's a holiday centered on candy, parties and scary movies.  Yet,...

Thousands of people came to support Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders at his rally at This is the Place Monument in Salt Lake City, Friday, March 18, 2016

Millennials; Strength in Numbers

October 18, 2016

Millennials are now the largest generation. Unfortunately, when it comes to politics, they can also be the most apathetic. It’s not hard to see why. The contempt that many have for the two major-party...

Radio Sirens Dangerous, Distract and Desensitize Reactions

Radio Sirens Dangerous, Distract and Desensitize Reactions

October 8, 2016

My morning commute consists of cranking up the radio and the heater. It’s just about all I can do to remain conscious at 6:30 a.m. when I go to my morning class. Without the sanity that my morning tunes...

Turn Off Your Ad Blockers

Turn Off Your Ad Blockers

By Kyle Ruscigno September 29, 2016

The $40 you pay every month for data isn’t the cost of a free and open internet; that’s just what it takes to beam the information to you. Netflix costs $8 a month. If every website charged that much...

Presidential Debate Threshold Too High

Presidential Debate Threshold Too High

By Kyle Ruscigno September 26, 2016

Fifteen percent. That’s the magic number that a presidential candidate has to be polling at in order to get onto the debate stage on Sept. 26. However, unless Gary Johnson starts to poll in the upper...

Liberal or Conservative, Let the Records Play

Liberal or Conservative, Let the Records Play

By Kyle Ruscigno September 24, 2016

The members of Queen happen to have some very different political views from Donald Trump. Yet in July, Trump fumbled onto the Republican Convention stage in an awkward, meandering introduction while "We...

Do Anything Other Than Just Whats Easy

Do Anything Other Than Just What’s Easy

By Kyle Ruscigno September 22, 2016

Plazafest has come and gone, your classes are locked in and the semester is in full swing. You’ve probably been carpet-bombed with pamphlets from hundreds of clubs and given your name and number to more...