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Ceramics Students Voice Concerns Over Loss of Full-Time Faculty

By MJ Jewkes, Investigative Writer May 6, 2024

  Professor Brian Snapp, a tenure professor of 24 years for the College of Fine Arts has retired, leaving the ceramics area with only one tenured professor. Despite a year passing with a hole in...

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Nshangalume: Being Beautiful is Not For You

By Iragi Nshangalume, Opinion Writer May 5, 2024

  It seems when you open social media, all you hear about are the new beauty and fashion trends.  Where does this fascination with staying in trend and being perceived as beautiful come from?...

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Studio Ghibli Fest’s ‘Spirited Away’: Life is Worth Living

By Isra Habib, Arts Writer May 4, 2024

  The essence of childhood boils down to wonder, awe and imagination. We all have memories of imagining new worlds, separate from the mundane. Many films attempt to reproduce this feeling, this...

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Hall: Turn White Feminism Intersectional

By Lexi Hall, Assistant Opinion Editor May 4, 2024

  Feminism has undergone significant transformations across distinct waves, each contributing to progress while simultaneously exposing inherent gaps and biases. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s introduction...

Hiroyuki Sanada as Yoshii Toranaga in "Shōgun" (Courtesy of FX Networks)

‘Shōgun’ Limited Series Review: Peak TV is Possible

By Andre Montoya, Arts Writer May 4, 2024

  Based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel of the same name, and already adapted previously as a 1980s miniseries, the 2024 limited-series historical epic "Shōgun" has come to a close after ten episodes....

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When the Thrashers Left: The NHL’s Last Relocation

By Jonah Marriott, Sports Writer May 3, 2024

  Relocation is one of the most dramatic occurrences in the realm of professional sports. When a team picks up and takes off, leaving the place they called home behind, it is very difficult. Within...

Graduates receive applause from demonstrators outside the Jon M. Huntsman Center on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City. (Photo by Emerson Hagy | Daily Utah Chronicle)

U Faculty Sign Letter Supporting Student Protesters; Mecha Holds Rally During Commencement

By Josi Hinds and Emerson Hagy May 2, 2024

  Thursday morning, a group of University of Utah faculty released a letter to U President Taylor Randall condemning the U’s response to a solidarity encampment organized Monday night by Mecha...

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‘Abigail’ Review: A Fun Fanged Frolic

By Graham Jones and Andre Montoya May 2, 2024

  Off the coattails of “Scream VI,” directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, otherwise known as “Radio Silence,” have delivered another spectacularly bloody and surprisingly...

The Basic Needs Collective in A. Ray Olpin Student Union at University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Feb. 10, 2023. (Photo by Julia Chuang | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Celebrating Two Years of Meeting Students’ Basic Needs

By Elle Crossley, News Writer May 1, 2024

  The University of Utah’s campus community came together on April 22 to celebrate the Basic Needs Collective’s second birthday. The event highlighted the collection of resources on and off campus...

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Timpa: Utah Isn’t Ready to Ban Abortion

By Matthew Timpa, Opinion Writer May 1, 2024

  This past month, Arizona has moved to reinstate a nearly 200-year-old law. It will ban abortions in their entirety, making no exceptions for extraneous circumstances except to save the life of...