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Brenda Payan Medina poses for a photo on the University of Utah campus (Photo by Xiangyao "Axe" Tang | Daily Utah Chronicle)

Payan Medina: Prioritize Connection

By Brenda Payan Medina April 30, 2024

  I remember my first lunch at the University of Utah. It was at this salad bar in the Union that no longer exists, and I had bought some kind of blue cheese salad, which was my first mistake....

Pro-Palestine demonstrators organize around a newly built encampment in front of the John R. Park Building at the University of Utah during the Emergency Rally For Palestine on Monday, Apr. 29, 2024. (Photo by Marco Lozzi | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

At Least 17 Protesters Arrested After U Students Set Up Encampment in Solidarity with Palestine

By Vanessa Hudson and Josi Hinds April 29, 2024

Last Updated: April 30, 12:12 a.m.   Following many pro-Palestinian protests across the country, University of Utah students followed suit, setting up an encampment on Monday evening. There...

Margot Reynolds poses for a photo on the University of Utah campus (Photo by Mary Allen | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Reynolds: Award-Winning Luck

By Margot Reynolds, Editor-in-Chief April 29, 2024

  The world has thrown a lot at me during my time at the University of Utah. A pandemic and a second chronic illness made organic chemistry even more impossible and forced me to reevaluate the...

Andrew Christiansen poses for a photo outside the J. Willard Marriott Library on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City on April 2, 2024. (Photo by Marco Lozzi | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Christiansen: The Chrony Gave Me Community, Purpose and Experience

By Andrew Christiansen, Online Managing Editor April 29, 2024

  As a Salt Lake Community College transfer student, it was scary to start college all over again at the University of Utah almost two years ago. It felt like stepping into the unknown, again....

Camden Alexander poses for a photo in the NEXUS Lab in the Carolyn & Kem Gardner Commons building on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Mary Allen | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Alexander: Lessons Learned

By Camden Alexander April 29, 2024

  In my junior year at the University of Utah, two of my friends died tragically. Maggie Fix, my partner for driver’s ed, lost her four-year battle against cancer. She never failed to make me...

Jim and Sam perform at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on April 19, 2023. (Photo by Madeline Van Wagenen | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Photo Series: 2024 Grand Kerfuffle

By Madeline Van Wagenen, Photo Director April 29, 2024

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‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Analysis From a Tortured Poet

By Eliza Delgado, Arts Editor April 28, 2024

  Taylor Swift continues to prove she is a true mastermind. While receiving a Grammy at the 2024 Grammys, Swift announced her 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department.” Here is...

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girl in red’s ‘I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY’: She’s Back!

By Laney Hansen, Arts Writer April 27, 2024

  Three years after her last release "if i could make it go quiet," girl in red has returned with quite the comeback. Norwegian indie pop star Marie Ulven Ringheim released her new album on April...

"The Boy and the Heron" Courtesy of Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli Fest: Celebrating Ghibli’s Legacy

By Isra Habib, Arts Writer April 27, 2024

  This spring marks the start of this year’s Studio Ghibli Fest. After Hayao Miyazaki’s latest masterpiece, “The Boy and the Heron,” was released last year, this event honors the animation...

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‘Files of the Unexplained’: Lackluster Stories to Make You Yawn

By Ethan Udy, Arts Writer April 27, 2024

  Aliens and ghosts and cults, oh my! Netflix’s new docuseries “Files of the Unexplained” aims to incite the imagination of viewers and question reality. Each case varies, ranging from missing...