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ASUU Debates Smoking Ban

April 22, 2015

During their last meeting of the year, the ASUU Assembly voted in favor of joint resolution 14 to examine smoking concerns on campus. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Shields and Sen. Ryann Cooley,...

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Jowers Set to Leave Hinckley Institute After a Decade of Work

By Courtney Tanner April 20, 2015

On his first day as director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics in 2005, Kirk Jowers got an angry phone call. It wasn’t exactly in tune with the welcome banners and congratulatory notes he had...

(Photo by Chris Samuels)

Small Explosion Evacuates Chemistry Building

April 16, 2015

When the explosion went off, the first thing Shantel Leithead saw was the walls quivering. The second thing was smoke. Leithead, a senior, was sitting in a biochemistry class in the Henry Eyring Building...

(Photo by Jameson Clifton)

Editor’s Note, April 2015

April 8, 2015

“I don’t swimsuit” has been my personal catchphrase this spring. It’s not that I’m allergic to spandex (although I might try that excuse) or that “swimsuit” is even a real verb. It’s...

(Photo by Jameson Clifton)

Editor’s Note, March 2015

March 5, 2015

March gets a bad rap, and I blame it on Julius Caesar. The man was stabbed a few times (23 times, to be exact) back in March of 44 B.C., and everyone is still afraid of the month because of it. But...

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Anti-Discrimination Bill Introduced in Utah Senate

By Courtney Tanner March 4, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] With commentary from the bill’s sponsors and LDS Church representatives, legislation seeking to reconcile anti-LGBT discrimination and religious freedom was introduced...

ASUU Kicks Off Election Season with Series of Complaints

ASUU Kicks Off Election Season with Series of Complaints

February 18, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Student body election campaigns begin on Saturday, but complaints have already been filed against both of the political parties. The ASUU Elections Committee, a...

(Graphic by Ivy Smith)

Police Investigating Alleged Rape at U Dorms

By Courtney Tanner February 17, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] U Police are investigating an alleged rape that occurred on upper campus this week. The incident, classified as a forced sexual assault by the department’s public...

(Photo by Dane Goodwin)

Phone Scam Targets International Students at the U

By Courtney Tanner February 9, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] She probably wishes she never answered the phone that day. It was 1 p.m. on a Friday, and she was sitting in her apartment in the West Village when her phone started...

(Photo Courtesy of Daniel Eike)

Avalanches: When to Stay Off the Slopes

February 4, 2015

It was calm, and then suddenly it wasn’t. What was solid ground two minutes before was now rushing around him like a river. Waves of snow carried him 150 yards in a matter of seconds, and he was helpless. Daniel...