On average, Americans consume 3.4 pounds of candy on Halloween. That translates to 7,000 calories, which is the equivalent of 13 Big Macs and three cups of sugar, or about 220 sugar packets. In a country...

A prank goes too far when one person causes another person intense emotional or mental pain, which is exactly what was inflicted on Brittney Smith, the girlfriend of YouTube superstar Roman Atwood in a...

Sooner or later, Salt Lake City residents are going to have to admit that they live in an area that has a small supply of water available for consumption. With some Salt Lakers already facing water shortages...

Environmentally speaking, toilets that use water are pieces of shit. A water toilet requires 18 tons of water annually to transport feces into sewage systems, which sometimes empty directly into rivers...

The first year of college is always the hardest. Students have to adjust to new expectations, more demanding classes and an integration into a new community. Although this may be easy for some people,...

The story of a student saddled with debt, struggling to make the minimum monthly payments, is far too common in today’s Western society, and the U offers no exceptions. And unfortunately, this sad truth...

Although the Syrian immigration crisis has been temporarily addressed, with world powers like the United States and members of the European Union pledging to accept thousands of immigrants, the crisis...

On Saturday, Sept. 12 two football players from the U became the latest victims of lax gun regulation in the U.S. Luckily, there were no casualties, and the shooting didn’t happen on campus during class...

Right now an important battle is playing out in the West that deserves the nation’s attention. It revolves around the question of whether the sage-grouse, a bird which is closely associated with the...

There has always been a battle between video games and movies in the horror genre to determine which can scare their audience the most, with video games usually losing out to their far more realistic competitors....