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The Daily Utah Chronicle

Metal Gear Solid V Has Great Gameplay But is Held Back by Disjointed Storyline

Metal Gear Solid V Has Great Gameplay But is Held Back by Disjointed Storyline

March 1, 2016

The Metal Gear series is far from normal. Each game adds a new level of bombast and convolution to an already-confusing storyline. Every iteration of the game presents a radically different style of gameplay...

Extremist Presidential Candidates Force Moderates to Widen Partisan Gap

Extremist Presidential Candidates Force Moderates to Widen Partisan Gap

February 26, 2016

The strong presence of outsiders has changed the political landscape of the 2016 election considerably. Strategies that most people would doom to failure have resulted in some amazing successes. Few would...

Politicizing Popular Issues Leads to Lack of Progress

Politicizing Popular Issues Leads to Lack of Progress

February 24, 2016

The word “politicize” has become fairly common in the media, especially since Obama took office. It’s often used to deride the president for taking social issues and making them a problem of government...

Reading Still has a Place in an Increasingly Visual Media-based Culture

Reading Still has a Place in an Increasingly Visual Media-based Culture

February 21, 2016

Why should we still read? Sometimes I forget to read. It’s not that I forget how, I suddenly become illiterate or go temporarily blind — I just forget books are out there. Reading starts to play second...

People Watching People Play Video Games Creates Valuable Internet Communities

February 19, 2016

Watching other people play video games is the new entertainment. Let's Plays, podcasts and streaming have proliferated in a major way in the past nine years. Most people wouldn’t have imagined that...

Students attend the University of Utahs Annual Arts Bash on the Marriot Library Plaza on campus, Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Head to Head: How Valuable Are Fine Arts Requirements?

February 18, 2016

Head to Head: Fine Arts Courses Fail to Hit the Intended Target by Jack Porter Here’s how the U describes fine arts courses: “Such courses explore the world through diverse aesthetic viewpoints and...

Going Gluten-Free Wont Make You Healthier — Unless You Suffer From Celiac Disease

Going Gluten-Free Won’t Make You Healthier — Unless You Suffer From Celiac Disease

February 12, 2016

Let’s get one thing straight. A gluten-free version of anything doesn’t mean it’s some healthier variant of the normal thing. Gluten-free brownies are just as unhealthy as regular brownies. Gluten-free...

Three Amazing and Obscure Games of 2015 That You Probably Overlooked

Three Amazing and Obscure Games of 2015 That You Probably Overlooked

February 9, 2016

All games listed are purchasable through Steam. Grow Home Grow Home is a very simple game. You play as a tiny robot stranded on an alien planet who needs to guide a monstrous plant back to its spaceship....

Student-Run K-UTE Could Fill Niche in Utah Radio

Student-Run K-UTE Could Fill Niche in Utah Radio

February 3, 2016

Does K-UTE need its own FM station? It’s a tricky question. Utah radio is a dry climate. There aren't a lot of stations between country and whatever’s currently trending. Unless you’re listening...

People Need to Remember: Walking Is the Best Medicine

People Need to Remember: Walking Is the Best Medicine

January 27, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that “few people know how to take a walk." Most of us take walking for granted. In fact, I believe there’s a growing movement to get rid of walking altogether. The prevalence...