In one of the closing paragraphs of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” a religious document outlining the family values of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it reads, “We warn...
By Morgan Barron, Opinion Writer
• February 25, 2018
I lived in rural West Virginia for part of 2017. I ate my first “proper” biscuit, attended a bluegrass concert in a cave and came home with a slight southern drawl. During my stay, I spent plenty of...
By Morgan Barron, Opinion Writer
• February 10, 2018
At the bottom of the Sunday paper in 1972, The Washington Post ran the article “Five Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Offices Here.” While not originally above-the-fold news, this article intrigued Post...
The Alumni Factor, a company dedicated to providing prospective students and their parents with college ratings based on alumni success, claims a university’s ‘output’ is the best metric to access...
I crouch silently in a pile of rubble, leaning my back against a crumbling wall and clutching my water gun. Maybe it once was someone’s house, a picket fence out front and a kid playing in the yard....
Dr. Kathie Allen’s political career began with the political death of Jason Chaffetz.
In March of 2017, the then-Utah Representative appeared on CNN to discuss the Republicans’ new healthcare bill....
In his now popular commencement speech, “This is Water,” David Foster Wallace speaks of two young fish meeting an older fish who greets them and then asks, "How's the water?" Startled by the question,...
By Morgan Barron, Opinion Writer
• December 11, 2017
Like many children born in the '90s, I was raised reading J.K. Rowling’s literary masterpiece, "Harry Potter." The ideas and values explored in these novels profoundly impacted my personal philosophy....
In 1793, a coalition of 13 Native American tribes lobbied the United States government to honor the treaty which gave the tribes control of the land west of the Ohio River: “We desire you to consider,...
In 1965, the classic Christmas cartoon, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," coined the phrase ‘a Charlie Brown Christmas tree,’ describing the short and spindly evergreen Charlie Brown picks from the tree...
