Severe Windstorm Causes Power Outages Across Valley, Prompts U to Cancel Classes
By Alexis Perno and Megan McKellar
September 8, 2020
Tuesday, Sept. 8, a windstorm caused extensive power outages throughout Salt Lake City and along the Wasatch Front. Damage included fallen trees and limbs, minor campus dorm damage and downed power lines. The University of Utah canceled classes for the day at around 9 a.m. a...
Protests Continue for Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, Exposing “Killer Cops” and Painting Streets Red
By Ivana Martinez and Natalie Colby
June 28, 2020
Too much blood has been spilled. The people of Salt Lake are chanting, “Not One More.” As protests continue for almost a month, they have honed in on securing justice for Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal who was shot over 20 times in the back by the Salt Lake City Police Department on May 23, 2020. On ...
Frontline Workers Respond to Local Protests
By Angelyn Ramos, News Writer
May 9, 2020
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry addressed fellow delegates at the second Virginia convention exclaiming “Give me liberty or give me death.” Citizens throughout the United States would write the same words on poster-boards 245 years later as protests sparked all over the nation regarding...
On the Frontlines of a Pandemic: First Stop Testing
By Ivana Martinez, Assistant News Editor
April 18, 2020
On a regular day, medical assistant Alexis Olivas would be checking in patients in the primary care floor, taking their vitals, doing their intakes and reporting back to her assigned physician. Now, she’s in the Sugar House Health Center parking lot, where white tents are stationed f...
Emergency Preparedness and U: Handling Utah’s Earthquakes
By Eliza Pace
April 16, 2020
Most Utahns have felt the effects of COVID-19 with graduations postponed, classes moved online, public parks and areas closed and more. Then in the midst of all this, on March 18 at 7:09 a.m., Magna and the greater part of Northern Utah were hit by a 5.7 earthquake. While the earthquake caused limited...
Love in the Time of Corona
By Ivana Martinez and Natalie Colby
April 15, 2020
“Everything about our mechanism of love and connection is based on proximity,” said Lisa Diamond, University of Utah professor and researcher of developmental psychology and health psychology. Diamond’s research focuses on sexual orientation development, sexual identity and bonding. “Love...
Teach ’em Young: Combating Misinformation with Media Literacy
By Joseph Moss, News Writer
April 14, 2020
The rise of the novel Coronavirus pandemic is a shining example of the dangers that can ensue from the widening exposure of misinformation proliferated through social media. Multiple outlets can be seen writing stories about the number of cases and deaths around the virus. However, very l...
Feeding Utah During a Pandemic
By Kayleigh Silverstein, News Writer
April 6, 2020
The Salt Lake County Health Department has deemed food pantries to be essential businesses. Essential businesses are supposed to remain open, but are “required to exclude employees with fever, cough, or shortness of breath, and should practice six feet of social distancing as much as possib...
COVID-19 is Changing On-Campus Efforts to Promote the 2020 Census
By Ivana Martinez and Joseph Moss
April 4, 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Census Bureau has made modifications to their counting efforts. The changes come as the coronavirus has dramatically changed social and political life in the United States. The Census Bureau released a statement about their modification efforts...
When Women Aren’t Heard in the Doctors Office
By Ivana Martinez, Assistant News Editor
March 28, 2020
According to the United States National Library of Medicine Institute of Health, implicit bias plays into patient interactions in many ways. As a result, patients who come from underrepresented groups or communities are disproportionately affected by those biases. A research article in the Jou...
Poma: LDS Members Must Do More to Fight Racism
September 22, 2020
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Fire Breaks out in Neff’s Canyon
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