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The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

Politics

Third Party and Independent Candidates for the 2016 Presidential Election

Third Party and Independent Candidates for the 2016 Presidential Election

November 7, 2016

Although no third party or independent candidate has carried a state since 1968, dissatisfaction with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has resulted in a surge of support for such candidates this election...

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Election Rules and Biases in the United States

November 5, 2016

In the current 2016 election, Navajo voters in San Juan County are having their voting rights violated. Prior to 2014 there were nine different polling locations all across northern Utah for Navajo voters...

Students Gather for Conversation With Evan McMullin

Students Gather for Conversation With Evan McMullin

November 3, 2016

Over the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, an increasing number of Utahns have felt uneasy about casting a vote for either major party candidate, as a number of polls have indicated. This is...

Trump Allegations Receive Mixed Responses from Students, Faculty

Trump Allegations Receive Mixed Responses from Students, Faculty

By Cara MacDonald October 31, 2016

In recent weeks Donald Trump has faced backlash from voters across the political spectrum due to his sexual remarks about women and allegations of sexual assault. During the second presidential debate,...

Salt Lake Tribune to Host Conversation About Rape On Campus

Salt Lake Tribune to Host Conversation About Rape On Campus

By Rachael Folland October 31, 2016

Sexual assault on college campuses and the meaning of consent have become topics of discussion in the media and at universities across the state and nation. On Nov. 2, The Salt Lake Tribune will host Confronting...

Crime and Incarceration: Something to Consider in the Upcoming Election

Crime and Incarceration: Something to Consider in the Upcoming Election

By Cara MacDonald October 26, 2016

“We have roughly 2.2 million people incarcerated currently, and millions more Americans who are swept up in a sort of correctional control,” Dr. Edmund Fong, a researcher from the U, stated while kicking...

The Its on US booth volunteers including Director Creveling inside the Marriott Library at the U on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. (Rishi Deka, Daily Utah Chronicle)

U Student Attends Vice President’s Reception For “It’s On Us”

By Zoe Kozlowski October 23, 2016

Last week Vice President Joe Biden held a reception to honor students who have made a significant impact in their work with the “It’s On Us” campaign. Among them was U student Julianne Skrivan. Students...

Hinckley Institute, Election Events on Campus

Hinckley Institute, Election Events on Campus

By Rachael Folland October 18, 2016

With the presidential election nearing, the primary goal for the Hinckley Institute is to get students on the U campus registered to vote. There are several events planned to get students excited about...

The J Willard Marriott Library on the University of Utah campus Monday, September 14, 2015.
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Marriott Library added as new Voting Center

By Brad Bennion October 18, 2016

Students are some of the busiest people on earth. They wake up early for classes and often stay up very late in order to complete homework and study for upcoming tests. This means that there is very little...

Photo courtesy of Theresa Thompson

Election 2016: What Voters Should Know

By Katie Buda October 18, 2016

[row cols_nr="2"] [col size="8"] Lyndon Johnson called the secret vote “The most powerful instrument ever devised by man.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that the only way to deprive the American...