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New Year, New ASUU

January 14, 2015

  Every semester each student pays $23.12 in fees to ASUU, but most don’t know where that money goes after tuition is paid. All of that added up to a budget of $1.7 million for student government...

(Photo by Brent Uberty)

ASUU Attracts Motivated Students from Greek System

January 11, 2015

  The proportion of Greek students in ASUU is higher than in the general student body. Members of fraternities and sororities make up 48 percent of the U’s student government but only nine percent...

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Students Don’t Know What ASUU Did Fall Semester

December 9, 2014

  ASUU is wrapping up Fall Semester and getting ready for spring, leaving many students curious about what has been accomplished thus far. Officials within student government refused to respond to...

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Passions Rise at “Don’t Shoot” Debate

December 7, 2014

  In a debate over Ferguson hosted on campus, community members and students became riled up over whether police officers should be required to wear body cameras in Utah. A large audience filled...

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Escaping Persecution: The Modern Refugee Story

November 25, 2014

  As Alex Ngendakuriyo, a Burundi refugee community leader, put it, “No one wants to be called a refugee, but sometimes you don’t have a choice.” Ngendakuriyo and two others sat as panelists...

(Graphic by Ivy Smith)

U Sees Increase in Philanthropic Donations

November 17, 2014

  During the recent recession and with recent campaigning by the university, donations to the U have exceeded expectations. And this sense of charity was mimicked by the entire state as well. An...

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Human Trafficking a “Legitimate Concern” in Utah

November 13, 2014

  Pizza was lacking at Thursday’s pizza & politics forum at the Hinckley Institute of Politics. Human trafficking was the topic of Thursday’s forum, which featured a panel of speakers comprised...

Film Documents the Undocumented in America

November 13, 2014

Each day, more than 1,000 people are deported from America because they are undocumented citizens. A free screening of the film “Documented” was shown at the U Tuesday in the Film & Media Arts...

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New Health Plan to Cover Uninsured Utahns

November 13, 2014

  Because Utah politicians voted against Medicaid expansion, the state lost a potential year in free funding in 2014. Medicaid, a government program to help uninsured residents gain health care coverage,...

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Greenwald to Share His NSA Secrets at the U

November 10, 2014

  On April 7, secrets will be unleashed in the Gould Auditorium of the Marriott Library. Glenn Greenwald, a journalist famous for breaking the story of Edward Snowden’s leak of confidential information...