In high school, I was friends with a lot of athletes. The football, track and wrestling teams were filled with people I called friends. Most of them genuinely benefitted from their time in sports....
Body modifications include, but are not limited to, tattoos, piercings and plastic surgery. Many people turn to them for reasons of self-esteem, trauma response and overall enjoyment, just to...
Political debates have weaponized drug use as a talking point for a long time, more often harming than helping those who use drugs. Solutions, such as harm reduction, come from within affected...
The results of the midterm elections, while disappointing, were utterly unsurprising. As a seemingly immovable red state, the powers that be in Utah have many tricks up their sleeves to maintain...
I grew up in Utah’s Dual Language Immersion Program, a language-learning program for elementary school students. In this program, I spent half of each day learning in English and the other...
The horror genre carries a complicated history and certain magnetism for marginalized identities. Horror frightens audiences by showing them the unacceptable and undesirable — things that go...
Universities are considered “higher education” institutions. This means we hold them to higher expectations than middle or high schools. Group projects have become commonplace in many different...
Every year, my social media gets flooded with photos of peers posing with children of color, talking about how they had the experience of a lifetime. Voluntourism has persisted for years and...
The University of Utah houses over 600 clubs and student organizations that range in focus from community service and advocacy to plain fun.
However, with groups like Turning Point USA entering...
Everybody needs to use the bathroom.
The University of Utah isn’t necessarily bad in terms of offering gender-neutral and inclusive bathrooms. Other universities aren’t as accommodating....
