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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

Opinion

Everyone should fight against domestic violence

Everyone should fight against domestic violence

By Aaron Clark June 9, 2015

The recent death of 14-year old Chiara Paéz has angered many people in Argentina – as it should. Her boyfriend allegedly murdered her after a dispute over her unplanned pregnancy. A young girl being...

The U.S. needs to give all fuel sources an equal chance

The U.S. needs to give all fuel sources an equal chance

June 7, 2015

Fear of environmentalism and global warming seems to stem, among many skeptics, from the fear that they will have to give up the technological luxuries that have become deeply entrenched in modern life....

Holding back students harms individuals and the school system as a whole

Holding back students harms individuals and the school system as a whole

By Andrew Jose and Andrew Jose June 6, 2015

We’ve all heard the phrase “children are the future.” Whether you’ve heard the idea sung from Whitney Houston’s soulful voice, echoed in the words of Nelson Mandela or ad libbed by Jack Black...

Gluten-free diets should be for medical purposes only

Gluten-free diets should be for medical purposes only

By Aaron Clark June 4, 2015

“A lot of people can't eat gluten for medical reasons, and that I get... But a lot of people here don't eat gluten because someone in their yoga class told them not to.” Jimmy Kimmel is probably the...

Social Stigmas Distort our Perception of Mental Illness

Social Stigmas Distort our Perception of Mental Illness

By Aaron Clark June 2, 2015

On May 23, 2015, the world lost an incredibly inspirational and intellectually gifted individual. Those who saw the film "A Beautiful Mind" understand exactly how brilliant John Nash was. The mathematician...

Standards For Beauty In Media Put Unhealthy And Dangerous Pressure On Women

Standards For Beauty In Media Put Unhealthy And Dangerous Pressure On Women

By Aaron Clark May 27, 2015

We all know them. We all envy them. Those girls who have the metabolism of a 14-year-old boy and can eat endless cheeseburgers while still maintaining a slim physique. But do you know a girl who is so...

Stranger in a Strange, Polygamist Land

May 26, 2015

When my best friend Savannah and I were visiting Hurricane, Utah, outside of St. George, we noticed what appeared to be some polygamist women at a local eatery. They caught me off guard with their “prairie...

On the essence of time

May 21, 2015

Have you ever watched the World Population Clock? It’s a website that tracks population growth in real time. It’s about 9 a.m. MT right now and nearly 150,000 new people have already entered...

Affirmative action does not constitute racial discrimination

By Aaron Clark May 20, 2015

If you go to harvardnotfair.org, you will find an entire spiel about how Harvard is wrongfully using race to discriminate and keep some overachievers out of the prestigious university. The website then...

Society needs to stop using people’s inherent situations as insults

By Aaron Clark May 19, 2015

Over 400 years ago, William Shakespeare posed an important philosophical question, delivered through the young and confused Juliet Capulet – “What’s in a name?” The pre-pubescent...