If there is one word to describe the United States in a nutshell, it is “more.” As Americans, we simply expect excess to come naturally. And the sad truth is that it almost always does. Whether it...
Before I graduated high school, I remember visiting a friend at her dad’s house (let’s call him Bill), and the topic of homosexuality came up. Being the 60-something-year-old conservative Christian...
Renowned environmental scholar Terry Tempest Williams announced earlier this month that she’ll be stepping down from her fellowship position in the U’s Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, a...
Through the hustle, bustle and stress, spring finals actually tend to be a fairly reflective time for me. I look back on each academic year as they end and think about everything I’ve learned and experienced....
Four to eight percent of deaths along the Wasatch Front are attributed to air pollution. Utah’s air quality is associated with higher rates of breast, lung, cervical, brain, nasal, pharyngeal, liver...
I walked away from 10 years of financial security, a 401k, great health benefits and all of that “adult” stuff that college preps us for. My decision was called “childish” and “impulsive.”...
Just before 7 a.m. on April 11, Ao ‘Olivia’ Kong threw herself in front of a train in West Philadelphia. She was the 10th student to take her own life at the University of Pennsylvania in the last...
Tasteless, crude and inappropriate speech should always be reprimanded, regardless of the individual’s intention. One of the great things about society today is that we have become essentially unapologetic...
