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Lezaic: Utah Needs Harm Reduction

By Angela Lezaic, Opinion Writer January 16, 2023

  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 front gate of the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah on Sept. 19, 2018.

Lezaic: You Need to Know About Prison Gerrymandering

By Angela Lezaic, Opinion Writer January 12, 2023

  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...

Van Wagenen: Watch Your Language

Van Wagenen: Watch Your Language

By Madeline Van Wagenen, Photo Director January 5, 2023

  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...

Local Mormon church near Foothill Drive on Sunday, July 11, 2021.

Cowley: LDS Plastic Surgery Craze is Hypocritical

By Elle Cowley, Multimedia Managing Editor December 30, 2022

  Up until recently, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not allow their members to get tattoos or any piercings other than a single lobe piercing. Still, there remains a heavy...

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Arts x Opinion: The Entanglement of Marginalized Identities and Horror

By Angela Lezaic, Kayla Lien, and Whit Fuller December 30, 2022

  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...

Students of Introduction to Design Thinking in class in the Gardner Commons building at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.

Mendenhall: Group Projects Aren’t Fair to Students

By Addison Mendenhall December 22, 2022

  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...

Guest Opinion: Utah's Role in School-to-Prison Pipeline

Guest Opinion: Utah’s Role in School-to-Prison Pipeline

By Emily Ladd December 20, 2022

  Utah schools are disciplining students of color at disproportionately high rates compared to white students. During the 2020-21 school year, only 2.8% of white students were involved in an incident...

Local Mormon church near Foothill Drive on Sunday, July 11, 2021.

Lien: Voluntourism is a Double-Edged Sword

By Kayla Lien, Opinion Writer December 16, 2022

  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...