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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

Patience: Just Back Off and Let Me Enjoy Some Taylor Swift, Okay?

Patience: Just Back Off and Let Me Enjoy Some Taylor Swift, Okay?

By Alisa Patience September 5, 2017

About a week ago, Taylor Swift released her new song and video. As someone who has an emotional attachment to the artist, I'm essentially conditioned to enjoy every song she puts out. More than that, however...

Patience: Textbooks Should Not Be An Additional Cost to Tuition

Patience: Textbooks Should Not Be An Additional Cost to Tuition

By Alisa Patience September 1, 2017

As school starts up our wallets begin to empty once again. The most stressful part about college for me isn't driving 45 minutes every day to commute or writing final essays. It's getting textbooks. It's...

Mother of Dragons, Rightful Queen of Westeros

Mother of Dragons, Rightful Queen of Westeros

By Alisa Patience August 26, 2017

"Game of Thrones" is coming to an end. As the series has progressed, fan-favorite Daenerys Targaryen has developed a reputation among fans as  the "Mad Queen" and a terrorist. She's becoming more and...

Sandra Cisneros at Glendale-Mountain View Community Learning  Center meeting with Mountain View duel-immersion fifth graders. 
Photo - Tanner Humanities Center

Cisneros Describes the “Power of Art” to Dual Immersion Fifth Graders

By Connor Richards May 6, 2017

Growing up the only daughter in a family of six boys on Chicago’s West Side, Sandra Cisneros describes her childhood as being defined by loneliness. Instead of responding to this loneliness with a downward...

(Photo by Brent Uberty)

Children’s Books Bust Through March Madness Brackets

By Kylee Ehmann March 22, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The move through the bracket was a long, tough battle, but “The Day the Crayons Quit” managed to come out on top in the Salt Lake City Public Library’s March...

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Rare Books at the U Make History Come Alive

January 27, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   There is only one place at the U where students have access to a $500,000 copy of Isaac Newton’s first discussion of gravitational theory — the U’s...

Best-selling novel The Martian skyrockets author Andy Weir to fame

Best-selling novel “The Martian” skyrockets author Andy Weir to fame

December 12, 2014

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] If pop culture has taught us anything, it’s that America loves success stories. The idea that fame and fortune can happen to an everyday person is something that every...

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Students Sell Back Textbooks to Get Back a Fraction of Their Money

December 11, 2014

  Along with saying goodbye to classmates, the end of the semester also means getting rid of textbooks. One option students have to get money back for their course materials is the Campus Store’s...

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Changes May Be in Store for English Department

November 23, 2014

  Students may be in for a surprise with possible upcoming changes in the English degree curriculum. Rumors are going around that English major requirements may change and that these changes would...

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U’s Middle East Library is Home to “Enthusiastic” Librarian

October 19, 2014

  "This library, as one hears from others, is extraordinary,” said Leonard Chiarelli, associate librarian at the Marriott Library. Chiarelli is in charge of the Aziz S. Atiya Middle East Library,...