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The John R. Park Building at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on June 29, 2023. (Photo by Marco Lozzi | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Guest Opinion: The Perils of Both-sides-ism

By Ermiya Fanaeian January 15, 2024

  In defense of the removal of Mecha de U of U from the Center for Equity and Student Belonging’s sponsored status, The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board wrote, “What [Mecha] doesn’t have...

KC Ellen Cushman, opinion writer at the Daily Utah Chronicle, poses on Friday, March 31, 2023 at her favorite place on campus, Presidents Circle at The University of Utah.

Cushman: We Can’t Live Only in Pursuit of Our Futures

By KC Ellen Cushman, Opinion Writer May 4, 2023

  I’ve always been an overachiever, at least academically, collecting resume builders the way children collect Pokémon cards. Also like Pokémon cards, I aimed to trade my experiences for better...

Georgieva: It’s Been a Pleasure and Privilege at the Chronicle 

Georgieva: It’s Been a Pleasure and Privilege at the Chronicle 

By Tervela Georgieva, Arts Writer April 30, 2022

  It was a sigh of relief when I found out I would be an arts writer for the Chronicle. I had always been worried about my college experience feeling disconnected from the world outside of campus...

Portrait of Porshai Nielsen in front of the fountain by the J. Willard Marriott Library in Salt Lake City on March 23, 2022. (Photo by Emily Rincon | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Nielsen: Our Work is Far From Done — The Importance of Collegiate Investigative Journalism

By Porshai Nielsen, Investigative Editor April 29, 2022

  A fortune cookie brought me here. Four years ago, I was a miserable pre-nursing major that knew nursing was not my passion. I needed change and knew that I wanted to write. When I had started...

Farewell: Kate Button

Farewell: Kate Button

By Kate Button, Arts Writer, Copy Editor April 28, 2021

  After my freshman year — once I hesitantly declared my English major — I was still largely lost and confused about what I wanted to be when I grew up. There were so many areas that I was...

Oakley Burt is the 2020-21 arts editor.

Farewell: Oakley Burt

By Oakley Burt, Arts Editor April 27, 2021

  It’s hard for me to grasp that this is the last piece I’ll contribute to the Chronicle, that this wonderful experience is coming to an end. I’ve thought a lot about what I would write for...

An outside view of the Nightmare on 13th grounds (photo by Zoe Gottlieb | Daily Utah Chronicle).

Nightmare on 13th Celebrates 30 Years in the Making

By Zoe Gottlieb, Arts Writer October 11, 2020

  Celebrating 30 years in the business, Nightmare on 13th promises this upcoming season to drive terror into the hearts of anyone brave enough to enter through its doors. The haunted attraction’s...

Lieutenant Gov. Spencer Cox sits with LGBTQ youth protesting conversion therapy outside of the governors offices at the Utah Capitol | Chronicle archives.

Activists and Experts Discuss End of Conversion Therapy

By Brock Bernstein, News Writer November 24, 2019

  Mathew Shurka — the cofounder and chief strategist of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Born Perfect campaign — defined conversion therapy as “Any attempt where someone attempts to...

(Photo by: Justin Prather | The Daily Utah Chronicle).

Goodbye, Daily Utah Chronicle. Yes, Yes, We Promise We’ll Call.

Emily Anderson: Editor-in-Chief Every Sonic Youth song longer than five minutes (most of them). Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Training for a marathon — or, even, a half marathon. That...

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Gaming Corner: “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice”

By Yixin Song and Ray H. April 11, 2019

  死, probably the most recognizable Chinese word right now thanks to “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice,” a game that truly reflects the meaning both narratively and mechanically: "that is death." If...