It’s weird to reflect back on my undergrad experience as someone who never thought they would go to college. I was always a good student as a child, but higher education never felt inevitable,...

  At seven feet six inches tall, the likeness of Martha Hughes Cannon towers temporarily within the Utah State Capitol. The pandemic has complicated plans to install the statue of the first female...

  Whether it be over football or politics, there has always been tension between the Salt Lake City metropolitan area and Utah County. The way both communities view one another is entrenched in...

  Kwaku El finally struck a nerve large enough to, at least temporarily, rocket his name into Utah politics. El is a co-creator of Young/Dumb, a local event business that has thrown several parties...

  If asked to describe the demographic most likely to post wildly sensationalist and factually-challenged political content on social media, many people would single out baby boomers. This is understandable,...

  Teaching has never been an easy gig, but the responsibility of guiding young minds through a pandemic and civil unrest is unimaginable. Teachers are expected to take the turbulence in stride,...

  Somewhere amidst the shapeless slog of the pandemic’s summer months, I received a notification adding me to a new Facebook group. The group was local, primarily made up of alumni from my high...

  In the last two weeks, public support for the Black Lives Matter movement has skyrocketed. The protests — which a majority of Americans support — were sparked by the devastating murder of...

  When I was in second grade, my teacher performed a rendition of Jane Elliott’s controversial "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” exercise. The “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” exercise takes a group of people,...

  The youth are our future, which is why it is concerning that so many recent high profile acts of racism in Utah have come at the hands of high school students. Whether it be slurs at basketball...