At national and state levels, the general sentiment towards the transgender community is transphobic at best and hostile at worst. Rhetoric against trans people, oftentimes employing fictitious...
Medicaid is a state-funded program that covers medical services for specific individuals, including the elderly, pregnant women and their children, and people with low incomes.
The services...
This legislative session has seen several bills aimed at teachers and education. Two, in particular, are S.B. 55 and H.B. 344. Both bills are aimed at establishing policies for curriculum transparency...
Utah’s 2023 State Legislative session contains several bills and amendments related to sex offender guidelines and violations. One such bill, H.B. 99, is sponsored by Rep. Brady Brammer and...
A large group of protestors, many holding transgender and pride flags, gathered on Friday, Feb. 25, to protest two bills in the Utah State legislature that would impact transgender youth, H.B....
Amid rising COVID-19 cases in Utah, University of Utah students return to in-person classes for the Spring 2022 semester.
On Saturday, Jan. 15, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Utah’s average...
By Morgan Barron, Opinion Writer
• November 20, 2019
During the 2016 legislative session, the Utah House of Representatives passed a resolution that declared pornography to be a public health crisis. This resolution claimed that viewing porn “perpetuates...
A law intended to help students decide which institution of higher education to attend for their program of study was never fully implemented at the University of Utah.
In 2017, the Utah legislature...
The murder of fellow U student Lauren McCluskey in October 2018 spurred several calls to action to increase safety, including the proposal of House Bill 190 in the Utah Legislative Session, which...
Lauren McCluskey is remembered fondly at the University of Utah and by everyone who knew her. McCluskey was a bright and kind student with a great future whose tragic death on Oct. 22, 2018 has...
