U’s LGBT community aims for unity
Nate Currey, a gay senior in urban planning, converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and completed a mission in Lithuania before being excommunicated and expelled from BYU.
Student Body President Tayler Clough revisited his old campaign promise to run student government honestly and transparently at the State of ASUU address Tuesday.
Young discusses U’s financial situation at Academic Senate
Although doubt still clouds the fate of the U’s budget for next year, U President Michael Young appeared before the Academic Senate on Monday to offer an early prognosis.
Although they trace their roots to some of the world’s most exotic and troubled regions from the Middle East to Africa, many Muslim students call the U home and have at least one thing in common—feeling comfortable and happy here.
U administrators coping with the prospect of another round of crippling budget cuts have good reason to feel like the roof is caving in—it literally is.
Although the budget challenges facing Utah might not be on par with civil war, Gov. Gary Herbert is following Abraham Lincoln’s footsteps and forming a “team of rivals” to help him navigate the troubled path ahead.
Hinckley forum speaker details what’s at stake with the budget
With the Legislative session fast approaching, Kim Wirthlin, U vice president of government relations, spoke to students Monday about the vital need to keep further budget cuts to a minimum and emphasized the U’s role as an engine of the state economy.
Program to target junior high students
Student government President Tayler Clough is redesigning his student mentoring program, originally designed for high school students, to include an even younger demographic.
Long before even the earliest shoppers hit stores on Black Friday, the student government had already approved spending $20,000 on a senior class gift.
Congressman Jim Matheson said soaring health care costs have the U.S. economy careening toward a cliff, but he voted against a bill that would introduce sweeping reforms to the system.
Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, pundits and lawmakers have considered an array of regulations and punitive measures to remedy the system’s problems, but real solutions could be found in an unexpected place—Islamic countries.
With a sweeping health care reform bill awaiting debate and a vote in the Senate, members of Utah’s medical and nonprofit communities gathered at the Hinckley Institute of Politics on Wednesday to discuss the system’s flaws and debate the pending reform bill.
Running for student government requires time, energy, and unless student government President Tayler Clough has his way, roughly $10,000 per party.
Dylan Kaminske woke up one day six months ago and decided that there was no use in waiting to begin his political career, so he’s running for mayor of Salt Lake City next year.
The Utah State Board of Regents held an emergency meeting Friday to send a clear message to lawmakers and the public regarding the escalating crisis in funding for higher education: Further cuts will push the system to the breaking point.
Facing the prospect of a citizen initiative that would overhaul an ethics policy in the Utah Legislature, lawmakers have drafted an outline of a more mild counterproposal to at least partly heed calls for reform.
On the day people around the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a career diplomat spoke to students about the next great foreign policy challenge: Iran.
Members to vote on degree programs, facility names
Education emphasis Board members will vote on a new early childhood education emphasis within the human development and family studies major. The early childhood education emphasis would require students to take courses geared toward the education of children in the age range between preschool and third grade.
Tayler Clough, president of the student government, previously stated that he’s proposing a mentor program that would pay U student volunteers to go local high schools once a week to show students how to apply for college, with the hopes that they will come to the U.
Former and current members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered Wednesday at the This is the Place Monument to once again stake a claim—only this time they did so on behalf of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community who have been alienated from the LDS Church and Mormon culture.
An ethics battle that began last fall on the state’s Capitol Hill raged Tuesday at the U.
Members of the Academic Senate spent much of Monday’s meeting playing catch-up.
From wind farms to solar panels, sustainability efforts are popping up everywhere, and the U Office of Sustainability is interested in what students have seen.
Since they launched Tuesday, the new student group websites are already drawing high praise.
Speech focuses on changes through the years
At the rededication ceremony for the Marriott Library on Monday, former first lady Laura Bush chronicled its 41-year history and pointed to the future by highlighting its many new technologies and additions.
A sluggish economy would seem to pose an insurmountable challenge to successful fundraising, but Sigma Chi’s efforts Friday suggest otherwise.
Hinckley speaker discusses Hungary’s role in the Cold War
As a landlocked, former socialist bloc European country, Hungary is rarely thought of as being central in any sense other than its geographic location.
The numerous construction projects on campus have long made the subject of real estate a key concern for U administrators, but until now, there was no directly related degree available to students.
U colleges have been asked to formulate a plan to recruit minority students, but a look at the music department illustrates challenges that stand in the way.
With campus quiet and mostly empty of students and faculty, the U Board of Trustees kept its Tuesday meeting short and to the point.
If U professor Brian McPherson and his team of scientists and researchers can prove the viability of carbon sequestration in seven months with a $2.7 million grant, they will be awarded $400 million to turn their research into a centerpiece of the new “green” economy.
Opponents of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy say their patience has run out: They’ve been forced to lie about who they are for too long.
The two wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan and the 15th anniversary of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will provide the backdrop for this year’s Pride Week at the U, which began Saturday with a dance in the Union.
Outside temperatures were the coldest they’ve been in some time, but it was the climate in the Marriott Library that Gov. Gary Herbert tried to warm up Thursday.
The U chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and the National Alliance on Mental Illness combined forces to raise about $6,500 for mental health issues in Utah.
Program to help high schoolers with college applications
The student government plans to spend $15,000 per year on a mentoring program that aims to give high school students a head start on filling out college applications.
Among the many misconceptions dogging members of the U’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the most common might be the least obvious—the notion that they agree on everything and face the same problems.
Clive Thomas, a political science professor from the University of Alaska Southeast, delivered a cursory overview of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s meteoric rise to fame at the Hinckley Institute on Thursday.
Anyone thinking of traveling to Mexico City for a tour of Aztec culture might want to consider rerouting to London instead.
If a student has a campus-related grievance that needs adjudication, the student government’s Supreme Court might seem the logical place to turn. It wouldn’t be much help, however, unless the complaint pertained to student elections.
Few students could tell you how last year’s Homecoming Dance was because the event was severely overbooked—an estimated 200 ticket holders were unable to attend.
A perfect season and a Sugar Bowl victory couldn’t do it, nor could multiple Congressional hearings or even opposition from the president of the United States.
Students tired of seeing the cost of everything from tuition to food go up can at least enjoy this year’s Redfest for free.
A $1.34 per semester increase in student publication fees—intended at least in part for a long-delayed, still-pending restructuring of student media—has already been collected and is being held in limbo.
Students looking for details on Knitting for Newbies events, instructions on how to join Colleges Against Cancer or information on any of the other 232-plus registered student groups on campus might soon be able to find what they’re looking for online.
Although it was not former Student Body President Patrick Reimherr’s idea to expose his administration’s budget to scrutiny, those details are now available to any student with access to the Internet.
The morning after President Barack Obama focused national attention on the Democrat-led push for health care reform, the political right got a chance to promote its own agenda with “Conservative Day” on Thursday.
The annual softball game between U administrators and the student government offered an opportunity for them to interact outside of school—and try to embarrass each other in the process.
Budget issues linger for new administration
Although most students are only beginning to settle into the school routine, the student government has been at work for months negotiating the tangle of challenges involved with converting campaign promises into action. Budget posting overdue One initiative, posting the Associated Students of the University of Utah budget online, has already been delayed.
With ground already broken for the new College of Pharmacy building, the task now is to find the prescription that will convince lawmakers to approve the additional $20 million needed for its completion.
U President Michael Young praised the U’s achievements—despite its budget cuts—to refute the argument that everything at the U is doom and gloom. Almost 20 campus building projects totalling nearly 3 million square feet have been completed in the past five years.
For Hinckley Institute Director Kirk Jowers, it was the idea of sitting at a rest stop in Nephi at 2 a.m. having missed his kids’ recitals and ball games that partly dissuaded him from running for governor.
The Utah Student Association has tentatively proposed to have Utah colleges and universities make more use of money-saving methods.
Range Creek traded for Carbon County area
Additions to the U are usually celebrated for being new and cutting-edge, but the latest is just the opposite: an archaeological site that dates back to 400 A.D.
Adding to the rigor of an intense curriculum, thesis writing and teaching undergraduate classes, U graduate students must now cope with the strains of shrinking stipends, rising tuition and vanishing teaching assistant positions.
Beginning Fall Semester, U students will no longer be left in the dark when it comes to how the student government spends its money. The Associated Students of the University of Utah president’s budget will be posted online and will be updated a minimum of three times a year at the end of every semester.
U President Michael Young appeared before a Senate antitrust subcommittee Tuesday to sound off against the BCS, blaming its flawed design for the U’s exclusion from national title consideration, despite finishing the season as the only team in the league without a loss.
By doing such simple things as turning off the lights when leaving a room, the U reports that its energy conservation efforts have saved at least $1 million--and it's predicted to be only the beginning of reducing the U's expenditures by the millions.
With the economy still shaky and work scarce, it might seem strange to ask whether a job market can actually be too open.
Almost 20 percent of human genes are patented, and the U is getting sued for contributing to the amount.
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