Campus life

While completing my student teaching in a 7th-grade English classroom, I received an email from one of my students asking me for more creative liberty on an assignment.  She and her classmates were asked to write an argumentative essay about school electives (granted, not the most engaging topic) and had been working on it…

Brigham Young University is no stranger to independent student publications. Indeed, students at BYU have been distributing unsanctioned papers and pamphlets for over one hundred years. The largest and most well-known was the Student Review, a massive student paper publishing nearly 15,000 copies a week during its peak in the late 80s. These publications have…

I am in love with our city’s wanna-be-train. The Utah Valley Express, also known as UVX, is an accordion-style rapid transit bus that acts more like a light rail than it does a commuter bus. With dedicated lanes, independent traffic lights, and aesthetically-pleasing platform entrances, UVX stands as an exemplar of why people love good…

Parking in Provo may be a pain, but Provo student housing is the real racket. Too often, BYU students are overcharged, abused, and taken advantage of by their landlords. And, despite good intentions, BYU is one of the greatest culprits behind Provo’s broken student housing market. Ask yourself: how is it a shared bedroom with…