THEATER: Review: Tartuffe

Feb 03, 2010 3 Comments by Jake Welch

After having lived in Provo for a couple years, I have come to develop a deep-rooted concern for cultural welfare of BYU students and the general population of those in Utah Valley. Now I know that I am not the most cultured person in the world, but I recognize the lack of value for entertainment [...]

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CULTURE: Feminism vs. Chivalry

Jan 05, 2010 3 Comments by Kristin Clift

I never have to open a door around campus, I rarely have to unload my groceries by myself, and I never pick up the check on a date. I must say, it’s good to be a woman. Yet I still live in the 31st-ranked country for women, according to the UNDP gender-related development index for [...]

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FILM: Student Film Association Unveiled

Dec 08, 2009 2 Comments by Jordan Petersen

On Thursday, December 3rd at 11 a.m., the Student Film Association officially presented itself to the students of Media Arts in the Museum of Art auditorium. There were, oh… 25 of them, give or take. Hardly an impressive event.
In what can only be reasonably described as a fit of negligent insanity, the Media Arts faculty [...]

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ART: Review: Mirror Mirror

Nov 03, 2009 1 Comment by Jim Dalrymple

About a week and a half ago, BYU’s Museum of Art (MOA) opened the new exhibit Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self, which thankfully continues the facility’s trend toward thought-provoking, cutting-edge contemporary art.
Mirror Mirror brings together a renowned group of contemporary artists that take it as their task to provoke museum patrons to [...]

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FOOD: Beating The "Freshman 15"

Sep 04, 2009 No Comments by McKay Coppins

This article originally ran in the Daily Universe on Thursday, September 3rd.

Meg Schmidt didn’t weigh herself very often during her freshman year, but she’s pretty sure she gained weight.
After all, she has photographic evidence.
“Some boys in my law school were going through my pictures on Facebook, and they pulled up some from the beginning [...]

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