By: Michelle Sahileh

Kathryn Bigelow made history at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards last Sunday by being the first woman to win the Best Director Award.  I must say, it’s about time!...

By: Samantha Frehse

In the words of George Bernard Shaw, “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” However, with the way that the economy is going, those who can’t, will be unemployed.  I may not agree completely with George Shaw, but in today...

By: Kelsey Crowder

Being a senior here at BVU, I thought I could rid myself of any high school drama. Usually the drama comes out via Facebook or other social networks. This time high school drama came in the way of the Des Moines Register....

By: Tyler McDanel

According to www.pollingreport.com, 60 percent of American people are relatively critical about the war in Iraq, with some being in outright protest. Even though the overall stability of Iraq depends on the presence of the United States military, American...

By: Andre Wagner

By: Heather Hanson

On the third Sunday of every month since 2005, one man has followed his father’s lead and reached out to those in need. Dr. Andy Moore of Kentucky, after persuading a hospital to provide him space, has been operating on people for free every third S...

By: Eric Branstetter

Coffee is a wonderful item. It can be prepared in lots of different ways and can have pretty much any flavor you want added to it. Better yet, you can have it whenever you want in this day and age...well sort of....

By: Kristen Tripp

You may have noticed the new signs up around the Social Science and Arts Hall (SSA) and the Center for Sculpture and Ceramics (CSC).  The buildings are to be locked now on Fridays and Saturdays beginning at 10 p.m. to help decrease general travel thr...

By: Kelsey Crowder

No more “Party in the USA” for Miley Cyrus fans (thank you very much!). Cyrus is hitting the studio to do her take on Poison’s famous and most popular song released in 1988, “Every Rose has its Thorn.”...

By: Heather Hanson

Work, work, work all day long is what the employees at Apple manufactories are hearing. Apple has recently admitted to working their employees 60 or more hours per week and often times for seven consecutive days. Most of the manufacturing companies are ba...

By: Sarah Maslonka

Why in the world would anyone want to attend an etiquette dinner?  I asked myself the same question a couple of years ago when I had the opportunity to go for the first time.  I fiddled with the idea for a few days before deciding. At the very l...

By: Heather Hanson

Tabula rasa, meaning clean slate, is a term we hear when talking about John Locke and his psychological theory that babies are born with a clean slate for a brain. Central Falls High School, a small school in the tiny town of Central Falls, R.I., has deci...

By: Carrie Courtney & Kelsey Crowder

MTV has recently added a new show to their reality show line-up: The Buried Life. This show focuses on the lives of four men who are on a mission to complete their list of one hundred things to do before they die or more recently known as a bucket list. T...

By: Sadie Quist

As everyone knows, the economy is “struggling,”  “having trouble,” “going under,”  “inadequate,” or any other negative word that you may ever think of.  With that in mind, BVU is taking measur...

By: Jarrod Roth

Angie Jackson, a woman from Tampa, Florida, is in hot water after a recent commentary she delivered on the social networking site, Twitter. What was the topic of her tweets, you ask?...

By: Ellen Hartstack

Many Asian countries believe in the use of tiger body parts in medicinal cures. These cures range from arthritis or bad skin to major cures of malaria or meningitis. Although there has been little scientific evidence to back up these claims, many individu...

By: Carly Evans

By: Hilary Dunn

Briscoe 5 has been struck with turmoil. Screaming down the hallways and rude comments with even worse return remarks. This place might as well be World War III….in terms of music that is. We’ve always had a clash of the genres with some serio...

By: Carly Evans

On Wednesday, iTunes reached a noteworthy milestone for music. Shortly after 5 p.m., the iTunes store sold its 10 billionth download, which coincidentally fell on co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple, Steve Jobs’ 55th birthday. “We&...

By: Mark Haugen

Viewership for the Vancouver Winter Olympics was up 21 percent from the Torino games in 2006. Now NBC hopes to continue their high ratings trend with their new spring lineup.  The spring lineup will include new shows such as Parenthood, The Marriage ...