Warning: This is the column of a severely jaded, chronically pessimistic senior who is feeling particularly grieved. If you are feeling optimistic about your academic life, you may want to seriously consider...

The Ogden City Council has passed an ordinance working to encourage local beekeepers to amp up their game with looser regulations. For those who don't know, the global bee population is in disarray. Colony...

In 1994, Utah passed a law requiring divorcing couples to complete a class prior to making the divorce official. Now Republican Rep. Jim Nielson wants to take that law even further. If Nielson's law passes,...

The library renovation has been a hot topic on campus the last couple of weeks. For those who haven't heard, it's been proposed that the library be renovated to include a number of additions. These additions...

Soda pop is an American pastime. Some may say baseball, others would point to bigotry as the nation’s most consistent heritage, but when push comes to shove, more people like soda than they do baseball....

While the world’s eye is fixed on Sochi, many countries are not privileged enough to be preoccupied with festivities. The world is not as picturesque as the Olympics would have you believe. 2013 marked...

Those unfamiliar with Utah politics are still familiar with the cliche that ignorance is bliss. The most blissful aspect of that ignorance comes from lack of exposure to intense conservative dogma. The...

Among all of the controversial topics right now, gay marriage is eclipsed by none. It has people divided the nation over, claiming dogma over personal choice, or individuality over social construction. This...

Kids are a sensitive subject for everyone. Whether for love or hate, desire or denial, interest or disinterest, society is anything but apathetic when it comes to children. This enthusiasm was recently...

In the culinary world, dinner is a bit of a diva. She makes you wait till the end of the day for a grand appearance and insists you save your calories for her and her alone. She scoffs at all other meals...

Social media is ushering in a new era of awareness unparalleled in human history. Never before has the globe been so small that a whisper into a phone could be published across the world. This seems to...

We are eaters. All of us. The human race has few activities more frequent than eating. The acclaimed philosopher Voltaire exclaimed that "nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if...