May 21, 2013
Too often, summer is seen as mere time off. True, the hours are better, and the pina coladas are flowing, but that doesn’t mean the brain needs to go sit on a shelf somewhere in the basement. Instead of coming home for summer after that last class and throwing your backpack into the fireplace to [...]
Students and book-lovers have the chance to help Weber State University computer lab aides this week, as the labs are putting on a book sale in the Shepherd Union Atrium. The book sale goes from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and is being put on to help fund [...]
Continue reading …Emily Dickinson’s work includes poems sent as valentines and birthday greetings. Some of the love poetry she wrote was to anonymous recipients, using pseudonyms to refer to herself and to whom she was writing. Three poems were addressed to someone she called “Master.” John Schwiebert, a Weber State University professor and speaker at this week’s [...]
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Typical Utah cuisine is often thought of as Jell-O or the cornflake-crusted funeral potatoes laced with sour cream and cheese. “I think of a Training Table and Costa Vida when I think of Utah food,” said Cassie Krey, a Weber State University business student. “Oh, and funeral potatoes.” However, Brock Cheney, the author of “Plain [...]
Continue reading …We’ve heard it all before: Technology is killing the publishing industry. Print is dead. Online is the new offline. Sharing is easier than lending. Save some trees, get a Kindle. So on and so forth. It’s true that digital publications are more con generic cialis onlinee venient, cheaper and more environmentally conscious than print publications. [...]
Continue reading …After four books, five movies, and a raging battle between Team Edward and Team Jacob, the story of a boring girl with bad supernatural luck that turned into a media culture shock has finally reached its climax. Now what? With the hormonal wars that have been fought over the choice between a brooding, sparkly, undead [...]
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