Author: Catherine Blakemore
Westminster Center for Entrepreneurship launches Social Impact Business Incubator
Westminster College’s Center for Entrepreneurship opened the Westminster Social Impact Incubator (WSII), founded by Intuitive Funding, LLC, last month. An incubator helps startup companies develop through mentoring, training and access to resources and/or office space. The WSII, located two blocks from campus on 1200 East, provides those resources for applicants accepted into the progra...
Creating global community
Three Westminster students and two professors are asking questions about global crises and global change and are now asking the Westminster student body and alums to join in their questioning. This April, Westminster will host the first Global Crises Global Change Undergraduate Conference. According to its website, the conference “aims to provide a unique space to produce, interact, and debate the...
Who is Whitney Walton
When Whitney Walton, senior international development major, isn’t in class, she’s out raising awareness for human trafficking and sexual assault and being a mentor as a GriffinQuest Fellow.Fernando Rivero, Utah Persons in Trafficking Task Force representative, lectured to a class Walton was in last spring. Walton later contacted Rivero expressing her interest in human trafficking prevention and a...
Jule Kake and Heart Shapes
A Norwegian Salt Lake City staple for over 50 years, Finn Gurholt, proprietor, is part of the Gurholt family that created Finn’s Frozen Roquefort dressing on salads in heart-shaped bowls and Norwegian Waffles with cardamom and Lingonberries.Mina Roeisland, sophomore international business major from Norway, said that it is great to have the option to go to Finn’s Cafe but had a bit of criticism on...
Tattoo perceptions on campus
As a liberal arts college, Westminster students are often seen with exposed tattoos and have few concerns for judgements from future employers, professors or other students around campus. Garret Wilcox, sophomore flight operations major from San Diego, said he has not felt that anyone, students or professors on campus, feel too strongly one way or the other when it comes to tattoos.Wilcox has...
GriffinQuest returns from Zion National Park
From Sept. 18 to 20, students part of Westminster’s GriffinQuest went to Zion National Park for their annual Fall retreat.With help from the Outdoor Recreation Program, Bibek Neupane, a senior with a double major in economics and theatre from Nepal, and Whitney Walton, senior international development major from Salt Lake City, are the GriffinQuest fellows this year and played a role in the planni...
The best kept secret of Sugar House
Nestled next to a used furniture store and old plumbing company, the Central Book Exchange (CBE) has been an integral place for book buying, selling and trading in the Sugar House community since 1968. Just a block away from Barnes & Noble and around the corner from Sugar House Coffee, the CBE is a storefront of culture and showcase of locally loved and gently used books.“People are more aware...
Westminster under investigation by Office for Civil Rights
Westminster’s campus will host federal officials from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the first week of November in response to a complaint about Westminster’s handling of a sexual assault case in 2013.OCR will be investigating sexual assault cases involving students in the past few years, as well as determining how successful Title IX training is on Westminster’s campus.
Outdoor Program creates lasting community for first-year students
Following annual tradition, the Westminster Outdoor Recreation Orientation took 37 new students on various outdoor trips with student trip leaders for a week before the first-year orientation.Westminster’s Outdoor Recreation Program is eight years old, giving an outdoor community to students since 2007. Tiana White is the Outdoor Program director and serves as a mentor to the first-time parti...
Raw juices and raw personalities
When Brittany Thaxton visited California when she was 23-years-old, she and husband Bryce Thaxton found inspiration in the health culture of juicing and the juice bars that they found on the coast. When they returned, Brittany Thaxton quit her job and began a Kickstarter campaign for Vive Juicery.Brianne Koehler, general manager, has been working alongside Brittany and Bryce for a year and a half ...