Author: Rachel Robertson
Best Professor of Arts and Sciences: A friendly goodbye to Rulon Wood
Entering an office up a few flights of stairs in Foster Hall, students can expect an experience. The wall is cluttered with degrees, a Diet Coke or two, multiple computer monitors and then, there in the middle of it all, is Ru.Rulon Wood, commonly known on campus as “Ru,” is a Utah native and lover of all things academia. He has been teaching for over 16 years. Also he currently has a bachelor’s d...
The last time and last thoughts
This is the last time. The last time I get to sit here like this and be myself. This is the last time I get to write an editor’s column. It is sad, humbling and something I will cherish. This task hasn’t been an easy one. Normally it is isolating, and many who work for me or with me disconnect, saying, “Oh, it’s not my work. I just do this; it’s Rachel who is editor.”
The two-week whirlwind crash of a graduating senior
Airbnb reservations, arranging family plane tickets, graduation dress, award ceremonies, planning a trip to Zion, renting a car and the list tumbles on. I’m sitting in my bed trying to make it stop. Really, I’m thoroughly trying not to think about it at some times, and at other times I cry from the fear of what’s next.There are two weeks. That’s two weeks until I’m thrown into this tunnel of ...
Just another face
I sit in class with you. I work out on the treadmill and in the weight room next to you. I shop at Smith’s next to you. I ski up at Brighton and Alta next to you.I am a member of the Westminster community.I am also one in five.Sitting down to write this sucks.
Students organize campus wellness screening
The National College Health Assessment survey reported that one in six college students had been diagnosed with, or treated for, anxiety in 2014. On April 5, 300 students, staff and faculty participated in a campus wellness screening organized by an abnormal psychology class taught by Christopher Davids, assistant professor of psychology.Students in the class organized the wellness screening ...
No majority leads to an ASW President special run-off election
This week some students caucused, but the voting at Westminster isn’t finished quite yet.After the ASW polls closed on Wednesday, two candidates were still left to campaign. Nate McDonald, junior, and Ben Pok, first-year, student were the top two candidates in Wednesday’s poll results.Neither candidate won by a 50 percent plus one majority, so the candidates will enter a run-off election, as manda...
Meet the candidates running for ASW vice president
In the ASW.Vice President race, there are two candidates running: Andrey Chen, junior, and Carissa Uresk, sophomore. According to MyASW.org, “The ASW Vice President is the student representative within ASW, responsible for Alumni relationships and furthering the goals of the Career Center. The Vice President sits on several Board of Trustees committees and is responsible for hiring directors ...
Meet the candidates for ASW.Clubs president
There are two candidates running for ASW.Clubs President this year: Warren Cook—junior honors history major—and Alex Frol—sophomore biology major, tentative Chinese minor. Both candidates said they have massive amounts of experience and passion for clubs and have sat in positions with ASW.Clubs previously.
Meet the four candidates running for ASW.President
It’s the heart of election season nationally, but closer to home ASW.Elections are in full swing as well.This year candidates are no longer allowed to run in teams, creating a large shift in the ASW.Elections shape and scheme.This year, there are four candidates running for ASW.President: Ryan LaRe, junior; Nate McDonald, junior; Ben Pok, first-year; and Michael von Ballmoos, junior.
Reflecting on women’s history month
If you know me well, you know that in my backpack sits a small picture book that has been there since last semester and is titled Rad American Women A–Z by Kate Schatz. It includes the greats like Nellie Bly, Ella Baker, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Sonia Sotomayor, Wilma Mankiller, Zora Neale Hurston and beyond. But the best letter and entry is X.“X is for the women whose names we do...
Students meet with Title IX coordinator
It floods the mainstream media through hashtags, videos and news articles: the pristine, good ole boy Super Bowl quarterback or SONY and its choking clasp upon Kesha. Yet, it was being discussed in a closer setting, students packed in room B-18 in the basement of Converse Hall, convening to address sexual assault and engage in a forum with Westminster’s Title IX Coordinator and EO Compliance ...
To be utterly lost: Confessions of a scared, second-semester senior
Lost, oh my how I am lost beyond belief. “What are you doing in May?...Have you thought about what’s next after graduation?...So have you got any sort of job lined up?...Are you REALLY staying in Utah?”The questions play in my head, as I spin on a chaotic carousel round and round just trying to cling on for life. April scares me. It is like a recurring nightmare that seems to haunt, like Trum...