Author: Abby Mangum
Rowing meets the Great Salt Lake: How 1 woman is sharing her love for the sport
Meghan Saunders fell in love with rowing the moment she tried it. “It was easy,” Saunders said. “I heard about rowing [from a friend], I went to the Great Salt Lake to row one day, and there was no looking back.” Saunders, a Canada native who came to Utah for school, quickly moved up the ranks of the Great Salt Lake Rowing Club from participant to coach within a year of beginning. “It’s a great wo...
Restoring lost connections, addressing lack of inclusion among main priorities for new ASW board
Missed opportunities during COVID-19 and a lack of diversity and inclusion are among the main focuses for ASW President-elect Brendan Sudberry and Vice President-elect Deaun Saxby, who won Westminster College’s ASW election in March 2021. Sudberry laid out a four-point plan during his campaign that aims to reconnect students and navigate a post-pandemic world in the coming academic year. A k...
Cross country athlete finds hope, healing after near-death accident
On a sunny day in June, Peter Frank went out for a run in his home state of Montana, where he was living for the summer during a year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. What happened on that fateful afternoon was nothing short of unexpected. “I was just running on a road in Montana, and I was crossing an intersection, and a truck didn’t see me crossing,” Frank said. “And then it came and hit me, t...
Overcrowded athletic facilities, overworked training staff raise concerns for Spring season
Student-athletes and staff at Westminster College have raised concerns about crowded athletic facilities and overworked staff after the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) made the decision to postpone Fall sports to the Spring season. The decision came directly in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to Chris Graham, the head commissioner for the RMAC. “This is probably one ...
Salty Science Series offers insight into potential environmental impacts of Great Salt Lake
In the early 1980s, the Great Salt Lake had an elevation of just over 4,000 feet and a surface area of about 2,300 square miles. Rich with minerals and home to a variety of animal species, the massive lake was recognized as a natural phenomenon in an arid region of the United States. Today, more than 750 square miles of the lakebed is exposed — which is roughly the size of the Hawaiian islan...
‘No Voice is Too Soft’: Westminster music faculty join forces for annual concert series
Westminster College music faculty members took to the Jewett Center for Performing Arts Sunday to perform their annual concert series, “No Voice is Too Soft,” a program focused on the works of historically underrepresented musicians and poets. Some of the featured artists included Lori Laitman, a composer and poet whose works focused on the Holocaust; Joseph Bologne, an 18th century composer and s...
OPINION: Unpaid internships need to take a back seat
Internships. They are arguably the most effective way for a student to get a foot in the door and prove themselves as a valuable asset to an organization, with years of studies and surveys that reinforce their high impact. In some industries, they’re considered the new entry-level job and are expected to be completed if a student wants any chance at success in the workforce. But when they go...
How Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” poem will inspire future generations
National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman rose to the occasion in her Inauguration Day poem “The Hill We Climb,” offering words of hope that sought to fortify and unite a nation that has been divided by political contention and a worldwide pandemic over the past year. Gorman, a recent Harvard graduate, is the youngest inaugural poet in the United States, performing at just 22 years old. Born and ...