Author: Bri Miller
Local shop offers alternative healing with Eastern medicine
Filled with crystals, windchimes and its very own dove, Turiya’s Gifts founder and staff said they want their store to be an oasis for people looking to relieve stress, feel balanced and have fun.Turiya’s Gifts is located in the heart of Sugar House at 1569 S. 1100 East. The name means “unspeakable peace,” and the store specializes in crystals and other healing tools to help customers create harmo...
Missing: Eco-containers
Green eco-containers pile up in classrooms, on top of trash cans, under tables and on hallway floors—found every place except where they’re supposed to be. The Shaw Student Center at Westminster College originally supplied only compostable containers for to-go orders, providing students the option to buy an eco-container for $5 and use it all year. Starting spring 2015, Westminster began a pr...
Students create art to spark conversation
A group of students is gathered around a handmade cardboard cemetery in the Shaw Student Center, discussing racism and white supremacy.Be a Human’s White Supremacy Cemetery art installation tackles white supremacy and and lack of diversity on campus. Be a Human is Westminster College’s art activist collective with the main goal of educating the community about issues of race, ableism, queerphobia ...
Students donate plasma to pay the bills
Once a week, Westminster College student Si Ning Chan watches a movie at Biomat USA Plasma Center while her blood is pulled and returned to her vein.After finding out she could make money for donating plasma, Chan said she initially decided to donate for the money. On top of her two current jobs, she said donating plasma is an easy way to make extra cash.“If you’re not afraid of needles, it isn’t ...
Passion, not money, now drives campus tour guides
Westminster College’s Admissions Griffin Ambassadors club now looks for student campus tour guides who have a passion for the work rather than for those wanting a paycheck.The Admissions Griffin Ambassadors (AGA) program, formerly a paid position, has now taken shape as a volunteer-based club. Student volunteers lead campus tours, mingle at events, host luncheons and overnight guests and participa...
Cross-country and track continue to grow
With heavy breaths and sweat dripping down their faces, the members of the men’s and women’s track and field team gratefully drank from their water bottles as their coach finally told them to rest.Track and field and cross-country have been training intensely for their upcoming and current seasons, and the teams have been growing steadily.“We have difficult work outs,” said Daniel Quinn, Westminst...
Meet the muscle behind the Bishop Climbing Wall
Behind the scenes of the rock wall is muscle: one person who goes above and beyond to make every climbing experience worthwhile.Josh Schmidt, a senior biology major from Salt Lake City, is the wall staff manager at the Bishop Climbing Wall, where he began working three years ago after taking a rock climbing class on campus as a first-year student.As the wall’s manager, Schmidt is the staff connect...