Author: Marcus Dahle
Westminster College Heritage Speaker Series provides forum for activism and awareness
Westminster College's Heritage Speaker Series aimed to provide a space throughout the 2016-2017 school year for students to discuss topics of race and inequality in hopes of sparking social change. Daniel Cairo, the director of student diversity and inclusion, said the Diversity and Inclusion Center's focus over the past academic year was to raise awareness and create spaces for students to l...
For some students, navigating concussions and school is a tricky process
For Westminster College students who sustain concussions while participating in sports and outdoor activities, navigating the sometimes oppositional worlds of school and recommended concussion protocols can be tricky. Abby Neal, a senior and member of the Westminster spirit team, suffered a concussion that she said turned into a yearlong healing process of acceptance and healing. “It too...
Sugar House Park plans to go forward with dredging project after animals have become sick and died
Some Sugar House residents said they won't walk their dogs in Sugar House Park anymore after numerous birds have died and dogs have become sick from the pond water.Now, community members said they hope a $500,000 dredging project, which passed in November 2016 and is expected to move forward at the end of this year, will help improve the park's water quality.Dredging consists of the removal of sed...
Utah: Where sports fandoms and politics meet
If House Speaker Greg Hughes isn’t going to pay back the state of Utah for the $203,000 he wasted, he should at least apologize for leading the first-ever state audit of a single athletic department.Since neither is likely to happen, the University of Utah should respond by cancelling all future football and basketball games they have scheduled with Brigham Young University.Let’s begin with a litt...
Westminster and University of Utah outdoor communities wrestle with public land issues
Some members of the outdoor communities at Westminster College and the University of Utah feel the state’s attempts at a public lands resolution could end up causing more harm than good, potentially damaging both the environment and Native American history.Before former President Barack Obama left office, he declared Bears Ears in southeastern Utah a national monument—a polarizing decision that Ut...
Millennials in the workforce respond to generational stereotypes
Though students across the nation respond to the stereotypes associated with the millennial generation in different ways, many said they use them as motivation and an opportunity to learn.Millennials (Generation Y) are typically considered individuals born between the early '80s and early 2000s.Austin Johnson, the manager/operator of American Auto Group and a millennial, said he's noticed some of ...
Westminster class provides different perspective from Utah’s anti-pornography stance
Last year, Utah became the first state in the country to declare pornography a public health crisis. This year, a new four-credit class at Westminster College called Sex on Film, which regularly displays films that are pornographic in nature, provides a different perspective. On April 19, 2016, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a piece of legislation (S.C.R. 9) that calls pornography a “pub...
Westminster alumna pursues her calling as assistant coach for women’s soccer
Madison Roemer graduated from Westminster College last semester and traded in her cleats and shin guards for a whistle and a clipboard. She’ll be fulfilling what she called a long-awaited personal calling as an assistant coach of the women’s soccer team at her alma mater. Roemer, 21 and a former captain of Westminster's soccer team, said coaching is something she has been working on sin...