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Curating life with intentionality: Westminster alumni make connections through social platforms

Clothes, body image and the highs and lows of life are just some of the things that followers of the Instagram and blog Other Pieces get a glimpse of regularly.  Founders, Sara McCaskey and Jacqs...Read More

Westminster and Utah students advocate, lobby against gun violence

Imagine going to school, the movie theater or simply taking a drive in your car. These are all normal, daily activities for many Americans. These acts, however, have become riddled with deaths and gun...Read More

Thin Mints, Tagalongs and intentionality in the outdoors

Maddy Kane loves the outdoors and now, the Girl Scouts. Kane spent the summer in the mountains of Utah, a change from Chicago, Illinois, where she’s from, interning with the Girl Scouts.  Kane, a...Read More

Salt Lake’s Classical Greek Theatre Festival brings story of Prometheus to Westminster

Salt Lake City’s Classical Greek Theatre Festival brought the story of “Prometheus Bound” to Westminster College’s Courage Theater for its 49th season from Sept. 5-14.  “Prometheus Bound” is also...Read More

Westminster student faces misconceptions surrounding service animals

Service animals are allowed to be anywhere the public is and are not required to wear identification, according to the Americans with Disabilities Act.  This is not common knowledge to most, maki...Read More

Racial bias influences everyone but can be overcome, according to leading expert

Racial bias is something everyone is vulnerable to and is often triggered by certain situations, according to Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt who was Wednesday’s guest lecturer for the B. W. Bastian lecture se...Read More

How we talk about race: a look into how journalists approach issues of reporting race in crime journalism

October will mark one year since the death of University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey who was murdered by an ex-boyfriend, Melvin Rowland. During the search for Rowland — before the release of his...Read More

Rape, suicide, addiction: Westminster alum creates dialogue through new movie

“City of Salt,” an independent film written and directed by a Westminster College alum, has reached its final stages of production and is poised for release this coming winter. Alicia Farmer, writer, ...Read More

Westminster adapts to another year of 1300 East construction

Salt Lake Public Utilities is doing construction work on 1300 East that no one could miss.  The original plan was to finish the portion of the road in front of Westminster College’s campus before...Read More

Glow-in-the-dark paint and yoga gives yogis more freedom and self-exploration

James Hardy hated yoga when he first tried it in high school. Now he and his fiancée Shazzy Tapias lead Salt Lake City yogis through flow yoga routines while covered in glow paint, listening to a sing...Read More