OPINION | St. George doesn’t have enough affordable housing for the people
The amount of students that have been homeless due to St. George and Dixie State University’s lack of housing is unacceptable. Utah’s annual report on homelessness for 2021 released by…
OPINION | Best and worst of campus dining
While we can all agree on-campus dining needs to hit refresh on what is offered, here are the best and the worst of what we currently have. Grazers – Best…
OPINION | Luxury and woeful bathrooms at Dixie State University
A combination of privacy and relative cleanliness makes the bathroom on the first floor of the Browning Learning Resource Center the best men’s bathroom on campus. Few things on this…
OPINION | Dixie State University’s biggest controversy was the name change to Utah Tech
Through all the controversies that took place over the school year, none were bigger than the school’s name change to Utah Tech University. Over the summer of 2021, concern arose…
OPINION | ‘Grind culture’ is taking students away from the college experience
Students suffer from grind culture which is the idea that status is achieved by always being “on and available.” This culture encourages students to finish school as quickly as possible…
OPINION | Internships are exploitative and classist
You grind, put in long hours, probably pick up everyone’s coffee order, and for what? College credit and if you’re lucky, the experience, maybe a connection or two at most. …
OPINION | DSU has the worst Wi-Fi
“The connection is fast, reliable, and secure,” said no one. Well, I take that back. According to Dixie State University’s help desk website, the Wi-Fi is “fast, reliable, and secure.”…
OPINION l DSU shouldn’t disclose all crimes
There are laws to protect students from threatening crimes, but Dixie State University doesn’t have to alert students of all of them. According to the DSU Police Departments’ crime log,…
OPINION | The Academy Awards reaction to Will Smith’s slap is too little too late
It would be hypocritical for the academy to take away Will Smith’s Oscar after they intentionally benefited greatly from the incident. The 2022 Oscars produced yet another example of how…
OPINION | March Madness is better than NBA Playoffs
March Madness is exactly as its title suggests. Madness. With this being arguably the most unpredictable tournament of any game out there, fans of all sports flock to watch the…
OPINION | There shouldn’t be pressure to have the ‘perfect summer’
Summertime is when students access freedoms they might’ve been restricted from during the school year. Whatever your “perfect summer” may be, it doesn’t have to follow popular trends. It could…
OPINION | Summer classes are just as important as fall and spring classes
As graduating high school students, we all wondered if we’d be able to graduate college early. The answer to that question: absolutely. Taking summer courses will be easier to manage…