At the end of the fall 2018 semester, new relationship policy 302 was proposed by human resources and is now being reviewed by Dixie State University’s general counsel to see if it should go into effect. Relationship policy 302 states, “No employee or university representative may engage in any romantic relationship with an employee within their direct chain […]
The Dixie State University Athletics Department held a press conference Dec. 5 to announce the new head football coach, Paul Peterson, as well as answer questions from the community. The athletic department released a statement on Dec. 2 to announce Peterson’s new position at DSU after the dismissal of last season’s head coach Shay McClure. Peterson is originally […]
College has always been known as the time where students can choose what they do, how they do it, where they want to go and why, but where students go might not make as much of a difference as they’d think. Though school pride and family traditions may affect the choice an individual makes, with […]
I am walking to my 5:30 p.m. class when I hear leaves crunch close by, my breath catches in my throat. I stop, look around and see no one. So, I continue walking. My heart, hammering in my chest, slows to a steady thrum, but I remain alert for an attacker, a rapist. Call me paranoid, […]
Crimes happen at Dixie State University all the time, which is why keeping a record of them is important. Recently, DSU’s Chief of Police, Blair Barfuss, hired Mikaela Vega as the new Records Clerk. According to Barfuss, the record keeping policy had been the same for the forty-two years the previous chief of police was at […]
The Catalina Island physical and environmental science lab trip will be much different in the future as Whites Landing, the traditional location of this trip, will be unavailable for future labs. During the four days students are on Catalina, they are almost constantly in an educational class taught by the professors with hands-on experiments and live […]
As a student, life gets busy, and sometimes lonely, so getting a pet can seem like a good idea. However, students usually don’t have enough space for dogs or cats, and lizards don’t have that whole cuddly vibe about them. Luckily, rats exist. Though rats have been portrayed as red-eyed sewer dwellers for hundreds of years, […]
Students and professors can have a skewed view of one another, especially when it comes to general education courses. The topics can be similar that of high school and are mostly core subjects, a foundation. The difference is in the way a teacher acts toward the class in comparison to how a professor might interact […]
