Dixie State University students filed a lawsuit against the university regarding campus speech codes. Students from the Young Americans for Liberty Club filed a First Amendment lawsuit against DSU with the help of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The students involved in the lawsuit are William Jergins, a senior math major from St. […]
The Pansy Hardy Speech to Entertain competition is here again to reward talented student speakers with trophies, refreshments and, most importantly, money. Students need to sign up by Thursday to be eligible to participate in the competition on April 2. The first, second and third-place winners will receive $1,000, $300 and $150 scholarships. Students must […]
Direct messages on social networks have become the call sign of the creep. The direct message, or DM, featured on networks like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, allows users to send messages without having to post them publicly like a regular comment or reply to a post. This means as long as you are connected with someone on these […]
I love to see people disagree. Disagreement starts a discussion, and that is the only way we begin to understand the perspectives of those around us. This is why I am thrilled to see the participation of students and staff on campus with the newspaper. I put many hours into the opinion section, as do […]
The first-year college experience is supposed to be one of the best years of a person’s life, but freshmen across the country are saying that isn’t so. The Higher Education Research Institution released a study titled “The American Freshman” that surveyed roughly 150,000 first-time, full-time students in 227 colleges and universities across the country. According to […]
Say goodbye to ashtrays, cigarette butts and lighters, and say hello to USB battery chargers and clouds of smoke that smell like fruit because the future of smoking has arrived. Or rather, it arrived sometime in the mid-2000s and has steadily increased in popularity since then. I’m talking about e-cigarettes and vaporizers (or vapes, as they […]
In the incandescent glow of second-hand floor and table lamps strewn across the Gardner Center, students congregated to see performances by local musicians and help raise money for a non-profit corporation. This is Lamp Fest: an assortment of lighting and good music for a good cause. Ashley Graf, a senior integrated studies major from St. […]
When people tell me how good they are at Trivia Crack, I roll my eyes so hard I can see my brain. Trivia Crack is a smartphone trivia app that, according to USA Today, has more than 100 million users worldwide. You compete against other users to answer questions that test your knowledge about entertainment, sports, […]
In the past few years we’ve seen a lot of debate about Dixie State University’s identity, but for incoming freshmen, one thing about DSU’s reputation has remained a constant: Dixie likes to party. Before I started school at DSU I was told by everyone I knew that I wouldn’t get any work done because I […]
About 10 years ago, everyone I know was wearing Crocs. You probably owned a pair, loved them and lauded how comfortable they were to your friends. Crocs were a trend that stormed America in the mid-2000s but luckily now have mostly died out. If you still wear yours in public I salute your enthusiasm for […]
