Weighing the positives and negatives of taking summer courses can be as difficult for students as enduring southern Utah’s mid-July swelter. Registration for summer semester is open. With multiple class blocks, ranging from five-week to 14-week, and numerous variables for financial aid ability, summer semester presents Dixie State University students with uncertainty in regards to […]
Don’t be surprised when this bombshell of an album trips on the runway. “Supermodel,” Foster the People’s sophomore effort, listens as smoothly as a polished floor feels and zeros-in on anthem-reigning choruses with each track. If these qualities sound familiar, it’s because of Portugal. The Man, The Shins and Beck have embodied them […]
After attendees filtered onto the old airport strip and American Authors took the stage, the unexpected reigned out: silence. Two songs into American Author’s set at Dixie Fest 2K14, a power outage cut lead singer Zac Barnett’s vocals; it happened again after the band’s performance resumed. In those quiet moments, group members tossed their coats […]
Students found answers to lingering questions about future endeavors at the Dixie State University Employment Fair. The DSU Career Center held the event in the Gardner Center Ballroom Wednesday afternoon. Mingling between numerous rows of booths, students searched for information about summer jobs, internships and career fields. Steve Bringhurst, Career Center executive director, said the employment […]
Hopeless, regretful souls often wish for the existence of a time machine, but music is the best way to revisit the past. With Beck’s 12th studio album, “Morning Phase,” he draws on the stripped-down acoustic tracks that made 2002’s “Sea Change” a classic. The similarities between the two albums are haunting, but rather than just […]
And then there were two. Student government election primaries took place Monday, and the three student body president candidates all vied for an opportunity to move on to general elections, which start today and end Friday. Gregory J. Layton and Clint Post captured the most votes, 172 and 166, respectively, to advance, while Samuel Jamison […]
Dixie Sun News spoke with the three candidates for student body president, the two candidates for vice president of academics, and the candidate for vice president of clubs with student government election primaries Monday and final elections Feb. 26 to Feb. 28. Samuel Jamison, a junior communication major from St. George and candidate for […]
You don’t have to hold the musical genius of the Album Analyzer to know this: Kanye West won’t fade. West’s debut, “The College Dropout,” dropped 10 years ago this month. Although I’ve mocked his outlandish tweets and cringed at the more egocentric lines he laces hit tracks with, this anniversary means a great deal to […]
Oftentimes parenting and schoolwork collide head-on for students with a backpack and diaper bag slung across both shoulders. Dixie State University faculty and administrators are assessing the need of child care on campus. The potential development of a play care center at the testing center could be the first step in aiding students with children. […]
Joan Mulholland sat at a lunch counter in a Mississippi diner covered in food and barraged with death threats from the crowd just inches behind; pictures like this provide the backdrop for Black History Month. In conjunction with Black History Month, the Dixie State University History and Political Science Department will continue its movie festival […]