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In April 2020, the Utah Community Advocate Network attended a conference in Layton with Innovate Public Schools which tr...
01/09/2025

In April 2020, the Utah Community Advocate Network attended a conference in Layton with Innovate Public Schools which trains parents on how to use their power to advocate for their children in the school system.

“We went to the training and then from there, we started developing our own testimonies and our own experiences so that we could share with the school board,” Jimenez said.

Jimenez described the school board’s evasiveness when discussing constructing a high school on the west side, “but we stayed on them, and we actually got them to add this high school in Glendale as something on their agenda.”

The school board conducted a feasibility study for the high school concluding that there wasn’t enough land that the City School Board owned on the west side, nor were there enough students.

📌 Read more from Investigative Writer Kate Brague at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/06/salt-lakes-west-side-story-contextualizing-the-push-for-a-high-school-on-the-west-side/

✍: Kate Brague | Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Maya Fraser | Daily Utah Chronicle

Immigration is expected to be an important topic for the 2025 legislative session.“Every state is now a border state.,” ...
01/08/2025

Immigration is expected to be an important topic for the 2025 legislative session.

“Every state is now a border state.,” Rep. Karianne Lisonbee said.

Lisonbee pointed to immigration policies from the Biden-Harris administration, which she said are insufficient in controlling the flow of undocumented immigrants and fentanyl over the southern border. Lisonbee is introducing a bill that would expand detention facilities to accommodate expected incarcerations and deportations of illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in Utah.

📌 Read more from News Writer Grace Maya at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/07/lawmakers-announce-new-safety-and-immigration-legislation/

✍: Grace Maya | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Grace Maya | The Daily Utah Chronicle

“H.B. 257 ended up not impacting the university as much as people thought it would, but that’s not to say there won’t be...
01/06/2025

“H.B. 257 ended up not impacting the university as much as people thought it would, but that’s not to say there won’t be future legislation that would,” said Rebecca Walsh, communications director for the U.

The all-gender restrooms include family and single-stall restrooms, as well as multi-stall all-gender facilities — like the restroom on the first floor of the J. Willard Marriott Library. (The locations of all-gender restrooms can be found on the campus map by clicking on the three-line menu in the upper left corner, selecting “accessibility & safety” from the dropdown menu, then the “all gender restrooms” category.)

The Marriott Library’s all-gender restroom includes multiple private stalls, with solid wooden doors positioned around a shared center sink area. The restroom has a modern design, with bright lighting and neutral tones that create a clean environment.

The Marriott restroom, Walsh said, “was built from the ground up to be that amazing facility that you see.”

📌 This article was published from the University of Utah’s COMM 1610 class.

https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/02/university-expands-all-gender-restrooms/

✍: Nevaeh Anderson
📸: All-gender restroom facility located in the J. Willard Marriott Library. Photo Courtesy of Rebecca Walsh

It feels as if real laugh-out-loud, hold-your-gut, cry-your-eyes-out hilarious comedies are far and between nowadays. Th...
01/01/2025

It feels as if real laugh-out-loud, hold-your-gut, cry-your-eyes-out hilarious comedies are far and between nowadays. That’s why “Between the Temples,” which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, was such a delight to watch. It follows Jason Schwartzman as a cantor named Ben at a low point in his life. When he re-meets his elementary school music teacher, Carla, played by Carol Kane, the two begin to build a strong bond, Carla becoming his adult Bat Mitzvah student.

Right off the bat, the film is gorgeous to look at with its 16mm cinematography. This, plus some noticeably scratchy-sounding audio, captures a genuine 70s cinema feel alike to Hal Ashby’s “Harold and Maude.” The similarities to that 1971 film don’t stop there, as “Between the Temples” is related thematically and with its approach to comedy. The movie mixes awkward, situational humor with an authentic sweetness that can only be found in our unique connections with others. One of my favorite sequences in the film has Schwartzman’s Ben, hallucinating off mushroom tea, chasing his younger, teenage self and the footage sped up to give it a “The Benny Hill Show” look. Another standout sequence is a wonderfully uncomfortable dinner sequence towards the end of the film that concludes in a game of telephone that is so awkward, that you can’t help but laugh.

📌 Read more from Assistant Arts Editor Graham Jones at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/24/the-best-2024-films-missed/

✍: Graham Jones | The Daily Utah Chronicle
🎨: Mary Allen | The Daily Utah Chronicle

The Burbidge Center, also referred to as the Burb, is an academic center where student-athletes can get help with their ...
12/29/2024

The Burbidge Center, also referred to as the Burb, is an academic center where student-athletes can get help with their classes and individual tutoring. The center has a dedicated staff to ensure that athletes can get bookings and guaranteed help every week, as well as resources for other needs.

The Burb provides private rooms as well for their sessions so that everyone can be locked in on their work. The team also provides updates for each coach to track academic progress and communicate with the athletes. Lastly, the place encourages everyone to be cooperative of NCAA rules.

In the student support aspect, there is an advocacy focus for athletes. The Student-Athlete Advocate’s goal is to help be a safe space to report concerns over any mistreatment. They also guide to resources across campus if they need other help. Safety and a good experience at the U is important for student-athletes, as it helps them be focused on what they do.

📌 Read more from Sports Writer Luke Skinner at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/20/how-university-supports-student-athletes-education/

✍: Luke Skinner | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Samantha Lazenby | The Daily Utah Chronicle

These issues are not isolated. They are the embodiment of our modern zeitgeist. The young male Trump vote represents a c...
12/27/2024

These issues are not isolated. They are the embodiment of our modern zeitgeist. The young male Trump vote represents a cultural shift that threatens all marginalized groups.

Men’s psychology experts say young men’s shift to the right can be explained by the demographic’s tendency to support counter-cultural figures with edgy and rebellious reputations. The far-right has flipped the narrative, classifying themselves as the alternative, anti-institution party. This is counterintuitive trickery. Their traditional conservative values much more closely align with mainstream institutional interests.

This cultural problem requires a cultural solution. An artistic movement is one potential strategy to reclaim this alternative space.

In the past, politically unsatisfied young men created anti-establishment art instead of malignant podcasts. The punk movement arose in the late 1970s, fueled by cultural angst due to economic crisis and unpopular wars. These factors reflect much of our political environment today.

“The punk and hardcore scenes gave me a place to let that out in a beautiful way,” Mclaughlin said. “I was surrounded by other people who were angry at the world for trying to put them in a box in some way or another.”

📌 Read more from Opinion Writer Elizabeth Griffee at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/18/opinion-a-punk-resurgence-is-needed-to-combat-the-conservative-male-problem/

✍: Elizabeth Griffee | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Xiangyao “Axe” Tang | The Daily Utah Chronicle

In a survey conducted by The Daily Utah Chronicle’s investigative desk, students were asked to rate the effectiveness of...
12/21/2024

In a survey conducted by The Daily Utah Chronicle’s investigative desk, students were asked to rate the effectiveness of campus mental health resources on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being not effective and 5 being very effective.

Of those surveyed, the majority of respondents gave the university a score of 4 or 5. One student elaborated saying, “They gave me a few resources to look into. None came to fruition, but it did get the ball rolling.”

Regarding improvements they would like to see in campus mental health resources, students offered similar feedback.

One respondent wrote, “They should bring back the Women’s Resource Center, LGBTQ+ Resource Center and African American Resource Center. The U of U can’t cram all of these marginalized groups into one under the ‘Student Success Center.’ Minority groups have different needs, and those resources were there to help and support them.”

📌 Read more from Investigative Writer Anjali Iyer at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/18/campus-mental-health-resources/

✍: Anjali Iyer | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: JungBeen Park | The Daily Utah Chronicle

The Wilkes Climate Launch Prize, one of the largest university-run climate prizes in the world, was created in 2023 to h...
12/19/2024

The Wilkes Climate Launch Prize, one of the largest university-run climate prizes in the world, was created in 2023 to help jumpstart promising climate solution ideas.

At a September reception in partnership with the Southwest Sustainability Innovation Engine, Anderegg awarded the prize money to Jason Aramburu, Applied Carbon’s CEO and co-founder.

“As a startup company … there’s often a funding gap, particularly in this sector, to get your technology to market,” Aramburu said at the reception, later adding that the prize money will help them produce more of their biochar machines into the field.

Applied Carbon currently has four mobile pyrolizers, a machine that can reach high temperatures without oxygen, and the company will apply the prize money to its field operations in Texas, Aramburu told The Daily Utah Chronicle. These operations, he said, work in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

📌 Read more from Assistant News Editor Giovanni Radtke at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/13/farm-tech-startup-wilkes-climate/

✍: Giovanni Radtke | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: (Photo courtesy of Applied Carbon)

“Our curation speaks to the breadth and depth of filmmaking today, and the work of the artists selected showcases the po...
12/16/2024

“Our curation speaks to the breadth and depth of filmmaking today, and the work of the artists selected showcases the potential for storytelling to drive change through open dialogue while engaging audience,” Sundance Institute Acting CEO Amanda Kelso said.

Sundance Institute stated in a release that this lineup gears up to 41% of feature film directors who are first-time filmmakers. World premieres constitute 96% of the film and episodic slate.

“Audiences at the festival can not only look forward to engaging with the unexpected, but also to be entertained, challenged and deeply moved by this year’s films,” Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming Kim Yutani said.

The film program schedule will be announced Monday, Dec. 16.

📌 Read more from Arts Writer Laney Hansen at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/13/sundance-institue-announces-2025-festival/

✍: Laney Hansen | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Sundance Film Festival Lineup Cover (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Lawson Lovering played in his second game of the season and made an impact on the glass, grabbing 8 rebounds, which was ...
12/11/2024

Lawson Lovering played in his second game of the season and made an impact on the glass, grabbing 8 rebounds, which was second only to Miro Little for the Utes. His presence on the boards helped provide some stability for Utah and is an important part of the Utes transition game as we draw close to Big 12 play.

Little played 36 minutes and finished with 14 points, but his performance was ultimately disappointing for his standards. Despite logging heavy minutes, Little struggled with efficiency, shooting poorly from the field, which is rare for one of the Runnin’ Utes’ key contributors.

Gabe Madsen led the Utes in scoring with 15 points but went just 3-of-8 from the field, marking his second poor shooting performance of the season — both coming against the team’s toughest opponents, with the first at Mississippi State — a concerning trend he’ll need to avoid making a habit.

📌 Read more from Sports Writer Max Valva at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/10/utes-suffer-loss-st-marys/

✍: Max Valva | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Xiangyao “Axe” Tang | The Daily Utah Chronicle

According to the ASUU Redbook, filling Senate vacancies typically begins by offering the position to the runner-up from ...
12/10/2024

According to the ASUU Redbook, filling Senate vacancies typically begins by offering the position to the runner-up from the most recent ASUU general election. If no runner-up is eligible or available, the Senate Chair and Executive Committee solicit applications from students in the college. After interviews and grade checks, the Senate Chair presents a nominee to the General Senate for confirmation.

ASUU Senate Chair Mercedes Johnson outlined plans to pilot a new approach this semester whereby executive team members will now conduct interviews and recommend candidates.

“This is new, but hopefully allows more viewpoints in selecting the best person,” Johnson said.

Per the Redbook, ASUU must fill vacant positions within 30 days of the vacancy, barring circumstances such as holiday breaks or a lack of eligible applicants.

📌 Read more from News Writer Emerson Hagy at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/09/what-happens-when-theres-a-vacant-senate-position-in-asuu/

✍: Emerson Hagy | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Luke Larsen | The Daily Utah Chronicle

Join the BFAS foster program.This initiative is a flexible, short-term and low-commitment option to take pets into your ...
12/08/2024

Join the BFAS foster program.

This initiative is a flexible, short-term and low-commitment option to take pets into your home and away from the stressful bustles of the shelter.

It is accessible and hassle-free to foster.

The shelter even provides all the necessary training and resources to care for the pet in your home.

You choose the amount of time you can foster, which ranges from one night, a weekend or even several months.

Controlling the schedule of your volunteer opportunity means your leisure time can also serve as a meaningful contribution to your community.

📌 Read more from Opinion Writer Shannon Akin at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/06/opinion-foster-pet-holiday-break/

✍: Shannon Akin | The Daily Utah Chronicle
🎨: Mary Allen | The Daily Utah Chronicle

Benji Park is a first-year student majoring in economics and sociology. He’s also a member of Mecha and attended the pot...
12/06/2024

Benji Park is a first-year student majoring in economics and sociology. He’s also a member of Mecha and attended the potluck. He described the event as creating a sense of community.

“I thought it was a great community building event, building connections between these groups that have that historical tie together,” Park said.

Park also said the event was a good way to start building a collaboration between the groups to fight back against the effects of H.B. 261.

“Bringing back the Legacy Alliance was spurred by Mecha thinking about how we can organize to fight for DEI on campus, and think about what groups are affected and who could be interested in that,” Park said. “It’s a good way to start building the movement.”

📌 Read more from Investigative Editor Abhilasha Khatri at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/04/legacy-alliance-solidarity-potluck/

✍: Abhilasha Khatri| The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Photos by Lyndee Pham, AASA Historian

Kilby Block Party 2025 lineup has been revealed, featuring headliners New Order, Beach House, Weezer and Justice.Celebra...
12/04/2024

Kilby Block Party 2025 lineup has been revealed, featuring headliners New Order, Beach House, Weezer and Justice.

Celebrating 26 years of Kilby, the festival will take place over four days for the first time running from Thursday, May 15, through Sunday, May 18. In previous years, the festival spanned three days from Friday to Sunday.

In addition, Kilby Block Party has changed their dates to not land on Mother’s day this coming year. Many fans complained not being able to attend the festival due to the holiday.

Seventy-five artists are set to perform, with three spots on Friday and Sunday up for grabs. Notable acts include Wallows, Still Woozy, St. Vincent, Julien Baker and Torres and Cardinal Bloom.

📌 Read more from Arts Writer Hailey Edmonds at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/03/kilby-block-party-2025-lineup/

✍: Hailey Edmonds | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Laney Hansen | The Daily Utah Chronicle

Boys want to become men, and what it means to be a man is entirely defined by culture. If men continue to be told that a...
12/03/2024

Boys want to become men, and what it means to be a man is entirely defined by culture. If men continue to be told that a man is someone dominant, powerful and angry, they will become it.

If men are told that a certain political party represents them, they will vote for it, oftentimes against their best interest.

The future of masculinity must not be defined by anger.

The battle for what a man is and must be waged on those who seek to reform it.

Men are once again being sent to war, but it is of an entirely different nature. The burden of standing up for positive masculinity falls onto none other than men themselves.

📌 Read more from Opinion Writer Matthew Timpa at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/12/02/opinion-the-war-for-masculinity/

✍: Matthew Timpa | The Daily Utah Chronicle
🎨: Mary Allen | The Daily Utah Chronicle

For many, the holiday season is not only a time to celebrate but also a time to give back. At the U, it’s no different. ...
12/01/2024

For many, the holiday season is not only a time to celebrate but also a time to give back. At the U, it’s no different. Students across campus are serving communities in more ways than one.

Participating in service through the Bennion Center is an easy way to give back to the community year-round. The center has drop-in service projects available for anyone to pick up according to their schedules. It also helps connect those looking to volunteer to opportunities around Salt Lake City. Students can propose their own semester-based project ideas, too.

“Service spreads happiness, it’s like a ripple effect,” Knapp said. “Once you serve someone, they will try and serve another. Eventually it reaches everybody, and the whole world is a better place and people are happier.”

📌 Read more from News Writer Addy Christensen at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/11/28/utah-students-serving-communities-world/

✍: Addy Christensen | The Utah Daily Chronicle
🎨: Cecilia Acosta | The Daily Utah Chronicle

Coming after a tough loss to Mississippi State, the Runnin’ Utes got off to hot a start against their in-state rivals, t...
11/26/2024

Coming after a tough loss to Mississippi State, the Runnin’ Utes got off to hot a start against their in-state rivals, taking down the Utah Tech Trailblazers 84-53 on Friday at the Jon M. Huntsman Center.

After putting up only 9 points in his last game, Gabe Madsen got off to a hot start scoring 14 points in the first half of tonight’s game, with 19 in total. The Utes showcased their defense, holding the Blazers to just 34% from the field while also forcing 15 turnovers.

Now 4-1 on the season, the Utes are looking to carry over their momentum to the Mountain to Sea showcase which kicks off next week.

With this win, the Utes continue to build momentum as they look ahead to the Mountain to Sea Showcase against Mississippi Valley State and Eastern Washington, two games where the Runnin’ Utes are favored to win.

📌 Read more from Sports Writer Max Valva at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/11/24/utes-back-top-victory-utah-tech/

✍️: Max Valva | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Mary | The Daily Utah Chronicle

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