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02/13/2025

Utah lawmakers are following President Donald Trump’s lead and focusing on issues concerning immigration during the 2025 Legislative session.

The bills they are proposing emphasize deportation and punishing immigrants who have committed crimes within the U.S.

This is advertised as a public safety initiative but is merely foreshadowing this administration’s xenophobic agenda.

By supporting Trump’s immigration suggestions, Utah is submitting to his more immense desire to exclude immigrants from the U.S.

📌 Read more from Opinion Writer Shannon Akin at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/02/05/opinion-humanity-trumps-hate/

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

02/11/2025

“I really like the vaults today because everyone was taking steps forward. They were going aggressive and they were going big,” Dockendorf said. “I know that those landings are gonna continue to dial in. We’ve been competing, week after week and I don’t know if we’ve done that consistently this early on in previous seasons. The amount of confidence they’re gonna have competing at the end of the season is gonna be really important and I think it’s gonna be elevated.”

Utah scored a dominant 49.525 on the beam event in the fourth rotation. Padurariu scored a 9.925 to open for the Red Rocks, which tied for the team lead in the event with McCallum. Utah saw two additional 9.900 scores with Camie Winger and Smith, leading the Red Rocks to finish with the second-highest score of the season with 197.425 and placing the team second behind winner No. 2 Florida with 197.575.

📌 Read more from Sports Writer Sean Stetson at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/02/04/utah-gymnastics-places-second-in-tri-meet/

✍: Sean Stetson | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Xiangyao “Axe” Tang | The Daily Utah Chronicle

02/10/2025

The 2025 annual awards ceremony was a night of surprises, support and social change.

The Grammy’s is one of the most anticipated music events of the year. As the 67th annual awards ceremony played out, the night shifted to shed light on issues within the system and on outside attacks on communities within the music industry.

This year’s Grammy’s was almost a full sweep by powerful women in the music industry. St. Vincent, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx and SZA took home awards that night, setting a new standard for the following years.

Awards and performances aside, this event played out differently. Due to the uncertainty of the L.A. wildfires, a major motivation of the night was to donate and support those who had lost their homes, businesses and loved ones to the deadly fires. The televised portion contributed some of its air time to local businesses that were impacted.

📌 Read more from Arts Writer Laney Hansen at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/02/08/67th-annual-grammy-awards/

✍: Laney Hansen | The Utah Daily Chronicle
🎨: Mary Allen | The Utah Daily Chronicle

02/08/2025

The films of the Safdie brothers, which include “Good Time” and “Uncut Gems” would be apt comparisons for “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.” In fact, the similarities among the films seem far from coincidence given the director is married to Ronald Bronstein, the writer of the Safdie movies mentioned above.

This movie is also shot entirely in mediums and close-ups. There are no wides to allow the audience a breath of fresh air. There is no escape from the horrific misfortune that swallows Linda’s life whole.

The film is laced with surreal, dreamlike imagery that tinges the story with an uncanny aura. Most of this is connected to the hole in Linda’s apartment, one particularly unnerving moment being when it appears the inside of the hole is fleshy and undulating. These scenes can be so subtle that they’ll have the viewer second-guessing what they saw. This surrealism eventually infects the plot. The last act feels disorienting and confusing as reality and fiction blur together.

📌 Read more from Assistant Arts Editor Graham Jones at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/02/05/sundance-2025-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you/

✍: Graham Jones | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: A still from If I Had Legs I’d Kick You by Mary Bronstein, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute

02/08/2025

The ABC, Rose and Singh tickets are leading the race for the ASUU 2025-26 presidency, according to a check-in released by ASUU Friday morning.

As the rankings stand, the Poll and Whicker tickets would not qualify for the general election.

According to ASUU, 2,200 students have voted in the primary election thus far.

Voting for the primary closes Feb. 14 at 12 p.m. Students can cast their vote via the ASUU elections webpage.

📌 Read more from News Editor Josi Hinds at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/02/07/abc-rose-and-singh-tickets-take-lead-in-asuu-primary-election/

✍: Josi Hinds | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Adam Fondren | The Daily Utah Chronicle

02/04/2025

Sen. Kathleen Riebe (D-Cottonwood Heights) raised a concern on the Senate floor that a financial analysis requirement would undermine grassroots efforts by making the initiative process too burdensome.

“When I read this bill, and I see the steps we are asking people to take to exert their voice in this process, it seems like it’s becoming more onerous for them,” she said.

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Lincoln Fillmore (R-South Jordan), pushed back, stating the bill adds only one more step to the initiative process. He added that he was “frankly surprised” there was disagreement over including funding information on a ballot initiative.

“Sometimes initiatives can look like sunshine and rainbows, and that’s great. People want sunshine and rainbows, but what if having sunshine and rainbows means we have to eliminate ice cream? Budgeting is always about finding room for competing, good things,” Fillmore said.

All Democratic senators and one Republican voted against SB73. It now goes to the House for a vote.

📌 Read more from Assistant News Editor Giovanni Radtke https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/02/01/utah-senate-passes-bill-modifying-ballot-initiatives/

✍: Giovanni Radtke | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Addy Cowley | The Daily Utah Chronicle

02/01/2025

This trend is masked as self-serving wellness. It implies that you won’t need external validation if you just follow the steps created in these videos. By waking up early, not eating out, working out, having superb personal hygiene and saving money social media implies that this translates to a freedom and self-validation that you did not have otherwise.

Each of these habits on its own is difficult to label as toxic. But, the issue is that this trend is too rigidly enforcing these habits. TikTok videos show compilations of skinny white women with glassy skin dressed in Lululemon workout sets.

These are snapshots of moments in time for these girls being presented as an appearance that should be a constant. This is simply unrealistic. Women cannot be expected to maintain these habits so consistently that an off-day is not woven into the framework.

📌 Read more from Opinion Writer Shannon Akin at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/28/opinion-resolve-new-years-resolutions/

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

01/31/2025

On Jan. 25, Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City cast member Meredith Marks hosted an event partnered with NephCure, an organization focused on furthering research and medical advancements for rare kidney diseases.

Marks and Jennifer Geisser, an NBC Universal executive Vice President, answered my questions about the cause and its importance.

Marks wanted to get involved with NephCure after attending a previous event and seeing the importance of this cause. On her reasoning behind the event and choosing to host it on the Sundance Film Festival weekend, Marks said, “I chose to host at Sundance because it’s obviously a great chance to get exposure and hopefully raise some money.”

When asked how it felt to have the platform to support causes such as this, she said, “This is the main reason I do what I do; that’s what the show is about for me.” She went on to say, “My goal when I started with the Housewives was to raise awareness for causes that I cared about.”

Geisser is apart of the Bravo community, but she is also on the board of directors at NephCure. Geiser joined the cause 20 years ago when her son was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome.

📌 Read more from Arts Writer Hailey Edmonds at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/30/sundance-2025-meredith-marks-nephcure/

✍: Hailey Edmonds | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: (Photo courtesy of Travis Wise | CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

01/30/2025

On Monday, ASUU, the University of Utah’s governing student body, officially announced candidates for the 2025 election with Five tickets campaigning for the 2025–26 student body presidency.

The student body also announced candidates for attorney general, the legislative assembly and the legislative senate.

Voting for elections opens Feb. 17 and closes at noon on Feb. 28. Students will be sent a link to vote in their Umail accounts.

Executive candidates will discuss their ideas in a debate Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. The debate, moderated by The Daily Utah Chronicle, will occur in the Marriott Library’s Gould Auditorium.

📌 Read more from News Editor Josi Hinds at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/29/asuu-announces-candidates-for-2025-election/

✍: Josi Hinds | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Adam Fondren | Daily Utah Chronicle

01/28/2025

The fifth-ranked Red Rocks beat BYU 196.975 to 195.325 Friday night at the Marriott Center in Provo Utah.

“I thought they did an excellent job of just bringing good focus, good energy and good attitude. For them to keep that mindset for three meets in a row, in a week, I think is huge,” Dockendorf said. “I also feel like the quality of their gymnastics tonight was excellent. It just shows their conditioning and fitness, and where they’re at, to be able to do that this early in the season.”

The Red Rocks will get some much needed rest before they head out to West Virginia to face the Mountaineers and the No. 3 Florida Gators on Feb. 2.

📌 Read more from Sports Writer Sean Stetson at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/27/gymnastics-win-on-road-against-byu/

✍: Sean Stetson | The Utah Daily Chronicle
📷: Xiangyao “Axe” Tang | The Utah Daily Chronicle

01/28/2025

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01/27/2025

Allocating more money to economically beneficial programs will have major impacts on arts and humanities programs. These proposed budget cuts are an attempt to make Utah’s higher education more efficient. If your program does not directly provide job training, it is not seen as efficient. Why waste money on arts or history when the Legislature is benefiting more from real estate which requires no degree?

“We work really hard as a state to hold our state agencies accountable and to make them run efficiently, but nobody’s ever looked at higher ed,” Schultz said to the Salt Lake Tribune. The purpose of college isn’t necessarily to receive job training, it’s to receive a well-rounded education. Even though statistically all university education helps with a variety of skills relating to job training, a well-rounded education is not what the legislature wants for public universities.

These budget cuts are less about money and more about control. The trend of attacking higher education is continuing to grow. Schultz has never attended a public university, so it’s unclear where he gets off discussing budget cuts for higher education.

📌 Read more from Opinion Writer Emma Thompson at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/26/opinion-the-arts-and-humanities-are-under-attack/

✍: Emma Thompson | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Courtesy of the College of Humanities

01/26/2025

UnitedHealthcare has a special tie to the University of Utah. It’s the school’s health insurance provider and covers approximately 3,700 international, graduate and undergraduate students and their dependents. Recent public discourse about UnitedHealthcare has been largely negative. However, according to post-visit surveys issued by the Student Health Center (SHC) in 2023-2024, Utah students were generally happy with healthcare at the U. 97-98% of students expressed overall satisfaction with Student Health, which is the primary administrator of insurance through UHC.

Young adults are less likely to require expensive medical care than older adults, allowing healthcare companies to offer more comprehensive plans while maintaining similar profit margins. Yet, when those profits are threatened by students facing complex medical issues, UHC Student Resources has been reported to revert to delaying coverage, overbilling or declining to cover certain procedures for students.

📌Read more from News Writer Grace Maya at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/21/unitedhealthcare-and-the-student-health-center-at-the-university-of-utah/

✍️: Grace Maya | The Daily Utah Chronicle
🎨: Mary Allen | The Daily Utah Chronicle

01/24/2025

The third rotation saw the Red Rocks once again score a 49.525, before the team scored four of the highest scores on the floor routine through three rotations. Smith and Winger both opened the scoring with 9.925 for Utah, with Glynn following with a 9.900 of her own and McCallum adding the third 9.925 score of the night. Utah led the meet 148.575 over Utah State’s 146.950 after the third rotation.

For the fourth and final rotation, the Red Rocks scored a 49.375 on the vault. Ella Zirbes opened the scoring with a 9.875, and Smith continued her dominant scoring with a 9.950 on the vault to give her a meet leading all-around score of 39.725. McCallum came in second with an all-around score of 39.600, and Winger third with a score of 39.475. The Red Rocks secured first place overall, leading 197.950 over second place Southern Utah in the Best of Utah meet.

📌 Read more from Sports Writer Sean Stetson at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/22/no-5-red-rocks-win-best-utah-dominant-fashion/

✍: Sean Stetson | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Mary Allen | The Daily Utah Chronicle

01/22/2025

In November, the Legislative Auditor General ran a performance audit on Utah’s higher education system. The report recommended that university presidents start collecting “program cost, enrollment, completion, employment and workforce demand data to determine if programs should be expanded, reduced or discontinued.”

The Utah System of Higher Education is also developing metrics to help guide cuts and reallocations that align with the data recommendations from the auditor’s report. Landward said university presidents and their administrative teams will decide where to cut and reallocate funds.

“Having a framework that allows that kind of discretion and flexibility, I think, was critical for this to be able to work rather than the legislature coming in and saying ‘here’s the program that we want funded and here’s the one we don’t,'” Landward said. “Having that trust given to higher education was critical.”

📌 Read more from Assistant News Editor Giovanni Radtke at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/21/u-leaders-make-the-case-for-higher-ed-in-legislative-preview/

✍: Giovanni Radtke |The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: From left to right, Taylor Randall, Geoffrey Landward and Mitzi Montoya discuss higher education ahead of the 2025 legislative session. (Photo curtesy of University of Utah Communications).

01/21/2025

The Live Nation monopoly has a large impact on live music in Salt Lake. The company owns prominent Salt Lake venues The Depot and Utah First Credit Union Amphitheater.

I spoke with Lyndi Wadsworth, the lead guitarist for local Salt Lake punk band Burning Avenues. She has been heavily involved in the Salt Lake music scene for over a decade as an artist, sound engineer and teacher. She has also worked with various local music programs such as Rock Camp SLC.

Over the past 10 years, Wadsworth has played at nearly every local venue, including The Beehive, Kilby Court, the Underground, The Metro and Urban Lounge. She said she has experienced a noticeable shift in the local music scene since these venues have drifted away from being independently owned and locally run.

She spoke about how these changes have been felt, particularly at Kilby Court.

“That venue is one of the best local all-ages venues and since S & S took over it has been extremely difficult to get a local show booked,” Wadsworth said. “They bring in a lot of awesome shows, but there are so many that it’s hard to get in to do a local show.”

📌 Read more from Opinion Writer Elizabeth Griffee at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/20/opinion-keep-local-music-local/

✍: Elizabeth Griffee | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Fans in the mosh pit during Osees’ performance at the 2023 Kilby Block Party on May 13, 2023. (Courtesy of Robert Sagers)

01/20/2025

Fresh off their first conference win of the season against Oklahoma State last Saturday, the Runnin’ Utes (10-6, 2-3) headed to Fort Worth on Wednesday to take on the TCU Horned Frogs (9-7, 2-3), aiming to secure their second conference win—and their first conference road win of the season.

For the second straight game the Runnin’ Utes defense proved their strength—a consistent effort that head coach Craig Smith has emphasized as crucial to winning ball games. Utah’s composure throughout the game, particularly in maintaining their lead during key moments, showcased growth in their ability to manage pressure. Smith’s halftime adjustments proved to be effective as the Utes played their best basketball coming out of the break, something that was a key issue in games earlier in the season.

The Utes’ next matchup is against bitter rival BYU (11-5, 1-3) on Saturday, January 18th, at the Huntsman Center, a highly anticipated matchup.

📌 Read more from Sports Writer Max Valva at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/19/utes-defeat-tcu-second-straight-win/

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

01/18/2025

Cox also echoed the sentiments of the Utah House majority on potential budget cuts to state-funded education.

Speaker Schultz previously stated budget cuts for higher education could be as high as 10%. However, he did not specify what programs these cuts could be apply to.

“We would look at those degrees and certificates that are providing the most benefit for students, and those that are providing the least, and fund more on the one end and a little less on the other end,” Cox said. He also said he’s been working closely with the Utah Board of Higher Education, Utah’s university presidents and the commissioner of higher education to decide what these cuts will look like.

📌 Read more from News Writer Grace Maya at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/01/17/governor-cox-speaks-on-education-cuts-homelessness-at-monthly-press-conference/

✍: Grace Maya | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Governor Spencer Cox speaks at monthly press conference Jan. 16, 2025. (Pool photo).

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