Nowhere to run: UVSC Track team lacks track

UVSC Athletic Director Mike "A.D. for Life" Jacobsen has been trying to drum up a million dollars for a track facility for the school's track team for the past three years. But unlike the team itself he has had little success.

UVSC track facility still a work in progress (Daily Herald, April 1 2008)

So in the meantime The Wolverines will be doing their running at Mountain View High School, providing plenty of fodder for Zoobies who think the college itself is little more than Utah Valley High School.

Today On Campus: Thursday • 1/3/08

Spring Semester Begins



MEN'S WRESTLING VS. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Shurian Family Activity Center
$2 with UV ID


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New leads in murder case of UVSC Hockey coach

It has been over a week since UVSC assistant hockey coach Ken Dolezsar, and his killer is still on the loose. But Sandy police have some "good and promising" leads in the case.

New leads in slaying of UVSC hockey coach
(Deseret Morning News, November 27 2007)

Today On Campus: Tuesday • 11/20/07

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCE GUEST LECTURE
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
PS015
Free

PRESENTATION WORKSHOP
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
SC 206a
Free

MEN'S BASKETBALL VS. TROY STATE
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
McKay Events Center
$2 with UV ID
For more info click here

ART FOR LIFE EXHIBITION AND AUCTION
11:00am - 7:00pm
Woodbury Art Museum, 2nd Floor University Mall
Free
http://www.uvsc.edu/museum

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Remembering Ken Dolezsar

UVSC's club hockey team is mourning the loss of their assistant coach Ken Dolezsar, who was shot and killed outside a restaurant in Sandy on Thursday.

A rink in mourning
Daily Herald, November 17 2007)

Today On Campus: Friday • 11/9/07

FALL DANCE SPORT FESTIVAL
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Ballroom
Free

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL VS. MESA STATE
7:00pm - 9:00pm
McKay Events Center
$2 with UV ID


CONTEMPORARY DANCE ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: "IMPRINTS"
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Ragan Theatre
$9 with UV ID, $11 GA

ART FOR LIFE EXHIBITION AND AUCTION
11:00am - 7:00pm
Woodbury Art Museum, 2nd Floor University Mall
Free
http://www.uvsc.edu/museum

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Today On Campus: Friday • 11/2/07

WABCON BUSINESS CONFERENCE
8:30am - 5:00pm
206 A,B, C and 213 A and B
$129
$15 with of UVSCSTU2007 promotional code
http://www.wasatchbusinessconference.com/

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL VS. EASTERN OREGON
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Shurian Family Activity Center
$2 with UV ID
http://www.wolverinegreen.com/

UVSC THEATER DEPARTMENT PRESENTS: "AH, WILDERNESS!"
7:30pm - 9:45pm
Ragan Theatre
$6 for UVSC students
$8 For UVSC faculty
$10 General Admission

ART FOR LIFE EXHIBITION AND AUCTION OPENING RECEPTION
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Woodbury Art Museum, 2nd Floor University Mall
Free
http://www.uvsc.edu/museum

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Today On Campus: Friday • 10/26/07

MEN'S HOCKEY VS. METRO STATE
8:30pm - 11:00pm
Peaks Ice Arena
$5 with UV ID
For more info click here

UVSC THEATER DEPARTMENT PRESENTS: "AH, WILDERNESS!"
7:30pm - 9:45pm
Ragan Theatre
$6 for UVSC students
$8 For UVSC faculty
$10 General Admission

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New logos are ready for your disapproval

Surveys were e-mailed today to selected folks asking for opinions on the top choices for new UVU logos...And in The Pipeline's humble opinion, they all looked awful.

Now we would love to post the screen captures we nabbed during the survey...but chances are the College Marketing department would go crazy. All of the logos say things like "not for distribution". And we would love to provide a link to the online survey...but it is tied to the e-mail adddress it was sent to, and can only be completed once.

Chances are we will all get to see these monstrosities soon enough. We can say that all four of the main designs looked like Rare Method (the designers hired for the redesign) were trying really hard to make the letters UVU do cutesy little things (like the negative space make the shape of Utah). One design was so convoluted that it was barely readable. Another one looked like a rip off of West Virginia's logo. All of them featured a boxy font that looked a lot like the firm's designs for Murray City.

The survey said not to pay attention to colors, as the colors were not finalized yet. But the colors that were used were awful...including a baby vomit green, and even a dark blue that looked like it belonged on a Cougar.

The sports logos were slightly better...with one design looking a lot like Rare Method's design for the Utah Blaze. They even redesigned the Wolverine logo (commonly known as "The Creature"). On the survey they asked if the current logo was better...but if the school's colors are going to change, then chances are the current Creature has got to change too. Their new wolverine is neon green for some reason.

All in all, the choices were very disappointing. Our advice is to start hoarding UVU gear now before this ugly crap hits the shelves.

"Honey...It's Ronnie Price on the phone for you!"

We found an amazing little nugget while checking out UVSC student Sam Garfield's blog. Apparently the school has former basketball star and current Jazz pine-rider Ronnie Price recording phone messages that get sent to a database of UVSC telephone numbers.

UVSC: Utah Valley Spam College
(October 11 2007)

According to Sam he got a call from Robot Ronnie on his cell phone. After the message, there was a recording that let Sam unsubscribe from the service. Funny thing is Sam...and everybody else...probably never signed up to be called in the first place.

Weird.

Today On Campus: Monday • 10/22/07

$5 ADD Card Begins for 2nd Block Classes
$100 LATE FEE Begins for 2nd Block Classes

HEALTH CHECKS
10:00am - 2:00pm
Hall of Flags
Free

STUDENT ABSTRACT WRITING WORKSHOP
11:00am - 11:50am
LC424
Free

WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL VS. UTAH
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Shurian Activity Center

FEAR FACTOR
Noon
Student Center
Free


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Today On Campus: Thursday • 10/18/07

SEMINAR FOR PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS OF MENTAL HEALTH
8:00am - 4:00pm
Sorensen Student Center
Free
For more info click here

UV UNPLUGGED
11am - 1pm
Student Center
Free

WRITING A BETTER BUSINESS PLAN WORKSHOP
6:00pm - 8:00pm
WB 240
Free
For more info click here

WOLVERINE WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL VS. BOISE STATE
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Shurian Activity Center
$2 WITH UV ID
For more info click here

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Today On Campus: Friday • 10/5/07

Graduation Application Deadline for Fall Semester

Wolverine Women's Volleyball vs. UT-Pan American
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Shurian Activity Center
$2 with UVID
wolverinegreen.com

UVSC THEATER: "THE HEIRESS"
7:30pm - 9:45pm
Blackbox Theater
GA $10/$8 children, UVSC staff/$6 UVSC Students

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Big bucks on the way

Clyde Companies Inc has given $1 million to UVSC and uber-donor Ira Fulton has matched that gift dollar for dollar.

Orem construction company donates $1M to UVSC
(Daily Herald, October 4 2007)

UVSC to get $1 million donation from Clyde Companies
(Deseret Morning News, October 4 2007)

Part of that dough will go toward creating a four-year bachelor's program in construction management that focuses on highway and heavy railroad construction. The newly upgraded soccer field will get $300,000.

Today On Campus: Wednesday • 10/3/07

Last Day to Withdraw for Full Semester Classes
MONTHLY ETHICS FORUM: SCHOOL VOUCHER DEBATE
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Faculty Seminar Room LC243
Free

WOMEN'S SOCCER VS. UTAH
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Wolverine Field
$2 with UVID

UVSC THEATER: "THE HEIRESS"
7:30pm - 9:45pm
Blackbox Theater
GA $10/$8 children, UVSC staff/$6 UVSC Students

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Status of the transition

With the July 1st deadline looming, folks at UVSC are scrambling to get all things university in order.


UVSC transition under way
School will officially become a university on July 1, 2008
(Deseret Morning News, September 28 2007)

There are a lot of things that need fixin' on campus, just check out the comments section in the article above and you'll find folks bitchin' about things like the Math Department and student services. And how can you blame them?

But the best part of the article was this little nugget from our friends in the Athletics:

"Basically, our response is, we're ready to go through Division I transition," said Megan Kennedy, an assistant athletic director, explaining how UVSC is in its fifth of six years of provisional Division I status with the NCAA.


First of all, the move from college to university has nothing to do with the NCAA or Division I status. UVSC could start a Ph.D program tomorrow and it wouldn't change the fact that the school is not in a conference, and it is no closer to getting in a conference than it was five years ago.

Much like a certain war, UVSC Athletics has never come up with an exit strategy for when it fails to get into a conference next year. Will the school continue to be an independent? Can it afford to operate without conference funding, not to mention a far-flung travel schedule? Will fans support a team that will never develop rivalries with other conference schools? Will athletes sign scholarship agreements knowing that they have little to no chance of participating in national championships?

Yet the Athletic department says "We are ready!"

UVSC Website gets all artsy fartsy

Last week you may have noticed (especially if you are one of those nerds that notices things) that UVSC's main splash page has added a link that says "The Arts". Here is where it links to:

www.uvsc.edu/arts

This new page puts all of UVSC's arts in one place. Kind of cool. We hear there has already been some grumbling about the change...could it be that Athletics doesn't like giving up valuable real estate?

Today On Campus: Friday • 9/21/07

WOMEN'S SOCCER VS. NORTHERN ARIZONA
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Wolverine Field
Wolverine Green

UTAH REGIONAL BALLET: "SOUNDS IN MOTION"
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Ragan Theater
$12 (tickets available at door)
UVSC ballet company sets 'Sounds in Motion'
(Deseret Morning News, September 20 2007)

D.A. POWELL POETRY READING
12:00pm - 2:00 pm
Student Center 206b
Press Release

WOODBURY ART MUSEUM: "WOODBURY INVITATIONAL 2007"
11:00am - 7:00pm
University Mall
Free
www.uvsc.edu/museum/exhibits/

ETHICS AWARENESS WEEK DOCUMENTARY FILM AND DISCUSSION: "STANDING SILENT NATION"
10:00am - 11:00am
Faculty Seminar Room (SC 243)
See the Trailer
PANEL DISCUSSION
Forest Cuch, Utah Department of Indian Affairs (Ute tribe)
Dustin ("Dusty") Jansen, Adjunct Instructor, Political Science, UVSC
11:00am - 12:00pm

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Even when you don't have a football team, you can still argue about football

If you are feeling a little more socially responsible lately it is probably because it is Ethics Week at UVSC. And with all the contentious ethical issues out there nothing gets people riled up faster than football.

2 UVSC profs deem BCS unethical
(Deseret Morning News, September 20 2007)

Maybe its just UVSC's way of extending an olive branch to all the Cougars and Utes out there, but professors Dennis Farnsworth and Jon Moore say that the schools in the Mountain West Conference should join other disgruntled athletic conferences and file an antitrust lawsuit against the Bowl Championship Series.

PHOTOS BY DON LAVANGE

UVSC head baseball coach retires after 18 years

UVSC head baseball coach Steve Gardner announced this week that he will be stepping down after 18 years on the bench.

UVSC baseball coach stepping down
(Salt Lake Tribune, September 12 2007)

Wolverine baseball coach Gardner to retire after next season
(Daily Herald, September 13 2007)

Gardner will continue to coach throughout the upcoming season.