Articles by Haylie Anderson

Running for student body president

Kayla Coolbear, a senior art major from Livermore, California.

What qualifies you for this position?

"The No. 1 experience that makes me the most qualified for the position is working closely with the current president as a VP on his executive council. Additionally, I am ...

Originally developed by two Harvard students, a newer vitamin created to help students mentally is starting to become more popular among the college students.

NeuroFuse is composed of 13 ingredients that claim to increase dopamine levels in the brain, and some of these vitamins claim to even help with memory ...

Dixie Forum speakers are distributors of knowledge and creativity, and last week, an award-winning, 87-year-old sculptor shared her story of the process behind her bronze works of art.

St. George artist L’Deane Trueblood spoke at Dixie State Universi ty on Feb. 24 about how a bronze sculpture is made ...

Approximately 5,700 miles away is Nagoya, Japan, and our student government leaders will be traveling there in March. 

Dixie State University student leaders will be heading to Nagoya. The student leaders at Meijo University want to learn more about setting up a student government on their campus. They are ...

According to a study done at the University of Georgia, college students only get six hours of sleep; they should be getting nine or more.  

The lack of sleep starts a chain reaction for many other problems such as stress and anxiety. With the pressure of all the school work ...

Dixie State University ranked at an average level in the 2014 Great Colleges Survey.

The survey was administered to 278 institutions, and 196 were four-year institutions. The survey was given at the beginning of 2014, it's used to see how different colleges rank nationally. It helps institutions know what ...

Growing up can be such a difficult thing when having to move out and decide what you want to do.

Dixie State University has an aptitude test that could possibly get you looking in the right direction. I think it is a good idea to take the test to help ...

With an increase in students, there is a demand for new buildings on campus to keep up with student growth.

The first addition to Dixie State University will be an office addition near the north side of the Burns Arena. This project is already out to bid, which means construction ...

There are two types of people in this world: those who love Valentine’s Day and those who hate Valentine’s Day.

The people who like Valentine’s Day are usually the ones who have dates, but that shouldn’t be true. You should like Valentine’s Day even if ...

Something every college student eventually has to do is choose a major.

The Career Center has many great tools to helP students decide on a major, including an aptitude test and career counselors, Career Services Director Ali Threet said.

Threet said sometimes it takes option after option before somebody decides ...

The Dixie State University Student Association has made an effort to plan activities for non-traditional students and traditional students in hopes of more participation at events.

Jill Wulfenstein, a senior integrated studies major from Pahrump, Nevada, and vice president of student life, is in charge of putting these events together ...

Anyone who has met Dixie State University Student Body President Greg Layton knows he is professional — that is until it comes to competitive lip sync battles. 

Each year Layton and the vice presidents go to a conference with other student government leaders from around the state. During a conference they ...

Pinterest has many great ideas — ideas that people would be more than willing to try if they just knew how the projects would turn out. Most Pinterest projects turn out as a failure; this one was not quite a failure, but it was pretty close. 

I tried making a projector ...