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Local

Utah welcomes last refugees permitted before ban enforced

By Kjersten Johnson
February 03, 2017 12:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwBELubrjMI&;feature=youtu.be
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Art

Prolific Yosemite photographer's work stored in HBLL Special Collections

By Kjersten Johnson
December 02, 2016 12:00 AM
It's a classic family history story: your grandfather was raised by feminists in the late 1800s, invented the time-lapse camera, lived in Yosemite National Park where he was a famous photographer and photographer Ansel Adams may have stolen a box of his photographs and claimed them as his own.
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World

Social media useful in preventing Islamophobia, raising awareness

By Kjersten Johnson
December 02, 2016 12:00 AM
Scrolling through Twitter after an ISIS-related terrorist attack yields tweet after tweet defending the religion of Islam — and a slew of negative, incriminatory and degrading Islamophobic tweets. Many of the positive statements are retweeted and praised, but so are the Islamophobic messages.
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Campus Events

BYU students remember Harambe in candlelight vigil

By Kjersten Johnson
November 29, 2016 12:00 AM
Students braved the snow and cold to gather in mourning and reminiscence of a fallen comrade: Harambe, the Cincinnati Zoo's deceased Western lowland gorilla.
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Local

Trump wins Utah despite unpopularity

By Kjersten Johnson
November 14, 2016 12:00 AM
The Deseret News called for Donald Trump's resignationin an editorialon Oct. 8, 2016. The paper felt 'a duty to speak clearly on issues that affect the well-being and morals of the nation.'
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Featured

Video: BYU students react to Trump's election-night win

By Kjersten Johnson
November 11, 2016 12:00 AM
Students on the BYU Campus expressed mixed feelings the day following Donald Trump's historic electoral victory.
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Editorials

Una campaña virulenta que agrava la incertidumbre global

By Kjersten Johnson
November 09, 2016 12:00 AM
Ivan Martinic watches the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in the Daily Universe newsroom. Martinic is a visiting journalist from Santiago, Chile, who is covering the election for the newspaper El Mercurio. (Ryan Turner)
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Featured

Family members serve in same missions, create unique bond

By Kjersten Johnson
September 28, 2016 12:00 AM
From left: Carlos Velasquez, Pearla Velasquez, Malia Johnson and Lorena Velasquez. Johnson was thrilled as a missionary to meet a family her father had taught and baptized years earlier in Molina, Paraguay. Her father had lost contact with them and was able to get in touch again because of her missionary service. (Malia Johnson)
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Local

First Utah Summer Hammock Festival a success

By Kjersten Johnson
September 10, 2016 12:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Hv9diglas
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