By Becca Gibb Wireless connections, like a customer support chat, can be a great way to connect people—until it’s not. Under the guise of looking for information about his paycheck, a caller named Brad bullied the customer support rep assigned to the chat to “teach a lesson to the younger generation.” The anonymity made it easy for Brad to feel disconnected from the person he … Continue reading Wireless Dehumanization

By Kenzie Koehle A hot topic that has popped up in the last year or two has been that of a work-life balance. For many employees who now work from home in a space where their workplace and safe space have blended into one, they wonder how they can keep these two halves of themselves—their work life and their normal life—balanced. Niko Pfund, the president … Continue reading Podcast Review: Niko Pfund on University Presses

By Elaine Pfeil Picture a CEO. The CEO runs a strategic, risk-taking Fortune 500 company. The CEO is personable, highly respected, and always well dressed. What color suit do you picture the CEO wearing? What color tie? Did you picture a man? If so, you are not alone; most people do. To your credit, only 41 of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women, and only … Continue reading The Women’s Leadership Gap in America

By Sarah Romney How do we end poverty? World hunger? High death rates? These are complicated issues that people have been trying to solve for centuries, but Melinda Gates proposes that the solution to many of the world’s problems is to give women a voice “because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.” In The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates shares stories and … Continue reading Book Review: The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

By Sam Lambert ¿Cómo se debe buscar el éxito si hay una barrera en el camino? El Marriott Student Review comparte la meta de la Escuela de Negocios Marriott de BYU de “recognize the inherent worth, divine potential, and agency of each person”.[i] Por eso queremos “[connect] the leaders of tomorrow with the issues of today”.[ii] Mas reconocemos que este esfuerzo implica ayuda distinta para … Continue reading Apoyaremos a los Estudiantes Internacionales

By Sam Lambert We all live in a meritocracy-like society that values high productivity and achievement. This doesn’t leave much margin for error. As such, we’ve trained our brains to find the right answer, to avoid getting distracted, and to employ willpower to remain focused on achieving success. Annabelle Sorensen, however, doesn’t agree with this paradigm. She asserts that we must teach ourselves to allow … Continue reading Podcast Review: Annabelle Sorensen on Balancing the Positives and Negatives

By Sydney Springer The number was staggering: $1.1 million per player. That’s how much the US Men’s National Soccer team would have made if they accelerated to the World Cup finals. The year was 2019, and the US Women’s National Team had just clobbered Netherlands 2–0 at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. The trophy was packed, the paychecks were written, and the (soccer) ball was … Continue reading Sexism at Its Peak: Gender Inequality in National Sports

By Jake Welling Have you heard someone say that it doesn’t matter how much of their data is collected because they have nothing to hide? You may have said this very same thing at one point in your life. In recent years, data privacy has become an important topic on a government, company, and individual level. New laws, such as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) … Continue reading Have Nothing to Hide? Why Data Privacy Is Still Important for You

By Lydia Mercado “If you’re not giving people something that they can’t get elsewhere, then your podcast will fail.” Such a bold (and bordering brash) statement may give the potential podcaster pause, but Robert Smith is simply being direct. And Smith certainly has the life experience to merit such boldness. While attending high school in Park City, Smith began his radio journal at a local … Continue reading Podcast Review: Robert Smith on Radio, Storytelling, and Economics (May 2, 2021)

By Dani Mattsson Jonathan Keats, famous author and philosopher who was “acclaimed as a ‘poet of ideas’ by The New Yorker and a ‘multimedia philosopher-prophet’ by The Atlantic,”[1] assures analog-lovers that “Confirmation comes time and time again. Film refuses to die.”[2] Walmart’s shelves are consistently filled with quality film. The hashtag #filmisnotdead has over 19 million tags on Instagram. Four of the nine Oscar nominations … Continue reading Film is Not Dead but Kodak Almost Killed It