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Show A2 A or AUGUST 26, 2013 A Adl• Ili in in poll II 14• • III frWild: I gsAyjrwigs! , —sew '1.4001 40.„.m„ -04.1.■ ti - 1=m74 .. 144 El -a dll w Ilir ON § , "■111” r giE: r .11111111 too New T! e ness Center a Place for Recreation and Relaxation Opening in March 2014, the Student Life and Wellness Center features a three-story climbing wall, indoor track, bowling alley, and numerous other activities entirely free to UVU students By KresLynn Knouse Assistant News Editor @KresLynn After eight years of planning, UVU will finally receive its ultimate destination for students to enjoy fitness, fun, and relaxation all in one place. The new Student Life and Wellness Center is scheduled to open in March 2014, and offers unity by bringing students together with wellness as a shared goal. "This is going to be a place where anybody can come." Amy Grubbs, Director of UVU Campus Recreation said. "It's not only for people who are in really good shape and just want to work out. There's going to be a massage center where anyone can come in for free professional massages, a meditation center, a demonstration kitchen where we will give lessons on how to prepare healthy meals and our fitness programs which will be catered to multiple fitness levels ranging from beginner to advanced." The Wellness Center will feature a three-story climbing wall with 10,000 holds and certified climbing attendants. The 40-foot wall will also feature regular climbing clinics and climbing gear will be available. The Wellness Center will also offer other classes including Yoga, Zumba, Spin, MATT BOWEN/UVU REVEIEW and a Cardio Cinema. The new building will have a gaming center and a bowling alley that will increase student interactions and help establish a relaxing environment away from the scantrons and textbooks. Three new basketball courts will be added, as well as an indoor track, new dance rooms, and new workSee WELLNESS A5 Letter from the editor This is your newspaper, not mine. Alex Rivera, EIC of the UVU Review. The job of the UVU Review as well as the students involved with it By Alex Rivera Editor-in-Chief @HashtagginAlex I am proud to be part of the UVU Review and am proud to present this newspaper every week to all of you. As the editorin-chief at the UVU Review and as it reads in our mission statement, my goal is to "create a more informed campus community by presenting a rich understanding of the community's rights, responsibilities, culture, events and ideas, and framing those discussions with a fair and balanced presentation." With a team of enthusiastic writers and creative designers, I hope to do just that in a more accurate and timely manner. The UVU Review is the school newspaper put together by UVU students. On top of our already busy school schedule, we will stay engaged with the community and keep our ears to the ground, making sure the students are more informed about things on and off campus. We will make sure that what ever is going on in this stage we call "college life" is well represented as well as what's going on behind the scenes. The UVU Review's success is dependent on the readership from the students as well as from the feedback. We love to know what's trending on campus to make sure we are putting it in our pages. In this age where everything is digital, we want to make sure that the access to our content is easy. To ensure that access, we have updated our UVU Review website — uvureview.com — to make it more user-friendly as well as mobilefriendly. In the palm of the students' hand, they can access our ongoing content throughout the year to make sure they are ahead of the curve when it comes to Utah Valley—ranging from faculty administration to the basketball team's successes or failures on the court. Our job at the UVU Review is to "create a professional product that is not only enlightening, entertaining, and aesthetically pleasing, but also accurately represents the 'independent student voice.'" The reader has more control than anyone else, as they are the ones who can give us the content we need to further our news, life, sports, and opinions sections with their own research, thoughts, and ideas. I hope that you, the reader, can continue to read our product and be engaged with the everyday-doings of the UVU Review. Stay involved, contact us, and give us your input. This is your newspaper, not mine. I just help put it together. The bookstore's new online book match service helps students find the right textbooks at the most competitive prices. PHOTO COURTESY OF STUDENTUNIVERSE.COM Finding textbooks made easier New price-matching tool helps students find the right book at the best price By Nicole Shepard News Editor @NicoleEShepard The days of going to the UVU bookstore, pen and paper in hand, to find textbooks and compare prices is over. Students can now find the exact textbooks they need at the most competitive prices by logging onto their UVLink and looking up their class schedule. "I noticed the other day when I was looking over my schedule that there is a link at the bottom left of the screen labeled 'book match' so I clicked on it," Heidi Reed, a junior studying English Literature, said. "It took me to the bookstore's website where it had all the textbooks that my professors ordered and a list of all the online competi- tors and their prices." The new bookstore feature is more of an update on what has been available online for a few years now. Students in the past have been able to go online, enter their course reference numbers — the CRN — and find the exact books assigned by their teachers and order them through the bookstore online. Now the site has expanded to show other online sellers who offer the same book and what price they're asking for it. Other vendors include Amazon, Follett and Half.com . Each vendor is ranked by price, lowest to highest. "It's kind of nice to have it that easy to find," Madison Johnson, sophomore studying biology, said. "I used to go to the bookstore, search for all of my classes, write down everything on the tag about the book, like author, edition, price, publisher, and then go up to the computer lab and get on a bunch of different sites to see if the prices were any better. This saves me so much time." 66 It's nice because sometimes you'd think you were buying the right book, but you weren't. DEVIN SANDERSON Student The new book match tool shows what UVU bookstore is offering the textbook for at both new and used prices, then gives the option to order online and pick up in the store on campus. It also lets you make a direct purchase from the other sellers. "It's nice because sometimes you'd think you were buying the right book," Devin Sanderson, a senior studying business, said, "but you weren't. I bought the wrong editions a couple of times because I thought I knew what I was looking for. It's also nice because it has the prices with the shipping and handling so you can add up how much it's actually going to cost. I thought buying one of my books on Amazon would be cheaper until I realized that it would cost the same at the bookstore if I included shipping and handling. And I could pick it up at the bookstore whenever I need it and not wait for some dude in Connecticut or Florida to send it to me." 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