Provo City Council discusses new I-15 interchange
Provo’s two freeway exits have a 5-mile stretch between them, creating a high volume of traffic for commuters and residents. The city council is discussing adding another interchange between Center Street and University Parkway. (Preston Crawley)
The Provo City Council discussed plans to add a freeway interchange between the current University Parkway and Center Street exits on I-15 during a Jan. 12 meeting with state legislators.
Provo’s two largest employers, BYU and Utah Valley Hospital, are in the middle of Provo and thus equidistant from both freeway interchanges. Neither exit provides a direct route to either employer, which creates a very large volume of traffic at both exits, and the density of the traffic is more than the current roads can handle.
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The Provo City Council is looking for ways to remove toxic algae from Utah Lake.
In a Provo City Council joint
meeting with state legislators on Jan. 12, the council talked about funding and measures they are taking to get rid of the harmful algae in the water.
Rep. Keven Stratton from District 48, chair of the Water and Natural Resources Committees,
is proposing a bill that will significantly reduce the population of algae in Utah Lake. “One of the things we’re going to do is propose appropriations in the $750,000 to $1 million that we have so that we can decrease the algae bloom significantly by 90% per year,” he said.
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BYU students can now access the Adobe Creative Suite for a lower subscription rate of $69, which launched this January. (Preston Crawley)
Adobe and BYU recently introduced a more affordable one-year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud for students at $69 per year.
Students can purchase a yearly subscription to Creative Cloud to use photo and video software such as Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere and more. The new BYU student price of $69.
Adobe and BYU reviewed their licensing agreement throughout 2020 after the expiration of their previous negotiation, according to BYU Office of Information Technology assistant product manager Nathan Christiansen.
BYU OIT product manager Joshua Williams said the negotiations took longer than usual because of an issue with low numbers in student subscriptions.
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A Utah National Guardsman stands in front of the Utah State Capitol Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, in Salt Lake City. The FBI has warned of the potential for armed protests at the nation’s Capitol and all 50 state capitol buildings beginning this weekend. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Responding to warnings of potentially violent demonstrations, governors across the nation are calling out National Guard troops, declaring states of emergency and closing their capitols to the public ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Though details remain murky, demonstrations are expected at state capitols beginning Jan. 17 and leading up to Biden’s succession of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20. State officials hope to avoid the type of violence that occurred Jan. 6, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, leaving a Capitol Police officer and four others dead.
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Students have noticed a decrease in their academic motivation. (Photo illustration by Preston Crawley)
Hundreds of BYU students have noticed a decrease in motivation after COVID-19 shut down a lot of normal routines without warning.
Online classes, as well as the lack of personal interaction with peers and professors, are some reasons they feel less motivated in their school work.
Several students admitted they noticed a sense of decreased motivation during Fall Semester 2020. In a poll on The Daily Universe’s Instagram account, 413, or 85%, of the 485 respondents said they felt their motivation decreased when classes moved online.