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BVU opens new athletic performance facility
BVU opens new athletic performance facility

In August 2025, BVU wrapped up construction on its new athletic performance facility. This addition to campus broke ground in May 2024 and is phase one of the "Building Champions" campaign. The project consists of a $10 million...

Server to Cloud: How printing has evolved at BVU
Server to Cloud: How printing has evolved at BVU
October 6, 2025

The way students and faculty print at Buena Vista University has evolved for the 2025 academic year. In the past, students used their school-issued...

BVU's Career & Personal Development offices.
BVU’s success coaching program
September 22, 2025

At Buena Vista University, there is a program that provides students with resources for academics, counseling, and general support for being...

Octavio Olvera points to the two changes on the mural.
Mosaic artist updates mural on campus
September 15, 2025

Two pieces of the mosaic mural on the east side of the Social Sciences and Art Hall was updated last Tuesday, Sept. 9. Oswaldo Olvera, son...

Buenafication Day 2025
Buenafication Day 2025
April 24, 2025

On April 24, 2025, the Buena Vista University community took part in the 112th Buenafication Day to give back to the campus and the Storm...

Wide receiver Dolan Pospichal (7) reaches for the end zone after matching the catch.
BVU football using summer growth and looking ahead
October 9, 2025

The BVU football team began practicing on Aug. 15 to prepare for their upcoming season. After 15 days of practicing the BVU football team hosted a scrimmage against Grinnell College. Though no score was kept, the Beavers...

Urine trouble: The BVU pisser
Urine trouble: The BVU pisser
Tack Editorial Board • September 30, 2025

If a college kid pees on a local statue and there’s no one to hear, does it make a sound?   For those unaware, BVU is one of many campuses involved in a recent social media trend of anonymous individuals...

Early morning classes are a war crime
Early morning classes are a war crime
Alex Adams, Contributor • September 25, 2025
Boundless and bare: Our climate future
Boundless and bare: Our climate future
Dee Merriman, Editorial Board Chair • September 4, 2025
Diversity deletion and how it affects free speech
Diversity deletion and how it affects free speech
Johnathan Maffucci, Contributor • May 21, 2025

This audio piece is on diversity deletion and its effects on free speech.

Agpocalypse
Agpocalypse
March 4, 2025
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Community journalism: Storytelling that endures
Community journalism: Storytelling that endures
Carter Soyer and Lauren McCoy October 9, 2025

Community journalism has brought people all around communities together. Reporters in small communities across the nation work together to breathe life into journalism in...

Conversations with educators
Conversations with educators
September 24, 2025
Imposter syndrome
Imposter syndrome
September 3, 2025
Emotional support animals on BVU campus
Emotional support animals on BVU campus
February 11, 2025

Originally published on March 27, 2024. This news package talks about what an ESA means on the BVU Campus.