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From Staff Reports Dec 29, 2020 Individuals interested in aviation will soon have the opportunity to pursue a bachelor’s degree that leads to aircraft pilot certification at Stephen F. Austin State University, following approval by the Board of Regents during a specially called meeting Thursday. The university plans to partner with an aviation training school to offering the new bachelor’s degree. Two aviation training firms responded to a request for proposals issued by the universit...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... New Mexico State men’s basketball coach Chris Jans addresses players at a recent practice at the Arizona Grand Resort & Spa in Phoenix. The Aggies play at CSU-Northridge on Monday. (NMSU Athletics) The games, at long last, will go on for the New Mexico State Aggies. The program that has had to relo...

Gonzaga vs. Northern Arizona Game Preview Share this story Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports After walloping the Virginia Cavaliers on Saturday, the Gonzaga Bulldogs are back at home for a couple of tune-up games before conference play begins. The Zags will play Northern Arizona on Monday, at 6:00 pm, and Dixie State on Tuesday, at 6:00 pm. Meet the Opponent Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, 1-5, KenPom #333 By the KenPom numbers, the Lumberjacks will be the worst team the Zags will play all season. Do...

Letter: Don’t change Dixie State’s name (Chris Caldwell | The Spectrum file photo via AP) Greater Zion Stadium at Dixie State University is shown Tuesday, June 30, 2020, in St. George, Utah. By Bill Barton | The Public Forum   | Dec. 26, 2020, 4:30 a.m. The pressure is upon us once again to remove the name of Dixie from some of our longtime mainstays, this time from Dixie State University. Are we considering all the people who have attended and graduated from DSU? This would be...

Filed in African-American History on December 23, 2020 The board of trustees at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, voted unanimously to ask the Utah Board of Higher Education to change the name of the educational institution. Pioneers, mainly from the South, settled in southwest Utah to grow cotton beginning in 1857. An independent study found that:   22 percent of recent graduates looking for jobs outside of Utah have had an employer express concern that Dixie is on their résumé. ...

Letters to the editor: Weighing in on "Dixie" debate Proposal from two local brothers We brothers normally have lunched a couple of times each month at a local eatery.  At those gatherings we discuss items of interest in our town. This past week we obviously got into an exchange of ideas about the current efforts to eliminate “Dixie” from the name of our university. The school has invested a sizable sum to a research firm to find out how the students, faculty, townfolk, and potential comp...

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Okay, let’s be honest. I’m starting an article about BYU (8-2) with a talk about Gonzaga. But I think that’s important for a couple reasons. One: I really want to annoy the Iowa fans that were in the mentions the other day, so, Who-ka Garza? That’s right, I went there. I want ASMR of him being beat on defensive possession after defensive possession to play over the sound Hawkeye fans hooted and hollered about “BEST PLAYER IN THE COUNTRY CAN’T STOP HI...

Dixie State name change recommended to Utah Legislature The Utah Board of Higher Education unanimously voted on Friday to recommend a name change for Dixie State University to the Utah Legislature. and last updated 2020-12-20 23:49:39-05 ST. GEORGE, Utah — The Utah Board of Higher Education unanimously voted on Friday to recommend a name change for Dixie State University to the Utah Legislature. “Mr. Chair, I would like to make that motion on behalf of the board,” Vice Chair Aaro...

T he Zags opened the season with an absolutely brutal stretch of games. They’ve played four power conference teams, three ranked in the top 15 of the AP Poll. According to statistician Ken Pomeroy, they’ve faced the toughest slate of games of any team in the country to this point. Gonzaga’s opponents so far — Kansas, Auburn, West Virginia and Iowa — have combined to go 25-5 this season. Auburn’s the only one of them to lose to a team other than the Zags. That tough sched...

Utah State Moves Past Northern Colorado Aggies pick up their second straight win Share this story Eli Lucero, The Herald Journal/Associated Press After having two games canceled against Weber State and Dixie State, Utah State was able to play their game against Northern Colorado, getting a 63-50 win. It was a close first half for the Aggies as they only led the Bears by one point at the half but Utah State used a strong second half, scoring 35 points and holding Northern Colorado to 23. Just...