Dytanya “Bubby” Johnson thought he was coming to USU Eastern to play basketball last fall, but when he leaves in May, he leaves countless elementary, junior high and high school students as his new BFFs.

The six foot, eight-inch guard/forward on the Golden Eagle basketball team hails from Waldorf, Md., a suburb of Washington D.C. He played his freshman year at New Jersey Technical Institute, across the Hudson River to Manhattan, N.Y. He spent his sophomore season in Price, a community in the heart of the Wasatch Mountains.

“When I got off the plane in Salt Lake City, I was nervous my phone would not work because of all the mountains,” he said. “I was along way from home and my mom worried about me.”

Now as his sophomore year winds down, and most students head home, he called his mom to tell her he was staying a couple more weeks to coach his Utah AAU basketball team in SLC tournaments. He worked with eight and ninth grade students from Carbon High School, Mont...

It seems like we all have had to write at one time or another on the topic: "What I did over my summer vacation?" If you were asked to write an essay on that topic this coming Fall, what would yours say? Now is the time to plan your summer activities to get a head start on your future.

Here are some ideas to make your summer the most productive ever.

Did you struggle in one of your classes this year and didn't get the grade you expected. Colleges around the country offer classes during the summer. They are usually 5-6 weeks long, held either 4 or 5 days a week and fairly intense. But the good thing is that you will only have that one topic to study on and you should get a better grade because all your energy will be focused. Community colleges have the best rates when it comes to tuition and paying tuition means you can have access to other amenities on campus such as the library, gym, computer labs and summer activities. Visit your local community college...

Karli Morris
editor-in-chief
It’s hard to believe that my time at Eastern is almost over. That this will be my final article in The Eagle. When I first got here, it couldn’t be over soon enough, I wanted to leave before I gave it a shot. It’s hard to believe that two years ago, I was sobbing like a small child as Becky Archibald asked me if I was excited to start college and entered my suite in AJ that I had all to myself for a few weeks. Calling my sisters crying everyday and begging my parents to let me come home and them telling me to wait it out a week to see if I really hated it as bad I thought. Thank you for knowing that I could do it and not letting me leave! I have the best family anyone could ask for!
Without them, what I thought was horrible punishment at the time, making me stay, I would have missed out on two of the best years, filled with amazing people, thousands of memories and experiences that I couldn’t have had anywhere else.
As much as I...