My time at the U now consists of conversations about Twitter, tweets, feeds, the Facebook “ecosystem,” and all sorts of things that sound natural enough…but it wasn’t that long ago that I was actually experiencing campus in its natural, and newborn, glory.

In what will most likely not be a weekly feature, here’s my favorite first pitch from the pages of this week’s SLC dailies:

A slow-sliding streetcar connecting Sugar House with TRAX could be ferrying passengers in three years, and the line…

“What’s that tree?”

“That? Oh, it’s a Leopard Tree. Well, that’s not its name in Italian, but it translates that way,” I lied. I worked as a tour guide in Italy for five years and in all that time I never could understand my…