Comments on: Unrest at BYU-Take Two

By: Steep Whitecracker

Steep Whitecracker — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:07:14 +0000

I love BYU to death, but I agree with Hugh Nibley:

“I can see two totally different pictures of the BYU, each one a reality: From one direction I see high purpose, sobriety, good cheer, dedication, and a measure of stability which in this unquiet world is by no means to be despised. Then by shifting my position but slightly I see a carnival of human vanity and folly to which only Gilbert & Sullivan could do justice, with solemn antics before high heaven that make the angels weep. Why take sides or contend? Both of the pictures are genuine!”

“Some Reasons for the Restored Gospel,” 7

By: john f.

john f. — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:51:43 +0000

I like BYU.

By: Steep Whitecracker

Steep Whitecracker — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:45:36 +0000

I’m currently a student at BYU, and I gotta say, I pine for the days when Nibley was teaching there. Reading this makes me think I was born 40 years too late. As I was reading this, I had to do some double-takes to see if this was the same BYU I’m thinking of. But then I saw that people could get way more upset about Christmas break than the failure of the LDS community to “renounce war and proclaim peace,” and realized that, yep, yep that would be the BYU I know.

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:47:44 +0000

I was there for the Rodin thing. Not actually at the protest, but one of my roomates joined in for the heck of it. When a reporter asked him why he was there, he said that he didn’t know why others were there, but he was supporting grade inflation. The reporter gave him a strange look and withdrew.

I thought the decision not to show the sculpture was silly, as was the protest.

There was also an off-campus protest when Clarence Thomas came to be a judge in the law school’s moot court. I believe it was organized by VOICE. I remember reading the arguments in the Daily Universe while eating breakfast in the Cannon Center—-now I’m getting nastalgic (not for Cannon Center food).

BTW, Elton John once did a concert at the Marriott center.

By: Ivan Wolfe

Ivan Wolfe — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:37:18 +0000

Jordan -

I also recall (at a BYU devotional) President Hinckley’s not so subtle jab towards the students protesting the Rodin thing a ma jig.

http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=2973&x=73&y=5

recently spoke on the campus of another university in this state . . . Most of them were institute students. They looked just the way you look. They were clean, well-groomed, and neatly dressed. They were eager and attentive. As high a percentage of them will be married in the temple as there will be of you. They were much better behaved than some few of you I saw on television the other night.

By: Tim J.

Tim J. — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:11:21 +0000

Steve EM,

Which political party brought us the Vietnam War?