Letter: Accept the challenge
Senate candidate Dan Liljenquist recently challenged his opponent Senator Orin Hatch to a series of eight debates to take place across college campuses across Utah, including here at BYU. I hope...
View ArticleLetter: Control yourself
In response to “Enforce the code” (4/12), your husband and the other men at BYU need to realize several things. First, it is normal and unavoidable that a woman or a man notice attractive people of the...
View ArticleLetter: Over generalization
In response to “Boot the attitude” (5/1), I was almost towed on a Sunday for parking in an empty parking lot near campus while doing my home teaching. Hence, I agree with the final statement Jordan...
View ArticleLetter: Gender roles in history
Traditional gender roles extend back far beyond the industrial revolution of the 19th century. In ancient scripture, Eve’s name in Hebrew means “Mother-of-All-Living.” Women in Bedouin tribes had...
View ArticleLetter: The statistics game
This is in response to “Logical fallacy” (4/23), which asserted the illogicality of applying the national homosexuality statistic to BYU, as seen in the “It Gets Better” video. In my own research, I...
View ArticleLetter: Save a life
The other day, while studying in the library, I overheard a conversation about organ donation. In it, two of the three participants gave similar reasons as to why they were not donors. First, because...
View ArticleLetter: There’s a reason
In response to “Provo residents protest construction of new MTC building with balloons” (5/18), I would invite you then to check out the website the Church has put out detailing the proposal. There you...
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Letter: Skydiving
In response to “Sound Off: What’s on your bucket list?” (5/22), something I was able to recently cross-off on my bucket list was to go skydiving. I went this fall at the Tooele Airport and it was one...
View ArticleLetter: Future adventures
In response to “Sound Off: What’s on your bucket list?” (5/22), I think the coolest things I’ve crossed off my bucketlist are 1) Spent a night on the Y. 2) Lived overseas. Some things I still have on...
View ArticleLetter: BYU Memes
In response to “When does a meme go too far?” (5/18), I just started at BYU this spring, and my first experience with the community of BYU was BYU Memes. I’m a fan, and there’s a lot of funny stuff....
View ArticleLetter: Mentors who matter
In April, I graduated in management with an emphasis in marketing. Graduating with me are three of the most influential members in the Marketing Department: Steven Huff, Sterling Bone and Paige...
View ArticleLetter: Scooter rights
BYU Police has turned itself into an overprotective mother figure. I appreciate their concern for the students, faculty and staff on campus, but they have taken some things too far — particularly the...
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Man on the Street: Do you think labeling the millenial generation the...
[media-credit name="Whitney Soelberg" align="alignright" width="231"][/media-credit] “On the one hand, I know people who say we need to do this, this and this and don’t see the other side of it. But I...
View ArticleLetter: Limited bliss
I’m starting to think reporters at The Universe don’t have an opinion about anything other than marriage. I was not surprised to see the title of last week’s Viewpoint article: “Marriage Matters:...
View ArticleLetter: Chick-fil-rights?
August 1, my husband and I drove to the local Chick-fil-A to have lunch. Our impetus was a call by the former governor of our state, Mike Huckabee, to support Dan Cathy and his belief in “traditional...
View ArticleLetter: Digging deeper
In response to “Affordable Health Care: What it means for you” (8/7), I was disappointed to see one more article on “Obamacare” that only scratched the surface of this law. It seems the news media,...
View ArticleLetter: Freedom of speech irony
In response to “Chick-fil-rights?” (8/7): the owner of Chick-fil-A donated several million dollars to organizations defending “traditional marriage.” Many supporters of gay marriage were incensed by...
View ArticleLetter: Fending for yourself
All this talk of “mind the gap” and “the homeless period” really have me wondering: just whose responsibility is it to ensure BYU students have someplace to live between terms? In the real world,...
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Too cool for school
Consider how often you’ve heard the following statements: “You don’t need to read the book, just go to class.” “It’s OK, I went to class once a week and still got an A.” “I started my paper the day...
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