Comments about ‘Pres. Hinckley lauds stone-cold sober Y.’

I am impressed by Pres. Hinckley's citation of several books. 97 years old and he's still making it a priority to read and learn (including from people outside the church). What a great example!!

Way to go BYU...

Takes courage to stand out in the world with old fashioned values.

It is a wonderful perspective to approach a career or use of your time considering just how many people you can bless. I see so many Latter-day Saints approaching life with this perspective in my ward back east.
I also loved the comments about how lasting service and doing good takes years of preparation, discipline and hard work, but that such preparation for service is what we are all about. Thank you President Hinckley for the wonderful message.

I was raised within 20 miles of the BYU campus. Everything we did, any field trips we took, all involved going to BYU. I did not want to attend BYU, thinking my horizons would be more broadened if I attended school away from Utah. Events led me to BYU and now I cherish the lessons I learned there. BYU expanded my horizons far greater than I had ever hoped. Thank You to the LDS Church and its directors for continued support of this fine institution, one which provides the world with able and ready contributors.

did he get this info from Playboys article on top party schools?

Nope. The Princeton Review.

ct transplant:

I realize that your comment is a vulgar attempt at disrespectful humor, but all you are really showing is your illiteracy in the world of current events. Go back and read the article again if you really don't know where the reference to BYU being "stone cold sober" comes from.

I am so sorry for you, that you would lower yourself to trying to make such a disguisting attack of character against a man who has never done anything to deserve such. You don't have to believe Gordon B. Hinckley is a prophet of God, but you must believe the evidence that his life is above reproach. Hopefully some day, someone you know will help you climb out of the gutter.

Don't be talking smack about or bashing someone as neat as President Hinkley. The guy is a good man. Doesn't deserve to be impuned in any way.

It's not cool.

(Let's go over and bash BYU football. I'll go with you, we can do it together.)

Agreed.

When I heard that President Hinckley was going to speak at Tuesdays Devotional, I told 2 Cougar friends that I was sure he was going to lament that the U was capable of accomplishing something the Y didn't.

While not a Cougar myself, I stand in awe of the programs that have been built to provide a quality education for all.

I find more and more, that whatever TV time I can get is spent on BYU-TV.

Today, I find that we of the LDS faith are becoming the true adherants of an "Alternative Lifestyle" when compared with the world around us.

People can say whatever they want, but BYU is one of the best schools in the nation! I'm proud to say that I helped for 3 of those years to give BYU that reputation! People like to say that BYU isn't living "in the world," but I'd much rather attend a school where I didn't have to worry about drugs, alchohol, and smoking, and all that garbage, and still learn "real world" things in life. The Honor Code is extremely inspired, and when the prophet himself comes to BYU and says we'll be blessed for living it, how can you argue with that?!

I LOVE BYU!!

God Bless Pres. Hinckley!

True he came to byu, but don't forget he came from the U. (said in fun, don't lose your testimony on me)

I remember how great it was when he came to speak at the U while I was there in the 90s. The daily chronic rag beat him up for teaching that mom's should stay home and asked, "how long will mormons let 12 old men run their lives?" I immediately thought about how stupid the editors were, since it's really 15 old men that run my life!

Vive President Hinckley!

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

- Frank Sinatra

I am proud that I attended BYU. Pres. Samuelson has done so much to correct the problems within that institution. The coaches of BYU's athletic teams support core values. It's great to win, but it is much better to encourage lives lived with honor.

It is really a great thing to see the football program at the U. turning around as well. What a great win over UCLA. Coach Whittingham is a class act. I'm one Cougar who is going to be pulling for two teams this season.

I'm four years removed from my college experience and graduation from BYU. And as President Hinckley said it, "It was a grinding esperience to get a degree there." I'm thankful for my degree and all of the service opportunities BYU offered me. I miss the devotionals, but I look forward to the rebroadcast on KBYU. It's shameful that someone would use this comment section to attack President Hinckley. Thank the Lord for agency and accountability and mercy. What can you do, but live an honorable life, and hope people notice, but even in this world people mock that. Oh well, if they did it to Christ, they'll do it to anyone, including a living prophet.

Who's life should we pattern our own after? President Hinckley's or Frank Sinatra's?

And we'll stay feeling that good... no hangovers for us! :)

My wife and I had the "blessing" of attending U of Texas at Austin for graduate work after BYU. Although Texans are very hospitable, the lifestyle of UT students -- party weekends, casual sex, illicit drugs -- affected every aspect of their lives. I found few whose demeanor reflected happiness. After a year, we returned to BYU to finish our graduate work because the atmosphere towards learning was more open, opposing views were more tolerated, professors were less condescending, and soberness was the norm not the exception.

I liked UT, but I love BYU and the ethical and academic standards I was held accountable to.