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Lee Benson: BYU president is alumnus of red; Utah's graduated blue
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I actually went to both schools. There are a lot of good people at Utah. However, in all honesty, I must admit that leaving Utah and transferring into BYU was like coming from the darkness into the light.
Both coaches are great and both teams are great. Both teams have a lot of great guys on them. I hope we can have a great game and treat each other with respect and friendship. I know the coaches and the players will. I hope the fans will.
GO COUGARS!!!
Go Utes, otherwise Boise State will be the BCS Buster. You have hung in there all season and it is time you got the reward for your consistency. BYU has too much pride and there is too much image of Mormonism tied up in their quest. I'm all for a complete break of church and state. You are the ones who deserve to win. Go Utes.
utah goes BACK to fiesta bowl
I beg to differ. While I spent my freshman year at BYU, I realized what an academically stifling uncommonly homogenous community that exists there, and transferred North to the U. At the U, "conventional" wisdom could be challenged, "independent thought" was invoked, and "critical thinking skills" were magnified.
It was like coming from the darkness into the light.
Having attended both universities, I'm well aware of the perceptions the student bodies have of each other. Y students feel that SLC and the U are some sort of den of iniquity, and that students who go there only do so because they couldn't gain admission to the Y. In my 3 yrs at the U, I'd met TWO students who fit that description. I found there are intellectuals existing at both schools, as well as those whom I wonder how they even graduated from H.S.
At the Y, most students I knew said they chose the Y over ______ University because of the spiritual aspect. I feel, if the Y is the only place they can find that, it's a terrible spiritual handicap.
GO UTES!!!
I consider the fact that I graduated from BYU to be one of the greatest blessings of my life. If you are someone who doesn't appreciate the spirit and special atmoshere at BYU, you shouldn't be there. Go to a state University like Utah where you feel more comfortable. But, there are many things that are missing there. I know this from personal experience.
BYU is a VERY SPECIAL PLACE WITH A SPECIAL MISSION and many people have the insight and maturity to realize that. If you don't, then go somewhere else.
It's going to be a great game so,
GO Utes... I mean Go Cougs.... Oh Whatever!!
People at the Y have such a chip on their shoulders about Utah - especially against the LDS students not in awe of all things BYU. Comments such as the ones quoted above are common among those self-righteous members who often insecure in their own spirituality, and fear being persecuted for their [narrow] beliefs. It takes a special brand of insight and maturity to realize that we don't need to be told what to think, nor need we to be commanded in all things.
Incidentally, most major post-secondary schools have Institute classes for scripture study much like BYU�s Religion classes. You just don�t get college credit for it.
BYU is indeed a �VERY SPECIAL PLACE WITH A SPECIAL MISSION�, so if you NEED somebody to hold your hand all the way through college, this truly is the place.
You may also need to take a look at yourself.
Do you even know the history of the U? A good majority of the buildings at the U bear names of great academic minds who were respected members of the faculty and also members of the LDS Church. To name a few: David P. Gardner, Libby Gardner, Henry B. Eyring, Robert L. Rice, J. Willard Marriott, Jon M. Huntsman, James C. Fletcher, David Eccles, Kent and Sally Burbidge, and the list goes on and on.
The U is rich in tradition and history from all religions and backgrounds which makes it a truly unique experience for all of its students. Stop trying to take away from that history with comments that are not true.
And learn how to do a bit more research. Google would be a good start.
Utah should be ranked 9th. They've had a great season with victories over very good teams.
BYU should be ranked 19th. They've struggled this year, though they've continued to win.
I'm a BYU grad and cougar fan, so I'm rooting for a statistical anomoly and a BYU win.
BYU give up football?...not going to happen. There is a lot to be gained by the sport: it pays for other athletics at the school and brings notoriety to the campus.
Go Utes!
I live in SoCal. You can always tell the BYU grads in church. Last month, we had some guy in our joint Priesthood-Relief Society session stand up and tell everyone how much non-members and less-active members LOVE having the missionaries over in their homes and the spirit they bring with them. He really believes it too.
He just graduated from the Y last semester.
The reason she left was because of the professors. Some of them asked their classes at the start of the school year if anyone in the class was a member of the LDS Church. Then they would find opportunites almost every class period to say something negative or derogatory about the Church and basically challenge any of the Church members present to refute it. By the way, she was majoring in art, not political science or debate.
I'm glad she got out of that situation and that for her money was not everything.
I wasn't PolySci either. I majored in Finance.
My point is not what you claim to have happened to your daughter was false. How would I know? I am just saying that your daughter's experience is NOT common on the Hill. In fact, professors often tried to avoid those types of discussions as immaterial to the subject matter and/or may have feared a discrimination charge.
As for football, I love it when the Cougs beat the Utes. LOVE it. But you won't hear me trash-talking about the school or its students and alumni, which include many of my good friends (and my wife).
Student athletes are under so much time and performance pressure that even those who are diligent students have difficulty doing their best in the classroom because of the demands of their sport. Collegiate athletics have become a year-round endeavor, and it needs to be seriously modified so that universities can more effectively do what they were created for in the first place: prepare individuals for the future.
Maybe the best answer is to raise the bar for student athletes to receive and maintain their scholarship: make the scholarship an academic one first, and an athletic one second. High standards and emphasis on academics or no athletic participation. If this were the standard at every school in the country, the emphasis to learn well or no play would permeate down to the K-12 level as well. Everyone, and I mean everyone, would be better off for it.
I'm a Utah alum, and yes there are professors at the U who seem to go out of their way to make disparaging remarks about the LDS church; it wasn't daily, and I never had a professor ask specifically if any of the class members were LDS, but it wasn't difficult to tell if there were LDS students in the class.
Most students simply chose to ignore the insults, but there were occassions where a professor would say something particularly egregious and a student or two would challenge the professor.
Boise State is waiting in the wings, fresh from a weaker SOS than Utard's pathetic schedule, ready to wow the country like we did in 2007. None of these snoozers like 2004 against Pitt. Bring on the Broncos!
Go Kittys!
I resign my degree from the Y. I cannot participate in a school that has a heathen leading it. A godless heathen that voted for Obama!
No sir, I am heading up to Ricks, where the politics are the only "Red" thing that blessed city.
Does it?
Of course, you'll have to drop the "Big Ten" from your university professor title, since there won't be a "Big Ten" anymore.
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