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| Fight Club Phenomenon Spurs BYU Review of Housing Policies |
| The demise last month of the Provo Fight Club didn't
put an end to the practice by any means. Now a video of two coeds
fighting in an apartment complex that is approved for BYU students
has appeared on local newscasts, prompting BYU to again review its
policies, this time reviewing the policies for approved housing. |
| Fight Club Housing Review Continues |
| A spot on a television tabloid show, exposing two
women wearing boxing gloves, wildly swinging at each other and
surrounded by a cheering crowd, found its way onto a local TV
newscast and ultimately into Provo's City Council chamber. The
"Fight Club" match was held at Branbury Park, an apartment complex in
Provo, Utah that holds "approved housing" status. |
| Fight Club Guys Cry Uncle, Say Media Spotlight Too Hot |
| Saying the publicity and media hype had made their lives too difficult, the founders of the Provo Fight Club announced yesterday that
they have ended the secret, late-night boxing matches based on the Brad Pitt
movie "Fight Club." They also acknowledged that an earlier announcement that
they had stopped was a ruse to deflect attention from them. |
| Special Collections named in honor of Elder L. Tom Perry |
| The Special Collections Department in Brigham Young
University's Harold B. Lee Library will be named in honor of Elder L.
Tom Perry of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Quorum
of the Twelve Apostles during ceremonies on Friday (May 26). |
| BYU Family Studies Center has new director |
| The Family Studies Center at Brigham Young University
has appointed a new director to manage research and outreach
activities. D. Russell Crane, a BYU professor of marriage and family therapy, has
been selected for this position and will also serve as associate
director of research for the School of Family Life.
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| Fire in LDS Chapel Cuts Short Sunday Meetings |
| A fire in an LDS chapel in Long Beach,
California forced the Virginia Ward to cut short its meetings Sunday.
The 150 Church members in the building were all safely evacuated and
the Long Beach Fire Department responded to the blaze, which caused
an estimated $100,000 in damage. |
| LDS Ward's Humanitarian Service |
| In observance of Humanitarian Services Day on Thursday, about 300
workers put together the bandages, along with children's items
ranging from clothes to toys. The materials were donated by local
companies and residents. |
| State park planned near Mount of Olives |
| A 44 acre national park will be built on the
slopes of the Mount of Olives, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The
national park will be located between the Hebrew University's Mount
Scopus campus, the Brigham Young University's - Jerusalem Center, and
the Old City. The approval for the site is seen as a significant
advance to right wing efforts to cut off the capital's Old City from
the rest of Arab east Jerusalem. |
| Historic Home of Former LDS Apostle Is Crumbling |
| The historic 109-year-old house of former LDS
Apostle John W. Taylor is crumbling, and will require $300,000 to
$400,000 to fix. The 9,000-square-foot house on the corner of 700
East and 2700 South is now used as a boardinghouse for veterans,
parolees, probationers and the disabled. And its current owners are
trying to save and restore it. |
| BYU "Lighting the Way" capital campaign concludes |
| The final decade of the 20th century has had a
significant financial impact on Brigham Young University. This was the decade in which BYU launched its "Lighting the Way for the 21st Century" capital campaign, the most ambitious campaign in
the school's 125-year history, generating more than $411.7 million.
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| Deseret News endows 4 universities |
| William James Mortimer, the publisher of
Deseret News, recently announced the establishment of endowed
scholarships for print journalism at four Utah universities. The
announcement came at the banquet celebrating the 150th anniversary of
the newspaper. |
| LDS Humanitarian Services Facilitates Band Instrument Donation To Bolivia |
| A Salt Lake City business had excess
inventory of band instruments, and LDS Humanitarian Services found a
use for them -- in Bolivia. The Piano Gallery, a Utah music
dealership bought out a competitor who had band instruments that the
store couldn't use. So the firm started looking for places to give
the $350,000 worth of instruments away. |
| Marriott School students make kits for the poor |
| Marriott School staff members and two local Boy Scouts
worked together to assemble educational kits which will be sent to
Church Humanitarian Services for distribution. Scouts Quinten and
Preston Christensen constructed the chalkboards as part of their
Eagle Scout requirements. The boys each spent over 40 hours on the
project, from fund-raising to securing materials to teaching others
how to cut, sand, drill, and paint. |
| Ricks College's AS400 Featured in Publication |
| Behind the scenes of daily business on the Ricks
College campus is an AS/400-based centralized data services. The IBM
monthly publication for users of AS/400 took a look at the college's
system in the May issue. By integrating all of its AS/400
applications, the college has made resources to ease the life of
students, faculty, and staff. Processes for admission, registration,
financial aid are linked together. The AS/400 contains the college
catalog. Accounting process of accounts receivable and payroll track
individual students personal records. Grade reports, medical
records, and on-campus housing data are stored in the same system. |
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