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| Students Ejected From School For Reading Book of Mormon |
| Three West High Students were escorted out of
Salt Lake City's West High School last Tuesday, allegedly because
they had copies of the Book of Mormon on their desks. The students
evidently planned to read them during free time, but the teacher
called the books offensive and asked school security to escort the
students from school for causing a disruption. |
| Resolution of Book of Mormon Expulsion Delayed As Lawyers Get Involved |
| The Salt Lake City Board of Education has
delayed its investigation of last week's incident in which three
students were escorted from their West High School English class,
allegedly for reading the Book of Mormon during free time in class.
The school district has started an investigation into the incident,
but attorney Frank Mylar, who represents the students, objected to
the investigation's format, in which the students were questioned in
the presence of the teacher. |
| Trust Buys Historic Mormon Town to Protect It From Development |
| The Grafton Heritage Partnership has saved the
historic Mormon ghost town of Grafton, Utah, spending $1.35 million
to purchase the town and conservation easements on surrounding land.
The town's few remaining buildings may be familiar to those that have
seen the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," which was filmed
in the town in 1969. |
| LDS Stake Assists Mugging Victim |
| When a San Jose, California handicapped mugging
victim vented her frustrations on the Internet, LDS Church members in
Washington state were listening and soon got a local San Jose stake
involved with providing assistance. Jamie Welton-Parham was mugged September
7th by a man who stole her purse and in the process broke her only good arm. |
| Historic Mormon 'Honeymoon' Trail Part Of New National Monument |
| US President Bill Clinton recently named Arizona's
Vermilion Cliffs as a national monument, and in the process preserved
a portion of the Honeymoon Trail, or Old Arizona Road, used by the
Mormon settlers of Arizona to travel to the St George Temple. The
naming of the land, situated north of the Grand Canyon and southwest
of Page, Arizona, as a national monument protects all Federal land in
the area from sale or development. |
| Ohio Teen That Drugged Missionaries Gets 30 Days |
| An Ohio teen that spiked cupcakes with a sedative,
making 17 people ill at an LDS missionary luncheon, was sentenced to
30 days in a juvenile detention center on Thursday. Judge Stephen
Rule ordered Joseph Cordell, 15, to serve the 30 day sentence in the
Wood County juvenile detention center starting immediately. |
| BYU Jerusalem Students Will Return Early Because of Unrest |
| The students currently attending the BYU
Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies will return early because
of the recent unrest in the middle east. The Center has changed the
schedule for the class and students will return November 24th, 16
days early. |
| LDS Church Wins Zoning Approval For Louisiana Bishop's Storehouse |
| The LDS Church's effort to build a 15,000-square-foot
Bishop's Storehouse outside of Slidell, Louisiana was finally successful
after delays last month due to neighbors concerns over a re-zoning
application. The Church secured rezoning and a building permit for a
15,398-square-foot facility located on 2.3 acres. |
| Garth A. Hanson new associate director of Jerusalem Center |
| President Merrill J. Bateman and the Jerusalem Center
Executive Committee have announced the appointment of Garth A. Hanson
as the associate director for academic programs at the Brigham Young
University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies.
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| A Light Of Nations: Culture Night 2000 Showcases Diversity Through Entertainment |
| The annual culture night at BYU-Hawaii proved to be
yet another show of spectacular entertainment on Friday, Nov.3. In
this year's show "Light of Nations," students took to the stage of
the Polynesian Cultural Center Amphitheater, site of Hawaii's most
spectacular productions. Whether it was shimmering cellophane hula
skirts or the fast-twirling stunts of swing dancing that caught the
eye, there were entertaining spectacles for every audience member. |
| BYU students memorialize alumni war dead with public web site |
| After leaving behind five children and a pregnant
wife, Brigham Young University alumnus Capt. Don C. Wood was shot
down during a bombing mission over Laos in 1966. Later, as Wood's
family gathered to watch news reports of the U.S. withdrawal from
Vietnam, the still-missing airman's youngest daughter asked, "It's
over -- can daddy come home now?" |
| Truman G. Madsen at BYU devotional Nov. 21 |
| Truman G. Madsen, a Brigham Young University emeritus
professor of philosophy and former director of the BYU Jerusalem
Center, will speak at a campus devotional Tuesday (Nov. 21) at 11
a.m. in the Marriott Center. |
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