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What would you do for a football ticket?

By Kaylene Morrill

- Thu, 11/19/2009 - 22:25
Photo by Andrew Van Wagenen. Sara Orton bobbed for apples in a tub of baked beans for game tickets in Front Row Fanatics event.

It is a rare sight to see a person playing two recorders through both nostrils, hula hooping and balancing a plate on her head, but one student did all three at the same time. This was one of many acts by those who competed for front row football tickets on Thursday.  

Eight students competed to win front row tickets for the BYU game against Utah in the “What Would You Do” contest sponsored by The Daily Universe. Based on their performances, judges chose four students to win tickets to the Utah game, while the other four were awarded tickets to the BYU-Air Force game. 

Benji Martineau, 26, a master’s student studying accounting, received the most votes from judges. Martineau had a girl shave his head while his friend smashed each one of his 10 fingers with 10 different cans. When he finished, Martineau shoved the shaven hair in his mouth and yelled, “Fuzzy Cougars!”

Little birds make big impact on theatre department

By Jason Sweat

- Thu, 11/19/2009 - 22:06
Photo by Andrew Van Wagenen. Y Serve Center volunteers Morgan Hardy and Ana-Lisa Clark make origami cranes to be used in a play.

Lay paper flat lengthwise on the table, fold one edge to meet the other, open, fold one corner to the other … repeat … 123,000 times.

BYU’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts will present “A Thousand Cranes” this coming February. In conjunction with the production, the department is striving to prepare and display 123,000 folded paper origami cranes for an exhibition.

According to an article written by Frederick Melo, two girls from Minnesota decided to fold a paper crane for each Japanese-American who was placed in the Topaz Internment Camp during World War II to display with their class project of a documentary about the same subject.

After the project, Melo wrote, “The remaining cranes will go to the Topaz Museum under design in Delta, Utah, near the site where more than 8,000 Japanese-Americans were interned.”

Enter BYU.

BYU to show 1950s classic 'The Flame and the Arrow'

By Tyler Weaver

- Thu, 11/19/2009 - 21:50

While Italy played home to the Winter Olympics during the 1950s, it provided more than just a home for athletes during the competition. The country also provided the setting of the opening scene of “The Flame and the Arrow,” an American-made movie from the same decade.

The Technicolor motion picture will be screened at BYU tonight at 7 in the  Harold B. Lee Library auditorium.

The film, starring Burt Lancaster, tells of the Italian Robin Hood named Dardo, a wild mountain man who is the love interest of all the village women and leads the villagers against the invading Hessian forces. Five years prior to the opening moments of the film, Count Ulrich, the “Hawk,” had stolen away Dorado’s wife.

Review: Musical provokes new thoughts

By Alicia Moulton

- Thu, 11/19/2009 - 21:39
Photo by Mark Philbrick. "Children of Eden," a musical with religious and secular themes will be performed this weekend.

BYU’s “Children of Eden” is a colorful evening of superb music, dance and drama, streamed with thought-provoking messages.

With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, who also wrote the music for “Wicked” and “Enchanted,” “Children of Eden” tells the stories of the families of Adam and Eve and Noah as they grow older and apart. Although the sets are a bit homogeneous at the beginning, they gain color and drama as the narrative progresses. By the end you’ve seen colorful tie-dyed scenes, the dreariness of the wilderness, the forbidden fruit, the dramatic mark of Cain, animals parading two-by-two and a turbulent flood. Vocals vary from soft melodious Yonah (Emily Daniels), to the deep, surprisingly soulful “Mama” Noah (Bailee Brinkerhoff).

Professor: Holiday misunderstood

By Anna Young

- Thu, 11/19/2009 - 21:17
Photo by Jamison Metzger. Elain Witt, a BYU professor, dresses up as a pilgrim to dispel misconceptions about Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving has become a holiday of large family feasts and preparations for Christmas. This misunderstood holiday is more than “stuffing” your face with turkey and anticipating presents under the tree; it’s about a new life and a new beginning.

Elain Witt, professor of public speaking, is intrigued at the misinterpretations  regarding Thanksgiving. Determined to clear up misconceptions about the holiday, Witt has taken on a new identity.

Thanksgiving in 1621 was a day of prayer and scripture study. The pilgrim’s first feast was known as a Harvest Home, a celebration of their bounteous crops and blessings.

Video: Students compete for Utah-BYU football tickets

By Seth Stoker

- Thu, 11/19/2009 - 20:18


Video: World Fest 2009

By Alexa Lee

- Thu, 11/19/2009 - 20:14


Video: What would you do for BYU-Utah football tickets?

By Daily Universe

- Thu, 11/19/2009 - 15:57

 

 

Study links housing with binge drinking

By Melissa Rust

- Wed, 11/18/2009 - 22:13

A new study links coed housing to binge drinking among college students.

The study, conducted by BYU professors, said students placed in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink each week than students placed in all-male or all-female housing.

The study was conducted by Jason Carroll, a professor of family life, and Brian Willoughby, a BYU visiting professor.

The researchers said universities need to take a deeper look into the effect housing has on alcohol consumption.

“In a time when college administrators and counselors pay a lot of attention to alcohol-related problems on their campuses, this is a call to more fully examine the influence of housing environment on student behavior,” Carroll said in a news release. 

More than 500 students from five college campuses around the country participated in the study.

Campus to host suicide prevention event

By Erin Hoffman

- Wed, 11/18/2009 - 22:12

Every 16 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies by suicide, and every 17 minutes, someone is left to make sense of it, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The AFSP will be broadcasting a National Survivors of Suicide Day program this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room 3224 of the Wilkinson Student Center.  If the event draws enough participants, the AFSP will organize a local chapter to provide much needed resources to Utah residents.

“Having lost my brother Scott to suicide in July of 2006, I am painfully aware that nothing I do can ever bring him back,” said coordinator Ashley Crist, a senior in the School of Family Life.

“However, if my efforts can help reduce subsequent suffering for even one person or one family, my loss will not be in vain.”

Crist volunteered for two years with the AFSP in Florida before returning to BYU to continue her studies.