BY AMANDA VERZELLO

More than before, there is a need for virtues and divine moral principles in business, especially among Latter-day Saint professionals, said President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency on Friday.

President Uchtdorf spoke to members of the Utah Valley Chapter of the BYU Management Society after receiving the second annual Pioneer in Leadership award at a fundraising gala at Thanksgiving Point.

President Uchtdorf was among friends and community leaders, including President Cecil O. Samuelson, Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert, President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency, Elders M. Russell Ballard and Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve and Utah Valley University president Matt Holland.

By AMANDA VERZELLO

Hearing a first-hand account of the atrocities and persecution that pervaded the Holocaust is a rare opportunity, especially considering the advancing ages of the remaining survivors.

At-risk teens had that opportunity recently, when an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor, Kelly Awerbach Zippel, spoke at the Heritage Residential Treatment Center. Zippel talked about the two years she spent in a Nazi work camp.

Zippel was living in Holland at the start of World War II. The situation in her country seemed normal enough, until the day she awoke “to the terrible noise of planes,” she said.

She experienced the effects of the war soon after that ominous day with the death of her brother, a Dutch soldier.

Zippel and her family were subsequently forced to register as Jews and wear yellow Jewish stars on their clothing in public at all times, she said.

This Monday, the history of BYU will come to life in a special family home evening tour in the Education in Zion exhibit.

The evening tour features employees dressed as characters from BYU’s history. The actors will share stories of the building and development of BYU.

 “There is a lot more to BYU than most people think,” said Danielle Julander, a senior in English who is a gallery educator.

The exhibit began the activity in connection with new student orientation. Freshman groups were guided through the exhibit by historic BYU characters. Ali Tingey, a gallery educator from Montreal, said this event was the inspiration for the new family home evening tour.

The tours are available for students, families and community members. They run every half hour from 7 to 9 p.m.

Many students in the BYU theater department have big ambitions that could throw them into the epicenter of the entertainment world.  But as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, many struggle with the task of reconciling their faith and standards with the demands of Hollywood.

Three BYU students majoring in acting offer insight into how they plan to tackle their profession while taking a stand for their morals and standards.

Nina Jonassaint
Sophomore from Orem

“I have certain lines that I am learning about myself that I am not willing to cross and that is kind of what the [BYU acting] program is geared toward,” Jonassaint said. “It is not only helping us develop our skills but also showing us what kind of things are going to be presented to us.”

The Book of Mormon proves its own historical validity, students learned at a lecture on Thursday.

Terryl L. Givens, professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond, spoke about how the Book of Mormon combines the familiar with the seemingly impossible.
The lecture was the first Laura F. Willes Center Book of Mormon Lecture. These lectures will be held biennially.

According to Givens, the Book of Mormon is replete with references to its own origin and history. The book was passed from hand to hand over hundreds of years.

“In the Book of Mormon we never lose sight of the links in this train of transmission,” Givens said.

He pointed out that some authors wrote only a paragraph, and yet still felt an obsessive concern to keep the records.

WAUSAU, Wis. — A central Wisconsin couple who prayed rather than seeking medical care for their 11-year-old dying daughter were sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail and 10 years probation in the girl's death.

Dale and Leilani Neumann could have received up to 25 years in prison for second-degree homicide in the March 2008 death of Madeline Neumann, who died of an undiagnosed but treatable form of diabetes. Prosecutors had asked for a three-year suspended prison sentence and 10 years probation. Defense attorneys had sought four years probation.

Marathon County Circuit Court Judge Vincent Howard told the Neumanns they were "very good people, raising their family who made a bad decision, a reckless decision."

"God probably works through other people," he told the parents, "some of them doctors."