October 9:
1986: Utah Technical College announces that it will lay off 23 faculty and staff members as of July 1, 1987, in accordance with instructions from the governor's office and board of regents to reduce their budget by six percent.
1991: A fourteen-year-old Springville Junior High School student pulls a gun on his seminary class and fires two shots in the room, narrowly missing other students and the teacher.
1991: The first preliminary hearing for proposed addition to Harold B. Lee Library is held. Topics of discussion include organization of growing periodical supply and options for expanding technology.
1992: The Daily Universe reports that the Y rejection rate has risen 14 percent in a 7-year period. Of the 6,873 high school students who applied to BYU for the 1992-93 school year, 1,369, or 20 percent, were turned away. This compares to 371 rejections out of 5,848 applicants, or 6 percent, in 1985-86.
1993: Ground is broken for the Mount Timpanogos Temple in American Fork, the second temple in Utah County and the ninth in the Beehive State.