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Campus

BYU community joins high school students to grow skills at annual Model UN conference

Taylin Galloway
By Taylin Galloway
October 21, 2024 02:33 PM
The BYU Model United Nations program hosted a conference attended by 23 high schools to practice skills of collaboration and diplomacy on Friday, Oct. 11.
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Campus Events

Multicultural students participate as SOAR counselors

By Mabel Galvez Laparra
July 10, 2024 12:00 AM
SOAR, an annual camp for multicultural high school seniors, recently finished the first session of the summer on the BYU campus. Camp counselors shared how the experience uplifted not only the high schoolers, but themselves as well.
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Academics

BYU English professor John Talbot describes series of 'happy accidents' that led him to BYU

By Alyse Clark
January 16, 2024 12:00 AM
Professor John Talbot used the words 'rude,' 'arrogant' and 'self-centered' when describing his former teenage self.
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Local

Provo high schoolers push for representative position on school board

By Emma Everett
May 22, 2023 12:00 AM
When Provo High School sophomore Milan Venegas realized the Provo City School District did not have student representation on the school board, he said he was confused.
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Sports

Finding Exposure in Rural America

By Elisabeth Ahlstrom
December 10, 2022 12:00 AM
Story, photos, and cover art by Elisabeth Ahlstrom
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Video of the Day

Video of the Day: High schooler creates prom dress from Harry Potter pages

By Carly Ludlow
November 16, 2022 12:00 AM
An 18-year-old high school student from Prairie Grove, Arkansas made her own prom dress from hundreds of old Harry Potter book pages on Oct. 11. The high schooler spent four days working on the dress, ripping, folding, sewing and gluing the pages, the whole dress was created by hand.
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Editorials

Opinion: Home is anywhere and everywhere

By Megan Christine Zaugg
May 11, 2022 12:00 AM
I can picture it now — the home where you were raised from the time your parents brought you home from the hospital, little pencil marks on door frames that measured your growth over the years. Best friends that live across the street that have been with you from preschool until high school graduation.
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Local

Alpine School District approves fee schedule despite community pushback

By Molly Ogden Welch
March 25, 2021 12:00 AM
Alpine School District approved the district fee schedule for the 2021-2022 school year by unanimous vote at its board meeting on Tuesday, March 23.
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Local

Alpine School Board getting pressure over expensive school fees

By Molly Ogden Welch
March 15, 2021 12:00 AM
COVID-19 has made it difficult for some Utah County parents to pay for the school fees that are required for students to attend basic classes like gym, art and drama — particularly when families have multiple children in public schools simultaneously.
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Local

Despite rules, vapes and Juuls still cool in schools

By Matthew Bennett
January 16, 2019 12:00 AM
One part of Valley High School Vice Principal Jacinto Peterson's collection of confiscated vaping devices. A Juul is visible in the bottom left, lying flat. (Sam Bigelow)
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Nation

Florida students return to 'picture of education in fear'

By Associated Press
February 28, 2018 12:00 AM
Police walk outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. Students returned to class for the first time since a former student opened fire there with an assault weapon. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
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Movies & Television

VidAngel debuts 'Tim Timmerman';creators host Q&A

By Mckenna Park
March 06, 2017 12:00 AM
Eddie Perino. left, plays Tim Timmerman and Andrew Caldwell, right, plays Garrett Stubbs in VidAngel's first theatrical release, 'Tim Timmerman, Hope of America.' (Picture Picture Films, LLC)
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Local

Orem stabbing suspect booked on attempted murder

By Associated Press
November 16, 2016 12:00 AM
Kimberly Bird, assistant to superintendent for the Alpine School District, speaks during a news conference after several students were stabbed inside Mountain View High School Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Orem. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Readers' Forum

Readers' Forum June 8

By Eleanor Cain Adams
June 08, 2016 12:00 AM
Response to 'BYUSA: Change the Cougareat'
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Religion

2016 Women's Conference: The Book of Mormon will Change Your Life

By Stacie Faulk
April 30, 2016 12:00 AM
Participants make their way toward the first session of the 2016 Women's Conference. (Maddi Dayton)
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Campus News

BYU STEM education majors help fill Utah's teacher void

By Marinda Risk
March 22, 2016 12:00 AM
Physics teaching professor Duane Merrell participates in a demonstration with his students. Merrell specializes in secondary physical science education. (Duane Merrell)
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Nation

2 students killed in shooting at Phoenix-area high school

February 12, 2016 12:00 AM
Parents and others wait near a high school in Glendale, Ariz., to be reunited with students after police say two female students died in a shooting at the school in a Phoenix suburb. (Associated Press)
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Nation

US high school graduation rate rises to 82 percent

December 15, 2015 12:00 AM
High School graduates stand and sing during graduation ceremonies in Santa Ana Bowl. The nation's high school graduation rate has ticked up slightly to 82 percent, a new high. (Associated Press)
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