European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse Doily Magazine of a a he Mclean Cut u president Oaks Center remarkably cosmopolitan students. By Nick Allen associated press Welcome to the Wasatch Foothills of Utah and a University with 25,000 students. Stereotypes Aren t students Don t smoke drink or Wear Long hair. Their most Radical group is the Young democrats and you can t buy a cup of Coffee on is Brigham Young University the capital of higher education for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints the mor Mons. Situated on a 530-acre Campus at Provo about 40 Miles South of Salt Lake City it is the largest Church sponsored University in the nation and though it s private tuition is Only $600 a you be really got to fight against the rules you should go somewhere else said Cindy Stanley a 20-year-old from Burley m a conservative person and this is a conservative University and so i like it Here added Peggy Lemmon 23, of san Diego calif., echoing the United goals of students and faculty. I had lived in the East As a minority mormon. I came to this place to be with others who believe As i or prof. Allen Bergin a convert to mor monism came to by last year after 12 years of teaching clinical psychology at Columbia University in new York City. Students Here Are More goal oriented compared with Columbi better organized and they work harder he said. Their goals Are More precise because they want to be part of the the atmosphere Here is More benevolent there s less conflict More warmth he added. But Bergin is critical s a tendency among faculty and students to prove what they already believe is True Bergin said. There s not As much Independence of thought As i would like. And i sometimes wonder if a mormon could have made the discoveries of a Sigmund Freud or a . 97 per cent of the students and 99 per cent of the faculty of by Are mormon. Church president Harold b. Lee is president of the Board of trustees. All by students must agree to support the by code of Honor. The code insists students live by mormon standards obey the Church s word of Wisdom Banning alcohol tobacco Coffee and Tea and remain Chaste before marriage. Coffee and Tea As Well As cola drinks Are not sold on the Campus. Some cola drinks Are said to contain caffeine disapproved by the bartender at one of Provo s three Beer Only taverns said a few by students come in occasionally but most Are athletes. Students say there is some drinking on and off Campus but mostly in apartments rather than at bars. Since 1971, women students have been allowed to Wea pants but no Blue jeans. The hair of male students must be above the Collar. Sideburns must not dip below the Bot Toms of the ears. A few weeks ago at least 100 students were forced to delay their registration until they got haircuts. About 28 per cent of by students come from Utah where 24 per cent of All mor Mons live. The rest come from the 49 states and 70 foreign h. Oaks 42, a graduate of Brigham Young and the University of Chicago who became by president two years ago Calls the student body remarkably have to be concerned to let in outside air. We have a deliberate institutional policy to get the faculty out to Harvard Columbia Berkeley for graduate study Oaks said in an he said the fact that thousands of the male students Are returned missionaries who have spent two years away from their Homes often in latin America or Europe helps guard against intellectual inbreeding. While most campuses today Are aggressively secular religious values Are still important at by. All students must take two hours of religious classes each semester and professors Are encouraged to discuss religion along with their special subjects. At Columbia one avoided trying to influence the students said Berin. Academic and private lives were compartmentalized. Here we think of psychology and theology together a Here students know what life s All about said David m. Sorenson assistant Dean of student life and head of the coun seling department. He came to by from the Harvard University health services in 1969. There were More serious mental disturbances at Harvard he said. There s questioning Here but not panic or serious questioning like you find at my initial impression was that things were quiet at by because the students did t know what was going on in the world said Sorenson. He says he now thinks by students know what s Hap pening but have simply rejected things like drugs premarital sex and revolution. The counselling office sees students with problems involving boy girl relationships loneliness and sin and guilt Sorenson said. And he said sin and guilt Are special problems at by because More things Are forbidden in the lds Hile most male by grads Are destined for careers in education or business Many women marry before they graduate. A joke off Campus is that Many women go to by seeking an mrs. Degree. Mormon families Are often Large and the Church position is that a woman s primary place is in the Home As a Mother. Many by men go on two year missions for the Church after their freshman years. During these years of proselytizing the missionaries Are forbidden to Date. When they return they often marry within a few months. There Are about 500 american Indian students at by one of the largest populations at any University. Many of them Are converts specially solicited by the Church and the there Are Only about a half dozen Blacks most of them in the athletic program. By is a member of the Western athletic conference and has a major College intersection Al schedule in Many sports. It persons of african descent Are banned from the mormon Lay Priesthood. And since most devout male mormons Over 12 Are in the Priesthood few Blacks want to join the Church. In the late 1960s, athletes from other schools protested against the Church s racial policies by demonstrating at Basket Ball and football games. Some teams refused to play by. By students interviewed recently said they had nothing against Blacks but there appears to be Little student interest in changing Church policy. In fact the inter viewed students seemed More willing to have University and Church authorities make most decisions. In its first editorial this year the daily universe student newspaper managed at the top by faculty editors declared that its editorial Page proposes to be one of the places at this University where ideas can grind against each other in the Hope that truth can be but then it added the columns of this Page will never be used to Challenge the Basic doctrines and philosophy of the Church or of Brigham Young University but rather to support Brigham Young has not been without it embarrassments however. David Allen Young a by student was shot and killed on Friday in the summer of 1970 after robbing a Bank in Salt Lake City. He was to be married the next Day. Richard Floyd Mccoy a Law enforcement major was convicted of hijacking a Jet in april 1972, bailing out Over Provo with $500,000 Ransom. He is now in a Federal Penitentiary. And honors history student Thomas j. Gregory used to meet convicted watergate burglar e. Howard Hunt every Friday in a Washington drugstore to pass on information he gathered while working on an off Campus study project in the offices of democratic Sens. Edmund Muskie and George Mcgovern. Gregory was suspended for two semesters after his activities were revealed at the first watergate trial but now he s Back on Cam pus. By s Mascot Cosmo Friday november 23, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 11
