The BYU Honor Code Office emphasizes the relationship between the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the standards outlined in the Honor Code. The first paragraph in the Honor Code in the 1986 student course catalog defines “honor” as living voluntarily in accordance with the principles set by the Church.…
According to Dr. Pagán’s reading of the Book of Mormon, every time the ancient Book of Mormon prophets are talking about iniquity, they are really saying something about inequity. And not an inequity that can be understood as an imbalance in the scales of justice directly resulting from one’s iniquitous act, but inequity as we…
The July 2023 issue of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, a publication of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU, included an interesting review of the book Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon, written by William L. Davis and published in…
A Flawed Supreme Court Ruling I took a government class in high school four years prior to the Dobbs Decision. A focal part of the class was a study on various landmark Supreme Court rulings. I remember one case that was especially highlighted: Roe v Wade. Roe’s decision was based on the implied “right to…
May 13th, 2023, was Legends Boxing’s 7th annual Executive Fight Night, featuring fighters from around Utah boxing to their limits. Though, some of Legend’s Fight Night sponsors don’t keep their fight in the ring. Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) is an international effort to eradicate the sexual trafficking and exploitation of children and adults. O.U.R. helped sponsor…
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) published its Standards of Care 8 (SOC 8) seeking to: Provide clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves, in order to maximize their overall health, psychological well-being,…
The Cougar Chronicle is aware of a recent Salt Lake Tribune article and online petition suggesting the Chronicle unfairly mobilized bullies against Dr. Sarah Coyne. We and our good faith readers are in full support of the article and petition’s plea to recognize Dr. Coyne as a daughter of God, and we condemn all the…
Our forefathers did not merely celebrate Thanksgiving with turkey and going around the table declaring their blessings in celebration of the holiday. Thanksgiving was – and has been – inspired by deep religious traditions of feast time and prayer ,before and ,after the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620. nn Giving thanks to…
Anyone who has been paying any attention at all to the political atmosphere at Brigham Young University knows that it is anything but uneventful. The university has recently made national news for allegations of racism, homophobia, and for protests taking place. Usually, these headlines have brought damage to the image of the school, often by…