According to an opinion piece in the Cougar Chronicle from BYU student Garrett Hostetter, a debate on the Dobbs decision was canceled for Fall of 2022 at the BYU Law School. Hostetter wrote on April 11 of this year, “I was texted that word: Canceled.” However, this is not the only account of the incident.…
Not all recent conservative BYU speakers have been canceled. Rob Jenkins, a father of BYU alumni and professor of Georgia State University, spoke to the BYU Tocqueville Society on April 7. Jenkins, who has written at the Daily Wire, Town Hall, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, spoke to BYU students about the dangers of…
Yesterday, April 11, the Chronicle broke a story of the BYU Law School recently canceling an event with Rick Duncan who spoke at the school a year before. [READ: BYU Cancels Debate Event on Abortion: Beams before Motes] Ed Whelan, the author of the National Review article about the J. Reuben Clark Law School’s cancellation…
SEE ADDTIONAL UPDATE HERE: Complaints of ‘disrespectful’ Speaker Used to Cancel Abortion Debate Appear Unfounded The recent petition to ban Elder Holland from speaking at Southern Utah University’s Commencement ceremony has once again sparked a debate over cancel culture throughout the Wasatch front. This attempt to cancel Elder Holland perhaps carries an extra dose of…
The BYU official policy of Political Neutrality states, “Residents of university housing may display partisan political signs in their apartment windows.” This rule means that individuals living in On-Campus housing have freedom to show support to any particular candidate or ideology without facing consequences from the University so long as the decorations are displayed from…
Southern Utah University is facing backlash after they announced the keynote speaker for the 2023 commencement ceremony. On March 16, the university announced they are welcoming Jeffrey R. Holland, an apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints, as a speaker in this year’s commencement ceremony. Almost immediately after, members of the Southern…