Normally when BYU students throw fits about something, I’m all over it. But frankly I just missed this one. I don’t know what happened. Maybe I was distracted by things going on in the world that are actually worth caring about. But who knows. Anyway, below I’ll offer a brief chronology of the world-rocking protests […]

BYU alumnus Yeah Samake made waves last year when he announced his intention to run in Mali’s 2012 presidential election. Yeah Samake is the Muslim nation’s only known Mormon, and many considered him a top-tier candidate for the African country’s highest office. However the elections, which were originally planned for earlier this year, were suspended […]

Yesterday after days of rumors, BYU’s Maxwell Institute was rocked when it was announced director Gerald Bradford had fired BYU professor Daniel C. Peterson as the editor of the Mormon Studies Review, previously named the FARMS Review, which Peterson had founded twenty-three years ago. Peterson’s associate editors were also fired, some reportedly without notice. The publication has since […]

After rumors circulated earlier in the week, BYU’s Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship confirmed today that Daniel C. Peterson and his associate editors would be removed from the staff of the Mormon Studies Review, previously the FARMS Review.  The periodical, which publishes articles and reviews on LDS-related topics and books, was founded by Peterson 23 years ago. Along […]

A new poll from Utah Data Points suggests that Senator Orrin Hatch will cruise easily through Tuesday’s (June 26) GOP primary, showing the 5-term Republican senator carries a sizable margin over his opponent, former state senator Dan Liljenquist.  The polling group, which is an extension of Brigham Young University, polled three different scenarios, but Hatch […]

On July 3 in Tel Aviv, Israel, Dr. Eric Huntsman, a Mormon professor from Brigham Young University, will be singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” to commence the American embassy’s 4th of July celebration. Following Dr. Huntsman, Hagit Yassu will sing “Hatikva,” the national anthem of Israel, and then U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro, Israeli President Shimon Peres, […]

On Sunday the New York Times published an op-ed by BYU professor J. Spencer Fluhman titled, “Why We Fear Mormons.” Fluhman is currently an assistant professor in the History department, although until last year he worked in the BYU Religion department. Fluhman teaches classes on Mormon history, American religious history, the Doctrine & Covenants, and […]

After not having a serious challenger for his entire 36-year tenure as Utah’s U.S. Senator, Orrin Hatch is now facing his first primary battle since he won office in 1976. Hatch is the longest serving senator in Utah state history, but after failing to get the super-majority of votes needed at this year’s state Republican […]

By Tyson Pyle. It’s summertime, baby! You know what that means? Summer sales! Just kiddin. It means that hundreds of 18 to 20-something year olds will be flocking to the water holes known as pools to find their soul mates. Ahh the pool. A place where one can go to relax, cool off, catch up […]

By Marie Bertonneau. When not poorly-designing their print layout, the Student Review’s contributors enjoy thin satire, not being the Daily Universe, the Velour, and the kind of philosophizin’ that baits “alternative” BYU thinkers and others at the fringes of Mormon discourse. For Mother’s Day, they ran a piece titled “Why All Mormons Are Feminists,” which […]