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The housing standards mandate that bathrooms and bedrooms be off limits to those of the opposite sex. Members of the opposite sex are required to be out of the apartment by midnight. [75] Guns are permitted in off-campus housing only if the gun owner receives written permission from both the landlord and all residents in the apartment. [76]
Brigham Young University's Foreign Language Student Residence (FLSR) program was established in 1978 as a three-house off-campus residence center dedicated to the study of Russian and Italian. [1] Due to the success of these houses, the program expanded from three houses to one specially-designed complex in 1991. [ 2 ]
The purpose of The Ryde's shuttle service is to help transport "thousands" of BYU students between the main campus of BYU and their off-campus housing. [5] While the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) is the primary public transit service provider in Provo and along the Wasatch Front , the founders of The Ryde believed that UTA was not adequately ...
The library's LDS family history facility is the second-largest in the world. With more than three million volumes in the university's library collection, and nearly half of those books in storage off-campus, an addition to BYU's large library was long overdue. The 234,000-square-foot (21,700 m 2) addition to the library opened in the fall of 1999.
According to fall 2016 enrollment numbers, 27% of BYU-Idaho campus students came from the state of Idaho, [30] with the majority of students coming from five states: Idaho 27%, California 14%, Utah 10%, Washington 8%, and Arizona 4.5%. Thus, the student body at BYU–Idaho is notably homogeneous—not only due to its geographic representation ...
[3] [4] Furthermore, views of the Wasatch Mountains (including Mount Timpanogos) can be seen from the campus. [1] BYU's Harold B. Lee Library, which The Princeton Review ranked as the #1 "Great College Library" in 2004, [5] has approximately 8½ million items in its collections, contains 98 miles (158 km) of shelving, and can seat 4,600 people. [6]
Brigham Young University's stated purpose is to "assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life". [1] It is common for prayers to be spoken in classes. This tradition began during the time when Brigham Young was actively involved with the university. [2] BYU is considered by many Latter-day Saints to be "The Lord's University".
The BYU Faculty Center is also located in the Student Center. The counseling center was started in 1946 under BYU President McDonald [2] and moved to the WSC upon the building's completion in 1964. When it was first built the Wilkinson Center had an area of 287,539 square feet. The bookstore was expanded in 1974 with an extension further west.