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Single parents with children. Single students living with parents. Single students who are taking classes away from Provo. Graduate students. Under certain conditions, as determined by the Off-Campus Housing Office, the university housing requirement may be waived for other students who have a special circumstance or hardship.
April 2008 BYU graduation ceremony where LDS Church Apostle David A. Bednar offered the commencement address. BYU mandates that its students be religiously active. [7] Students and faculty who are LDS are required to submit an affidavit (called an "ecclesiastical endorsement") stating that they are active participants in the LDS Church.
The central building has rooms used for student activities, dinners, and Sunday church meetings. [3] The on-campus complex consists of 25 individual apartments for men and women learning eleven different languages (depending on demand): Hebrew, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, and Spanish.
LGBTQ students and advocates at BYU in Utah slammed the school for requiring all freshmen read a controversial 2021 speech that they say incited violence and hatred against the queer community.
[163] [164] [165] Though the ban on coming out was lifted in 2007, LGBTQ BYU students are at risk of expulsion for any same-sex romantic expression including hugging and handholding. [160] [166] [167] Before 2021, queer students were banned from meeting together in an LGBTQ–straight alliance group on-campus. [168] [169] [170]
Story at a glance LGBTQ+ resource pamphlets for incoming BYU freshmen were tossed by the university without warning, the groups who created the pamphlets said. A BYU spokesperson told Changing ...
Academic freedom at Brigham Young University (BYU) has been the subject of several controversies, mostly focusing on its religious nature. In 1992, BYU issued a statement limiting academic freedom in certain areas, including language that attacked the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and language that violates the university's honor code.
The Utah school's iconic "Y", which sits atop the mountain overlooking BYU, was lit in rainbow colors by LGBTQ+ students and allies a year earlier to show support for the LGBTQ+ community and call ...