MikeWaters |
03-01-2010 10:33 PM |
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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
(Post 310259)
Let's be honest. The things that annoy about BYU are the same things that annoy about the LDS church. In fact, I have no doubt--and this is based on substantial personal experience--that though there are an embarrassing number of kooks on the BYU faculty who have no business being faculty at a respectable university, by and large the faculty and administrators are a lot more progressive, a lot more enlightened, a lot more sensible than the First Presidency, the Twelve, the Seventies, and even the general church membership.
Apart from that, BYU is practically speaking a department of the LDS Church. Children aren't fools; in fact, they are better than adults at seeing things as they are. If you criticize BYU you criticize the LDS church.
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To some degree this is true.
I made a lot of friends at BYU. There were a lot of faculty that I liked. I had many good experiences.
The problem with BYU is that it tries to control too much. It tries to invent and proscribe a lifestyle, that doesn't always jive with what I see as my path. There is much more "freedom" in being active LDS than being a BYU student.
It's a little bit like government. I like limited government. Correct principles and let the people govern themselves. BYU is government run amok. "Who cares what the principles are, you are going to do as I say, and it's for your own good."
It would be nice if there were another state-side BYU. BYU-I as the ultra-conservative. BYU-Provo as the moderate conservative. And the new BYU as a "correct principles" long-leash university. It would be an interesting experiment.
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