Brigham Young University

REXBURG- Brigham Young University-Idaho threatened with shooting after a BYU-Idaho student posted on a popular social media app threatening to “shoot up the school” only to be quickly taken into custody by the Rexburg Police Department. Oct. 26 at about noon, BYU-Idaho was nearly put into danger after 19-year-old Joshua David Tanner posted on the social media app Yik Yak about potentially shooting the school. “I’m going to shoot up BYUI Monday,” Tanner said in his post. When Yik Yak users…

a higher education is worth the cost. Although the costs depend on whether the college or university is public or private, all forms of college education are expensive. The U.S. already funds public colleges and universities through tax revenues. Through this program, the American government can prevent the costs of higher education from rising. The U.S. government should subsidize colleges and universities in order to improve the economy. College is not cheap. According to Matthew Willie…

for their tuition rates, but the question is, are they justified? The simple answer is no. The primary reason for increasing tuition rates is debated by many. According to Sandy Baum, a professor in Education Administration at George Washington University, in her contribution to an NPR broadcast, it is due to decreasing state help meaning that students are paying more and more of the tuition on their own. John Merline, a writer for Investors Business Daily, suggests rising grant aid is allowing…

It is that time of year again. Incoming freshmen at Northern Illinois University are excited and ready to sign up for housing. Picking where they are going to be living is one of the first choices they make on their road to their new independent college student life. Yet Wait! These new incoming freshmen come upon a roadblock. The mandatory freshman residence policy the school had implemented. First-year students must live in the on-campus residence halls unless they are over twenty-one, married…

higher education. As the demand for college continues to rise, so does the price of attending. According to the College Board, tuition at a 4-year public university has increased by approximately 294.22% over the period of 1975-76 to 2015-16. Some of the driving forces behind these tuition hikes include: decreases in state funding, expansions in university administration, large construction projects, and additions…

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Young adult fiction has become a popular and often controversial genre in recent media. The genre encompasses fiction published for readers from 12 to 18 years of age, yet can contain sensitive and complex topics such as suicide, self-harm and death. Such novels have been widely criticised by parents and primary care givers in an attempt to protect their children from the seemingly macabre subject matter contained within. In spite or because of that, it is posited that adolescents should indeed…

under those circumstances, her reactions to the restrictions posed upon her were normal. They also made life easier for her; she could simply have fun and enjoy life. Her father's attitude was undoubtedly the main reason that she picked a man like Torvald to marry. Unconsciously, she was still seeking a father figure, a continuation of her childhood. As she herself realized, ."..I passed from Daddy's hands into yours. You arranged everything . . . and so I came to share it--or pretended to.…

The Little Rock Nine were mine students who were ‘allowed’ to attend a ‘white school’ in Little Rock, Arkansas, due to the verdict of Brown vs. Topeka. However the students were blocked from entering the school by the Arkansas National Guard, under orders by Governor Faubus. However President Eisenhower intervened in a civil rights event for the first time in his presidency, contradicting his usual uncommitted approach, and sent the US Army to escort and protect the nine students. This instance…

When the reader is first introduced to Elizabeth, she is being adopted by the Frankenstein family, showing that, to some extent, this young girl was taken against her will. As the story progresses, however, the reader becomes aware that because of this adoption, Elizabeth is given a better life and a chance to succeed and to learn. Throughout the novel, Elizabeth is not mentioned as much as Victor is, since they are separated. As Elizabeth writes to Victor, “You are distant from me, and it is…