As preseason play rolls on, some may try to gauge how teams stack up to those who dwell within a region by comparing their records and results. While records can be a good way to compare teams, you never really know where they stand until they take the field together.
Coming into Tuesday afternoon’s matchup in Herriman between Riverton and Mountain Ridge, both teams found themselves with preseason records of 5-1 — the best records in Region 3. Though the records indicated that both teams were top contenders in the region, the question of who was most favored among the favorites was primed to be answered when the teams kicked off region play against one another.
With a convincing 3-1 final score line, Riverton defeated the Sentinels, improving to 6-1 on the year and further pegging themselves as the side to beat in Region 3. Seniors Whitney Garn and Belle Christensen and sophomore Emmalee Christensen all found the back of the net in the victory for the Silverwolves.
Much of the success came in the first half hour of the game with two of Riverton’s three goals netted in the first 15 minutes of play. Silverwolves head coach Paul Moizer said that getting off to the quick start was something he and his team tried to emphasize coming into the game.
“We started off really well in the first half,” Moizer said when asked what the key to victory was. “We wanted to press high and be intense, and (we) were. I think we kind of got them on their heels a little bit.”
The pressure and intensity clearly made the Sentinels uncomfortable as they struggled to get out of their own end through the initial stages of the game. If not for a few offsides calls and a handful of impressive saves from Mountain Ridge goalkeeper Elle Rafajko, the two-goal advantage at halftime for Riverton could’ve been even more significant.
The midfield trio of Garn, Emmalee Christensen and Mariana Regla flew around the field for Riverton, continually winning the ball back in key areas thanks to an energy that appeared relentless. That energy played a key factor in the first half goals scored by Garn and Christensen.
“They were all over the place today,” Moizer said of the midfielders. “They put in a really good effort. If they weren’t pushing the ball forward themselves, they were putting the ball through so we could get up the field and they were definitely the ones pressing the most.”
Mountain Ridge began to settle into the game as time wore on, especially when the teams switched playing directions following halftime. After playing the first 40 minutes against a persistent wind blowing from the south, the switch of sides found Sentinels playing with the wind at their backs throughout the second half — a significantly more comfortable position to be playing in according to Moizer.
“With the wind (blowing at us) in the second half, you never know what’s going to happen,” Moizer said. When you’re going with the wind you feel stronger than you do going against the wind, so it’s definitely a mental thing more than anything.”
Moizer said that he was proud of how his girls handled the wind in the second half and added that they may have even worked harder over the final 40 minutes of play.
Though the wind switched roles in the second half, both teams were able to come away with a goal. Belle Christensen scored for Riverton less than four minutes into the second half, while Mountain Ridge’s Saige Stewart was able to pull one back and prevent her team from being shut out.
The win was about as good a start the Silverwolves could’ve hoped for as they begin to dive into region play following a second-place finish in Region 3 last year. Moizer said that if his team hopes to continue the early success, they’ll need to be more composed going forward.
“We need to work on composure,” Moizer said. “We had some chances that we wasted today and in big games we’ll need to convert those chances, so we’ll definitely be working on that.”
Jackie Woodward rides her adaptive bike outside of Shriners Hospitals for Children in Salt Lake City on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Kruisers for Kids raised over $43,000 to fund adaptive bikes, which can cost between $500 and $2,000 each. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
Four patients with orthopedic conditions at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Salt Lake City were fitted for new adaptive bikes Monday thanks to a $44,000-plus donation from Kruisers for Kids.
Three children receive a Rifton adaptive bike to help with developmental delays, and another child with congenital limb differences received a new arm-pedaled bike.
Adaptive bikes, which typically cost $500 to $2,000 each, allow children who can’t ride standard bikes the chance to get outside and have fun with neighbors and siblings, particularly beneficial now with families navigating COVID-19 precautions.
Other benefits include a sense of independence, lower extremity strengthening, cardiovascular exercise, weight management and balancing skills. Bike adaptations are customized to each child’s needs, ranging from hand pedals and secure seat belts to larger seats with a back and a lower center of gravity.
Funds for this year’s donation came from the group’s 27th annual car show and brings the organization’s collective giving to $430,000, helping the hospital give away more than 50 bikes a year to patients on a waiting list.
Kalani Sitake, BYU’s head football coach, gives a thumbs-up during BYU football media day at the BYU Broadcasting Building in Provo on Thursday, June 17, 2021. BYU announced a contract extension for Sitake until 2025 on Tuesday. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
The Cougars’ head football coach will lead the team through the 2025 season
Coming off his most successful season as head coach, Kalani Sitake received a contract extension from BYU just days before the Cougars’ 2021 season opener.
“We are happy to sign Kalani to an extension that keeps him connected to BYU for years to come,” BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe said in a press release. “This is about setting our student-athletes up for success. Kalani’s culture of love and learning has created an incredible environment for his student-athletes and Cougar Nation that we are all inspired by.”
BYU opens the 2021 season against Arizona on Saturday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Sitake led the Cougars to an 11-1 record in 2020, as BYU finished the season ranked No. 11 in the Associated Press final rankings. He was a finalist for the 2020 Eddie Robinson National Coach of the Year Award.
“I really appreciate the support for BYU football from Tom Holmoe and President Worthen along with all of our administration at BYU,” Sitake said in a press release. “I am excited about the future of our program and committed to continue to do everything we can for the benefit of our great student-athletes, coaches, staff and fans.”
Sitake has led the Cougars to a 38-26 record since taking over the program in the 2016 season.
Green Bay teammates Bronson Kaufusi (hands raised) and Christian Uphoff meet with Latter-day Saint sister missionaries. Kaufusi baptized Uphoff a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. | Bronson Kaufusi
Bronson Kaufusi was in the Green Bay Packers’ locker room last spring following an off-season workout when he met rookie safety Christian Uphoff.
The new teammates struck up a friendly conversation and decided to go fishing.
With lines cast and waiting for a nibble, Uphoff casually asked Kaufusi about his service as a Latter-day Saint missionary in New Zealand.
Little did both men know the question would lead to a deep conversation about faith, months of religious discussions and eventually result in Uphoff’s baptism.
“It was just awesome to see him feel that joy and happiness that comes when you make decisions that can change your life,” Kaufusi told the Deseret News. “It was really great to see.”
With the NFL regular season close to getting underway, Kaufusi posted photos and news on Instagram that he baptized Uphoff as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday.
“One of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had,” Kaufusi wrote.
Uphoff, a 6-foot-3, 209-pounder who played at Illinois State from 2017 to 2019, signed with Green Bay as an undrafted free agent. Uphoff’s 2020 fall season with the Redbirds was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team also opted out of most of the FCS spring season.
Uphoff was projected to be a late round prospect for the NFL draft but not selected. Green Bay was his preferred free agent destination, he told Packers reporters last week.
“Before the draft, me and my agent were talking and he was like, ‘If you don’t get drafted, where do you want to go?’ I was like, ‘Green Bay,’” he said. “I just knew Green Bay was a good place for undrafted free agents.”
Kaufusi, a former BYU and Timpview High star, was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2016. After a few years in Baltimore, Kaufusi moved on to the New York Jets, where he switched positions to tight end. He signed with Green Bay earlier this year.
Kaufusi’s NFL career has been full of unexpected twists and turns.
“Oh, man, I feel like it’s just like anything in life. There’s a lot you don’t control,” Kaufusi said. “It’s your job to take whatever is given, just run with it and just make the best of it. You never know what can happen.”
Such as when a teammate expresses interest in your faith.
After Kaufusi related some missionary experiences, Uphoff asked about the scriptures and they started reading the Bible together. Next, the safety asked to meet with the Latter-day Saint missionaries.
Bronson Kaufusi
Green Bay teammates Bronson Kaufusi and Christian Uphoff meet with Latter-day Saint missionaries. Kaufusi baptized Uphoff as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.
For a while, they attended church worship services via Zoom and had Zoom meetings with the missionaries. There were more discussions and scripture-reading sessions when it was safe to meet in person.
“He loves reading the scriptures,” Kaufusi said of Uphoff. “He’d say, ‘Let’s read some scriptures.’ I would think, ‘Oh, he probably wants to read for 15 minutes.’ Then we would read for a couple of hours. I loved it. It was awesome to see someone so dedicated and really searching for more.”
Bronson Kaufusi
Green Bay teammates Bronson Kaufusi, left, and Christian Uphoff sit at a table in a restaurant. Kaufusi, a former BYU player, baptized Uphoff a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.
Seeing his friend and teammate find spiritual happiness left Kaufusi with a deep sense of gratitude. Many have been supportive of Uphoff, who declined the opportunity to be interviewed.
“I know how much the gospel has blessed my life, and to have one of my teammates be able to experience that for themselves and make this decision, it was an amazing experience. I was like, ‘Wow.’ I feel so fortunate that I’m able to be a part of it and I’m just so happy for him.”
Bronson Kaufusi
Green Bay’s Christian Uphoff stands with Latter-day Saint missionaries and President Sean and Sister Joanne Murphy of the Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission outside of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Both Kaufusi and Uphoff were released Tuesday as NFL teams trim their initial active rosters to 53 players for the regular season, but both players could be signed to the Packers’ practice squad, according to reports.
“Our tight end, Bronson Kaufusi, I love him. One of the happiest guys ever,” Rodgers said.
The flattering remark from the 2020 NFL MVP meant a lot to Kaufusi.
“It was really cool that he said that, honestly, because he’s such a great player and a great leader,” Kaufusi said. “I’m always trying to be myself and that’s really just who I am. I thought it was such a huge compliment, just so incredibly nice of him to say that.”
Green Bay teammates Bronson Kaufusi (hands raised) and Christian Uphoff meet with Latter-day Saint sister missionaries. Kaufusi baptized Uphoff a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. | Bronson Kaufusi
Bronson Kaufusi was in the Green Bay Packers’ locker room last spring following an off-season workout when he met rookie safety Christian Uphoff.
The new teammates struck up a friendly conversation and decided to go fishing.
With lines cast and waiting for a nibble, Uphoff casually asked Kaufusi about his service as a Latter-day Saint missionary in New Zealand.
Little did both men know the question would lead to a deep conversation about faith, months of religious discussions and eventually result in Uphoff’s baptism.
“It was just awesome to see him feel that joy and happiness that comes when you make decisions that can change your life,” Kaufusi told the Deseret News. “It was really great to see.”
With the NFL regular season close to getting underway, Kaufusi posted photos and news on Instagram that he baptized Uphoff as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday.
“One of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had,” Kaufusi wrote.
Uphoff, a 6-foot-3, 209-pounder who played at Illinois State from 2017 to 2019, signed with Green Bay as an undrafted free agent. Uphoff’s 2020 fall season with the Redbirds was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team also opted out of most of the FCS spring season.
Uphoff was projected to be a late round prospect for the NFL draft but not selected. Green Bay was his preferred free agent destination, he told Packers reporters last week.
“Before the draft, me and my agent were talking and he was like, ‘If you don’t get drafted, where do you want to go?’ I was like, ‘Green Bay,’” he said. “I just knew Green Bay was a good place for undrafted free agents.”
Kaufusi, a former BYU and Timpview High star, was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2016. After a few years in Baltimore, Kaufusi moved on to the New York Jets, where he switched positions to tight end. He signed with Green Bay earlier this year.
Kaufusi’s NFL career has been full of unexpected twists and turns.
“Oh, man, I feel like it’s just like anything in life. There’s a lot you don’t control,” Kaufusi said. “It’s your job to take whatever is given, just run with it and just make the best of it. You never know what can happen.”
Such as when a teammate expresses interest in your faith.
After Kaufusi related some missionary experiences, Uphoff asked about the scriptures and they started reading the Bible together. Next, the safety asked to meet with the Latter-day Saint missionaries.
Bronson Kaufusi
Green Bay teammates Bronson Kaufusi and Christian Uphoff meet with Latter-day Saint missionaries. Kaufusi baptized Uphoff as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.
For a while, they attended church worship services via Zoom and had Zoom meetings with the missionaries. There were more discussions and scripture-reading sessions when it was safe to meet in person.
“He loves reading the scriptures,” Kaufusi said of Uphoff. “He’d say, ‘Let’s read some scriptures.’ I would think, ‘Oh, he probably wants to read for 15 minutes.’ Then we would read for a couple of hours. I loved it. It was awesome to see someone so dedicated and really searching for more.”
Bronson Kaufusi
Green Bay teammates Bronson Kaufusi, left, and Christian Uphoff sit at a table in a restaurant. Kaufusi, a former BYU player, baptized Uphoff a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.
Seeing his friend and teammate find spiritual happiness left Kaufusi with a deep sense of gratitude. Many have been supportive of Uphoff, who declined the opportunity to be interviewed.
“I know how much the gospel has blessed my life, and to have one of my teammates be able to experience that for themselves and make this decision, it was an amazing experience. I was like, ‘Wow.’ I feel so fortunate that I’m able to be a part of it and I’m just so happy for him.”
Bronson Kaufusi
Green Bay’s Christian Uphoff stands with Latter-day Saint missionaries and President Sean and Sister Joanne Murphy of the Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission outside of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Both Kaufusi and Uphoff were released Tuesday as NFL teams trim their initial active rosters to 53 players for the regular season, but both players could be signed to the Packers’ practice squad, according to reports.
“Our tight end, Bronson Kaufusi, I love him. One of the happiest guys ever,” Rodgers said.
The flattering remark from the 2020 NFL MVP meant a lot to Kaufusi.
“It was really cool that he said that, honestly, because he’s such a great player and a great leader,” Kaufusi said. “I’m always trying to be myself and that’s really just who I am. I thought it was such a huge compliment, just so incredibly nice of him to say that.”
Green Bay teammates Bronson Kaufusi (hands raised) and Christian Uphoff meet with Latter-day Saint sister missionaries. Kaufusi baptized Uphoff a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. | Bronson Kaufusi
Bronson Kaufusi was in the Green Bay Packers’ locker room last spring following an off-season workout when he met rookie safety Christian Uphoff.
The new teammates struck up a friendly conversation and decided to go fishing.
With lines cast and waiting for a nibble, Uphoff casually asked Kaufusi about his service as a Latter-day Saint missionary in New Zealand.
Little did both men know the question would lead to a deep conversation about faith, months of religious discussions and eventually result in Uphoff’s baptism.
“It was just awesome to see him feel that joy and happiness that comes when you make decisions that can change your life,” Kaufusi told the Deseret News. “It was really great to see.”
With the NFL regular season close to getting underway, Kaufusi posted photos and news on Instagram that he baptized Uphoff as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday.
“One of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had,” Kaufusi wrote.
Uphoff, a 6-foot-3, 209-pounder who played at Illinois State from 2017 to 2019, signed with Green Bay as an undrafted free agent. Uphoff’s 2020 fall season with the Redbirds was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team also opted out of most of the FCS spring season.
Uphoff was projected to be a late round prospect for the NFL draft but not selected. Green Bay was his preferred free agent destination, he told Packers reporters last week.
“Before the draft, me and my agent were talking and he was like, ‘If you don’t get drafted, where do you want to go?’ I was like, ‘Green Bay,’” he said. “I just knew Green Bay was a good place for undrafted free agents.”
Kaufusi, a former BYU and Timpview High star, was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2016. After a few years in Baltimore, Kaufusi moved on to the New York Jets, where he switched positions to tight end. He signed with Green Bay earlier this year.
Kaufusi’s NFL career has been full of unexpected twists and turns.
“Oh, man, I feel like it’s just like anything in life. There’s a lot you don’t control,” Kaufusi said. “It’s your job to take whatever is given, just run with it and just make the best of it. You never know what can happen.”
Such as when a teammate expresses interest in your faith.
After Kaufusi related some missionary experiences, Uphoff asked about the scriptures and they started reading the Bible together. Next, the safety asked to meet with the Latter-day Saint missionaries.
Bronson Kaufusi
Green Bay teammates Bronson Kaufusi and Christian Uphoff meet with Latter-day Saint missionaries. Kaufusi baptized Uphoff as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.
For a while, they attended church worship services via Zoom and had Zoom meetings with the missionaries. There were more discussions and scripture-reading sessions when it was safe to meet in person.
“He loves reading the scriptures,” Kaufusi said of Uphoff. “He’d say, ‘Let’s read some scriptures.’ I would think, ‘Oh, he probably wants to read for 15 minutes.’ Then we would read for a couple of hours. I loved it. It was awesome to see someone so dedicated and really searching for more.”
Bronson Kaufusi
Green Bay teammates Bronson Kaufusi, left, and Christian Uphoff sit at a table in a restaurant. Kaufusi, a former BYU player, baptized Uphoff a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.
Seeing his friend and teammate find spiritual happiness left Kaufusi with a deep sense of gratitude. Many have been supportive of Uphoff, who declined the opportunity to be interviewed.
“I know how much the gospel has blessed my life, and to have one of my teammates be able to experience that for themselves and make this decision, it was an amazing experience. I was like, ‘Wow.’ I feel so fortunate that I’m able to be a part of it and I’m just so happy for him.”
Bronson Kaufusi
Green Bay’s Christian Uphoff stands with Latter-day Saint missionaries and President Sean and Sister Joanne Murphy of the Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission outside of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Both Kaufusi and Uphoff were released Tuesday as NFL teams trim their initial active rosters to 53 players for the regular season, but both players could be signed to the Packers’ practice squad, according to reports.
“Our tight end, Bronson Kaufusi, I love him. One of the happiest guys ever,” Rodgers said.
The flattering remark from the 2020 NFL MVP meant a lot to Kaufusi.
“It was really cool that he said that, honestly, because he’s such a great player and a great leader,” Kaufusi said. “I’m always trying to be myself and that’s really just who I am. I thought it was such a huge compliment, just so incredibly nice of him to say that.”
New Orleans Saints quarterbacks Jameis Winston (2) and Taysom Hill (7) line up during an NFL football workout in Arlington, Texas, on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Displaced by Hurricane Ida, the Saints went back to work Monday about 500 miles away in the home of another NFL team. | Michael Ainsworth, Associated Press
New Orleans coach points to Winston’s ability to move the offense and score points as to why he beat out Hill
For BYU fans hoping Taysom Hill would finally be getting his chance at an NFL starting gig, last week’s reports that Jameis Winston would be the New Orleans Saints’ starting quarterback was a tough, though not unexpected, pill to swallow.
On Tuesday, Saints coach Sean Payton made it official. In an anticlimactic announcement, Payton told reporters, “Jameis is going to be our starter. He’s done a great job, he’s earned that.
“Both he and Taysom competed their tails off. It’s always difficult when you don’t have the full offseason that you’re looking for or the full preseason, but we feel real good about that room,” Payton added, per the team’s website.
Why Winston earned the starting job
Winston and Hill, the former BYU dual-threat standout, spent the offseason challenging each other to replace the All-Pro Drew Brees. Winston had a noticeably better preseason, leading the Saints to four touchdown drives in two games to just one for Hill. The Saints’ third preseason game was canceled by Hurricane Ida.
“The No. 1 thing is leading your offense and moving the ball and scoring points,” Payton said, in describing what stood out in choosing Winston as the starter. “We feel like he’s got the unique skill set with his arm talent where he can get the ball down the field. He’s done a really good job of working through some of the progressions.”
Winston completed 16 of 22 passes during the preseason for 219 yards and three touchdowns to go with an interception, and his stat line in New Orleans’ second preseason game — 9 of 10 passing, 123 yards, two touchdown passes, with a 157.5 QB rating — really stood out.
While Hill had some success, his performances were more uneven, as he finished the preseason completing 19 of 32 passes for 219 yards and a touchdown with an interception.
How Hill will fit in to the Saints’ offense
In his four years with New Orleans, Hill has mainly served as a utility player who could line up at several positions, including quarterback. Payton said he feels he’s built a good dialogue with Hill, which helped in delivering the tough news about the quarterback decision.
“The very first thing any player wants to know is, ‘What’s your vision for me? What do you see?’ And I also think they want honesty in your evaluation, they want honesty in the vision,” Payton said about Hill’s role with the team this season. “And so, I’ve got a very clear vision relative to how he’s going to help us this year, no different than the vision we have with Jameis. Those two are both going to be extremely important if we’re to play well and win games this year.”
Can the Saints utilize both Winston and Hill?
Payton sounded optimistic the Saints will be able to utilize both quarterbacks’ strengths. Winston, who started five seasons for Tampa Bay, is more of a natural downfield passer, as evidenced by his career numbers of 19,812 yards and 121 touchdowns passing.
Hill, meanwhile, is able to contribute in a variety of roles, though in years past he moved around on offense when he mainly served as the team’s third quarterback. As a backup, would Hill be used less as a jack-of-all-trades-type player, to help minimize the risk of losing their backup quarterback?
“One of the challenges is they’re two entirely different players. So going into games with two different kind of mindsets, relative to how do you help each one play well,” Payton said. “So we’ll look closely at the things that we feel like Jameis does really well, and then very closely at the things that how we want to utilize Taysom and positions we want to play them.
“I know this was asked a lot and I understand the question relative to, well, if Taysom is your quarterback, you’re going to lose all the other things he can do. Yeah, that’s true. And yet, we couldn’t make the decision just based on that because if Taysom were to become that quarterback and continue to improve — and I do think he’s going to be in that room working at that position — but we just wanted to look at it completely from an open-eye standpoint and just trust our gut with it.”
Fans returned to Memorial Stadium for a game between Illinois and Nebraska Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, in Champaign, Ill. | Charles Rex Arbogast, Associated Press
Utes, Cougars, Aggies and Wildcats usher in new seasons this week, hoping the craziness of 2020 season is behind them for good
On the heels of a turbulent and confusing season, followed by an uncertain offseason, college football is back even as COVID-19 has flared up again.
The season’s theme: Back to normal. The schools are allowing full crowds to return to the stadium again — no masks, no vaccinations required, no spacing between the seats — although there are some holdouts. Five FBS schools will require fans to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to enter the stadium, Oregon and Oregon State being the first to demand them. Last season, 118 games were canceled or postponed because of the pandemic. That won’t happen this season. Teams will be forced to forfeit if they can’t field a full team because of COVID-19 issues.
So it’s back to normal, sort of. Because the pandemic cost players so many games, the NCAA granted them an extra year of eligibility, which means hundreds of players whose careers would have been finished are back, and they don’t count against the scholarship limit of 85. On top of that, new transfer rules allow players to transfer once and play immediately instead of sitting out a season as previously required. That means rosters are loaded with older, more experienced players.
Anyway, where were we before we were so rudely interrupted by the COVID — No. 19 in your program? On the local front, “normal” means that Utah is back to picking on an FBS opponent to warm up for the real season — this time, Weber State. That sounds fun, doesn’t it. The Wildcats, by the way, didn’t play at all last fall, but played in the spring instead. They are starting their second football season in four months. Weird.
BYU is back to playing a big-time independent schedule after teeing off against mostly weak opponents last season en route to winning 11 of 12 games. You can bet that football aficionados will be watching to see how they do against quality opponents. They start by playing Arizona in Las Vegas in the home stadium of the NFL’s Raiders. If Donny and Marie can take the stage in Vegas, why not the Cougs?
BYU is coming off its best season in decades; Utah State is coming back from its worst. The Aggies are rebuilding after a disastrous 2020 season in which they fired their coach and their starting quarterback and lost five of six games. That was about as much fun as a head cold.
It brought an abrupt end to the best era in Aggie football since the early 1970s, one in which they had six winning seasons in nine years after producing just three winning seasons the previous 30. New coach Blake Anderson has the task of repairing the damage. The Aggies open on the road against the Pac-12’s Washington State, which had its own troubles last season, winning one of four games.
Then there’s Utah. Last season, the Utes found themselves confounded by the dithering Pac-12 and Larry Scott, who changed his mind several times about whether to cancel or postpone or play some altered conference-only schedule in 2020. The league didn’t start play until mid-November (and by January Scott was fired). The Utes, a perennial winner who finished in the top 20 four of the previous six seasons, scheduled six games and played five. After the first one was canceled, they lost their next two games before righting the ship and winning their last three.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Utah Utes quarterback Charlie Brewer (12) throws during the spring game in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 17, 2021. Brewer won the starting nod at QB after a prolonged battle with Cam Rising.
For the second consecutive year Utah will start a transfer quarterback. Last season it was Cam Rising, a Texas Longhorns transfer who beat out Jake Bentley, a four-year starter for South Carolina. This season it’s Charlie Brewer, a four-year starter for Baylor who has passed for 9,700 yards and 65 touchdowns (he also ran for 22 TDs). After a 2-7 season at Baylor, Brewer moved to Utah “ready for a change” and wanting “to be part of a great team.”
The Aggies have their own transfer quarterback — Logan Bonner followed Anderson from Arkansas State to USU. He threw for 1,863 yards passing, 18 touchdowns and six interceptions for ASU. After missing USU’s spring camp because of an injury, he has competed with Andrew Peasley for the starting role. Anderson has yet to name a starter.
The hope is that these are the sorts of relatively mundane issues that coaches, players and fans will be discussing this season, rather than the pandemic and masks and protocols and such things.
Three meetinghouses of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across St. George caught fire early Tuesday in what fire officials are calling “very suspicious” circumstances. | St. George resident
Three meetinghouses of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout St. George caught fire early Tuesday in what fire officials are calling "very suspicious" circumstances.
About 4 a.m., crews were called on the report of smoke coming from a meetinghouse adjacent to the Latter-day Saint temple on 300 East in the 1200 South block, said St. George Fire Chief Robert Stoker.
That building sustained heavy damage indoors due to flames before crews extinguished them.
Shortly after, firefighters were called on the report of a brush fire at the meetinghouse on south River Road and Rustic Drive. At that building, blazes were burning in multiple areas on the landscaping.
Crews were then called to a third fire at a stake center on River Road at 1700 South. That building has a fire suppression system that activated and put out the fire, but the building sustained heavy water damage, Stoker said.
Both the meetinghouse near the temple and the 1700 South stake center will likely remain inoperable for a long time, Stoker said, due to heavy damage. He did not have an estimate on cost.
Crews from Washington, Hurricane and Ivins responded due to the suspicious nature of all three fires, Stoker said, as firefighters were concerned more fires might ignite at churches in the area.
He said the fires are not yet being labeled arson, but they're extremely suspicious. St. George police department is investigating, and representatives from the State Fire Marshal and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are on on their way to southern Utah to investigate. The crews will likely break into teams to investigate each of the meetinghouses, Stoker said.
"Any time we get any type of fire at a place of worship whether it's suspicious or not we would contact the state fire marshal and ATF just because we do not know where that investigation would lead, whether it's an accidental or suspicious fire," he added.
While St. George has experienced arson and other suspicious fires in the past, the city has never experienced three fires at places of worship at the same time.
Anyone who might have noticed something suspicious in the area of the fires is asked to call police or the fire department.
Stoker noted that often the details that residents think might be unimportant end up helping investigators find who is responsible. He urged residents in general to watch out for their neighborhoods and if they see something, to say something.
The Ogden Utah Temple was one of the first temples to reopen after closing due to restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
More temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in various countries worldwide continue to adjust operations this month as a phased reopening of temples continues.
These six temples — five in Brazil and one in the Netherlands — will move to Phase 3 by Sept. 7, offering all living and limited proxy ordinances for the dead by appointment:
Campinas Brazil Temple
Fortaleza Brazil Temple
Porto Alegre Brazil Temple
Recife Brazil Temple
São Paulo Brazil Temple
The Hague Netherlands Temple
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
The São Paulo Brazil Temple and visitors center in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Aug 31, 2019. The São Paulo Brazil Temple will move to Phase 3 this week, offering proxy baptisms and all living ordinances.
The Medford Oregon Temple was expected to change to Phase 3 in August but remains in Phase 2-B, offering offering all living ordinances and baptisms for deceased individuals with restrictions.
The online scheduling system for each temple will be activated on the Monday afternoon one week prior to the scheduled starting date. Patrons are expected to schedule an appointment.
Most of the church’s eight temples under renovation have been granted Phase 3 status to allow Latter-day Saints living in those temple districts the opportunity to attend nearby temples.
Which temples have resumed operations after being paused?
Two temples in South Africa recently paused due to local COVID-19 conditions, have returned to operations:
Durban South Africa Temple (Phase 2-B)
Johannesburg South Africa Temple (Phase 3)
Which temples have paused operations?
These five temples have paused operations due to local COVID-19 conditions:
Buenos Aires Argentina Temple
Cebu City Philippines Temple
Manila Philippines Temple
Suva Fiji Temple
Sydney Australia Temple
The last temple to open
The Kyiv Ukraine Temple, which has remained closed since March 2020, reopened in Phase 1 — only limited living husband-and-wife sealings — on July 5.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The last temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to reopen worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be the Kyiv Ukraine Temple.
The latest numbers
The list of reopened temples currently includes 160 of the church’s 168 dedicated temples worldwide. As of Sept. 7, there will be one temple in Phase 1, seven temples in Phase 2, 11 in Phase 2-B, 140 in Phase 3, five that are paused, and eight closed for major renovations.
Aba Nigeria Temple (Phase 3)
Accra Ghana Temple (Phase 3)
Adelaide Australia Temple (Phase 3)
Albuquerque New Mexico Temple (Phase 3)
Anchorage Alaska Temple (Phase 3)
Apia Samoa Temple (Phase 3)
Arequipa Perú Temple (Phase 2)
Asunción Paraguay Temple (Phase 3 as of Aug. 31)
Atlanta Georgia Temple (Phase 3)
Barranquilla Colombia Temple (Phase 2)
Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple (Phase 3)
Bern Switzerland Temple (Phase 3)
Billings Montana Temple (Phase 3)
Birmingham Alabama Temple (Phase 3)
Bismarck North Dakota Temple (Phase 3)
Bogotá Colombia Temple (Phase 2)
Boise Idaho Temple (Phase 3)
Boston Massachusetts Temple (Phase 3)
Bountiful Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Brigham City Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Brisbane Australia Temple (Phase 3)
Buenos Aires Argentina Temple (Paused)
Calgary Alberta Temple (Phase 3)
Campinas Brazil Temple (Phase 3 as of Sept. 7)
Caracas Venezuela Temple (Phase 3)
Cardston Alberta Temple (Phase 3)
Cebu City Philippines Temple (Paused)
Cedar City Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Chicago Illinois Temple (Phase 3)
Ciudad Juárez Temple (Phase 3 as of Aug. 24)
Cochabamba Bolivia Temple (Phase 2-B)
Colonia Juárez Chihuahua Mexico Temple (Phase 3 as of Aug. 24)
Columbia River Washington Temple (Phase 3)
Columbia South Carolina Temple (Phase 3)
Columbus Ohio Temple (Phase 3)
Concepción Chile Temple (Phase 3 as of Aug. 31)
Copenhagen Denmark Temple (Phase 3)
Córdoba Argentina Temple (Phase 3 as of Aug. 31)
Curitiba Brazil Temple (Phase 2)
Dallas Texas Temple (Phase 3)
Denver Colorado Temple (Phase 3)
Detroit Michigan Temple (Phase 3)
Draper Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Durban South Africa Temple (Phase 2-B)
Edmonton Alberta Temple (Phase 3)
Fort Collins Colorado Temple (Phase 3)
Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple (Phase 3)
Fortaleza Brazil Temple (Phase 3 as of Sept. 7)
Frankfurt Germany Temple (Phase 3)
Freiberg Germany Temple (Phase 3)
Fresno California Temple (Phase 3)
Fukuoka Japan Temple (Phase 3)
Gilbert Arizona Temple (Phase 3)
Guadalajara Mexico Temple (Phase 3)
Guatemala City Guatemala Temple (Phase 3)
Guayaquil Ecuador Temple (Phase 3)
Halifax Nova Scotia Temple (Phase 3)
Hartford Connecticut Temple (Phase 3)
Helsinki Finland Temple (Phase 3)
Hermosillo Sonora Mexico Temple (Phase 2-B)
Houston Texas Temple (Phase 3)
Idaho Falls Idaho Temple (Phase 3)
Indianapolis Indiana Temple (Phase 3)
Johannesburg South Africa Temple (Phase 3)
Jordan River Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Kansas City Missouri Temple (Phase 3)
Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple (Phase 3)
Kona Hawaii Temple (Phase 3)
Kyiv Ukraine Temple (Phase 2)
Laie Hawaii Temple (Phase 3)
Las Vegas Nevada Temple (Phase 3)
Lima Perú Temple (Phase 2-B)
Lisbon Portugal Temple (Phase 3)
Logan Utah Temple (Phase 3)
London England Temple (Phase 3)
Los Angeles California Temple (Phase 3)
Louisville Kentucky Temple (Phase 3)
Lubbock Texas Temple (Phase 3)
Madrid Spain Temple (Phase 3)
Manaus Brazil Temple (Phase 3)
Manhattan New York Temple (Phase 3)
Manila Philippines Temple (Paused)
Manti Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Medford Oregon Temple (Phase 2-B)
Melbourne Australia Temple (Phase 3)
Memphis Tennessee Temple (Phase 3)
Mérida Mexico Temple (Phase 3)
Meridian Idaho Temple (Phase 3)
Mesa Arizona Temple (Phase 3)
Mexico City Mexico Temple (Phase 2-B)
Monterrey Mexico Temple (Phase 3)
Montevideo Uruguay Temple (Phase 2)
Monticello Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Montreal Quebec Temple (Phase 3)
Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Nashville Tennessee Temple (Phase 3)
Nauvoo Illinois Temple (Phase 3)
Newport Beach California Temple (Phase 3)
Nuku’alofa Tonga Temple (Phase 3)
Oakland California Temple (Phase 3)
Oaxaca Mexico Temple (Phase 3)
Ogden Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple (Phase 3)
Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Orlando Florida Temple (Phase 3)
Palmyra New York Temple (Phase 3)
Panama City Panama Temple (Phase 3)
Papeete Tahiti Temple (Phase 3)
Paris France Temple (Phase 2-B)
Payson Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Perth Australia Temple (Phase 3)
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple (Phase 3)
Phoenix Arizona Temple (Phase 3)
Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple (Phase 3)
Portland Oregon Temple (Phase 3)
Porto Alegre Brazil Temple (Phase 3 as of Sept. 7)
Preston England Temple (Phase 3)
Provo City Center Temple (Phase 3)
Provo Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Quetzaltenango Guatemala Temple (Phase 2-B)
Raleigh North Carolina Temple (Phase 3)
Recife Brazil Temple (Phase 3 as of Sept. 7)
Redlands California Temple (Phase 3)
Regina Saskatchewan Temple (Phase 3)
Reno Nevada Temple (Phase 3)
Rexburg Idaho Temple (Phase 3)
Rome Italy Temple (Phase 3)
Sacramento California Temple (Phase 3)
Salt Lake Utah Temple (Phase 3)
San Antonio Texas Temple (Phase 3)
San Diego California Temple (Phase 3)
San José Costa Rica (Phase 1)
San Salvador El Salvador Temple (Phase 3)
Santiago Chile Temple (Phase 3 as of Aug. 31)
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple (Phase 3)
São Paulo Brazil Temple (Phase 3 as of Sept. 7)
Sapporo Japan Temple (Phase 3)
Seattle Washington Temple (Phase 3)
Seoul Korea Temple (Phase 2)
Snowflake Arizona Temple (Phase 3)
Spokane Washington Temple (Phase 3)
St. Louis Missouri Temple (Phase 3)
St. Paul Minnesota Temple (Phase 3)
Star Valley Wyoming Temple (Phase 3)
Stockholm Sweden Temple (Phase 2-B)
Suva Fiji Temple (Paused)
Sydney Australia Temple (Paused)
Taipei Taiwan Temple (Phase 3)
Tampico Mexico Temple (Phase 3)
Tegucigalpa Honduras Temple (Phase 3)
The Gila Valley Arizona Temple (Phase 3)
The Hague Netherlands Temple (Phase 3 as of Sept. 7)
Tijuana Mexico Temple (Phase 3)
Toronto Ontario Temple (Phase 3)
Trujillo Perú Temple (Phase 2-B)
Tucson Arizona Temple (Phase 3)
Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico Temple (Phase 3)
Twin Falls Idaho Temple (Phase 3)
Vancouver British Columbia Temple (Phase 3)
Veracruz Mexico Temple (Phase 3)
Vernal Utah Temple (Phase 3)
Villahermosa Mexico Temple (Phase 2-B)
Washington D.C. Temple (Phase 3)
Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple (Phase 3)
The Hong Kong, Tokyo Japan, Hamilton New Zealand, Columbus Ohio, Washington D.C., Mesa Arizona, St. George Utah and Salt Lake City Utah temples are closed for renovation.
As community health restrictions lift in different locations, each temple will advance to a new phase:
Phase 1 — Living husband-and-wife sealings by appointment.
Phase 2 — All living ordinances by appointment.
Phase 2-B — The temple baptistry is open for small groups, particularly for those with a limited-use recommend.
Phase 3 — All living and limited proxy ordinances by appointment.
Phase 4 — All normal operations.
The church has created a document to track the progress of each temple.
Correction: An earlier version incorrectly stated all temples closed on May 25. They closed on March 25.
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Is illiberal campus activism redefining American values?
Before 2020 began and life came to a screeching halt, it had grown obvious to observers of higher education trends that something very strange, even dangerous, was unfolding at universities across the country.
Perhaps the peculiar situation first became evident in the fall of 2015, when a group of Yale University students surrounded one of their professors and berated him for failing to protect them from offensive ideas, screaming, “You have created space for violence” and “I am sick looking at you.”
Maybe matters became clear when in early 2017 students at Middlebury College in Vermont attacked two speakers — the conservative scholar Charles Murray and Middlebury’s own liberal political scientist Allison Stanger — to prevent them from engaging in unsafe discussion. (Stanger left the incident in a neck brace.)
Or maybe the clarifying incident actually unfolded some weeks later on the other side of the country, in Washington state, when progressive student activists at Evergreen College chased a liberal professor named Bret Weinstein off campus for the crime of being the only white professor to remain at work during the campus’ racial justice “Day of Absence” — a day during which white people were asked to remain at home.
Illustration by Craig Frazier
A wave of purportedly liberal but decidedly illiberal activism — unleashed during the insufficiently progressive second term of President Barack Obama and cresting as the election of Donald Trump turned those disappointed progressives toward blind panic — consumed elite liberal arts colleges, the Ivy League and many large state schools.
Protesters shouted down speakers with whom they disagreed, or prevented them from coming to campus in the first place. Students routinely exerted pressure on school leaders to cancel events featuring nonliberal thinkers and figures. They learned to weaponize the university’s vast administrative bureaucracy against dissenters, filing formal complaints against other students and professors. Just as often as not, these complaints’ targets — who often faced lengthy and Kafka-esque investigations — were otherwise left-wing, but had used language in a manner contrary to the new dictates of modern progressivism.
Buzzwords within the world of college activism such as safe space, trigger warning and microaggression have entered the cultural lexicon. And they did not remain campus-exclusive expressions; rather, like the student-activists themselves, they graduated and joined the broader world.
But contrary to the expectations of those who thought real life would disabuse progressive young people of their more militant notions about the dangers of problematic speech, it was the activist mindset that triumphed.
The collective set of millennial progressive values with respect to racism, gender, speech and violence — derisively branded “woke-ism” by its critics, an appropriation of the progressive word for the idea that people need to wake up to the injustices around them — have come to influence every sector where elite opinion holds any sway: from the media to the corporate boardroom to the armed forces of the U.S. military.
“We all live on campus now,” observed the writer Andrew Sullivan in 2018. Three years later, it’s as if we live within the Oberlin College gender and sexuality department.
This means that we should look to the campus activist culture of the present to discover what our broader culture might resemble a few years from now. But of course, 2020 was a very, very strange year for students — and 2021 might be even stranger.
The pandemic did not put an end to student activism, but it certainly focused the national media’s attention elsewhere. This may have given the public the false impression that 2020 was a quiet year for students, when in reality they were just as exercised as previous years.
“Campus activism is in full swing,” says Jennifer Kabbany, editor of The College Fix, a conservative higher education news website. “The pandemic didn’t even put a dent in it.”
Opposition to racism was the dominant theme of progressive activism last year, and it’s likely to remain in vogue for the time being. The keystone event, of course, was the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, which prompted national protests over police violence and racial justice in city after city.
Campuses were much the same. Activists at a handful of universities, including the University of Minnesota, successfully pressured their administrations to cut ties with the police while others wrested promises that the campuses would grapple with more nebulous concerns about the racial climate.
To take just one example, Foothill College in California crafted a Black Lives Matter action statement at the behest of student demonstrators. This plan called for the college to hire both an African American “mental health ambassador” and also an expert “on racial trauma in the Black community to conduct a series of workshops, dialogue sessions and a student conference.” Indeed, mandates that administrators fix the ill-defined emotional and mental traumas of students of color have become perhaps the most common entry on activists’ lists of demands.
“Universities bent over backward to prove their dedication to being actively anti-racist in the wake of George Floyd,” says Kabbany. “Names were stripped from buildings, statues were yanked from the quad and mascots were retired.”
Much campus activism in the last decade has focused on the assumption that so-called problematic ideas — typically conservative ones, from the standpoint of the average young person — are not merely offensive but actively traumatizing. This theory was first popularized by the psychologist Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, in their book “The Coddling of the American Mind,” which explores how the pursuit of “safetyism” has undermined classical liberal values like free speech and due process on campus.
Offensive ideas, according to some student activists, harm their emotional well-being, which is an aspect of their overall health and safety. The university has an obligation to protect students’ safety, and thus it has an obligation to shield them from speech and expression that might hurt them. Efforts to de-platform conservative speakers like Christina Hoff Sommers, Heather Mac Donald and Ben Shapiro proceed straightforwardly from such logic.
This means that activist-led campaigns for a kind of censorship are likely to increase as the university grows more determined to meet unrealistic demands for safety. And of course campuses are very exercised about safety these days.
Hundreds of institutions of higher education are expected to require students to be vaccinated — including the entire University of California system — but many will also require masks and social distancing, regardless of vaccination status. Duke University, for instance, has mandated COVID-19 vaccination — or valid proof of medical or religious exemption — as well as weekly testing for its student population.
The idea that campuses are uniquely unsafe places doesn’t make much sense, regardless of the kind of threat being considered: They are not particularly crime prone; the young people who disproportionately make up the campus are far less at risk of a negative COVID-19 health outcome; if encountering conservative ideas is truly emotionally traumatizing, there is no place where one is less likely to encounter such a thing. Yet the perception that safety is in short supply and it’s the university’s job to do better has been quite the toxic mix. There’s every reason to expect it to be worse as pandemic restrictions extend themselves into the 2021-22 school year.
Indeed, it certainly appears as if the powers that be are trying to re-create the exact conditions of the late Obama-era campus experience. The person most directly responsible for the witch hunts that became commonplace on campus in the 2010s is likely to return to prominence: Catherine Lhamon, Obama’s assistant secretary for civil rights within the Education Department.
During her tenure, Lhamon enforced a set of arbitrary rules relating to Title IX, the federal statute that mandates sex- and gender-based equality in education. The Obama Education Department took the view that Title IX did not require mere nondiscrimination, but also obligated the federal government to take decisive action against problematic words and deeds of a sexual nature. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights advised public universities and colleges that they could lose federal funding unless they proactively investigated all accusations of sexual misconduct, and also instructed school administrators to adjudicate these cases in a manner that fundamentally deprived the accused of any opportunity to defend themselves.
What resulted were trials without defense attorneys, witnesses and, in some cases, judges: The government strongly recommended a single-investigator model, empowering a lone official to decide the merit of the charges and rule accordingly. These procedures were so brazenly unfair that hundreds of wrongfully expelled students eventually filed suit, with the majority prevailing in court.
Regardless of the outcome of individual cases, the mere presence of such a powerful weapon — trial by Title IX — became a vital tool for activists. It was not just actions that triggered Title IX: Mere speech could be just as problematic.
At Northwestern University, in spring 2015, a feminist professor was investigated under the auspices of Title IX because she wrote an article that criticized student-activists on her campus for using Title IX to settle scores. “My point in citing this legal morass,” wrote the professor, Laura Kipnis, “was that students’ expanding sense of vulnerability, and new campus policies that fostered it, was actually impeding their educations as well as their chances of faring well in post-collegiate life, where a certain amount of resilience is required of us all.”
But according to federal education bureaucrats, Title IX forbade retaliation, and thus any criticism of the activists was illegal. Kipnis was eventually cleared of wrongdoing by her university, but as far back as 2013, campus victims’ rights activists have rallied under the banner Know Your IX to spread awareness of the power of this statute. Some within the group have even had the Roman numeral IX tattooed on their ankles.
Lhamon left her post as Donald Trump became president, and the new education secretary, Betsy DeVos, put her best efforts toward reforming the Obama-era Title IX guidance.
By the end of Trump’s presidency, DeVos had crafted much narrower guidance that guaranteed basic due process rights for anyone who had to undergo the proceedings. Importantly, her revised guidance mandated that accused students and professors would have the right to an attorney, to know the charges against them and to confront the person leveling the charge. These commonsense practices — which are foundational to the very concept of justice in the Western world — were sadly absent during her predecessor’s regime, but DeVos took important steps to remedy the situation.
Well, everything old is new again: In May 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Lhamon to the same job she held during the Obama years. Lest anyone worry that Lhamon had gone soft, she reiterated during her July confirmation hearings that she did not believe innocent-until-proven-guilty was a necessary component of Title IX adjudication.
Assuming that she does indeed return to her old post — her nomination is awaiting action by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after a committee deadlocked over it earlier this month — she will be well-positioned to reequip campus activists with their favorite weapon.
Speak with progressive activists — as I did for my 2019 book, “Panic Attack,” a chronicle of modern campus protest tactics — and they will mostly tell you they feel frustrated that so few of their goals have been met.
But in reality, their activism has racked up an impressive number of victories. Indeed, it’s conquered the culture and infiltrated countless American institutions. Corporations now engage in competition to flatter the activist mindset: Consider Coca-Cola coming out swinging against Georgia’s voting restrictions or Ben and Jerry’s deciding not to serve ice cream in occupied Palestine. The latter is hard not to read as a straightforward endorsement of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a protest movement on many campuses against the state of Israel.
The pandemic has not diminished the zeal of the student activist, nor provided much reason to expect that norms of free speech and due process are poised to reassert themselves on college campuses. In theory, now would be an ideal time for administrators to reset students’ expectations for what healthy participation in campus life looks like. In practice, they will probably continue giving the loudest and most aggrieved members of their community exactly what they want. Why stop asking for it now?
It’s worth keeping in mind that there was just one group that earned a pass from enforcers of pandemic restrictions in the government and medical community: last summer’s anti-racism protesters. According to the expert consensus, fighting for progressive justice is good for one’s health. Expect more of this prescription.
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