Mormons<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nThere are other standards that we must keep if BYU\u2019s greatness is to be genuine and long-lasting. Be honest. Don\u2019t take what is not yours, including answers on another\u2019s exam, or a plagiarized essay, or computer software now electronically pilfered in an instant. Be honest\u2014especially with yourself.<\/p>\n
There is too little discipline in most of our housing units, on campus and off. I am asking every landlord and bishop, even now as I ask every roommate, to accept responsibility for the living circumstances and moral climate of our BYU community. Be clean. Don\u2019t pet and play and then wonder why there are problems. There is too much sexual transgression in the world, in the Church, and at BYU. Explicit sexual material should not be your entertainment at movie theaters or on TV. We cannot monitor your cable network any more than we can monitor the videos you can rent at three dozen locations within one mile of this building. We are simply stating what you already know to be the standard of a Latter-day Saint. We are asking for a most unusual community, one that is bound by \u201cdevotion to principles and values that define our character.\u201d We are asking you to stand up and be counted \u201cbecause you are a Mormon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dress and grooming standards need not preoccupy our time and conversation. These are simple, clearly stated principles and can be understood by everyone. Be neat, be clean, be modest. That is really all we need to say. Shorts are not acceptable wear on this campus for men or women, and never have been. Neither are short skirts or grubby jeans. Almost all of you look absolutely marvelous virtually all of the time. Thank you for that. To those few exceptions we simply say that extreme attire or shabby grooming are not acceptable here. Be the best you can be in every way, including your personal appearance. Let it be \u201can outward sign of an inward grace.\u201d Look and be and speak as educated, civilized men and women. That is part of what it means to be at BYU. Do it \u201cbecause you\u2019re Mormon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pat:<\/b>\u00a0May I caution the women in the audience not to be so socially conscious or so consumed with dating that you forget what a Latter-day Saint woman stands for and why she is so strongly encouraged to get an education. Marriage is the highest and holiest union we know in mortality\u2014I hope it comes to every one of you at the proper time. But there is too much in our world, especially in those videos my husband spoke of, that screams only of sex appeal and beautiful body\u2014and almost no voice anywhere asking for faith and intelligence and clean, strong women. The world is generally encouraging exactly what the proverbs call \u201ca jewel of gold in a swine\u2019s snout\u201d\u2014that is, \u201ca fair woman .\u00a0.\u00a0. without discretion\u201d (Proverbs 11:22) . Use discretion. Use good judgment. Don\u2019t think that your future and your fortune hinges on your face or your figure. Develop\u00a0all\u00a0<\/i>of yourself. If you will be personable and intelligent\u2014and above all, if you will be spiritual\u2014so will the men. Be what the Lord has designed women to be and we will have that celestial community we have been speaking of.<\/p>\n
Jeff:<\/b>\u00a0We need just these kinds of opportunities to be together as such a community, to speak to each other and to remind ourselves of the special nature of our opportunity here. For that reason, we are putting new and greatly increased emphasis on our university assemblies this year. With the approval and blessing of our board of trustees, we have carefully revised and limited the annual forum, devotional, and fifteen-stake fireside calendar. This has been done to accommodate even the busiest of students and faculty members.<\/p>\n
We will advertise these events well, and for the weekday assemblies we will shorten the preceding class by five minutes, and delay the start of the next class by five minutes\u2014all in an attempt to let you come and go from the Marriott Center to even the most distant buildings on campus. We are asking the faculty in those classes to assist us by announcing the speaker and walking with you to these assemblies. We will be closing all but the most essential services on campus for that hour so that as many as possible may take advantage of this special association. I don\u2019t want us to be 26,000 \u201csplendid strangers.\u201d A few times each semester we want you to be together as family and friends to strengthen our values and bind us as a people.<\/p>\n
Pat:<\/b>\u00a0As President Ballif has announced, our speaker next week will be President Ezra Taft Benson, Prophet and President of the Church, and chairman of the BYU Board of Trustees. Nowhere else in the Church would college students have such an experience! Surely\u00a0everyone\u00a0<\/i>in the BYU community will want to be in attendance to hear President Benson\u2019s message. Please plan to attend each carefully calendared assembly this year. The administration has never worked harder to provide outstanding speakers.<\/p>\n
Jeff:<\/b>\u00a0May I make a special appeal regarding your study habits, and then Pat will comment on one very important aspect of that task. As any glance at our physical plant or faculty strength or course offering will quickly attest, an astronomical investment has been made in your education. You are receiving at BYU what a recent national publication described quite simply as the educational buy of the nation.<\/p>\n
The thousands of dollars of difference in tuition between other private universities and our own comes as a direct benefit to you from hundreds of thousands\u2014millions technically\u2014of silent benefactors, the faithful tithepayers of this Church. These are the offerings of the faithful around the globe, many of whom may never have seen BYU, nor may ever have a child or grandchild attend here. Yet the leaders of the Church care enough about those who\u00a0can\u00a0<\/i>come to make this stunning investment in a handful of students. In addition to all the buildings and the ball games, and surrounding amenities here, every one of you\u2014every one\u00a0<\/i>of you\u2014receives the equivalent of several thousand dollars in personal scholarship money each year just for attending. And that is in addition to whatever other financial aid you may also receive from the school. That is given because the Brethren love you and believe in you. They believe you will learn and grow and bless the Church and mankind because of your unique experience here. They believe you will stand proudly and tall when someone asks if you are a Mormon.<\/p>\n
Please take full advantage of this special opportunity that is yours. It will be gone all too quickly. I love fun and Frisbees and fall afternoons, too, but don\u2019t let them blunt your primary purpose in coming here\u2014pursuit of a superb education to prepare you for service to God and your fellowman.<\/p>\n
Time matters so very much to me now. I need it so much, and I seem to have so little for the truly important tasks I wish to pursue. Maybe I\u2019m just getting old. In any case I feel\u2014and you will soon enough\u2014the pain of Yeats\u2019 lines:<\/p>\n
The years like great black oxen tread the world,\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.<\/i>
\nAnd I am broken by their passing feet.<\/i>
\n[William Butler Yeats, \u201cThe Countess Cathleen,\u201d 1892]<\/p>\n
Grab the ring as it passes, and then let extra effort shape your special destiny. Study first, study well, study hard,\u00a0Then\u00a0<\/i>play or party or pig out. Make time work\u00a0for\u00a0<\/i>you, not against you. Start papers early. Someone once said there is no such thing as good writing, just good rewriting. Your essays cannot be of the quality we expect, nor can you be taking advantage of your education in the way that I have just been pleading you to, if you leave papers until the night before they are due and then rush toward a deadline with literary meat cleaver in hand. Furthermore, your roommates are\u00a0not\u00a0<\/i>benefited by primal screams at about 2:00 in the morning when the word processor goes on the fritz. Write it early, let it cool. Sleep on it and come back for refinement. Polish your prose and take pride in saying something significant. That takes time.<\/p>\n
Please. Use it or lose it. Study first and play later. Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s cry still holds: \u201cO God, [thou] dost sell us all good things at the price of labor\u201d (Notebooks\u00a0<\/i>[c. 1500], trans. Jean Paul Richter). Make this year count.<\/p>\n
Pat:<\/b>\u00a0In that same spirit may I just insert a very personal piece of counsel on a matter that has been a great blessing to us and I believe can be a great blessing to you. While working on his Ph.D. at Yale University, my husband got to know well one of the senior reference librarians who had given him valuable help researching for his dissertation.<\/p>\n
On a whim one day, he said, \u201cIlene, I need to know how many books we have in either the Sterling Memorial or Beinike Rare Book Libraries that claim to have been delivered by an angel.\u201d<\/p>\n
The librarian gave him a peculiar look (but my husband has always received peculiar looks) and said, \u201cI don\u2019t know of any\u00a0books\u00a0<\/i>that have been delivered by angels. Swords maybe. Or chariots. But I don\u2019t know of any books.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, just run a check for me would you? It may take a little doing, but I really would like to know. It would help me with some religious writing I am doing.\u201d (Now, please understand that Yale has the fourth-largest library in the nation, with nearly 9,000,000 volumes in its collection.)<\/p>\n
Ilene dutifully did some checking. For several days she had nothing to report, but then one day was all smiles as my husband strolled by to his carrel.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Holland, yoo hoo,\u201d she said, very unlibrarianlike. \u201cI have a book for you. I found one book which, it is claimed, was delivered by an angel. But it\u2019s one from your people,\u201d she said. (She always spoke of Latter-day Saints as my husband\u2019s people, which probably meant she had him confused with Wilford Woodruff.)<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s one from your people,\u201d she said, and she held up a paperback copy of the Book of Mormon. \u201cI\u2019m told you can get them for a dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy word,\u201d she continued. \u201cAn angel\u2019s book for a dollar. You would think angels would charge more, but then again, where would they spend it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, that\u2019s a funny\u2014and true\u2014story, but I wonder if we have considered the majesty of our message to the world. Prophets are not just everyday people, and angels do not visit us often, but of all the books that will be at your disposal this year at the university, only one has been delivered by an angel. President Benson has asked the Church as a whole to renew their reading of this book. We repeat that invitation to the BYU family.<\/p>\n
At a very difficult and challenging time in my life, Jeff gave me a new copy of the scriptures and I began to read the Book of Mormon as I had never read it before. In a very real way that I cannot share today, but which is very personal and very true, it saved my life. I treasured every word, I savored every chapter. I came to know the promise of section 84 in the Doctrine and Covenants\u2014that my mind was\u00a0not\u00a0<\/i>darkened and I was\u00a0not\u00a0<\/i>under condemnation because I had\u00a0not\u00a0<\/i>forgotten the Book of Mormon (see verses 54\u201357).<\/p>\n
We ask you, every day you are here, to read at least one verse in the Book of Mormon\u2014more if you can\u2014but\u00a0something\u00a0<\/i>from the Book of Mormon to give light to your life: \u201cLight is Spirit, even the Spirit of Jesus Christ\u201d (D&C 84:45). I promise you miracles if you will do it.<\/p>\n
Jeff:<\/b>\u00a0Let us close with one final story. It is a BYU variation on Brother Skidmore\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n
For more than twenty-five years Ben E. Lewis was the executive vice-president of Brigham Young University. He is now retired. I recently asked him to do something very important for the university for which I wanted to give him a token of modest compensation. He refused the money. I argued with him and told him I was the president and he had to do what I said. He said he was retired and that he didn\u2019t have to do anything I said. I shoved the money at him and he shoved it back at me. We argued and then he told me this story.<\/p>\n
He said that following his undergraduate years at BYU (where he was a student body president, by the way) he had received an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship for graduate work at the University of Denver. As part of the Sloan fellowship, he and a handful of other students were regularly taken out into the Colorado business community to meet leaders and executives, and enjoy rather high-level exchange with them. One particular professor always took the group, and they spent many hours together.<\/p>\n
After each day\u2019s work with these business leaders, the professor would always stop some where for a beer with the students. Brother Lewis always ordered a soft drink. That led to a lot of conversation over many weeks, and the professor came to introduce Ben\u00a0everywhere\u00a0<\/i>they went\u2014at every business, at every school, to every leader, and to every executive\u2014this way: \u201cThis is Ben Lewis,\u201d he would say. \u201cHe\u2019s a Mormon and he doesn\u2019t drink beer.\u201d Every-where and with everyone it was always the same\u2014\u201cThis is Ben Lewis. He\u2019s a Mormon and he doesn\u2019t drink beer.\u201d Over the course of\u00a0many\u00a0<\/i>months that phrase was repeated dozens and dozens and dozens of times. \u201cThis is Ben Lewis. He\u2019s a Mormon and he doesn\u2019t drink beer.\u201d<\/p>\n
One day after a field trip to Fort Collins, the professor wheeled the group, up to a pit stop of some kind where, of course, he and the others ordered their beer. Except this time the professor ordered\u00a0two\u00a0<\/i>beers. Ben asked him why. He said, \u201cBecause its my birthday and you are going to have a beer with me.\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d Ben said, \u201cI can\u2019t have a beer with you, but I do wish you a happy birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u00a0will\u00a0<\/i>have a beer with me,\u201d his teacher said. \u201cAt least you must have\u00a0one sip.\u00a0<\/i>It is very important to me, and I ask it of you this one time.\u201d And he put a dollar bill on the table. \u201cDrink\u00a0one sip\u00a0<\/i>of beer and that dollar is yours.\u201d Brother Lewis said he didn\u2019t want to give offense but, no, he would not be able to drink the beer, even for the dollar.<\/p>\n
That conversation, with some increasing tension, escalated until the man had placed $50 on the counter. He was obviously intent on having Ben participate in this unusual birthday party, and he was in a position to do a student considerable academic harm if he were so inclined.<\/p>\n
Like Brother Skidmore, Brother Lewis wondered what to do. He did not want to offend a man who had been particularly kind to him. It was now a very awkward situation, and virtually everyone in the restaurant was aware of some difficulty over at their corner table. One sip would soothe the situation. Surely the Lord would know the integrity of his heart in this matter. Certainly no permanent damage would be done. Furthermore, $50 in 1941 meant a lot to a working student who wasn\u2019t at all sure where his next meal was coming from.<\/p>\n
There, a long way from home, as he mulled over this difficult situation and wondered how to handle the problem, words so clear and loud spoken directly to his brain nearly startled him from the table. As audibly as I speak to you, Brother Lewis said he heard the words from an unseen source. \u201cThis is Ben Lewis. He\u2019s a Mormon, and he drinks beer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he said there in my office, \u201cI didn\u2019t drink the beer, and I can\u2019t take the money. I\u2019m a Mormon. This is Brigham Young University. I love it with all my heart. I have given my life to it. I want to give more. I can\u2019t take the money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pat:<\/b>\u00a0May we say it again one last time. \u201cA person\u2019s greatness is measured not by her personal wealth or his professional standing, but by the strength of his devotion to principle .\u00a0.\u00a0. by the values that .\u00a0.\u00a0. define her character.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeff:<\/b>\u00a0God bless you to have a beautiful and rewarding new school year. Make it that way because you are Mormons. We love you and care about each one of you very much, including and especially those who may not be members of our Church. We know of the jobs you are taking and the sacrifice you are making to keep yourselves in school. We see you come and go on campus with devotion and faith and hope for the future. We know some of your problems and heartaches. Most of you try so hard to be what you should be. We will forever love you and admire you for that. You are good in your hearts, and we will do our best at this university to also make you wise.<\/p>\n
We love you and measure that love as we measure the greatness of this school\u2014by the profundity and power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Sister Holland and I testify together of the Savior\u2019s life and mission and restored Church in these latter days. We testify of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the prophet Ezra Taft Benson\u2014prophets, seers, and revelators in the grand tradition of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Alma. We testify this morning of God\u2019s love for you\u2014and our own\u2014in the blessed name of Jesus Christ. Amen.<\/p>\n
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