Alumni, a professor and a student say book bans prevent equitable access to information, and parents should resolve concerns individually with their kids

Tsetsgee Enkhbold, a senior from Mongolia majoring in business management and president of the Amiable Mongolian Club, said the Mongolian students are overjoyed to welcome a new professor from home. Tserennyam Sukhbaatar filled a new position in the Faculty of Business & Government as the first BYU–Hawaii faculty member from Mongolia.

Unable to return to their home country of Tonga due to COVID-19 restrictions, Sisters Dorothy Tonga and Asena Kisepi, missionaries at the Laie Temple Visitor’s Center, have been attending BYU–Hawaii as students and full-time missionaries since Winter Semester 2021. On Oct. 8, Tonga was released from full-time service, and Kisepi was released the following Sunday.

Trella Schlutsmeyer said when she noticed so many BYUH students planning to live in tents and cars if they didn’t get housing, she made a Facebook group to help them coordinate their living situations. The group, called Unofficial BYUH Tent City, boasts more than 180 members. She said the purpose of the group was to create a community for students without housing to safely camp on campus.

Former lawyer and Emeritus General Authority Seventy Tad R. Callister expressed the dangers of United States justices replacing the values and powers written into the Constitution with their own moral values or current societal norms.

The Title IX Office hired a new deputy coordinator and is hoping to educate students about what happens when they report sexual misconduct through new videos, rebranding, and an emphasis on training BYU–Hawaii staff. A senior missionary and two Title IX employees shared what they wish students knew about their office, including the difference between Title IX and Honor Code, as well as how much the people at Title IX care about the students who come to them.

I-HHELPP began as a non-profit in 2014 when BYU–Hawaii alumni wanted to build disaster-proof homes to improve the lives of those in the Philippines. It has since transformed to an organization building public bathrooms and other necessities for poor communities in the Philippines.

Creating public interest about startup companies is important to the success of a new business according to Devin Graham, a former BYU-Hawaii student and famed YouTuber known as Devin Super Tramp. Starting with a simple advertisement and now having millions of subscribers on YouTube, he said, “Embrace all platforms: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and Facebook.”

Students got inside advice on how to form a thesis and conduct research as led by the Reading and Writing Center tutors in the Organizing and Researching Workshop on Nov. 27.