Select the response that accurately reflects your style for each choice. After answering all of the questions, add up your responses and see whether you are a minimalist or a maximalist.

Student and community members share how Jared Pere has taught the importance of carving the Polynesian way

BYU–Hawaii students cast in the “Book of Mormon Videos” hope their offspring will have their faith increased by watching their performances

Sterling Kerr, a senior biology major from Utah and the teaching assistant for the animal behavior class, said crickets are “one of the only animals on the earth actively going through an evolutionary process [people] can see with [their] eyes. … They’re a small cog in a really big wheel of things we don’t get to see every day.”

As students returned from summer and got settled into Fall Semester, Seasider Sports and Activities employees said they have planned a fun-filled semester of events that all students are welcome and encouraged to attend.

For the last couple of months, a small group of students within the Political Science Department have been preparing the agenda for a new initiative at BYU–Hawaii, explained student lead of the initiative, Taylor Nikolaus, a senior from Arizona majoring in political science. Nikolaus said the initiative, which focuses on religious freedom and human dignity, is the beginning of an international network beneficial for BYUH students’ future careers and personal lives.

Farmers and researchers are using oysters in a more than 800-year-old loko ia, or fishpond, on Kualoa Ranch, blending Hawaiian heritage and today’s innovation to overcome problems pre-contact Hawaiian farmers did not have to face. The problems include not having enough fish to eat pond algae and a lack of banana and coconut leaves to help grow taro better by keeping down weeds, they said.

Embody Love Club President Kylee Denison said the purpose of the club is to promote self-compassion and confidence for students on campus. She explained it’s difficult for people to love themselves when they feel they’re alone. “I really want people to connect and be around like-minded people and have a safe space for vulnerability.”

A sea of red vests assembled in the Aloha Ballroom for Hawaiiana Day, a day directed towards giving new students an opportunity to serve, on September 15.