International Men’s Day is celebrated on Nov. 19 with the objective to “focus on men’s and boy’s health, improve gender relations, promote gender equality, and highlight positive male role models,” according to the official website of the holiday.

Alyssa Caduada, a senior from the Philippines studying psychology with an emphasis on mental health and human performance, said participants can walk, run or bike the designated trails with 1 mile, 1.5 mile and 3 mile routes to choose from.

Along with his wife’s emphasis on centering to God’s plan, Elder Steven R. Bangerter, General Authority Seventy, shared when we follow the prophet we receive “gems of knowledge” that enable us to return to the Father, “passing the angels who stand as sentinels, to gain our exaltation.” Bangerter spoke at BYU–Hawaii’s Tuesday Devotional on March 19.

Hannah Patricia Manalang, a sophomore majoring in graphic design from the Philippines, said, “Painting is very therapeutic. It makes you forget about a lot of your problems and things that are on your mind. Art gives me a medium not only to create, but to help me focus and to relieve stress.”

Nasanbold 'Naska' Sukhbaatar, a BYU–Hawaii alumnus from Mongolia, was an employee of S.W.A.T.T. when he learned to fix bikes. When Sukhbaatar realized he could use his bike repairing skills to raise money for children needing winter clothes in Mongolia, he said he sought out potential clients and reached his goal of $1,000.

When John S.K. Kauwe III realized he was being offered the position of president at BYU–Hawaii, he and his wife, Monica Kauwe, said their first thought was, “What? Us?”

Buzzerbeater, BYU-Hawaii’s new sports talk show, was “put together on a whim,” according to Myck Miller, a senior from Washington D.C. studying communications. Every Wednesday at 2:30pm, Miller and Jake McCleary, a freshman from Utah studying accounting, cover the top sporting events that occurred during the week in athletics. They also promote upcoming events, highlight athletes, and discuss other international sporting events such as the Olympics.Despite it being the last year for athletics at BYUH, Amos Watene, director of media productions, said, “We’re going to go out with a bang this year… this show is going to be really fun for not only Myck and Jake but all Seasider fans.” Miller and McCleary said their focus for starting the show was not to mourn the end of BYUH athletics, but rather to give appreciation and attention to faculty of the sports department. Miller said, “We see how hard our coaches and our players work, and we feel like through this show they will get the recognition that they deserve.”The original idea to start up a sports show occurred to Miller during his summer break. During the previous semester, Miller was interviewing athletic coaches for school in short 3-5 minutes videos, but during the break he decided to compile them together to make a 30 minutes show with “at least 85% of it covering BYUH sports.”Miller’s father is a sports reporter for the Washington Wizards. After collecting his father’s input, Miller began doing the research and preparation for the upcoming semester to put on the show. He then turned to McCleary to partner with him as co-host.McCleary and Miller met three years prior through McCleary’s other brother, D Jordan McCleary, who is on BYUH’s basketball team. McCleary said he was keen to give sports casting a go. He admitted he had “never done anything in front of a camera,” but he trusted Miller and his abilities to put on the show because “Myck’s been the mastermind of everything.”The first live showing had some errors. Difficulties in audio made the show start later than originally planned, but the moment the technical difficulties dissolved, Miller and McCleary were focused and ready to bring the latest sports news.They expect to attract more viewers than just their mothers, they joked. Miller said they are shooting for triple digits in the live viewings. Students can watch the show on BYUH’s media productions website.

Courtship and meaningful relationships have become both more and less complicated because of new communication technology, according to recent social science research.

“Mormons into Media,” a commentary and review digizine on current pop culture and media, has drawn followers and visitors after just three months of online publication. Daniel Stout, professor in international cultural studies, runs the site with his colleague, Quint Randle, professor at BYU in Provo.