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Haeley van der Werf
Each year during the month of October, people all around the United States come together to mourn those who died due to domestic violence, celebrate those who survived and connect those who work to end violence.
Each week, female students and wives of students gather to learn how to defend themselves using a globally-credited method called Empowerment Self-Defense, a unique method that includes verbal skills, situational awareness and trusting intuition along with physical defense skills. The Empowerment Self-Defense (ESD) movement is a method promoted by the United States-based non-profit ESD Global.
Through using mathematical examples and visuals to show how seemingly insignificant actions can have a major impact on our lives, Paul Hurst, an associate professor of mathematics, commenced the 2019-2020 school year by speaking at Convocation in the McKay Auditorium on Sept. 26. He taught the best combat against chaos is the Holy Ghost.
Alyssa “AJ” Caduada, a senior from the Philippines majoring in psychology, has been selected as the Winter 2019 Graduation speaker. As she looked back on her time at BYUH, Caduada shared how the spiritual environment and supportive teachers are some of the things that made her experience wonderful and prepare her for future motherhood.
Loud chatter filled the room as children walked in with their parents and started playing with toys. Clinical Counselor and Disability Services Coordinator Leilani Auna gathered the families in a circle and started the Parenting thru Playgroup with a prayer. Parenting thru Play, sponsored by Counseling and Disability Services, promotes parent-child interaction and routines for children. The group meets every Wednesday and Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. in the Living and Learning Resource Center.
The sun was setting over the David O. McKay Classroom Building on Nov. 1 as students and the BYU–Hawaii Genuine Gold Society joined the President’s Council and LDS Philanthropies for the President’s Dinner, an evening designed to acknowledge the donors and allow them to see the difference they are making in the lives of BYUH students.