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An old black and white photo of the Church College of Hawaii McKay building. The old clock tower is seen on top of the McKay mural.

On a hunt to find the source of the hourly campus chimes, one Ke Alaka’i reporter uncovers the mystery of the University bells

BY Elle Larson, October 22, 2021

Weeks into the Fall 2021 Semester, Westminster bell chimes began singing across campus and Laie every hour.

PCC guests, on paddleboards, float on the lit-up lagoon. On the side, a man holds a lit fireknife.

PCC’s lunar legends kayak tour allows visitors to enjoy on an intimate float under Hawaiian stars

BY Elle Larson, September 22, 2021

When the Polynesian Cultural Center goes to sleep, tour guides still speak the legends of their ancestors underneath the brightly beaming moon. The PCC hosts nightly kayak and paddle board tours on the lagoon called Lunar Legends of Polynesia.

A group of 14 boys playing with a kickball on the water slide. The bounce houses can be seen in the background.

Soaking wet, hundreds of Laie Primary children line BYUH’s front field to jump in one of six bounce houses

BY Elle Larson, August 18, 2021

Hundreds of families flooded the front field of BYU–Hawaii to kick off the Laie Days celebration while children ages 1 to 18 played on the cloudy summer day on July 2. The event, hosted by the Laie Community Association, included six bounce houses, a slip and slide, large double water slide, dunk tank, bounce houses and hot dogs.

Three students playing soccer on the turf field wearing basketball shorts and T-shirts. One student is raising his arm and another is lying on the ground.

Sweaty seasiders celebrate the opening of BYUH’s new turf field

BY Elle Larson, August 18, 2021

Under the hot summer sun, Laie community members and BYU–Hawaii students celebrated the grand opening of a new turf field on campus July 1. Athletes played a jumble of games, including rugby, soccer and spike ball, while spectators enjoyed pizza and ice cream bars on the sidelines. Not a frown could be found among the excited group.

Laie community members attending the devotional sitting at picnic tables and on camp chairs under a black canopy with golden lights over their heads.

Laie lifers share the legacy of the Lord’s pu’uhonua, a little Zion in the making

BY Elle Larson, August 12, 2021

On a cloudy Independence Day under the cover of pavilions, the Laie community gathered to enjoy heaping scoops of ice cream while listening to the Laie Days devotional.

Aisha Liongi wearing a long red dress with white polka dots, standing with one hand on her hip on the grass in front of the temple.

Tongan student says doing her late father's temple work brought her peace post pandemic

BY Elle Larson, August 09, 2021

Going to the temple and serving as a witness to her grandparents’ baptisms linked Vaishali Kilaparthi, a senior from India majoring in accounting, to her deceased relatives, she shared. “I was thinking the whole time, ‘These are literal people I’m holding in my hand.'

Band members wearing green-leaved shirts hold up their drum sticks and smile with metal steel drums in front of them.

Audience members participate by howling and whistling during BYUH’s Shaka Steel outdoor twilight concert

BY Elle Larson, June 24, 2021

A group of more than 50 members of the BYU–Hawaii community gathered outside the Cannon Activities Center, unmasked and under the evening sky to enjoy a musical set by the Shaka Steel Band. The band is a group of students, faculty and community members headed by Dr. Darren Duerden of the Faculty of Culture, Language & Performing Arts. Toes tapped and children danced as the group performed nine pieces on June 18, 2021, surprising listeners with several different genres of music.

Dr. Neil Anderson looks to his left sitting down writing on a notebook, wearing a black tie with a black-spotted bowtie and glasses reflected on the light.

The man behind the bowtie: Retiring TESOL professor, Dr. Neil J. Anderson, reflects on his 41-year-old career

BY Elle Larson, June 16, 2021

While he appears to be an average, bow-tie-wearing professor, Dr. Neil J. Anderson is known as a “TESOL international rockstar,” a name dubbed by BYU–Hawaii Dean Mark Wolfersberger. Anderson, a professor in the Faculty of English & Social Work, shared experiences from his 41-year career as an internationally-acclaimed TESOL professor and researcher. He plans to retire from BYUH after the Spring 2021 Semester.

Elder Tam, wearing grey suit pants a white button up shirt and a red and blue striped tie, next to Sister Tam, wearing a white and black long dress, with a field and trees behind them.

The Tams share their escape from the Vietnam War, separated from their families but led to safety in the United States

BY Elle Larson, June 12, 2021

Surrounded by the death and chaos of the Vietnam War as children, Alexander and Janette Tam shared their survival stories of near-death attacks from pirates with swords and communist guerilla fighters, to their escape on boats and airplanes through three different countries to arrive in the United States, where the now missionary couple met.

Tevita and Mele Lavulavu put colorful leis around each others' necks while wearing light blue button-up shirts with a hallway, bench and greenery behind them.

Retiring from BYUH after more than 20 years, the Lavulavu’s say they love and treat students as their own children

BY Elle Larson, June 08, 2021

A couple from Tonga, Mele and Tevita Lavulavu, said they were grateful for the kindness of the leaders and students on campus who they encountered during their 23 years of work. The roles they tried to fill as parent figures for BYU–Hawaii students, they said, were just as important as their jobs.