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Levi Fuaga
BYU-Hawaii Professor Eve Koller expressed how she felt divine reassurance while losing her newborn son after just six hours of life.
People of all ages gathered in the McKay Auditorium awaiting music of a different time period. The lights darkened, but the lights were shining on the Seaside Ragtime Band. The moment Darren Duerden struck his xylophone, silence prevailed in the auditorium as the band’s fun and fast-paced musicians played tunes from the 1920s.
Yash Naiker, a junior from Malaysia majoring in political science, said he lives by the saying, “Do better than what you did yesterday.” He shared there’s a tendency for people to compare themselves to others and forget to work to improve their own well-being. As a college student, he said his mantra helps him improve himself and his work ethic. “Being a student is hard. I don’t think it’s easy. So knowing this [mantra], it pushes me in the right direction ... to become a better person and a better student.”
After recognizing BYU–Hawaii’s lack of a club focused on the dramatic arts, Melissa Collins, a senior from Italy majoring in interdisciplinary studies for theatre and film, said she met with Mark Maslar, senior from southern California also majoring in interdisciplinary studies, and the two of them banded together to create the Film and Theatre Club.
Nomungerel Enkhtuvshin, an intern from Mongolia working in Counseling Services, uses creative arts to mentor students, like she did for a therapy session on Sept. 23.
When former University President John Tanner encouraged Brandyn Akana, head of Seasider Sports & Activities, to host more activities using the McKay Pool after its renovation in 2017, Akana said he immediately thought of showing a movie.