The BYU volleyball staff performs its Blue and White scrimmage on Aug. 20, 2022. Nate Edwards, BYU
All through a ladies’s volleyball match at BYU, Duke College’s solely Black participant was repeatedly harassed with racial slurs and bodily threats. Dozens of spectators have been shut sufficient to listen to and determine the offender.
Not one intervened.
It's not sufficient to blithely say, “Oh, he wasn’t even a pupil.” It's not sufficient to ban the perpetrator from future occasions. It's not adequate to imagine that BYU’s apology, nonetheless honest, will or needs to be the top of it.
Brigham Younger College is a extremely seen face of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Prefer it or not, outsiders will decide the church and the folks of Utah by what occurs there.
Referring to those that stood by whereas felonies have been dedicated on campus, then BYU president Jeffrey R. Holland requested, “Was everybody’s training but so paltry that none had ever heard Edmund Burke’s telling dictum, ‘The one factor mandatory for the triumph of evil is for good males (or ladies) to do nothing’?”
That was 40 years in the past. In Provo, Elder Holland’s lesson nonetheless hasn’t been realized.
Dean Meservy
Sandy, Utah