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Welcoming students back to campus
Posted in Educationon Sep 9, 2006
I was looking over BYU Newsnet campus headlines today when I saw this one. The headline was: Opening Socials Welcome Students Back to Campus while the tag line was: To begin the year with a grand entrance, the four on-campus housing areas are holding their opening socials for residents.
The words that seemed a little odd to me are welcome back, and on-campus housing. This just seems a little odd to me because typically a large majority of those who live in on-campus housing are freshman, which means we wouldn’t be welcoming them back. Now granted, there are some students who are returning to campus who live in on-campus housing (many of whom live in Wyview which I argue isn’t really on-campus), but I’m just saying that the headline of the article could have been written to better fit the demographics.
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Wyview is not on-campus housing
Posted in Educationon Sep 8, 2006
I’m tired of BYU advertising Wyview Park as on-campus housing. Just because it is owned and operated by BYU doesn’t mean that it is on-campus. I used Google Earth to find some distances from Wyview and a few off-campus housing complexes to various campus locations. All distances are linear, and not the actual distance a student may travel while walking to the location.
To the library entrance:
- Wyview: 0.88 miles
- Glenwood: 0.62 miles
- University Villa: 0.67 miles
- Centennial: 0.89 miles
To the Marriott Center:
- Wyview: 0.65 miles
- Glenwood: 0.52 miles
- University Villa: 0.87 miles
- Centennial: 1.19 miles
To the Joseph Smith Building:
- Wyview: 1.02 miles
- Glenwood: 0.69 miles
- University Villa: 0.49 miles
- Centennial: 0.78 miles
When looking at these number, it is hard to imagine that Wyview is considered “on-campus” while the other complexes are considered “off-campus.”
These numbers were easy to find with Google Earth’s distance measuring tool. Google Earth is part of Google Pack, a free collection of essential software. You can download Google Pack by clicking here.
Update March 1, 2008: For those who are not familiar with BYU campus, you can take a look at the campus map to see where some of the buildings are. Wyview is northwest of campus, on the far side of the stadium. Glenwood is west of the northern part campus, about 3/10th of a mile northwest of Heleman halls, a housing complex that more properly can call itself, “On-campus.” University Villa just a few blocks west from the tennis courts on the southwest side of campus. Centennial is located near a few other large complexes southeast of campus.
Update January 23, 2009: I’ve also added this map to help show where a few major on-campus and off-campus complexes are located with respect to the main part of campus where students take classes (the blue shaded region). Wyview is the brown shaded region along the top of the map.
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Stupid things freshmen do
Posted in Educationon Mar 8, 2005
This is a story from my glory days as a resident assistent in the dorms:
My fellow RA was awaken one morning by loud banging against one of the doors adjacent to his. He got out of bed and didn’t find anything, at first. Then he found a video camera duct taped above his door. He watched the tape and found a record of a group of students plotting to prank a resident by slamming something against his door early in the morning and use the video camera to capture the residents responce. The only problem is, that the video also recorded them pulling off the prank, and the put the camera right above the RAs door.
We all had a good laugh at watching the pranking residents incriminate themselves on their own video tape.
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