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Show 13 THE RIVALRY Thanksgiving 2007 DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE I NVESTIGATES U vs. BYU Pride, paint and pranks Parker Williams the Block U blue and wrote "Scalp Utah" on sidewalks around campus. Not to be outdone, U students retaliated with buckets of red paint and targeted the steps of BYU's Maeser Building, the school's sundial and the campus flag pole. U students later returned to paint "The Y is a Girls' School" on the road to the upper BYU campus. As tune went on, the pranks became more elaborate. In 1956, a giant, lighted Y was displayed on the hill above the block U. Expecting revenge, members from the Intercollegiate Knights, a BYU service and school-spirit club, were put on watch to guard the block Y in Provo. Instead of going after the Y, U students burned a large U into a lawn in the center of campus and tagged "Beat BYU" with red paint on trash cans, sidewalks and road signs. The pranks escalated three months later when U fraternities got involved. Fraternity members broke into a BYU building and stole the BYU victory bell, which had been mounted on a trailer to facilitate easy transportation to sporting events. The police later found the bell in Salt Lake City. The Cougars responded to the theft STAFF WRITER School-sanctioned Rivalry Week activities aren't always enough for students to show their school pride leading up to the University of Utah vs. Brigham Young University football game. Some students opt to show their spirit in other, often illegal, ways. BYU police officers are extra vigilant during the weeks surrounding Rivalry Week, Haroon said. Extra officers, armed with radios and binoculars, are staffed throughout campus and work longer hours than normal. "Typically, the things we experience are red paint on things," said Michael Haroon of the BYU Police Department. The pranking has become more tame in recent years, though. In the book Brigham Young University: MAEGAN BURR/Ibt Doily Utah Chronicle A House of Faith, authors Gary James Bergera and Ronald Priddis discuss the history behind the rivalry pranks. On the morning of Sept. 26, the block U was toiliet-papered According to the book, BYU initiated the to give it the shape of a T . The act was the latest in a long war of pranks in 1939 when students painted history of pranks between the schools. ASST. NEWS EDITOR Choosing to attend Brigham Young University might, mean surrendering some constitutional rights, college freespeech advocates say, but the University of Utah is not without flaws either when it comes to academic and student freedoms. "If you sign up to go to BYU, you kind of sign over some of your rights," said Emily Guidry, spokeswoman for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Guidry said FIRE, an organization that ranks colleges and universities according to their allowance of free speech, does not rate BYU because it does not have policies that allow for free speech, referring to the school's Honor Code and restrictions on academic freedom. The U received a "red light" ranking for censoring student speech because it advertises its commitment to free speech but still has some restrictive policies, such as prohibiting hate speech in the Residence Halls. Susan Olson, U associate vice president for faculty, said. BYU does not have to guarantee rights to free speech because it is a private, religious university. "Private institutions are not covered by the Constitution," Olson said. BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said BYU's academic freedom and free- speech policies are in keeping with the school's mission, which involves both spiritual and secular learning. The official BYU academic-freedom policy, written in 1992, limits speech that "contradicts or opposes, rather than analyzes or discusses, fundamental (LDS) Church doctrine or policy," "deliberately attacks or derides the (LDS) Church or its general leaders" or "violates the Honor Code because the expression is dishonest, illegal, unchaste, profane or unduly disrespectful of others." This policy came into the public view in June 2006 when BYU philosophy professor Jeffrey Nielsen was not rehired after writing a column in The Salt Lake Tribune supporting same-sex marriage. Daniel Graham, chairman of the BYU philosophy department, said it might have been possible for Nielsen to make the statement if he had stuck to the issue instead of denouncing the LDS Church's official position, or changed the wording of his statement. "When you explicitly criticize the (LDS) Church and its leaders, you're definitely out," Graham said. Since the incident, Graham said his department has tried to make it "doubly clear" where it stands on issues of academic freedom. "We are affiliated with the (LDS) Church and we are supportive of (it)," See FREEDOM Page 21 See PRANKS Page 22 U vs. BYU Stats and facts Both schools limit speech Rochelle McConkie by enameling blue "Y's" on the door posts of a fraternity house. In 1967, U students doused BYU's bronze cougar with red paint, along with three buildings on the BYU campus. Several students were apprehended, and each had to pay a $100 fine. BYU students later organized a group known as "The People's Front of Provo." The group orchestrated a prank by dyeing fountains around the U campus blue. U students responded by painting "BYU sucks" on a BYU administration building, the Marriott Center and a pedestrian overpass. After BYU destroyed the U team at a football game in the early 1980s, BYU students decided to remind U students of the score, 56-28, by painting it on the pillars of the Park Building and the Huntsman Center. Several students were caught and were forced to pay a total of $1400 to remove the paint. In 2004, eight U baseball players were arrested in connection with painting the Yearfounded 1850 Brigham Young Founder Enrollment %Men % Women 27,648 55 45 1862 Karl Maeser 33,739 f! a 51 49 Ethnic minority {%) (undergraduate) 11 LDS (%) Unknown 24.24 average Freshman ACT performance Freshman entering GPA 3.52 : About $120 4i Resident tuition (per credit hour) 90% in 24-30 range 3.76 IDS $197, Non-LDS $394 |
