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Show A3 NEWS Religion and the Internet Prominent blogger speaks on former believers at UVU BY TIFFANY THATCHER Asst. News Editor GILBERT CISNEROS/UVU REVIEW COURTESY OF STOCK.XCHANG UVU stopped giving out condoms on March 1 due to germs and low demand. SEXUAL SAFETY FROM Al anonymous, said, "I would say about half of the students use them, maybe a little less than half." Another member of the staff, who also wanted to remain anonymous, said the reason why contraceptives have been made unavailable to students said that it was due to "poor distribution." This service has not been requested a lot, per se, but if it is a matter of "poor distribu- tion" then it should be made available upon request. "As we reviewed this service we found that it was used infrequently," Erb said in his statement. "We also found that a few students would come in and take multiple handfuls. We were noticing that this service would go unused for days then one or two students would come in and take over half of the contents in the container." This does not exactly conform to previous statements made by employees of the de- partment stating that "around half the students" that came in used them. This also conflicts with the following statement where Erb talks about the need to clean the jar daily, despite it going unused for a day or two. "Another issue was that an open container, in a health center lobby, where multiple hands are accessing the same jar increases the risk of passing on sickness," Erb said in the statement. "We clean our furniture and magazines but effectively disinfecting this jar was far from possible or practical. SHS is continuing this service. At the same time, we would like to ensure that we are using student funds appropriately and effectively within the center." So there may be two different arguments that contradict each other. They need to clean for the many students or there are too few students that need them. Despite either argument, the fact remains that now students will have to provide their own condoms. SHARE THE INIACTIC OF A BOOK March 15th April 30th Buy a. children's c:if.:ok at the UM Bookstore and donate it to First Book to promote literacy in Utah County and receive credit For L:VL: Library FInes. chi kioulis purckimed for Fir.. Ili_wAz rikP•.` 20% off- John Dehlin is one of the first to blog about The Church of Latter-day Saints, on the online scene called Bloggernacle. With Dehlin's podcasts and blog posts, he holds quite a following. Many people drove for miles to attend this conference. One such group that attended was from Salt Lake City. Chad and Todd Smith were familiar with some of the bloggers in the conference and went in order to learn more. These two spoke with enthusiasm about the scholarly things they were learning about the LDS church. Boyd Peterson, the Mormon Studies Coordinator, has put together the past five LDS conferences. "The purpose of these conferences is to create an academic study of religion," Peterson said. Peterson said this is often a difficult perspective because it has been such a black and white subject in the past. "The topic of Mormons has had this 'either or' type of attitude, for or against," Peterson said. "This makes it difficult to look at it from a studious perspective. Now I think that is going to change since the spectrum is becoming more vast." Peterson is in charge of the conference, and is also the one to decide what the topic for the conference will be. The last was on Islam because of the current events of the time. "I saw that so much was on the Internet now," Peterson said. "Mitt Romney was getting a lot of interest online." In the Thursday 1 p.m. session of the conference, Dehlin spoke about the people who may commonly be found on a website called whymormonsleave .com. 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This scholarship requires applicants to earn 12 credit hours per semester with a cumulative once believed and no longer believe. Dehlin has studied the people who fit these criteria. "Reasons for losing faith in the LDS Church are not the common ones you see in loss of faith," Dehlin said. "Reasons such as being offended, or wanting more lifestyle options were not among the reasons given." Dehlin said the most common reasons given were: doctrine issues, church history concerns and issues with Joseph Smith or the Book of Mormon. He continued to describe these people throughout his presentation. The conference also covered the positive and negative things that occur because of the Internet when it comes to Mormonism. Rosemary Avance described an experience she had as she started studying the LDS Church. From a church perspective, the Internet can be negative because of the antiMormon literature that is so prevalent online. Avance is a non-Mormon theological scholar who spoke on faith Thursday at the conference. She shared her experience of taking lessons from LDS missionaries. She spoke to them as a scholar, not as an investigator of the church. The missionaries told her they could get her a lot of literature about Joseph Smith if she wanted it, but they mentioned, "don't Google Joseph Smith." The conference also covered reasons why the Internet positively affects the church. Dehlin gave the example of those who are surrounded by the less desirable types of members. He said these people say in times when they struggled with the church, the Internet was helpful. When the only thing around them to represent the church was the negative examples within their family, they would have left had it not been for the Internet. GPA from 2.0 — 3.0. Awards are available for full-tuition for one or two semesters. The Wolverine Ambassador Scholarship Program is designed for top student leaders. 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