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Show Patrons Call Campus Education Week Inspirational' By JohnC. Speer Spotlight Writer "The Inspiration wears off after about a month, but what a super month!" said one "graduate" of this year's BYU Campus Education Week. Hundreds of people from South-central Utah flocked to Brigham Young University's Provo campus to listen to lectures, see plays, movies, learn cooking, tatting, sewing, raquet ball and golf; not to mention politics, government, bowling and a myriad of other subjects. Clearly, however, the chief attraction for the nearly 20,000 people' who attended was the inspirational and religious classes those lectures which were and are designed to motivate the listener to try harder, reach higher or climb farther. The campus had its fair share of these spiritual and temporal motivators such as Stephen R. and John R. R. Covey, George Durrant, Richard M. Eyre, Lucille Johnson and David A. Christensen. The most popular speakers such as Durrant and the Coveys were assigned to the 22.000-seat Marriott Center. Others spoke to audiences packed into concert hall?, drama theaters and large classrooms. Although Marcla Bosshardt, Redmond, came for the whole week this past August, her husband Neal, joined her for dancing lessons one evening. Fay Hampton, Salina Stake Relief Society president, also attended for the week and said she would like to have any of the great lecturers speak to residents locally, Vicki Nielsen, Aurora, attended for one day and said' she "loved every minute of it." "My friends invited me to stay overnight on their floor so I could go another day," she said. "Next year, no matter what, I'm going to go for the whole four days." "It has changed my whole life," said one patron as he rah from the end of one class to the beginning of another. "The teachers don't just tell you what to do to imprvoe .yourself , they give you con-structrive ideas about how to start. It's just wonderful." Whole families converge on the campus during the four day ''festival." There are classes for young people although education week officials encourage only children over 13 or 14 to attend the classes. There are classes for women only and classes designed for men. Some classes teach couples how to be better marriage partners; others teach children how to cope with their parents. "I think Education Week has done more for my family than any other single outside source," commented one father after a "family togetherness" seminar. The cost for the week this past August was $15 tuition. Patrons either stayed in motels, in campus dorms, or with friends. One education week teacher kidded his audience that with all the classes available to them for four days, they actually paid only 25 cents for his lecture. The speaker was Eric Stephan, a communications consultant who gets paid considerably more for speaking to businessmen for an hour. The $15 a week compares favorably to spending that $15 for hearing seven or eight speakers at a Positive Thinking Rally for one day, one student said. On Friday afternoon many patrons were asking informatoin guides where they could sign up for next year's Education Week. They were patiently told that there is no need to be concerned. The campus has an open door policy for these four days. Anyone of any faith is welcome to purchase a ticket. There are so many classes that so far, there has been no need to limit enrollment generally. Popular classes outside of the Marriott Center, however, have a strange tendency to fill up even before the class offically begins. Next year's Education Week will be Aug. 23-26, 1983. If you would like to be placed on the Education Week mailing list, write to Campus Education Week, ' BYU, 297 HCEB, Provo, Utah 84602. Marcla and Neal Bosshardt, Redmond, get into the swing of things during BYU Education Week dance class. Fay Hampton, Salina I.DS Stake Relief Society president discusses lecture with James .Moss, following an The couple enjoyed (he many offerings of the Provo four-day event along with thousands of others. Education Week lecture by Mr. Moss. Scores of speakers traditionally address thousands . |