Buffalo Chip to the mystery writer of the scurrilous ad slamming Eagle Mountain mayoral candidate Richard Culbertson with the epithet, "Been divorced!" We assume it was an enemy. It couldn't have been someone connected to Culbertson, someone who was looking for a sympathy vote ... could itfi Nah. On the other hand, what enemy would resort to such a weird tactic when there's plenty of other anti-Culbertson fodder at handfi The state Department of Commerce revoked his real estate license, alleging loan fraud and accusing him of forging signatures, falsifying loan papers and using a straw buyer -- all charges Culbertson has vigorously denied but which make for more respectable dirty politics.

Beehive to a Santaquin teenager who won a national award for fruit production. Diana Rowley received the honor at the National FFA convention Oct. 26 in Indianapolis for using good management practices at two farms to efficiently produce and market cherries, peaches and apples. She had to win on local and state levels before moving on to the national awards. Rowley, a freshman at Brigham Young University-Idaho, said she expects her farming experience to come in handy as an agricultural business major.

Beehives to state Sen. Curtis Bramble, and Rep. Chris Herrod for accurately representing their districts in the Provo area. Both voted for the voucher bill in the 2007 session of the Legislature and both became lightning rods for critics who thought it obvious that their ideas ran counter to the will of their constituents. Attacks on Bramble, the Senate Majority Leader, were especially harsh. But now the detailed results are in. While vouchers lost in a statewide vote, 62-38 percent, we note that Bramble's Senate District 16 voted for vouchers 52-48 percent, and Herrod's House District 62 voted for vouchers 55-45 percent. It seems these two legislators represented their constituents very well after all.

Buffalo Chip to BYU for cowering from free speech. The university blocked a protest from students unhappy that the bachelor's degree program in social work had been dropped. The students' request for permission to express their feelings was denied because they did not have a faculty adviser to guide them. We know that BYU students are notorious for their rowdy behavior and that social work majors could be dangerous. Without careful supervision, student placards might convey a scandalous idea like "We protest." We understand BYU's concern with its image, but it should set up an unsupervised free speech zone in which students can speak their minds. Such a zone would serve the university well by letting students get things off their chests; and maybe, just maybe, it would provide administrators and faculty with a useful listening post. How about between the Wilkinson Center and the libraryfi