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A new Christmas tradition: BYU begins holiday season with on campus tree lighting ceremony
Brigham Young University ushered in the Christmas season Monday night on its campus with a new tradition. Approximately 10,000 people packed into Brigham Square to witness the university's first-ever Christmas tree lighting as part of the school's ongoing 150th anniversary celebration and its theme of celebrating gifts of light. Students counted down from 10, and a yellow luminescent glow then appeared from the towering tree standing between the Wilkinson Center and Harold B. Lee Library, prompting a loud roar from the crowd. "The whole point of this sesquicentennial celebration was ...