UVU students host Global Climate Strike on campus as part of worldwide effort (Sept. 20)

Spend one Saturday a month planting trees, it will do more good. Millions of students all over the world planting trees and lowering the co2 levels by planting the very thing that consumes it, and puts out oxygen. We had global warming during the Roman empire, then a brief ice age, then another hundred years of global warming, then another short ICE age. Climates change, plant a tree. — Piddler

Why would they want politicians to “solve” the problem? They make everything worse. –Elwin Jackson

Some insights from Greta Thunberg: “Our house is on fire … I don’t want your hope … I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.”

“Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money… It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few… You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes…”

“You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is to pull the emergency brake. You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children.”

“This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.” –JWL

DICKSON: Cougars struggling to find where they belong in college football (Sept. 22)

BYU could play in any conference except maybe the SEC. Washington is in the hunt for the NC this year. Cal snuck up on them, but wouldn’t happened again. You think BYU could not beat UCLA, WSU, OSU, AZ, ASU, Colorado this year? How about Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan State, Texas, Oklahoma, … You cannot proclaim a weak loser of a team when they get beaten by the best team in the conference. One that Utah, e.g., has beaten, what, once? BYU could certainly play in the PAC12 and probably would do no worse than #6 or so. –Greek Sophistry

It’s refreshing to hear a fan call out the tired Media than plays this theme year after year. Here is the one fact in keeping it simple. We are a mid level P5 school, please stop with the continued montra that somehow we should be label a G5….remember we’re independent because we are a mid level P5 because of all the things G5’s aren’t, 1) much larger fan base. 2) we make much more money 3) top facilities 4) and finally we are a respected as a traditional winner, not a loser. oh yes we have a national championship, show me what G5 teams in the modern age of football has a national championship, Ill save you some time…None. –Zachary Thornton

Very poorly conceived opinion piece. Half of P5 programs would have finished BYU’s 4 game opening stretch about 2-2 with a couple of close games, and would not have spawned “mid G5 level” comparisons. This piece is way overly negative. Yes, BYU is searching for its place in the college football landscape, but that is due to its being a P5 type of institution/program by nearly every major metric (sans the conference payout and recruiting boost) but being displaced as a geographic and/or cultural outlier. BYU football systemically is mid-to-lower P5 equivalent or high G5 (essentially same level) in terms of play. They are now scheduling aggressively in Independence though and so their record will reflect this year to year. — JmThms

Just watched a good documentary on the history of American Football. BYU was mentioned multiple times and favorably. No other Utah school was mentioned. BYU is a mid level P5 school with a strong history. –Caddis

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