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Show THE BAyNAN WINTER 2013 UHQ pp 4-90_UHQ Stories/pp.4-68 12/5/12 9:38 AM Page 65 Student Political Activism at Brigham Young University, 1965-71 By GARy JAMES BERGERA There is certainly a spirit of unrest throughout the country and while it is manifest only slightly at the BYU it is nevertheless manifested here. –Ernest L.Wilkinson, May 11, 1970 T he presence of student political activism at Br igham Young University during the late 1960s and early 1970s was, like student activism elsewhere, as much a function of the school’s prevailing culture as of activist trends nationally. BYU students across the political spectrum responded to local and national events in ways both informed by and in Students meet in Student President Brian Walton’s office in 1971. Left to right: Nanci Sinclair, Jon Ferguson (vice-president), Ann Fluckiger, Paul Larsen, Lauryl Fife, Terrell Hunt, John Taggert, and Walton. Gary James Bergera is managing director of the Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah. He appreciates the advice and encouragement of Lavina Fielding Anderson, Lester E. Bush, Terrell E. Hunt, Omar and Nancy Kader, Kenneth T. Kartchner, Andrew E. Kimball, Jerry L. Owens, Ron Priddis, Larry R. Vollintine, and Brian Walton, as well as Thomas G. Alexander, W. Paul Reeve, and Colleen Whitley. All errors are Bergera’s own. 65 |
