Holycrapfinalswillkillme.

Sundry items of sun-dried interest

It's that time of the year again - time to start on all the projects I was supposed to be working on all semester.

The good news is that we have some good things in the works. So, for today, some housecleaning items:

1. We're going to have more stickers soon. Norm stickers this time, too, not just Cecil. We had a lot of requests for them last time, so we're going to make them available on the website. They'll be cheap, too - and they look great.
2. There will be somebody here all summer to fill t-shirt orders, so don't worry about that.
3. The blog will stay alive over the summer too. I'm already planning on a post about how annoying EFY is on campus.
4. The really good news is that we're going to have a contest running over the summer. It's not up yet, but it will be soon, so keep checking back. It's going to be sweet - and the prizes are going to rock the house. I'm pretty stoked about the prizes.

I hope everybody had a good Easter. Somebody told me that in their Sacrament Meeting, the person who was conducting the meeting got a little flustered and ended up announcing one of the hymns as "I Know That My Redeemer Die." That's embarrassing.

A Stunning Victory

I'm told that the Daily Universe is a rather good student newspaper, compared to those of other schools. I suppose it is - I haven't attended any other colleges, so I can't really say. They have some problems with their image on campus, but everybody knows that. Today's paper has a pretty interesting article - apparently the Universe won a handful of awards at a competition, 6 first-place awards and a few seconds and thirds.

Closer inspection makes the article a lot more fun.

The writer of the article mentions several times that the state-wide competition was not only for student newspapers, but also professional papers. Cool. Among them? The Tooele Transcript Bulletin and the Davis County Clipper. I couldn't be more proud that the Daily Universe team brought down the Tooele Transcript Bulletin juggernaut. When you can hang with Tooele, you can hang with anybody. It's a mandate. The start of an era.

The other fun part is the resurrection of that blasted feature they did on wolves a few months back. Remember? The entire paper was about wolves for a week or so. It was rough. It won an award, though, and the Universe folks are proud of it. The reefer on the front page was enough to show that:

Remember the wolf package?
The Daily Universe win six first place awards
See Page 8

And, of course, we know that every student, teacher, and staff member read every word of it when it was in the paper. If wolves aren't relevant to BYU students, then what is? The day we start having feature packages about on-campus, student-relevant topics is the day I turn elsewhere for BYU news. But that's me.

So, congrats to the Daily Universe team! One can only hope you'll pull off another stunning victory next year.