It's a Family way of life

  Renee Christensen Practicum 297R   Project purpose or objectives The purpose of my project was to create and refine MC Date Night.   MC Date Night is a relative new event to campus.   The purpose of this project was to create an inexpensive night where students could participate in good, clean activities that were geared towards dating, not sitting at home in their apartments. One of our main goals was to get students out of their apartments. Campus Life Events has heard reports from YSA ecclesiastical leaders (bishops) that there were students that had not left their apartments for a semester due to the pandemic. With the continual rise in anxiety and depression on campus we were asked to create events to help get students out of their apartments and connect socially with others. Our mission statement for Campus Life Events in part says we are here to connect students to the university, to each other, and ultimately to the Savior. Prior to the pandemic a...

Was the Best Choice Made?   This week’s topic so interesting. A couple of things stood out in my mind.  The first was a study done by Waite and Gallagher (2000) stated that many marriages ended that could have turned out to be satisfying within five years if they would have continued to work through their problems. Have we made divorce too easy and too common? Another interesting stat is that the tolerance of divorce has increased since the 1950s. Is that because more and more of us are affected by divorce and we can see and understand the need for it? In our world today The Family A proclamation to the world written in 1995 and given at a worldwide general relief society meeting for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has more meaning then every before and will continue to be a standard which the world can look for guidance on keeping a strong marriage and family. “ We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures d...