Camille Cleverley

Last Friday I posted an "It Gets Better" video made by Mormon students at Brigham Young University. The video has since gone viral and has more than 300,000 views, and has the attention of BYU officials, who say the gay students won't be punished unless they act on their gay feelings: The students featured in a video about being gay at Brigham Young University are not in obvious violation of the honor code, according to Carri Jenkins, an assistant to the president of BYU. Jenkins went on to...Read Full Story

A collective of LGBT students at Brigham Young University, the nation's largest religious university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have created a video that speaks to other LGBT mormon youth. Below is how the group describes themselves on YouTube: A message of hope and love to LGBT Mormon youth from the students of USGA (Understanding Same-Gender Attraction) which is an unofficial group of Brigham Young University students, faculty, and friends who wish to...Read Full Story

Study shows sleep guidelines prescribe too much for teensWhether or not you know any high school students that actually get nine hours of sleep each night, that’s what federal guidelines currently prescribe.A new Brigham Young University study found that 16-18 year olds perform better academically when they shave about two hours off that recommendation.“We’re not talking about sleep deprivation,” says study author Eric Eide. “The data simply says that seven hours is optimal at that age.”The...Read Full Story

Fox 13 just gave Breaking News that the body of Camille Cleverly was found int he Bridal Veil Falls area. Apparently this area has been searched before also. However, police are not saying yet how she died, whether it was an accident or otherwise. My feeling is that it was an accident. Body of Camille Cleverley found near Bridal Veil Falls Camille Found Dead In Provo Canyon BREAKING NEWS: Police say they’ve found Camille’s body It Appears Camille Fell Off Cliff, Authorities SayRead Full Story

While it's been long established that watching violent scenes increases aggression levels, a new study in the medical journal Pediatrics suggests that profanity in the media may have a similar effect. Pediatrics is the top-ranked journal in its field and among the top 2 percent most-cited scientific and medical journals in the world.The study appears to be the first to examine the impact of profanity in the media, which sounds surprising considering how central language is to movie and TV...Read Full Story

If you listen closely, you can hear thousands of college-aged fashionistas and hipster boys gasping in horror. And this is why: Brigham Young University - Idaho has denounced skinny jeans, claiming that the offensive denim cut violates their honor code. Apparently "form-fitting clothing" = the devil.Gawker reported the story yesterday, and followed up with email exchanges between a member of their team and several officials at BYU. According to Kevin Miyasaki, the Student Services and...Read Full Story

Whether on their own or orbiting as a pair, black holes don't typically sit still. Not only do they spin, they can also move laterally across their host galaxy. And according to astrophysicists at Brigham Young University, both types of movement power massive jets of energy known as quasars. Jets of streaming radiation expelled by the central black hole of a massive spiral galaxy light up this composite image of Centaurus A. The jets emanating from Cen A are over a million light-years long...Read Full Story

With one arm raised and a determined scowl, the figure looks ready to march right off his carved tablet and into the history books. If only we knew who he was - corn god? Tribal chief? Sacred priest? Pictured in 2009, a recently discovered 3,000-year-old Olmec-style stone monument from Ojo de Agua, the site of an early planned settlement in what is now the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The carved monument provides information about Olmec culture in the area and includes symbols of maize...Read Full Story

A new Brigham Young University study indicates that water arriving at Ash Meadows in Death Valley is completing a 15,000-year journey, flowing slowly underground from what is now the Nevada Test Site. Every minute, 10,000 gallons of water mysteriously gush out of the desert floor at a place called Ash Meadows, an oasis that is home to 24 plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world. A new Brigham Young University study indicates that the water arriving at Ash Meadows is completing...Read Full Story

All the gossip, insults and dirty looks add up fast on popular reality shows, far outpacing the level seen in equally popular dramas, comedies and soap operas according to a new Brigham Young University study. Image credit: Brigham Young University  The researchers looked at five reality shows and five non-reality shows and found 52 acts of aggression per hour on reality TV compared to 33 per hour for the non-reality programs. “The Apprentice” topped the list at 85 acts of verbal or...Read Full Story