Word: mormon
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Your article "The drive for a new Utah" [OLYMPIC PREVIEW, Feb. 11] brilliantly captured the state's extreme social and political dynamic. As a nonpracticing member of a Mormon family with a long pioneer heritage, I've been on both sides of the Mormon-non-Mormon divide in Utah. Since returning to the D.C. area, however, I find myself explaining, more often than I'd like, a religion I do not believe in. Now when confronted with such questions as "How many wives does your father have?" I will simply refer people to your exceptional article and save myself...
There is substantial pressure for young men in the Mormon Church to go on missions. For many Harvard students, this can mean leaving for a mission site after their first year or their 19th birthday. For Jarvis, this was not an entirely pleasant experience. After a month of training in Utah, he left in the summer of 1997 for Spain, a country notorious for anti-Mormon sentiment. Two years of knocking on doors to offer prepared lectures on the Mormon doctrine was “really difficult a lot of the time,” relates Jarvis...
...Mormon community has had a history of struggling with outside perceptions. Within the Harvard setting, however, many students will agree that the level of knowledge about the faith is higher than average. “They have more intelligent questions, at least, than ‘are you a polygamist?’” says Davidson. She and other Mormon students say they welcome questions as a positive way of dispelling misconceptions about their faith...
...Mormon tradition includes a considerable number of lifestyle restrictions, but the LDS students at Harvard don’t seem to miss much, though drinking, smoking, caffeine and premarital sex are against the rules. “I’m in University choir, and party-planners for the group always make sure to mention that they’ll serve ‘Mormon-friendly’ drinks” Davidson says...
...more traditional methods don’t work in that regard, there is always the Mormon Am I Hot or Not.com (www.russross.com/amihotornot) that Jonathan S. Daniels ’99-’02 maintains from the LDSSA website. But there are other, more substantive ways to gain self-knowledge for Mormons at Harvard. “The Mormon community at Harvard has taught me a lot about my faith. This has been my first chance to really interact with many other Mormons my age,” says McClain. I have gotten to experience the varied ways...