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Chatter Box Winter 2016


Clarence Thomas
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“There is a decency and goodness about [BYU students]. There is faithfulness . . . . This is a real jewel.”

U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas speaking at the BYU Law School Founders Day Dinner in October.


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“Expensive textbooks are not superior to free ones.”

 The Huffington Post on BYU research that found students using free digital textbooks performed academically as well as or better than those using traditional texts.


“He’s always drawn from a profile view or straight on.”

BYU illustration professor David R. Dibble (BFA ’03) on Charles Schulz’s iconic Charlie Brown, whom Dibble helped transition from 2-D to 3-D for The Peanuts Movie.


Detail from The Problem We All Live With, 1964, By Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell Museum Collections

“I feel a responsibility to explain racism to a child, which is hard to do because there is no explanation for it.”

Ruby Bridges, activist and inspiration for Norman Rockwell’s The Problem We All Live With, in an address to a packed audience at the BYU Museum of Art in November.