BYU just got Bigger (link)

[_Mormonicious]

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39514921&nid=14 ... yu-for-25m

Brigham Young University will purchase the current Provo High School property and grounds for $25 million, officials announced Tuesday.

The Provo City School District Board of Education voted to approve the sale of the 25 acres Tuesday morning. The decision was unanimous, according to the school district.

“Several interested and qualified buyers expressed interest in the property over the last several months,” Provo School Board President Julie Rash said in a statement. “We are confident that we have reached the best arrangement for the students of Provo High and the community.”

While the new Provo High School is under construction, BYU will lease the current school grounds and facility to the school district. Provo School District will be able to use the property rent-free for 30 months, as part of the agreement.

[_grindael]

And more girls will get raped and their rapists will go unpunished. But they will all look well groomed.

[_Mormonicious]

And more girls will get raped and their rapists will go unpunished. But they will all look well groomed.

As I understand it, the 25 Acres are going to be planted in trees with trails for the rapist to use.

[_Symmachus]

I'm sure most people here are just bothered that it's BYU doing this, but I think this is yet another sad example of the way that public property and public resources are rapidly being handed over to private interests throughout the country. One of my favorite places in Provo was the old tabernacle (Rachmaninoff and Horowitz played there, for Christ's sake!), and I was so sad to when it was destroyed by fire. I was sickened, though, when God's vultures swooped down on the ashes to reclaim what had been public for their own very private ends. The only thing that is different about Provo as opposed to any other place in America is that the Church is private interest leaching from the public.