Martha Harris

I worked with a team of professional journalists and audio engineers to virtually report and produce a multimedia story.

The prompt I was given for the project was "what does it mean to be an American?", and I spoke with a law professor who is a member of the Navajo Nation.

Patrick Alverson has been sober for about six years. When the COVID-19 pandemic first started and in-person meetings were cancelled, a friend of his started a daily Zoom meeting for people in recovery from addiction.

“Without that support group during the pandemic, I wouldn’t say I would be in a horrible place, it just would suck even more,” he said.

BYU's dress and grooming standards prohibit all of its students, faculty, administrators, and staff from having a beard.

Since the ban was first enacted in the 1970s, groups of students have repeatedly protested the policy, arguing that beards are now socially acceptable and that the policy doesn't reflect the doctrine of The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints.

But for many Black students, they say it's more serious than preference: it's a health issue.

This is article is for the "Prodigal Press," a student magazine. We described ourselves as an "underground Provo media collective dedicated to highlighting underrepresented viewpoints & perspectives." Our publication followed a long line of independent student publications at BYU.