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Spirit Week 2014 Events Schedule Announced, Flag Raising Builds on Prophetic Purpose

Spirit Week 2014 is Friday, February 7, through Thursday, February 13, with a variety of activities and events for all students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends. The schedule is below and online at http://studentlife.byuh.edu/spiritweek. 

Central to Spirit Week is a flag-raising ceremony (this year held on Saturday, February 8, at 8:30 AM, Flag Circle). When founding BYU–Hawaii, President David O. McKay had a vision that this university would produce students “whose influence will be felt for good toward the establishment of peace internationally." With this vision in mind, BYU–Hawaii organized its first Spirit Week flag-raising ceremony in 2013, where students from most of the 75-plus countries represented on campus shared in the spirit of unity, international cooperation, and cultural pride. In February 2013, approximately 200 people gathered at the flag circle by the front entrance of the university, some dressed in their cultural attire, to participate in the event, making it a memorable display of the university’s diversity and focus on establishing peace internationally. 

Read and watch a video about the 2013 flag-raising event.

Following in this tradition, the 2014 flag-raising ceremony on Saturday, February 8, is an opening event to Spirit Week 2014, a series of activities and celebration surrounding the anniversary of BYU–Hawaii’s groundbreaking in February 1955. Student representatives from across the globe will be raising their banners around the historic flag circle in Laie, celebrating not only their national pride but also their sense of unity and friendship as students at BYU–Hawaii. Also, a brief program, including remarks from university leadership and several students from the represented countries, will precede the flag raising.

Spirit Week organizers invite everyone from the campus and surrounding communities to attend this event and share in the spirit of togetherness and unity. 

        Saturday, February 8, BYU–Hawaii Flag Circle
        8:30 AM: Cocoa rice and Polynesian bread served
        9:00 AM: Program & Flag Raising

Other Spirit Week 2014 events include the following: 

     -WHITEOUT basketball games (5 PM / 7:30 PM, CAC) on Friday, February 7
     -Genuine Gold Day (wear gold) on Monday, February 10
     -  Professional Dress Day on Tuesday, February 11
     -  Dress Red Day (all day) & Birthday Cake (12 PM, Aloha Center) on Wednesday, February 12
     -  David O. McKay Lecture (11 AM, CAC) on Thursday, February 13

To learn more about these events and activities for Spirit Week 2014, visit: http://studentlife.byuh.edu/spiritweek