Campus traditions - Brigham Young University-Hawaii Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
A couple of campus traditions of BYU-Hawaii. You have to have the Aloha spirit. You cannot go about your day without sharing the Aloha spirit. You smile, everyone smiles back. That's just how it is. So if you're going to go to BYU-Hawaii, it's pretty simple. I'm going to keep this pretty simple. Just smile. Enjoy. And they love, people love Aloha. And when you say it correctly, it's not Aloha. It's like saying hello. No, it's basically Aloha. People love when you say it correctly, when you say it with love. So campus tradition, you need to remember. No need to forget. You need to say Aloha from your heart.
Video 2 Transcript
Two of my favorite campus traditions are Culture Night and World Fest. And Culture Night happens at the end of a semester, it usually is once a year, and each club performs and performs something specific to the nationality of that club. It's really, really awesome. It's fun to be there and watch. It's fun to participate in. And then World Fest, each club sets up a table or a stand, and they have food, and they have games, and they have all kinds of different activities. And it's so fun, and it all represents different cultures. And that, I think World Fest is probably my favorite. Trying all the different food from all these different countries is so awesome.
Video 3 Transcript
BYU-Hawaii is full of campus traditions. Number one is the clubs, right? Pretty awesome time to join clubs. They always have it in the first, every first few weeks of the semester to join the clubs. They have something called culture night. Pretty awesome time to get involved and get to learn other cultures and not just learn but performing them. You know, if you're in Hawaii, you need to be part of this. It's just an amazing experience that would help you understand the diversity that resides within BYU-Hawaii. So I would suggest do culture night, y'all.
Video 4 Transcript
One good campus tradition at BYU-Hawaii is obviously the culture night. It's a night that happens every March or April or every winter semester where all cultures gather together and you know just play each other's culture and show people how much we love our own culture and you can also enjoy other people's culture.
Video 5 Transcript
One campus tradition that I really enjoyed while I attended BYU-Hawaii was at the end of each semester, all of the music majors, piano, orchestra, composition, they had a lot of times their senior recitals or their semester end recitals, and I was surprised that beyond myself and the professors and the other music majors, there wasn't a lot of people there. Many of these performances, if not all of these performances, were free and it was really impressive that after three, four, five years, what students at BYU-Hawaii could do musically. Another tradition that I really enjoyed, I guess going off of the music theme, is that the professors had the Southwest Celtic band and these were full-time professors and they became your friends and they formed a Celtic band and played Celtic music. That was something that I looked forward to every single semester.
Video 6 Transcript
Some of BYU-Hawaii's campus traditions is pretty much we have culture night every year. We have more than 20 different nationalities in BYU-Hawaii and with that students from all around the world, they join whatever chapter, for example Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Hawaii, Africa and stuff like that, Latinos. They join, they participate in different cultural dances or practices that they have and then we'll host it two days. It's Fridays and Saturdays in March and with that everyone, even the community, they come and watch them. It's free, free admission, so yeah. So that's every year and it's amazing because students enjoy themselves with it and I enjoy it too. So yay, go BYU-Hawaii!
Video 7 Transcript
Culture night and food fest are two big campus traditions and I love that because culture night is when you present your culture to everybody else and you can be part of more than just one. You can be part of k-pop club and you can be part of the japan club and you can be part of brazil club, you can be part of latin america, you can be part of europe club, you can part of samoa club and you just learn the dances from those countries and present to everybody within less than a semester which is amazing to see what everyone can do and you don't need to be from that culture to do it. You can just join in and everyone is welcome. Another one that I think a lot of people like it because they love food, it's food fest. You can try foods from all over the world. Each club will do their own.
Video 8 Transcript
My favorite campus traditions would be culture night. I say this because it actually allows an opportunity for students from all over the world to share a unique part of themselves and their culture as they dance to tell the story of their country or island.
Video 9 Transcript
So as far as campus traditions, I can think of two. First campus tradition is WorldFest, where like basically all the groups, all the clubs make food and that is in preparation for Culture Night. So for WorldFest, you have all these different countries making food from their country and you go and buy the food and it's great. And that is a fundraiser for Culture Night, so that will be for the next semester. So WorldFest is in fall and Culture Night is in winter. And for winter, you have Culture Night. And so what it is, is that like all the different groups, all the different clubs, they come together and they dance like traditional dances or something that just represents that specific country. So like for example, Japan, they will either dance traditional dance or they'll incorporate something else from their culture, New Zealand, what have you.
Video 10 Transcript
Well, camp was carried on when I left in 2015. I remember they still used to have these cultural events where everybody, different chapters come together and they perform. So, this is one of the interesting things because you can learn a lot of different cultures, people from different islands, they perform their own way and you can learn a lot of it from it. And it's a two-day event, it's really fun, one of those traditions. Also, like a food tasting tradition, I remember that was something else like that.
