Salt Lake Community College

And they do.

You know, I had no idea that Salt Lake Community College has a degree mortician.

Yes.

And they showed me the class and the caskets laid out, and I'm going like, wow.

So let me tell you a little back story.

I was an adjunct at Salt Lake Community College for quite a few years.

And when I first started teaching over there, I would have students come into my classroom, and they would tell me that they had friends with Down syndrome after they learned about our son, Jack.

And they would say, oh my gosh, you have a son with Down syndrome? Well, guess what? My favorite class I ever took was the peer tutor program at South Jordan Middle.

And I heard this over and over again for about 10 years.

And when it came time for Jack to go to middle school, we had a couple of different options of where we could go.

And I knew that he needed to go to South Jordan Middle because of all of those years, hearing these students talk about their experience and how much they loved it and what an impact it had in their lives and was continuing to have all of those years later, even at Salt Lake Community College.

And so I worked with his elementary school teacher, and she helped me get him into South Jordan Middle.

And I'll give you, you know, his raw stats, and then I'll give you some of the, like, the interesting statistical query that I pulled for him and some of the names, uh, that came up alongside that.

So last year, and just as a little intro, he played at TCU last year, but he came from Salt Lake Community College previous to that.

So it was his first year playing D1 ball in the Big 12 and had a really strong year.

So he was 12.7 points, six-and-a-half rebounds, 1.2 assists, one steal, 0.9 blocks, um, 1.9 turnovers, had, uh, 63 true shooting, shot 43.6% from three on four threes per 100 possessions.

Um, I was gonna go to, go to school there, finish generals.

I ended up just staying online at Salt Lake Community College- Okay ... 'cause I just figured that would be better to finish, finish generals there- Yeah, yeah ... and then maybe transfer over after.

Um, so plans changed with school.

Okay.

But my father was in higher ed.

He was a dean of students at Salt Lake Community College.

My earliest memories of going to that campus was Utah Technical College.

And my uncle was the dean of students at the University of Utah.

Well, as you said, I'm Ryan Wimmer.

I started studying history when I was at Salt Lake Community College.

I went on to get my bachelor's in history from the University of Utah and then a master's in history from BYU.

Most of my in-depth historical work has been with Native Americans and in Utah and the relations with the Mormons.

Well, debate season is here, and the Utah Debate Commission's first two debates of the season happened this week.

Candidates for Utah's first and third congressional districts debated at Salt Lake Community College and Utah Tech this week.

There will be two more debates in the coming weeks.

Now, this Thursday, October 8th, the CD4 candidates will debate, again at Snow College.