It's just a fabulous new education option for our community. We have a desperate need for a school like this.

What is UVSC's role in the Utah system of higher education in general and, more specifically, to the local community?

If you lose the school, you lose the lifeblood of the community. Families move here because we have a school. Without it, we could end up as a dormitory town, a retirement village, rather than the thriving community we are at the moment.

[The Socratic method was more a part of Mr. Shore's law-school training than might exist in medical education.] It's certainly a very effective tool to tear people apart, to rip them down, to build them up, ... That's what House is all about.

We want to get an early understanding of the project so that it results in a school that the community can be appreciative and proud of. Advanced preparation reduces anxiety.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.