LeVar Burton, the longtime host of Reading Rainbow, is set to give a surprise devotional for all students studying on Reading Day. BYU administrators asked Burton to summarize the study guides for every class in a fifteen-hour devotional.
The devotional has already begun and will go until midnight in the Marriot Center. Burton opened the devotional with, “Every major matters just as much as the next one, but you don’t have to take my word for it.”
Many students are grateful, but not all share the same enthusiasm. Roy Karnes, noted LeVar Burton fan, was very unhappy with the BYU brass decision: “I’ve told President Worthen a thousand times! I never wanted to meet LeVar in person! I just wanted a picture! You can’t disappoint a picture! I hate you Kevin! I hate you so much!”