What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: The Seventh East Press–Twenty Years Later It has been twenty years since Ron Priddis, Anthony Schmidt, Elbert Peck, and Maxine Hanks stayed up all night to produce the first issue of the Seventh East Press, Independent Student Newspaper. But the images are still as vivid as the lessons that continue to echo. Between September 1981 and May 1983, twenty-nine issues of the Press wrestled with conformity and dissent, scholarship and faith, answers and questions–engaging tensions in print as they played in people themselves. One hundred photographic slides capture moments recalling this unusual experiment in student publishing and Mormon studies. Snapshots reveal a skeleton crew of full-time volunteers, obsessed with a cause and surprised by what it enabled them to do. ‘Some people thought the Seventh East Press was masterminded by anti-Mormons–but in my memory, we were just earnest, curious BYU students chasing the truth–about religion, life, and ourselves.”

Ron Priddis, Gary Bergera, Anthony Schmidt