BYU students who were present and with whom I spoke state that the BYU student body and faculty did not cheer such remarks and that the number of the brain-dead ho gave Hairy the Red a "standing ovation" was quite small.
The Deseret News is an increasingly liberal rag containing a few editorial staffers who have trips to the woodshed and unemployment office in their future, having exercised their free agency in a foolish and destructive manner...
Your take on the BYU response (first sentence) isn't really all that much different than what I said the Deseret News reported in post #41: At the end of his speech, Reid earned a standing ovation from a small percentage of the crowd and applause from the rest.
So don't try to write off BYU's sanctioning of Reid just because both your sources & Deseret's sources agree that a "small" percentage of students rose to provide a standing ovation.
The fact is that probably for every Mormon student who gave a standing ovation, 19 more were applauding Harry Reid. And ya wanna explain exactly why BYU is providing a indoctrination platform to anti-Christ labeling politicians like Harry Reid? (I don't suppose BYU takes no responsibility for that, either)