For an hour or so, Brother R. Kevin Call, along with words of counsel from prophets past and present, gave a packed John Taylor Chapel guidance on the type of media we should allow into our lives.

Before he even finished speaking, people had already started rising from the chairs.

Why would people do that? Why would people voluntarily disrupt an uplifting lecture?

They wanted to get their place in line near the exits, so they would be able to be the first to leave.

Brother Call finished his talk, and even more people left their seats—even though the closing prayer had still yet to be said.

Now I understand that nobody wants to wait in a ginormous line after an event, but in reality, the line wasn’t that long.

My friend and I didn’t want to wait in the line (after the prayer had been said) either, so we went back to our seats and waited for the chapel to clear out.

We waited a total of 11 minutes. Eleven minutes! I had a lot of stuff to do that day, but I could spare 11 minutes for reverence sake.

I realize that we are all students, and we have busy lives, but there is a fine line between impatient and disrespectful – and these people were nowhere near that line.

Getting up in the middle of someone’s talk shows a complete lack of respect, and even worse was the mocking tone people took toward the lesson taught. Saying things like, “They try to make you feel guilty…”

If you feel guilty, that’s not the speaker’s fault. It is you that must change, not the lecture.

That fact is the following: If you go to a Gospel Values Lecture and don’t get anything out of it, then it was you that had the most to gain from it.

Stay in your seats. Reverence is something that we have learned from our infancy.

Sunbeams shouldn’t be a more captive audience than college students.