The Seventh East Press (7EP) was an American student newspaper at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah that published 29 issues from October 6, 1981, to April 1, 1983.

[9][10] Dean Huffaker became managing editor starting with the January 11, 1983, issue that sparked the publication's ban from being sold on campus.

Packer had advised Church Educational System employees that they should take a selective approach to history to avoid having it challenge faithful members.

[16] Subsequently, on February 11, 1983, the university's public communications director, Paul Richards, told 7EP editor Dean Huffaker that BYU would no longer sell the paper at the campus bookstore or newsstands.

[17][2] There was a rumor that Ezra Taft Benson, then leader of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, believed that the paper should not be sold on campus.

[19] In response to the campus ban, the managing editor of The Denver Post, Tim Kelly, canceled a scheduled lecture to the Society of Professional Journalists at BYU.

[20] In response to the campus ban on sales of the 7EP, Nelson Wadsworth, an assistant professor of journalism, left BYU for Utah State University.

[12] The 7EP created a parody issue of The Daily Universe, BYU's official student newspaper, as an April Fools' Day joke.

Gary Bergera's "Grey Matters" column, which examined controversial theological subjects, was unpopular with advertisers, but popular with readers.

Metcalfe believed that his firing was because of a few people in church leadership who perceived him as a threat, even though he viewed his own work as apologetic and not scholarly.

[27][28] According to Anderson, Mark E. Petersen ordered investigations into vocal progressive members, including Gary Bergera, a contributor to the 7EP.

His stake president asked him specifically about his interview with Gerald and Sandra Tanner and a piece he wrote on an anti-Mormon conference for Sunstone Review.