I found this article on ksl.com. On September 26, 2014, "the
beard revolution in Provo has begun." Shane Pittson is the leader of the bike for beards organization that is petitioning the BYU dress code for allowing students to have beards. The dress code was made in the 1940s, and Pittson thinks it is outdated. He had over 40 followers as they biked, rode scooters and skate boards, or roller bladed to the administration building cheering and playing loud music. Pittson approached the building's doors with the petition in hand only to find the doors were locked. Pittson yelled, "We won't let this dream die!"
The opinions were that the dress code is outdated and should be reconsidered because many men have beards. I believe this is cogent. His opinions and reasoning made sense. BYU students should be able to have beards if they want to. They should not be sent home from the testing center if they have a little scruff on their faces; the article stated that Pittson's little brother was the one that got sent home.
As for now the dress code remains the same; Although, with this revolution happening, we may see a change.
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Haha this is funny. I agree that the part of the dress code that pertains to beards is outdated. I have seen men in LDS Temples with beards (though not many), so why should it be any different at BYU? BYU is not held to a higher standard than the temple. However, it is in the dress code to be well groomed, and even if they did change the dress code to allow beards I don't know of very many twenty-something male college students that could/would keep a "groomed" beard. BYU would either have to leave being well groomed out of the dress code, or keep the no beard rule implemented.
ReplyDeleteThat is a very good point about LDS temples allowing beards. However, I believe that if they did change the dress code allowing beards, there would be many males that could keep and maintain a well groomed beard.
DeleteThanks for pointing us to the article it was a fun read. Hopefully, the administrators at BYU will also see it as just good, clean fun.
ReplyDeleteSo do you think they locked the doors prior to them coming or was it a saturday and they were already closed? Funny article though.
ReplyDeleteBeards would be nice because I went to BYU-Idaho and even the slightest scruff on your face and you would be kicked out of class. However they would allow you to have mustaches which a lot of the students did including me. Oddly when that happened the number of dates for me dropped to an all time low of 0!! I say if it is well groomed and trimmed what is the harm. It seems that over the past years beards are becoming the new fad. I agree with Amber that even in the Temple it is allowed but at school is not. I used to work at Discount Tire Co. and they have their policy to be clean shaven. I could have a dirty face and what not but no facial hair.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they should try again in November, then it is actually "no shave November."
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