04-15-2007, 11:20 PM | #11 |
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A former acquaintance of mine that many of you know of once sent in a letter extolling the benefits of vegetarianism, and how if you truly followed the Word of Wisdom, you would likely be a vegetarian.
Anyway, he was contacted by some vegetarians and congratulated for his excellent letter. He was invited to come to dinner. He went to the dinner and discovered that there was something like an underground cult of Mormon vegetarians in Provo. This is someone that hung out with some pretty weird screwed up people, calling these people pretty scary. Briefly, he was their hero. |
04-16-2007, 12:03 AM | #12 |
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To me, the alltime best letter to the Editor, was a time when women were not allowed to wear jeans in the testing center. A student approached and was rejected.
She went into the bathroom, took off her jeans, wearing just an overcoat, she took her test and wrote a letter detailing it. It generated a funny cartoon and a fury over the insanity at the testing center. The best cartoon was the cartoon, showing a huge target of a goalpost with the statement, "Aim Here Kurt," for Kurt Gunther who was struggling in games. It was 1982, and Lavell wasn't too pleased.
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04-16-2007, 02:36 AM | #15 |
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Yes it is fairly credible. It was hilarious with the Testing Center checking women to make certain they weren't going commando. I wanted to be the checker but they felt I was too anxious for the job.
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04-16-2007, 02:45 AM | #16 |
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Oh, it happened all right. It was in the news all over the country.
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04-16-2007, 02:51 AM | #17 |
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http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org...ter3.htm#honor
School officials became increasingly committed to BYU's dress and grooming standards in 1975 when their legality was challenged by the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. "We believe that differences in dress and grooming of men and women are proper expressions of God-given differences in the sexes," President Oaks explained, vowing that the school would "not be prescribed into a unisex standard of appearance" (DU, 17 Oct. 1975). By the end of the decade, the university's standards had broadened to include explicit prohibitions against the "no-bra look," shirts without sleeves, tank tops, and, for men, going without socks. A statement in the dress code forbidding women from wearing "levis" met with opposition in 1978 from the Levi Strauss Company. Administrators consequently substituted the word "jeans" for "levis." Three months later in November 1978, a coed who was refused entrance to the BYU testing center because she was "wearing pants of denim material" left the center, removed her pants, buttoned up her overcoat, and was admitted, pantless, without question. In a letter to the editor of the Universe, she added, "There is something strangely perverse and incongruous about a dress code which demands that a girl dressed in nice denim pants [be] rejected from a campus facility, while a girl in underpants and a coat is acceptable. Is it that vital that we expose the lower half of our legs?" (DU, 14 Nov. 1978). This event, which received national attention, may have contributed to BYU's eventual capitulation on the jeans issue less than three years later. Addressing students in the fall of 1981, President Jeffrey Holland suggested that modesty and cleanliness should "govern women's dress on the campus rather than endless debate as to whether a `designer jean' is also a slack, or whether the fabric is cotton, polyester, or denim, or whether it is colored red, white, or blue." Holland later oversaw additional interpretations of the dress code prohibiting men from wearing earrings and women from wearing safety pins in their ears. |
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Quick response from the BYU admin. 3 years later.
Man, this stuff is why I don't miss BYU. Pharisees had nothing on BYU. |
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