The BYU Honor Code

If you don't know, Brigham Young University, the university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has an honor code that all students must sign. The honor code says that the students can't smoke, drink, do drugs and have premarital sex. It's what makes BYU different from every other university out there. And most of us who are going to BYU, or, like me, who have gone to BYU, are proud of our designation as the number one, "Stone Cold Sober" school in the country.

I heard something about the honor code the other day, though, that makes my blood boil. I was listening to the Dan Patrick Show when they read an email from a BYU student saying that he had to go up to Salt Lake City to get booze. I'm going to rant about that now.

Why are you going to BYU if you want to drink? No one is making you go to school there. Unless, of course, mommy and daddy want you to go there, or are paying for you to go there, and you aren't man enough to live your own life. That's right, you aren't man enough. Contrary to what you might think, boozing up on the weekend doesn't make you a man. If you want to drink, that's fine. Just don't sign a document that promises that you won't. Instead of going up to SLC to booze on the weekend, you can just pack your stuff, transfer to the U of U and booze all you want as a Ute. And that would make more room at BYU for the kind of student that we alums can be proud of, the kind with integrity and honor.