It's been nearly three weeks since hundreds of Brigham Young University (BYU) students gathered on campus to protest aspects of the university's honor code.
BYU students complained that under current rules, they can be punished severely for small infractions, there is little consistency in how the office handles cases, and there is a culture of quasi-McCarthyism in students reporting one another's behavior.
Students can rat each other out for tiny things. For example, on the movement's Instagram account, which as of today had more than 37,000 followers, one woman said that a week before her wedding, her fiancé helped her carry a heavy box to his car as she was moving out of her BYU student housing. He momentarily entered her bedroom in order to assist her—violating the university's strict policy forbidding students from being in the bedrooms of anyone of the opposite sex—only to be filmed by her roommate, who submitted the footage to the Honor Code Office. (Reading this, I had to wonder: why did the female roommate not put down the freaking phone and actually HELP?)
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