It’s been nearly three weeks since hundreds of Brigham Young University 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 on another out for tiny things. For example, on the movement’s Instagram account, which as of Thursday had more than 37,000 followers, one woman said that a week before her wedding, her fiance helped her carry a heavy box to his car as she was moving out of her BYU student housing.