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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The BYU basketball player suspended for the season Tuesday <span style="font-weight: bold">broke the BYU honor code by having sex with his girlfriend.</span> Sports writers are shocked but respect the school for sticking to its values – even though the decision could spoil a potentially historic season. </div></div>
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Re: BYU basketball player suspended: had sex
is a black player...
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Re: BYU basketball player suspended: had sex
BYU is a private university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church. Nearly all of its 34,000 students are church members, most of whom will serve two years as missionaries.
The school has what to the rest of the academic world is a strict and perhaps old-fashioned honor code. Among its tenets: Be honest, live a chaste and virtuous life, use clean language, participate regularly in church services, observe dress and grooming standards (no beards or ear rings for men, no “form-fitting” clothing or more than one ear piercing for women), and abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee, and substance abuse.
In order to remain “chaste and virtuous,” one must not engage in premarital sex. Students have to sign the honor code every year.
While most sports commentators say they can’t imagine themselves (or most people, especially athletes) operating under such rules of behavior, BYU’s swift action in the face of an admitted violation has caused many to reexamine general sports behavior by comparison.
<span style="font-weight: bold">ESPN.com senior writer Pat Forde put it this way:</span>
What makes this such a powerful testament is the fact that so many schools have cravenly abandoned their standards at such a time as this, embracing athletic expediency over institutional principle. It happens so often that we don't even raise an eyebrow at it anymore.
Player arrests or other antisocial behaviors are minimized as youthful mistakes, with strenuous institutional effort put into counterspinning any negative publicity. Academic underachievement is dismissed as merely the price of being competitive in big-time athletics. "Indefinite" suspensions often last only as long as they're convenient – timed to coincide with exhibition games or low-stress games against overmatched opponents.Comment
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Re: BYU basketball player suspended: had sex
What him expect when him deh Utah ?Comment
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Re: BYU basketball player suspended: had sex
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What him expect when him deh Utah ? </div></div>
he was supposed to play & prayIf you don't fight for what you deserve, you deserve what you get.
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Re: BYU basketball player suspended: had sex
so him caan sin an pray? lol!Comment
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Yes you and I know that, but apparently the athlete forgot all about that. Dwl
Him lucky dem never fling him inna jail fi him sins
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kia</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What him expect when him deh Utah ? </div></div>
he was supposed to play & pray </div></div>Comment
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Re: BYU basketball player suspended: had sex
Rules are rules.
If you choose to go to BYU you have to agree to their rules. It's a private institution. You don't like the rules? Go elsewhere .
Yes, they certainly are weird about sex and race and things like that.
BUT....not at all as strict as other religiously affiliated groups,
Just read the bizarre rules of THIS crazy sect:
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