The Dark Side of BYU’s Honor Code
…Matters podcast, Ashley Sanders, a former BYU student activist, recalled that BYU’s Honor Code took its current form as part of a quest during the 1960s by ultra-conservative BYU President Ernest Wilkinson to preserve the campus against liberalism. Wilkinson wanted to “make BYU a national resource for patriotic anti-communism” and to “root out problem students,” recall historians Bryan Waterman and Brian Kagel. In 1967, he removed the Honor Code…
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