beards at byu

I suppose that another fun subject to look into is the whole controversy behind having beards here at BYU campus. It has especially become a topic of conversation within the past year as more and more students have began to protest in favor of being able to grow out beards here on BYU campus. It is rather difficult for me to take a side on this issue, we students definitely have the right to speak out and try to make a change in society as well as the campus having its right to make the rules that students sign to follow as they join here on campus. I do not really take a stance on the subject, I simply stand back and observe. It is defiantly an interesting subject to observe as it goes forward. It is also rather frightening that mustaches are allowed even though beards are not, I feel that way too many students take advantage of this and grow the really creepy pedifiler mustaches, I don't know. It was also fun to hear how BYU campus has recently changed their beard code so that those of religions may have their beards if it is done so in honor of past prophets or whatever it may be that has deep meaning. Within the last year I have put some time into studying this topic. BYU didn't start with the ban, after all did not Brigham Young himself have a beard? Did campus not have contests on who could grow out the longest beard? For those who do not know this topic well, it is definitely interesting study. It all started back in the seventies when the hippies were having their protest against the government. Having beards was really identifiable among the hippies, as well as the all the drugs and sex and mayhem that they were a part of, so BYU put a ban beards and installed higher levels of dress standards so that the students could be more distinguished amongst these hippies. Over time this has ceased to be the case, and while beards were never allowed again somehow mustaches have been able to pry their way in. I'm not sure why, but oh well. I'm incapable of growing a good beard anyway so it does not really matter to me. But I find it all too annoying when other students look down on others who wish to grow beards, even if it is for a medical reasons. Having contention is terrible. Dress standards have changed throughout time. And really when it comes to dress the only thing that really matters, as far as I believe, is the distraction that a so-called dress style has. As fashion changes, sometimes the dress code does as well. Heck, girls for the longest time were not allowed to wear jeans on campus and were forced to wear dresses, which is no longer the case. There were protest about wearing jeans back in those days. It finally ended when a girl was not allowed to enter the testing center due to her wearing jeans, and later went back and got in with wearing no pants at all, and made a deal about how she was allowed to do that and not getting in with jeans. But I suppose that is a whole entire story in and of itself. Again I really do not take a stance on these dress standards or if students wish to have beards or not, but it is always a really fun thing to follow the subject. Anyone who wishes to study further into the subject itself will most likely be as entertained as I was reading up on the different facts behind this situation.