Another article about BYU being too harsh on Davies

NOTE: I just realized this article came out last March. For some reason, it came up on my google search for BYU articles from the past week.



Yet again, there appears another article about how horrible BYU is for telling its jocks and non-jocks what standards they have to abide by and then expecting them to abide by them and for dishing out consequences when they don't. What an evil, nasty, backward school BYU is.



BYU honor code too strict for 2011

Yes, Davies knew the terms of the honor code he signed along with all of the other students attending Brigham Young, therefore critics could argue that being fully aware of the rules the basketball star shouldn’t have participated in the lustful act in the first place. But for the school to go so far as to possibly remove him from the institution based off of one mistake is absurd.

To paraphrase Steven R. Covey, "We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of our actions." It seems that Danielle Huppke, the author of the article, wants to be able to eat her cake and have it also.

This reminds me of one of my teachers that would write up a contract before school that we had to turn in on the first day of lab. In the contract, it was made abundantly clear that we were free to choose to miss class, show up late, not listen to instructions, but that we simply wouldn't be allowed to take the final, and would be repeating the course the following year.



BYU was completely justified in their punishment. They may have gone about it the wrong way, but the end result was not unreasonable.