BYU students are protesting the way its honor code is enforced. Meet the alumna whose social media campaign started the movement.
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00:00She got to the point and said that about a year ago, we know that you had an ex-boyfriend
00:26at your house in Atlanta during the summer.
00:30She started asking very, very specific questions.
00:33I mean, you name it, she asked it, how many this, how many that, under the bra, over the
00:40bra, what side were you laying on, how many minutes did this happen for?
00:49This should have been one of the greatest times in my life, and I had a countdown with
00:53a couple other of my friends who were also seniors, who were also going through the same
00:57thing, and we couldn't wait to get out of school.
01:23Every university has to have an honor code, but it's the way that the office enforces
01:43it that we're really trying to push for change.
01:46You have to go in and confess your sins to someone that you've never met before.
01:52They're not an ecclesiastical leader, not all of them are trained or qualified like
01:57they should be, which is also scary to sit across from just a stranger that doesn't have
02:03a whole lot of experience with what they're doing, and tell in very descriptive detail
02:09everything that you've done with your sin.
02:11Whether it's a sexual relations slip up, or we've had a lot of stories about pornography,
02:18or drugs, or just whatever it might be.
02:30I mean, you don't like your roommate?
02:32Go turn him in.
02:33I feel like such a huge majority of the messages that I'm getting on Instagram are, my roommate
02:38hated me.
02:39Professors are told that they need to turn students in.
02:54Because you're 17 years old signing this, and it's just a quick one pager, you have
02:58no idea what you're signing up for.
03:01We want transparency, and we want protection.