Did I Go To The Same School?

That article was full of misinformation and skewed facts. They compared the percent of minority athletes kicked out to the percent of minorities at the school, which isn’t a fair comparison. A fair comparison would compare percent of minorities kicked out to percent of minority athletes. Most of the white athletes are Mormon (although that doesn’t make them perfect by any means) and the minorities are more likely to be non-LDS. So more likely to break the HC.

It pains me to see our school shined in such a negative light when, in fact, that’s not the case.

Too many people fail to recognize that the HC has education and reconciliation built in. While they reserve the right at anytime to alter the procedure based on the situation, the process is pretty clear and gives every student the right to refute allegations. Those that get caught and get kicked out probably didn’t pursue their means of rebuttal because they knew they messed up and would rather leave than stick around.

Sure, that’ll hurt at first, but in the end I’m sure most of those guys are glad they left when they did. It’s hard to live the LDS life being LDS. It’s even harder living the BYU life and trying to do it as a student athlete whose core belief is not rooted in the same faith as the institution.

Here’s a link to the Honor Code Office procedural guidelines. Hopefully we can use it to help educate people about the process so that they see it’s well beyond race and really comes down to the well being of each individual.

http://Jimmer.it/dBmr1D

As an LDS Ute fan living in the south, I have a little different perspective on it all.

I have had a number of conversations from a fellow ward member who was an LDS athlete (not football or basketball) from here who was recruited by BYU. On his recruiting trip, he went to a party with LDS and non-LDS athletes where large amounts of alcohol were consumed. He left as he was uncomfortable, returned an hour or so later to find police at the apartment. His host decided it would be best to avoid the area for another hour. When they finally went inside the cops were waiting for them. The cops weren’t too happy with a bunch of underage drinking.
After that was finally calmed down, and they explained that they weren’t at the party, but just lived there, they cleaned up all the alcohol (with the urging of the police) and he thought the craziness was over. Within an hour or so he heard shouting and saw a group of athletes running to the apartment pool with 4 girls in tow, all going skinny dipping. Needless to say, as an LDS youth here in the South, he was quite disturbed by the atmosphere and took his talents to another university.

I don’t think the Deadspin article is entirely correct. But there is a lot of truth to the idea of things being swept under the rug. As an LDS member in a racially charged state, it is quite concerning to see the media’s take on these issues. It was certainly a positive here when the Davies issue was going on. Hopefully the perception of the Church stays positive rather than negative.