Students and Alumni Call for Reform of College Honor Code

BYU students are protesting the way its honor code is enforced. Meet the alumna whose social media campaign started the movement.

Transcript

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.