Interview · moment 2 of 19
Aaron's BYU Upbringing and the Honor Code Office
from The Morman and the Meth Head with Jessa Reed and Aaron Woodall · #120
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3 minGuest
Aaron describes growing up Mormon on the East Coast, attending Brigham Young University, signing the honor code agreement banning masturbation, facial hair, and alcohol, and the campus culture of roommates narcing on each other for the honor code office.
- 1:05Aaron quit Mormonism and met his co-host at a comedy festival in Billings where she was quitting meth—he calls them similar stories.
- 1:40Tim asks why Aaron thought Mormons were cool until he met enough of them.
- 1:58Tim learns BYU students have to sign an honor code agreement that prohibits masturbation, facial hair, yoga pants, sex, and alcohol.
- 2:29BYU will accept non-Mormons but they still have to sign the morality clause.
- 2:49Aaron describes how BYU encourages roommates to report each other, framing it as saving them from the devil.
- 3:17Tim notes the honor code office exists as a literal campus department to process violations and comparisons it to virtue police in Saudi Arabia.
- 3:30Aaron emphasizes the honor code office on campus is specifically tasked with handling reported violations.
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