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Honor Code Office

4440 WSC
(801) 422-2847
hco@byu.edu
honorcode.byu.edu

The Honor Code Office staff promotes principles that are designed to help students keep their lives in harmony with the ideals set forth in the BYU Honor Code. The role of the Honor Code Office is to determine the Honor Code status of BYU students. As a matter of personal commitment, students, faculty, and staff seek to demonstrate in daily living on and off campus those moral virtues encompassed in the gospel of Jesus Christ and will

• Be honest
• Obey the law and all campus policies
• Live a chaste and virtuous life
• Use clean language
• Respect others
• Abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee, and substance abuse
• Observe dress and grooming standards
• Participate regularly in church services
• Encourage others in their commitment to comply with the Honor Code

Dress and Grooming Standards
The dress and grooming of both men and women should always be modest, neat, clean, and consistent with the dignity adherent to representing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and any of its institutions of higher learning.
      Modesty and cleanliness are important values that reflect personal standards of dignity and integrity through which students, staff, and faculty represent the principles and standards of the Church. Members of the BYU community commit themselves to observe these standards, which reflect the direction given by the Board of Trustees and the Church publication For the Strength of Youth. BYU dress and grooming standards are as follows:

Men: A clean and well-cared-for appearance should be maintained. Clothing is inappropriate when it is sleeveless, revealing, or formfitting. Shorts must be knee length or longer. Hairstyles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles or colors, and trimmed above the collar leaving the ear uncovered. Sideburns should not extend below the earlobe or onto the cheek. If worn, moustaches should be neatly trimmed and may not extend beyond or below the corners of the mouth. Men are expected to be clean shaven; beards are not acceptable. Earrings and other body piercing are not acceptable. Shoes should be worn in all public campus areas.

Women: A clean and well-cared-for appearance should be maintained. Clothing is inappropriate when it is sleeveless, strapless, backless, or revealing; has slits above the knee; or is formfitting. Dresses, skirts, and shorts must be knee length or longer. Hairstyles should be clean and neat, avoiding extremes in styles and colors. Excessive ear piercing (more then one per ear) and all other body piercing are not acceptable. Shoes should be worn in all public campus areas.