BYU to Make Changes to Honor Code in Response to Student-lead Protests

After hard-working students spent hours organizing events and standing out in unfriendly weather, the BYU administration has finally agreed to makes changes to the Honor Code.

“Ok, ok, we’ll do it,” said Dan Johnson, head of the Honor Code Office, at a press conference following the demonstration “I guess we’ll make some changes. We would like to announce that when writing, you will no longer have to capitalize the words ‘honor’ and ‘code’ and that we are downsizing our office. Instead of 20 honor code officers, we will now only have 18. I hope this makes you people happy.”

“We, as an administration, are just really grateful for this whole thing.” said President Kevin J. Worthen via Instagram live shortly after the protest, “We saw students coming together, and we, as an administration, helped them say what they needed to say. We’re pretty much the best for doing that don’t you think? Now, can we just forget about this whole thing and go back to class, so we can learn more about important concepts like free speech and human rights?” 

After the success of the protest and policy changes in Provo, the administration at BYU Idaho is said to follow suit in two weeks. Changes at BYU Hawaii will be made in two years, once the students get back from the beach. Offices at LDSBC did not respond to questions, as we forgot to reach out to them.