Team: BYU Cougars
Stadium: LaVell Edwards Stadium
Conference: Mountain West
Sport: College Football
Background: Brigham Young University (BYU,
or simply The Y) was founded as Brigham Young Academy in 1875
by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church;
see also Mormon).
It has grown to become the largest private university in the
United States and one of the world's largest church-affiliated
schools, with an enrollment of roughly 32,400 undergraduate
students at the beginning of 2003. BYU is located in Provo,
Utah, with extension campuses in La'ie, Hawai'i (Brigham Young
University-Hawaii) and Rexburg, Idaho (Brigham Young University-Idaho)
serving an additional 12,000 students. The main campus sits
on approximately 600 acres (2.4 km²) at the foot of the
Wasatch Mountains and includes 333 buildings. Additional facilities
include the BYU Jerusalem Center, the BYU Salt Lake Center,
LDS Business College, and the Missionary Training Centers
around the world.
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Demographics and honor code:
Students from every state in the nation and from many foreign
countries attend BYU (in 2001, 110 different countries were
represented by more than 1,600 BYU students). Although students
are not required to be Mormons, about 95% do belong to the
church. All students and faculty must agree to adhere to a
strict honor code. The BYU honor code governs academic behavior,
morality, and dress and grooming standards of students and
faculty, with the aim of providing an atmosphere consistent
with church principles. Students must commit to: being honest,
sexually chaste and virtuous; abstaining from illicit drugs,
alcohol and tobacco; using clean language; and abiding by
the guidelines for dress, grooming, and housing. For example,
skirts and shorts must reach to the knee and male students
may not sport beards or goatees without permission, usually
granted to men with severe skin conditions aggravated by shaving.
The honor code provides a perpetual topic for debate among
the students and alumni.
Subsidization and religious education:
LDS tithing funds subsidize roughly 80% of the cost
of education at BYU, allowing affordable tuition for its students
regardless of their membership in the LDS church, although
tuition for students who are not Mormon is fifty percent above
usual rates. In addition to fulfilling general-education requirements,
students must complete 14 semester hours of specialized religious
education.
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