Darth J wrote:The Honor Code at BYU does permit mustaches:
http://saas.BYU.edu/catalog/2010-2011uc ... orCode.php
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.
The same words and phrase as in or "Book of Rules" of the "
People's Army" during socialism.
OK, there is some difference. My leaders said "This is the rule. Period." (Sometimes they mentioned gods and sexual actions, but it is off topic here.)
... our rules against beards and long hair are contemporary and pragmatic.
This is the same style again. The pragmatic explanation was "bearded soldiers can not use gas mask".
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by the way years ago, I made parallels of Mormonism and socialism. (The structure of leading, not the ideology.) Learned The Honor Code at BYU, I scored one more.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei