openpolitics.com

At Brigham Young, Students Push to Lift Ban on Beards

This is because Brigham Young bans all chin hair (mustaches are fine), a rule set in place in the 1970s when school officials sought to distinguish their strait-laced students from the hippies staging demonstrations across the nation.

..The beard prohibition, as well as other elements of the dress code, are enforced by the students and the university employees. A stubble-chinned student may be able to walk freely on campus, but if he tries to check out a book, enter the gym or take a test, he may be turned away. (The rules are stricter in some places on campus than in others.)

.. “Of course it was hard,” said Mr. Javed, the president of Muslim Students Association. “For students who have a religious reason to have a beard, they should revisit it.”