Kanaan VyShonne Barton says he’s following all other school rules but shouldn’t have to cut his hair: ‘My locs represent strength’

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13341770

Kanaan VyShonne Barton says he’s following all other school rules but shouldn’t have to cut his hair: ‘My locs represent strength’

A Black student at a Mormon university in Hawaii said he has been told by staff to cut his shoulder-length hair because it does not adhere to school policies, he said.

Kanaan VyShonne Barton, a student at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, told the Salt Lake Tribune he has been engaged in a battle with the school since September over the length of his hair, which he has refused to cut.

The university requires students to follow an “honor code”, which states hair should be “neatly trimmed”, although the code has no official guidance on length.

  • satanmat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    3 months ago

    Yeah. I get it. But he’s going to lose.

    Kid you signed the honor code; you went to A BYU knowing there’s an honor code.

    This is on you.

    I’d love to see him win but he won’t.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Only the CoJCoLDS would make looking like a 1950s educational film a point of religious doctrine. Maybe this will start his shelf bending under the weight (though I’ve always thought that was a metaphor just a bit TOO steeped in LDS style, LOL).

      The only exceptions seem to be for the two or three Sikh students whose parents want a cheap degree for them, or the occasional righteous lamanite student of indigenous American heritage.