This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2016, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.

Some of us remember how the task of selecting a college involved lots of letters and catalogs coming in the mail. These days, of course, it's all about Google.

And when university-seeking young women — or their parents — today put the words "Brigham Young University" into that search engine, this is what they get:

— Sexual assault victims say abusers wield BYU's Honor Code as a weapon — Erin Alberty | The Salt Lake Tribune

" ... As BYU has come under fire amid students' claims that they were investigated by the school as a result of reporting sexual assaults, critics have pointed to the chilling effect that scrutiny has on victims. More than two dozen current and former BYU students have told The Salt Lake Tribune they did not report sex crimes against them — many for fear of school discipline. ..."

— Repeated Violations — Dahlia Lithwick | Slate

" ... As an angry editorial the Salt Lake Tribune extolled, what a young woman is drinking, or wearing, or that she was in her bedroom with a man, does not change the fact that if she is raped, the rapist is responsible. By shifting the responsibility onto the victim, the Tribune accurately notes, BYU is saying that her college career can end simply for speaking up to ensure that another attack doesn't happen to the next victim. ...

" ... Title IX is meant to encourage reports of sexual violence, not trigger investigations into whether the victims wore sundresses or drank a spritzer. ..."

— BYU must take severe action to enhance support for sexual assault survivors — Provo Daily Herald Editorial

" ... A brave young woman challenged the university's honor code policies after being sexually assaulted and then later investigated by the school. ...

" ... It does not matter what mistake a victim makes — drinking alcohol or being in another person's bedroom after midnight — it does not justify or make it acceptable for another person to then violate them. ..."

— At Brigham Young, a Cost in Reporting a Rape — Jack Healy | The New York Times

" ... In the past few weeks, Brooke and a handful of other female students have come forward, first at a rape-awareness conference and then in The Salt Lake Tribune, to say that after they made complaints of sexual abuse they had faced Honor Code investigations into whether they drank alcohol, took drugs or had consensual sex. ..."

— Brigham Young University under fire for disciplining sexual assault victim for 'honor code' breach — Yanan Wang | The Washington Post

" ... The honor code has long been an essential part of campus life, but some students say that disciplinary procedures surrounding the regulations can keep sexual assault victims silent.

"Madi Barney, 20, told the Huffington Post and the Salt Lake Tribune that she filed a Title IX complaint against BYU with the Department of Education on Monday. ..."

— Rape victim could be punished under Brigham Young University's 'honor code' — The Guardian (U.K.)

" ... According to police documents viewed by the Salt Lake Tribune ..."

— Woman launches petition against university that punished her for reporting her alleged rape — Will Worley | The Independent (U.K.)

" ... In a statement to the Salt Lake Tribune, BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins denied the Honor Code further victimised people who have been sexually assaulted and said allegations of sexual violence would be dealt with 'separately from the sexual misconduct allegation.'..."

— Brigham Young Students Accuse University Of Punishing Rape Victims For Reporting — Jack Jenkins | Think Progress

" ... In a chilling new report from the Salt Lake Tribune, several BYU students allege that the university often forces people who report sexual assault to endure Honor Code investigations, a practice they say harms rape victims and discourages them from telling officials about attacks. ..."

— Brigham Young University Students Protest Honor Code Punishment For Sexual Assault Victim In Utah — Abigail Abrams | International Business Times

" ... The protests came after students expressed anger over the sexual assault case of BYU sophomore Madi Barney, who reported to Provo, Utah, police that she was raped in her off-campus apartment, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. ..."

— Brigham Young University's honor code 're-victimizes' sex assault victims by turning them into suspects — Tobias Salinger | The New York Daily News

" ... Women forbidden from registering for classes after reporting the crimes are openly questioning the rules enforced by the private Mormon university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And local prosecutors told The Salt Lake City [sic] Tribune on Friday that the guidelines mandating chastity, sobriety and a dress code are jeopardizing a rape case. ..."

— Students Say Brigham Young University Punishes Them for Being Sexually Assaulted — Hannah Smothers | Cosmopolitan [Careful. Just clicking on that could be an Honor Code violation.]

" ... In an investigation by the Salt Lake Tribune, one student survivor said her future enrollment at BYU is on hold pending the results of an Honor Code Office investigation into her rape case, which also led to a criminal case in Provo, Utah. She spoke at a rape awareness conference on her campus last week and challenged the way BYU handles sexual assault investigations. "I said, 'I'd like to propose that victims of sexual violence have some kind of immunity clause from the Honor Code, because it creates a hostile environment for victims who think they're going to get in trouble for reporting.' Everyone clapped," she told the Tribune.

— Female Student Raped, Was Told She Violated University's 'Honor Code' — Sherley Boursiquot | Epoch Times

— Rape victims face honor code investigations at Brigham Young University — AP | Mashable

— BYU Students Investigated by School After Reporting Rape — AP | ABC News

[Notice the different uses of the words "Honor Code." The Salt Lake Tribune and some other publications capitalize the term, as a proper name, like the title of a book. Others keep it lower case. At least a couple put the term in quotation marks. As if to call it BYU's "so-called honor code."]