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Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune

Beard supporters and enthusiasts cheer outside of the Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building at Brigham Young University during a "bike for beards" rally Friday September 26, 2014. Shane Pittson is petitioning school officials for the right to bear a beard. The university's honor code — its mandatory contract that forbids premarital sex, drinking alcohol and tattoos, among other things — outlaws any scruff on campus. Read more