A student at Brigham Young University who produced a beefcake calendar of "mostly modestly posed" former missionaries baring their pecs to the secular world has been excommunicated from the Mormon Church and denied the degree he'd already earned.
A Sept. 30 letter from Norman B. Finlinson, the school's executive
director of student academic and advisement services, said a
nonacademic hold was placed on Hardy's record after the church-owned
university learned of the excommunication.
"If in the future you are reinstated as a member of the church in good standing, you are invited to contact my office regarding your possible eligibility for the awarding of a degree," Finlinson wrote.
"If in the future you are reinstated as a member of the church in good standing, you are invited to contact my office regarding your possible eligibility for the awarding of a degree," Finlinson wrote.
The student, Chad Hardy, has lawyered up. The Men on a Mission calendar has its own MySpace page, naturally.
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