Mormon university urged to 'Bring back the beard!'
Los Angeles (AFP) - A retired professor fed up with a ban on beards at a Mormon Church-run university has launched a petition to overturn the rule insisting students must be clean-shaven. The edict at Brigham Young University in Utah in the United States dates back to the 1960s, when hirsuteness was associated with hippies and a counterculture at odds with the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the official name of the Mormons. The university's dress code says: "Sideburns should not extend below the earlobe or onto the cheek. If worn, mustaches should be neatly trimm...