November 7, 2008

Latter-Day Beefcake

By DAVID DEBOLT

A Brigham Young University student who created a calendar depicting former missionary men posing shirtless was excommunicated from the Mormon Church last summer, and as a result the university has withheld his diploma.

Chad Hardy, creator of the "Men on a Mission" calendar, completed his degree in July and, like all others who walked across the stage at Brigham Young's August commencement, was handed an empty diploma cover. But he was subsequently notified that his sheepskin would not