A freshman student at Brigham Young University-Idaho said she was surprised to learn that a recent art project went too far by showing exposed female shoulders.
Oregon native Waverly Giles said she received a score of zero out of 100 on her photos for a lower-division humanities class.
The photos showed a female subject with colorful paint on her face and were cropped just beneath the woman's collarbone.
"My subject was not fully nude and she wasn't posing provocatively," Giles said. "But yes, the shoulders were against the [university] dress code and it did imply she was in the shower."
BYU-Idaho, like Brigham Young University in Provo, is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Both schools require students to comply with an Honor Code that includes dress and grooming standards. But the BYU-Idaho Honor Code goes further than its sister campus in Provo by prohibiting shorts, capri pants, flip flops and "other casual footwear."
Giles said she respects and appreciates the school's Honor Code. But her professor had included images of partially clothed or nude artwork — like Michaelangelo's David and Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" — during classroom presentations, which led her to believe art projects would be granted some flexibility from campus rules.
"It's art, it's beautiful and it's appreciating the human form," she said. "I was kind of expecting that same amnesty when it came to my project."
Giles said her assignment was due on Nov. 8, and she noticed over the school's Thanksgiving break that she had not earned any points for the project.
When she confronted her professor about the grade on Tuesday, she said she was told her photos were inappropriate and given a blank grading rubric.
On that rubric, which Giles posted on Twitter along with her photos, the professor indicated that the project did not meet the assignment criteria and added a commentary note.
"I have no idea what to do with these," it said. "They're artistic but ..."
My photographs meet all of the criteria but my professor gave me a 0 because he couldn't see past her visible shoulders
She said she was given an opportunity to resubmit photos for the assignment, but she does not know if her latest attempt will be for full or partial credit.
Her latest project shows a woman, fully clothed, her hands covering her mouth and face.
"The new picture that I turned in was actually inspired by this situation," she said.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
Her father posted the following on his Facebook page:
My daughter Waverly Giles caught photographing bare shoulders at BYU-I.
I think I should go to church shirtless in solidarity! (Some people may not get that I am speaking hyperbolically. I love BYU and the LDS church, but wish we would stop doing stuff like this)
For those of you who have told me that if I don't like the church, get out... I am going to need a scriptural citation so I can see how Christ phrased that.
New name: Boaz The most viewed "ignored" poster in Shady Acres® !
As Christ groaned in agony upon the cross a passerby cupped their hand and leaned in close to listen. "Oh god, my shoulders are bare." "Oh god, my shoulders are bare." "Oh god, my shoulders are bare."
Kolob’s set time is “one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest” (Abraham 3:4). I take this as a round number. - Gee
sock puppet wrote:Do the illustrations in the current Book of Mormon show any shoulders on the warriors as they used to?
and christus, maybe?
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sock puppet wrote:Do the illustrations in the current Book of Mormon show any shoulders on the warriors as they used to?
and christus, maybe?
Or super hot Eve in the temple film.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
sock puppet wrote:Do the illustrations in the current Book of Mormon show any shoulders on the warriors as they used to?
Choyo Chagas wrote:and christus, maybe?
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Or super hot Eve in the temple film.
- Doc
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Choyo Chagas is Chairman of the Big Four, the ruler of the planet from "The Bull's Hour" ( Russian: Час Быка), a social science fiction novel written by Soviet author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968. Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: Or super hot Eve in the temple film.
- Doc
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