BYU, also known to some as the Lord’s University, is known for it’s high standards and its ability to enforce it.

At BYU in Provo, you have to abide by the both the commandments and the Honor Code. You’re not able to have a beard without a beard-card, you can’t dye your hair “unnatural colors” and your pants are supposed to have pockets (no yoga pants.)

BYU tries its darndest to enforce their honor code but things slip through the cracks at times.

You’ll see a couple men with facial hair, some people with shocks of blue or pink in their hair and LOTS of yoga pants.

But these slips in policy aren’t always committed by students.

“Greeting cards celebrating same-sex marriages turned up at the Brigham Young University bookstore Tuesday,” wrote the Salt Lake Tribune. “Placed by Hallmark, the cards reading ‘Mr. and Mr.’ and ‘Mrs. and Mrs.’ were quickly removed when bookstore staff discovered them after photos surfaced online. ”

These aren’t the only slips that have appeared at BYU.

Below, I have compiled a list of things that don’t seem like they should belong at BYU’s Bookstore.

DISCLAIMER! I’m not saying BYU should or shouldn’t have these things. I’m just saying that it’s curious that they exist.

Weird Shirts

It’s interesting since you can’t buy caffeine on campus because there is no demand for it. But you can buy a shirt Mormonizing caffeine drinks which Elder Bednar spoke against…energy drinks that is. Elder Bednar did not speak out against tacky LDS parody shirts.

I’ve been told the half shirts are used by Mormon girls to provide sleeves to sleeveless shirts without having lots of bunching. Maybe that’s why BYU has them. But still… those models couldn’t get into the testing center.

Unusual Books

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this book is sold in the Bookstore.

“How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church’s history—for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika,” says the Amazon book description. “A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance.”

This could be the church’s attempt at historical transparency. This could also be one of those books slipping through the cracks.

But it’s not just their nonfiction selection that has interesting reading in it. Their fiction section has certain book series that’ll make millennials blush.

These books were amazing. I read the first three and currently own the fourth in the series. I won’t say who recommended them to me but it was recommended by some Mormon royalty.

That being said, I assume that most members are unaware of the language violence, sex and awful rape scenes these books contain.

Really though, these books are pretty explicit for non-members let alone BYU students.

Useless Textbooks

This is not a politically charged statement about the college textbook market.

This used textbook is literally useless.

This textbook was created with tear-out pages. That way, you couldn’t download it for free online.

I checked it. The homework assignment pages were torn out. If you bought this book used, you’d be basically saying, “I won’t do any homework this semester to save $10 or $20.”

I told the bookstore that someone sold them a useless book and they said they’d do something about it. Someone should check to see if it’s still there.

Out of place posters

Why does @byu sell Eminem posters but I can’t take a test with a beard? @byustore @byusa @MormonShorts #byuprobs pic.twitter.com/qc08fySf9O

— Matthew Jelalian (@jelaliam) July 19, 2014

That is an old picture I tweeted a while ago. It’s interesting considering the fact that BYU sells Eminem posters since he’s “at war with the Mormons.” But he probably just doesn’t give an eff.

Granted this Terminator movie is PG-13 but the rest of them are R. Call of Duty is definitely an M rating though. Which, in the world of a video games, is the same thing as an R rating.

New Scriptures

A Bible a Bible, we have a new Bible and no longer need this Bible!

Entourage

Do I really need to say anything? But hey, it’s 70% off.