who were NOT MORMON, I can assure you, that BYU is probably far more academically free than you people think. Let's start with BYU's Library being ranked 5th best in the world. Unlike the Vatican, the BYU library makes provisions for people to research anything they desire with the exception of Internet pornography. I suspect you won't be able to download your favorite naked UTE cheerleader site, but hey if that's what you call restricting ACADEMIC FREEDOM then yes BYU is dark ages. You would have to go off-site or get a Verizon card of your own to download your favorite dirty pics.

Beyond that I have no idea what you think BYU's administration restricts? BYU's bio sciences is top drawer. It's work in chemistry, physics and especially earth physics and cosmology is exceptional. It would be well to remember that BYU gave us the Kyron (triggering concept that was required to make Nuclear Fission and fusion possible), the Television/CRT, stereophonic sound which let to all major multi-dimensioned sound systems, and other rather esoteric advancements in electronics and applied physics that went into rocketry and space commercialization - all things one would have expected from Cal-Tech, MIT, Georgia Tech or some other purportedly better funded research think tank. I think you need to explain exactly what it is you think BYU holds back from academic pursuit? I knew of nude art sessions where painting and drawing the human form was taught, and in one class in 1972, the instructor spoke openly in a mandatory coed health class about the purely physical nature of the human sexual and reproductive experience, complete with charts, graphs and pictures.

Again, what is this limitation on academic freedom you speak of? I think these are the words of idiots who have never visited BYU or ever taken the time to talk to the faculty there one on one.