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Originally Posted by puf_the_majic_dragon
beards.
A search on LDS.org turns up one article from 1971 from a speach by Dallin H Oaks when he first became president of BYU. This was regarding grooming standards for BYU and shaving and short hair were encouraged, not because beards and long hair are inherently wrong, but because they identified people with the hippie counter culture of the time. However this was specifically for BYU students about BYU rules.
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I remember that period in time, when you could identify the male BYU students by the white side walls on their head. They seemed like a walking anachronism from the past back then. Now, longer hair seems anachronistic.
The point was made to those BYU students that they needed to learn conformity to the values of their elder authorities and not seek to be like the world around them.