Saturday, February 28, 2004

BYU probes sex, liquor activities at players' home :: The Daily Herald :: Your town. Your neighbors. Your newspaper.: "While the police investigation was dropped, any student parties involving sex and alcohol would violate BYU's honor code, which prohibits drinking and premarital sex, among other things.

BYU football coaches held a lengthy team meeting Friday to discuss BYU's honor code. The coaches were described as angry.

Brathwaite, BYU's starting running back, was suspended before BYU's season finale in November for an unspecified honor code violation. Neither he nor Allen, a starting safety, could be reached for comment Tuesday. Watkins, a prized wide receiver who enrolled in January, said, 'I have nothing to say. I didn't have no involvement.'

Two women, who asked not to be identified, told the Daily Herald they attended several parties with BYU football players and recruits. They said alcohol flowed freely and football players made sexual advances.

One of the women, speaking of the party police investigated, said she advised other female attendees to 'stay together.'

'I told the girls to stay together,' she said. 'I said 'Don't worry, they're nice guys, but unless you want to do stuff, stay together.' '"

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