Thoreau vs. the BYU

[Henry David Thoreau is not impressed by your BYU beard bans]  You can always tell when an English major got their undergrad at BYU by how vociferously they denounce Thoreau.  I don't just mean they roll their eyes at Walden or respectfully disagree with his Defense of John Brown, no, I mean they tear into him like a cornered dog, as though he has personally insulted them somehow.

Serious, almost every last BYU English grad I've ever met has at some point ranted (as though they were...