On Thursday morning, Brigham Young University announced the university will
offer caffeinated soft drinks -- including Coca-Cola -- on campus and fans
couldn’t contain their excitement.
The BYU Twitter account posted the news along with a Q&A with BYU director
of dining services Dean Wright on the decision to bring caffeinated soft
drinks on the Provo, Utah, campus for the first time since the mid-1950s.
BYU is is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day
Saints and requires students to adhere to a strict honor code in line with
the church’s beliefs. The honor code enforced a mandated dress code,
personal grooming standards as well as abstinence from premarital sex, drugs
and alcohol.
BYU is the largest religious university and third largest private university
in the United States.