Editors note: Names have been changed

A tradition some students at BYU-Idaho participate in is called McMidnight. This is when students go to McDonald’s Monday mornings at midnight.

“Going to McMidnight, it’s packed,” said Jane Smith. “There’s tons of people that you can hardly sit anywhere. Everyone’s just kind of in each others space and so it’s kind of exciting to see.”

Students participate in McMidnight to avoid breaking the Sabbath on Sunday. In order to participate, however, they need to break curfew, a part of the Honor Code.

“I think that the Honor Code is there specifically for chastity purposes,” said John Reece. “I think that if you were with the opposite sex then you shouldn’t be doing it, but if you’re just with a group of friends of the same sex, then it’s okay.”

“Students should be in their own apartments by midnight Saturday through Thursday and 1 a.m. on Friday,” according to the BYU-I Honor Code.

“I think the Honor Code is given to us for a reason and its to protect us,” said Amy Grace. “And so I don’t think that it’s the greatest thing to break it.”

While attending McMidnight is breaking the Honor Code, some students still go because they feel if they aren’t doing anything wrong—it isn’t a problem.

“I think that the honor code is very important and I agree with most of it,” said Riley Peters. “But for McMidnight I think it’s a public place, it’s a lot of people, nothing inherently bad is happening and so as long as it just sticks to McMidnight I don’t see a problem with it.”