This is not the kind of scandal that any university wants to endure — with allegations of systematic, institutionalized callousness toward victims of sexual assault publicized nationally (and internationally) in newspapers and on public radio. But when the college is Brigham Young University — the largest religious university in the United States (excluding online students), and a school owned and operated by the morally and politically conservative Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — the scandal has the potential to shake the institution to its core. The details are complex but the implications are clear.