This is one of the most ridiculous stories I have ever read. Morehouse institutes a dress code and people became outraged! Here are some of the rules: No hats indoors, No pajamas in public, No cross dressing of any kind. Really! What an out rage! Just who do they think they are! What are they trying to do draw a line between the appropriate and not appropriate! I am out raged that an institution of higher learning cares enough to expect a classroom to be a classroom and not a play ground for buffoons and clowns. I am out raged that a university is trying to take adolescents and form them into someone that is viable to the work place. I am out raged that the university is stepping in a playing the part of the parent in preparing these very young and naïve men for the tough challenges that await them. Give me a break!
Morehouse, unlike most universities, expect their students to act in an appropriate manner and they expect their students to uphold the traditions of the community. They believe in holding their students to a high standard and expect them to hold themselves to a higher standard. Wearing a do-rag with baggy pants and your underwear showing is not appropriate at any level of intelligent behavior. It shows sloppiness and sloppiness breeds inefficiency. And please give me a break, of all the people saying that it is taking away from your individualism, because everyone is doing it. You can’t go any where with someone’s pants hanging off their butt and if everyone is doing it how can it be an individual thing? Trust me that’s not being an individual that being part of and idiot movement. Even in the NBA they have to adhere to a dress code, because they are representing the NBA. I’m not even going to touch the cross dressers. That in itself is troubling.
Don’t fool yourselves there are to many people walking around with degrees that didn’t get the proper training to do the job. Part of your training is proper edicate and now they are working in retail.
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Let me preface this by saying that I believe a dress code for a college is a good thing. A little discipline is always helpful in preparing people for later in life. If you really want to dress up like an idiot, there are plenty of other places you can go to do that, you don't need to do it at college.
ReplyDeleteI believe most of the issue with the Morehouse policy comes, as most things do, with the timing. I can't profess to know what the policies at the college were before, but it sounds like do-rags and baggy clothing exposing underwear had been considered fine (or at least above banning) for years but as soon as a few openly gay guys begin wearing women’s clothing, here comes the ban. The heart of the question is whether this was done in order to prevent these men from expressing themselves through dress, while leaving others free to do so.
It is interesting to note that most of the policy changes only affect student's dress in the classroom or official buildings, but the policy against women's clothing affects the entire campus. Even a student’s dorm room would fall under this umbrella.
Also interesting to note that the college said that they had spoken to the campus gay group "Safe Space" and that they claim only 3 of the 27 people had an issue with it. But the group co-president has since come out and called the policy discriminatory. Is the co-president simply a vocal member of those "three", or did the college fabricate getting the group’s approval in order to dilute the story in the national media. To be honest I read the story a few days ago on CNN and when I read that the gay group had given its approval, I figured that to be the end of the story. But now, reading different viewpoints, I am beginning to wonder if there really is some discrimination going on here.
Morehouse wants people to consider the ban a return to the way things were, and if that were true it would be fine. No one should have an issue with a college requiring appropriate attire in the classroom. The problem is that Morehouse has assigned levels of appropriateness. Do-rags and offensive slogans are off limits in classrooms, but perfectly fine in dorms and at social events. It seems that they only things that got the full campus ban were cross-dressing and sagging pants. Funny how all this started when a few gay guys started cross-dressing. It looks, at least from my vantage point, like the college wanted to end cross-dressing, but didn't want to look like they were ending cross-dressing alone, so they added a few other weak clauses.
The college appears guilty of using a hacksaw because a scalpel would cause a PR nightmare. This isn't the lesson a college should be teaching its students. Unless, of course, it’s trying to send them into politics...