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Originally Posted by AKA2D '91
 Since you said a PWI, I can believe it, but why?  (rhetorical)
And... aw nevermind! (sigh)
ETA: The above is not limited to PWIs. Over the years, I've seen the way folks walk over to the cafe in their headscarves, pajamas, and slippers.  (sigh) |
At home I tend to eat in my pajamas, so if I'm at school hundreds of miles away, I wouldn't want to feel homesick. I am old enough to know that it wouldn't be appropriate to wear pajamas on a date or to a job interview. I just don't see the need for someone's subjective view to be forced down my throat. If I have an intramural football game after class, I should be able to come to class in sweats if I want. I'd make sure they didn't stink or anything like that. If people don't like the way I look, they don't have to look at me.
In the corporate world, some companies have stricter dress policies than others. What is considered business formal at one company, might not even qualify as casual at another. In a university setting, students should be free to find themselves. It seems rather scary to have administration telling students how to look. What's to stop faculty and staff, then, from dictating how students think and feel? Most college students are adults and should be accountable for their own actions. They should learn, themselves, that dressing a certain way yields a certain type of treatment. It should not be up to the top brass of the university to "teach" that.