[AKA_Monet]

Great topic, excellent pros/cons arguments.

I graduated Spelman and my husband graduated Morehouse. As alumni, we both were sent literature about this "appropriate dress policy", from our colleges, respectively.

The reasons stated to us were that students were getting killed due to their clothing--ie saggy pants, hoochie mama outfits, etc. Gangs who resided in nearby project housing were showing up on campus at night doing nefarious acts while it was unknown if the students were mixed up in it or not. And students were getting hurt because of it.

Of course this out of the sites of the guards and let's just say the camera budgeting is limited.

Last month a young woman who attended Spelman was shot as a bystander during some altercation.

Atlanta PD is unable/unwilling to differentiate the students from the "locals", so they arrest everyone and ask questions later. When a Morehouse student gets arrested, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, et al. are all to happy to print it as headlines in this current news business climate, moreover, if CNN gets a wind of it, guess who is reported...

Seriously, that Morehouse endowment's bottomline is effected. You cannot have Morehouse students looking all kinds of ways being arrested on anybody's media outlet and think that the benefactors won't call and ask questions. Moreover, Morehouse students sign a code of ethics and behavioral statements as Freshmen. If they get arrested they can be expelled...

What is so hard about wearing appropriate dress to class from the unique nature of a Historically African American college in the United States and global leader?

I can understand a young person's choice to desire "freedom of expression" during his collegiate experiences, but seriously, why matriculate at Morehouse College, then? Especially, when there are myriads of colleges and universities in the world that will let him run around in his "birthday suit"? Tis much easier to switch schools than change this ideology, because this system will NEVER change!