The Thread That Would Not Die: Shorts? Another UGa problem

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Guys in short shorts aren’t cool
Published , April 20, 2006, 06:00:01 AM EDT
UGa newspaper


Who said it was attractive for guys on campus to wear shorts that show off their tan lines? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, pay attention for the short shorts that frat guys wear and the hairless thighs they inevitably expose.

It’s a problem that has plagued the University for years now, ever since I was a freshman. I started noticing these short shorts and the types of guys who wore them when I lived in the dorms.

At first, I thought it was just a troubled phase these guys were going through. I assumed they just wore short shorts because they had no better fashion sense.

But I was wrong. It seems as if these short shorts are a trend now, and every frat guy on our campus wears them.

I usually get into one of my classes about five minutes early, only to wait around for the lecture to start. The other day, my time was instead consumed by staring at the amount of skin this particular guy was showing off.

I usually don’t take pride in noticing other men’s legs, but since his shorts were more than halfway up his thighs when he sat down, I couldn’t help but stare in disgust. It usually doesn’t bother me this much, but then I started looking around the room.

Seven out of the 16 other guys in the room suffered from the same problem: extremely short shorts. And most of them, I know from observing the shirts they wear, are in fraternities.

I’ve started concluding on my own that our traditional Greek fraternities on campus breed short shorts-wearing guys. It’s like they have their only style, the complete “frat-tastic” guy. You can always pick them out on campus because they all walk together.

And if you catch two or three pairs of semi-hairy legs together, it’s not women who forgot to shave that morning. It’s these guys who think that wearing short shorts is appealing. Not only do their short shorts give them away, but they almost always wear pastel colored T-shirts that flaunt their fraternity social. They seem to always model the dark sunglasses with the croakie that fastens their sunglasses to their head, too, as if their sunglasses are going to fall off anyways.

As much as it confuses me as to why all these fraternity guys dress the same, I really don’t see the problem ever going away. Nothing bothers me as much as those short shorts, though. If only they could just not wear short shorts, the world would probably be a much better place.

You know, I appreciate walking around the Chemistry building because my chances of seeing frat guys’ leg skin are less than those on Milledge Avenue. For you fraternity guys, I beg of you: be different, stand out. But please, wear longer shorts. Showing too much skin in your thigh area is definitely not attractive.

— Jeff Czech is a senior from Martinez majoring in marketing.