Troubles with college dress code.?

Question

At my college we have a dress code and It's businese attire. Us students do not like the dress code, we rather dress in our normal cloths so we can be comfortable.

I'v asked and the reason we have the dress code is to teach us how to dress for our future jobs. When I think that, I think "what?" "How does that work?"...I'v never heard anyone say that they wish they learned how to dress professionally. To me it's not something you learn, you just do it. Know what I mean.

anyways...

any ideas or suggestions on what I can do about this dress code?

My main problem is that they are sending people home and making them miss class that WE pay for. We pay for our education, and we pay a lot! and it's bringing moral down at school, it feels like the administration is against us.

Answer 1

You don't write like a college student, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt. Did the school have the dress code in place when you decided to attend there? Then GROW UP!

Answer 2

While you should have known what you were getting into when you decided to go there, you may have recourse. Get enough students together to petition the student government to change the policy. Or, you could run for office with that as your main platform. However, if your school is religious and very strict in every area of life then you may not be able to change it.

By the way, I have a science degree and have a job as a chemist where I wear jeans every day. Some people wear sweats every day. It is quite more casual here in California, but still, not every job requires "business attire."

Answer 3

Well I would go to the Students union president, or start an official petition, hand in the paper or get as many students as you can to write letters. If Diplomacy does not seem to work I would suggest you all just show up dressed the way you like on the same day.

Answer 4

I'm sure the catalog of the college tells about the dress code. When you enrolled at the college the catalog is basically your contract with the college. It tells what you get and what they expect you to do. It is too late after you arrive to complain about the policies that they told you about before you arrived. It's not like this was some big surprise that they pulled on you after you got there!

That college was there for many years before you arrived, and it will be there many years after you leave. They know what they want to do. If you don't like the way they do things, if you don't want to do things their way, then you should be looking for a college that matches your ideas. There are 3,800 college campuses in the USA so you should be able to find one that matches what you want.

Answer 5

Lansdale v. Tyler Junior College
470 F.2d 659, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals

Action by prospective college students to enjoin college's operation and enforcement against it of a section of a “dress code” limiting hair length of male students. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, at Tyler, William Wayne Justice, J., 318 F.Supp. 529, granted permanent injunctive relief, and college appealed. The Court of Appeals, Clark, Circuit Judge, held that in absence of a showing that unusual conditions exist, regulation of length or style of a college student's hair is irrelevant to any legitimate college administrative interests and any such regulation creates an arbitrary classification of college students and violates both due process and equal protection provisions of Fourth Amendment.

Same result in 9th circuit:

King v. Saddleback Junior College Dist.,
425 F.2d 426

With two circuits concurring, this guarantees that any federal court will follow this reasoning.

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Dye your hair blue or make some other crazy style that makes the dress code moot. When and If you get disciplined, send a letter to the general council's office and give these case citations.

The only things they cannot tell you not to wear have to do with political speech.

Wear a sports jacket with a T-shirt that says F--K Iraq. When you get disciplined, do the same above and cite the supreme court decision of Cohen v. California. 91 S.Ct. 1780 (1971). (Individual given a citation for wearing a F--K Vietnam T-Shirt, Supreme Court held this was protected speech because it was for political purposes).

Wear a black arm band that says "Fight the Power". Sell them for $5 to other students, promote them on a Facebook Group called: University Dress Code Sux, Fight the Power and Get Results.

The Supreme Court case over the black arm band=protest Vietnam escapes me at the moment.

Alternatively, get 100 of your wild friends together and sit in the president's parking lot at 5pm. This will get your message across.

You might get disciplined, but you can sue and end up with a FREE education.

There is power in numbers