College students should consider how their clothes affect others
Robert Gregg
Issue date: 11/12/09 Section: Web Extras
I think college students should be allowed to express themselves, and if they choose to let the clothes that they are wearing speak for them, then they should apply the rule that states that you should think before you speak. Basically, I am trying to say that I think college students should consider how what they wear will affect others.
Have you ever heard the phrase "dress for success?" When I hear that phrase being uttered, I picture people dressed business casual. However, when I looked up the term "appropriate" dress on the Point Park University Web site, I found the following: "Proper attire, including shirt and shoes, must be worn at all times in public areas of campus (i.e. lobby, laundry rooms, food service areas, elevators, etc)."
It is important to note that Point Park students are able to be successful without adhering to a strict dress code. Also, students are able to bend the rules by walking around wearing stockings or slippers, and some students even prefer to walk around bare foot. I will continue to do my best to dress appropriately, and I hope my fellow students will do the same. Being a college student has not made me want to change the way I dress, but I know there is a difference between the dress code rules for high school students and the rules for college students.
At Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Mich., Bretton Barber wore a expressing opposition to former president George Bush shirt to school. The shirt upset one of his fellow students so much that he reported Barber to the administrators. Barber, who had a shirt on underneath, was asked to take his shirt off. After he refused, he was left with no choice but to go home.
Shortly after the incident, he took the issue to a federal court, and "a federal judge ruled that he had a first amendment right to wear the shirt to school," according to Pember and Calvert, who co-authored the book titled "Mass Media Law."
Now in college, I do not think that kids would be as sensitive to what other students are wearing. For example, a lot of students wear Obama shirts at Point Park, and I have not heard of any occasion when students who do not support Obama complain about the shirts. All college students know that after college they are going to have to do their best to make it in the real world. I recently came across an online article, titled "Dress Code For College Career Day," written by Hendrik Pohl. The article caught my attention because of the following statement:
Have you ever heard the phrase "dress for success?" When I hear that phrase being uttered, I picture people dressed business casual. However, when I looked up the term "appropriate" dress on the Point Park University Web site, I found the following: "Proper attire, including shirt and shoes, must be worn at all times in public areas of campus (i.e. lobby, laundry rooms, food service areas, elevators, etc)."
It is important to note that Point Park students are able to be successful without adhering to a strict dress code. Also, students are able to bend the rules by walking around wearing stockings or slippers, and some students even prefer to walk around bare foot. I will continue to do my best to dress appropriately, and I hope my fellow students will do the same. Being a college student has not made me want to change the way I dress, but I know there is a difference between the dress code rules for high school students and the rules for college students.
At Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Mich., Bretton Barber wore a expressing opposition to former president George Bush shirt to school. The shirt upset one of his fellow students so much that he reported Barber to the administrators. Barber, who had a shirt on underneath, was asked to take his shirt off. After he refused, he was left with no choice but to go home.
Shortly after the incident, he took the issue to a federal court, and "a federal judge ruled that he had a first amendment right to wear the shirt to school," according to Pember and Calvert, who co-authored the book titled "Mass Media Law."
Now in college, I do not think that kids would be as sensitive to what other students are wearing. For example, a lot of students wear Obama shirts at Point Park, and I have not heard of any occasion when students who do not support Obama complain about the shirts. All college students know that after college they are going to have to do their best to make it in the real world. I recently came across an online article, titled "Dress Code For College Career Day," written by Hendrik Pohl. The article caught my attention because of the following statement:
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