BYU-Idaho bans skinny jeans | The Student Review

[Guest]

No, the uniform for all, everywhere, should be denim, leather, and t-shirts. Leather should be prohibited if the temp is above 32 deg. Should be a constitutional amendment. We want to eliminate social class distinctions.

[_Buffalo]

Oh really? Of course there are academic uniforms. What I wear signals a great deal to my students.

I'm not sure just not wearing jeans counts as anything we could call "uniform."

[_DarkHelmet]

In the future, we will all wear one piece spandex jump suits. What will the church's position be on 25th century fashions?

[_EAllusion]

Good students "look" like students. I don't mean they all dress the same, but they show up with backpacks with their books, notebooks, and pens and pencils. They sit where they can see the teacher and the blackboard (i.e., they don't hug the back wall). Their books are clearly "worked over:" notes in margins, tabs or post-its to make pages easy to find, they rarely use the dreaded yellow highlighter (they write notes, not just underline). They dress for comfortable roaming around campus and sitting and reading: many styles accommodate that. What they don't wear is anything that would look "awesome" at a Phi Delt kegger.

Hmmm. I almost always hugged the back row if I could. I almost never took notes on anything. My attire wouldn't always be, uh, presentable as I'd wake up and just walk right over to class.

My test scores routinely set the curve. I'm pretty sure I was a "good" student. So, yeah.

Anyway, even if we fully buy into Stak's thesis that dress codes are good because they instill discipline, it does not follow that all dress codes are arbitrarily good. To the extent they also are done to instill deleterious values, such as rigid, antiquated gender roles or abject fear of sexuality, that's not a good thing.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Hmmm. I almost always hugged the back row if I could. I almost never took notes on anything. My attire wouldn't always be, uh, presentable as I'd wake up and just walk right over to class.

My test scores routinely set the curve. I'm pretty sure I was a "good" student. So, yeah.

Anyway, even if we fully buy into Stak's thesis that dress codes are good because they instill discipline, it does not follow that all dress codes are arbitrarily good. To the extent they also are done to instill deleterious values, such as rigid, antiquated gender roles or abject fear of sexuality, that's not a good thing.

Agreed. BTW- would these skinny jeans be okay for you to wear at work?

[_Equality]

Skinny jeans were only one of the prohibited apparel items on the testing center's list of verboten clothing. Apparently, short skirts are so offensive to the Holy Goat that they can not even be worn over tights. Also, where did they get the great clip art of Richard G. Scott?:

http://gawker.com/5865998/mormon-colleges-skinny-jeans-ban-debated-overturned

[_MrStakhanovite]

WTF @ that flier

[_just me]

I love all of this. It is such good entertainment. Too bad it is also frightening.

[_beastie]

Back in the dark ages when I went to BYU, girls weren't allowed to wear any sort of jeans on campus. The guys could, but not the girls.

There were many urban legends about girls taking tests at the Testing Center pantless under a coat because they had to ditch the jeans.

[_Darth J]

I'm kind of confused now, because spokespersons from both regular BYU and BYU-Idaho are telling the press that skinny jeans are not banned, and the testing center sort of went off reservation when it made up that flyer that was posted in this thread.

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