BYU-Idaho bans skinny jeans | The Student Review

[_SteelHead]

This is the best bit:

"I don't believe the Lord would give approval to anyone to be disobedient to the CES Dress and Grooming Standards."

Seriously? Would the Lord even care? This is not some universal standard, or commandment or even doctrine. It is a policy that applies only to byui students. I don't know why anyone would pray about it. Somebody needs to be more careful with the use of the word anyone. I guess byui students are more righteous than their BYU Provo analogs, as they follow a stricter dress code.

I was in a eq meeting a while back where a byui kid equated wearing flip flops at byui with sinning. I vomited a little in my mouth. Some people are so brain washed they can't differentiate between byui's particular policies and tscoc's doctrines.

And now for a rousing chorus of "Follow the president of byui, he knows the way."

[_The Mormon Report]

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[_zeezrom]

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The people that kicked her out were both male. That figures. Usually it's the guys who notice.

[_just me]

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Um, those aren't even skinny jeans! What the....Yeah, those are bootcut jeans.

Lame.

[_moksha]

I think it would be better to just ban all denim. Makes more sense. And there should be more tweed!

Wait, everyone should dress like this.

Isn't that Blixa in the first row? Go Utes!

[_Melchett]

I think it would be better to just ban all denim. Makes more sense. And there should be more tweed!

Wait, everyone should dress like this.

Isn't that Blixa in the first row? Go Utes!

Damn fine haircuts!

[_Blixa]

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.

Some how I've always known I'd have had problems with you in class :)

If I'd noticed you never took notes, yet responded articulately in class and in your written work, I would have been bemused and never made a point of it. And sitting in the back may be a point of comfort for both physical and psychological reasons. Usually, however, it registers as signifier of complete avoidance, mental as well as physical. Over the course of the semester, the wall huggers coalesce into an indistinguishable grouping like the fake rocks or buildings at the back of a stage design, not even as individual as extras with no lines.

Anyway, the cultivation of thought proceeds along many lines. Finding ways to activate the trait after its nearly been bred out of students by earlier schooling is always a challenge.

[_lovedoggies]

Lol...that cracks me up because...when I went to BYU in the 70s, I got called (by the male) into the dorm parents? but it was heritage halls...for the way I dressed. I was actually very hurt. I said kind of indignantly but also nearly with tears in my eyes as I was only 18, something to the effect that I can't change how my body is and I don't dress any differently than anyone else here! Then the wife actually got really quite angry at her husband for making me come in, and things changed after that as she must have worn the skinny jeans in the dorm apt.