October 10, 2007

Professors Must Dress Up or Face a Dressing-Down at Tri-State U.

By Paula Wasley

Faculty members at Tri-State University, in Indiana, are hot under the collar about a stringent new dress code for professors and staff members.

The new "personal-appearance policy" at the private, nondenominational university bans spandex, scuffed shoes, hats, shorts, baseball caps, skirts or pants worn below the waistline, Croc-type shoes, blue jeans, Mohawk hairstyles, facial piercings, visible tattoos, "the observable lack of undergarments," cross-gender garb, "dental art",

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