Senate Asks Dress Rule Shift
by Shelley Emmer

...Toward the end of its grueling marathon of some five hours last Friday, Senate passed a regulation "urging the administration" to rescind dress regulations.

...The resolution states that College students are mature enough to decide what is appropriate dress for school, and that they should not be restricted by rulings. The debate on the proposal was heated, although the speakers were plagued by a lack of attention and discourtesy.

...Ben Fein, NSA, committee chairman, said that students don't have the same kind of responsibility to the administration that they have to their parents, who do have the right to tell their children how to dress. He implied that school dress regulation might also come to mean restriction on "what I am learning."

...Stuart Weiss doubted the maturity of the students and "if anything," would strengthen the rules. Barry Witz, however, felt that students had no right to judge each other's maturity. The only way to draw any conclusion would be to give them a chance and see how they react.

...On the lighter side, Mike Solomon depicted the "horrors" of attending summer school in ninety-five degree weather. He vividly described sweating students in cumbersome attire. He felt that in many girls' cases, slacks facilitates learning. He felt that he often studies better in his pajamas.

...The actual voting pattern, according to Harold Nass, was "extremely significant." Fifteen senators voted for the resolution, eight opposed it, and one abstained. Paragon senators voted six to one against the bill, while six of the eight members of Challenge in Senate favored it.