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Morehouse Bans Students in Drag

College's new dress code has unusual stipulation

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(Newser) – Morehouse College insists that the "image of the strong black man needs to be upheld," and that most definitely involves not dressing up like a strong black woman. The school's new dress code has the usual stuff like banning do-rags and lewd T-shirts. But it also includes a stipulation that forbids the "wearing of clothing usually worn by women (dresses, tops, tunics, purses, pumps, etc.) on the Morehouse campus or at college-sponsored events."

The president of a gay-straight alliance group on campus tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the policy is discriminatory. “Some believe that this restriction is what the entire policy is correlated around,” he adds. Tough nuts, says a member of the student government. "If anyone sees this policy as something that is restrictive, then maybe Morehouse is not the place for you.”

Students walk on the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta.
Students walk on the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta.   (AP Photo/W.A. Harewood)
This man is persona non grata at Morehouse.
This man is persona non grata at Morehouse.   (Shutter Stock)
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diltsduo
Oct 17, 09 3:34 PM CDT
I Believe this is discriminatory, although im not a Drag person myself but life is about being who you. But then again i can see why the college doesnt want these people their. It makes the college look bad. Oh Well, Be who you are!!! Reply
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Snarfeh
Oct 17, 09 3:54 PM CDT
What about women wearing pants? Is that the next thing they will ban?
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my-name-here
Oct 17, 09 4:43 PM CDT
@Snarf, I was thinking the same thing. Don't be too surprised if they do, though. Some "Christian Colleges" already do.
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Fondue
Oct 17, 09 5:04 PM CDT
Morehouse is one of those archaic all male schools. If would be interesting to know if female staff et al wear pants though.
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Deebles
Oct 17, 09 11:31 PM CDT
Yes be all you can be with a demonstrative pronoun. Dammit. life should be way easier than this now. You know that ballon story and this thing story? Pakistan is getting overrun you idiots and it has nukes and the first place it will look is India and they have nukes too. Fuck. We won't make it to the hoax 2012. Unless, we get on the same page. This is why I can barely tolerate being here. It's like Berlin in 1938. If you guys are younger than 50 you probably never saw a nuclear weapon detonated in the atmosphere. You'd be less partisan and sending letters to Congress every day. That, I do every day and not emails--Congress is old school they need a letter with a stamp. I send the same one to my congressman my senator etc.--I will vote for you no matter what you do as long as you keep us from vaporized. I heartily recommend it to my fellow Newsers because snail mail gets dumped on their desk and emails get read by the intern who's one pregnancy test from a meltdown.
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