Comments on: Higher Ed Has a Discipline Deficit https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/05/27/higher-ed-has-a-discipline-deficit/ Reforming Our Universities Wed, 28 May 2025 15:36:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dr. Ed https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/05/27/higher-ed-has-a-discipline-deficit/#comment-1261942 Tue, 27 May 2025 21:21:07 +0000 https://www.mindingthecampus.org/?p=31391#comment-1261942 “While dress norms evolve, arriving at class in pajamas, loungewear, or overly sexual attire does not signal individuality so much as disengagement or disrespect.”

What I have noticed is that the more we have become concerned about things like date rape, violence against women, and objectification of women — the less appropriate the attire of the young ladies has become. As an advisor, I’ve actually had to have the uncomfortable conversation about how it is not wise to walk across campus with a sexually suggestive word printed on your posterior — and I don’t care if it is the brand name.

It’s even worse in the dorms — the young ladies sorta wearing a towel — sort of — as the walk by and flirt with the young gentlemen. Some even go into boy’s rooms so attired…

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