Bishop Stuart University (BSU) in Uganda has given its students new dress code guidelines that include a ban on mini skirts, ripped jeans, piercings and tattoos.
According to the notice by the uniersity’s Dean of Students, Rev Francis Muhangi, issued on December 1, the new dressing code will apply to all students effective December 2, 2021.
The new guidelines prohibit males from putting on sandals, damaged jeans /trousers, shorts, braided/plaited hairstyles, tattoos, piercings and uncombed hair.
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On the side of females, mini skirts and dresses, mini pants, damaged jeans /trousers and tattoos have been banned.
The dean warned that students who wear anything contradicting the new dress code will be prohibited from accessing the university premises.
The university’s new dress code guidelines have however, stirred a hostile reaction on social media from a section of students and Ugandans who claim the new guidelines are unfair.
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