William Tweedle, a residence hall director at Morehouse College, wants students at the historically black men’s school to get “In the Zone.”
That’s the zone where there’s no cursing, no saggin’ pants, and no use of the word whose plural spelled backward is “saggin.’ All are beneath the image of the Morehouse man, Tweedle said.
Morehouse President Robert Franklin is making the same points to students on a somewhat different plane. He talks about the new “Renaissance man” who is “well-read, well-traveled, well-spoken, well-dressed and well-balanced.”
Franklin, who was named president last year, instituted the practice of giving every freshman a tie and a blazer in the college’s primary color, maroon, as a tangible symbol of the image of a gentleman.
Morehouse is one of several historically black colleges taking action recently to improve dress on campus. Overt dissent on the Morehouse campus has been minimal, but a smattering of bloggers nationally have suggested that schools might be trying to take away students’ freedom of expression.
“Call me crazy, but I didn’t realize that there was a correlation between morality and Brooks Brothers,” Morehouse alumnus Jonathan Walton, an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside, wrote in an article on the subject. Continue reading the article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution…
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