Staff And Students’ Indecent Dressing Angers UNICAL Management

By Favour Adinya

The Management of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has frowned at a current trend of indecent dressing witnessed in the campus by staff and students.

The institution in a memo signed by the Dean of Students Affairs, Professor Egaga Patrick Ikani, reminded staff and students of the varsity’s code of policies and calling for an end.

The directive emphasizes that the university has noticed a growing trend of inappropriate dressing among students. Specific examples of unacceptable clothing include revealing tops, such as sleeveless and transparent clothes, as well as shorts that do not meet UNICAL dressing standards.

The memo highlight the importance of maintaining decorum and urges students to adhere to the university’s dress code to foster a respectful learning environment. Non-compliance may result in disciplinary actions, management say.

The Varsity said it is committed to ensuring that all students are aware and comply with the standards, reinforcing the institution’s values and principles.

The memo reads: The Directorate has noticed with growing concern the intransigence, rate, preponderance and proliferation of indecent, provocative and unofficial dressing mostly by students and especially by some female staff, who, ordinarily, should act as models.

“Specifically, short skirts or gowns (above the knee), open backs, crap tops, braless tops and gowns, spaghetti finger, sleeveless tops, handless gowns, bikinis, see-through (transparent) apparels revealing contours and cleavages, handless gowns, bum short revealing laps, slit skirts, body hugs, V-necks exposing breasts, tubes, stripless, rag (rugged) jeans, shorts (above the knee) sleeveless shirts, singlets, lingeries, sagged trousers etc. are disallowed on campus henceforth. Consequently, any student or staff clad in regalia or paraphernalia as mentioned above will be denied effective access into any of the university facilities or be appropriately sanctioned or both.

“A combined security and administrative/students task force is already constituted to monitor compliance. Please kindly resist the temptation to be caught pants-down.”