Morehouse Bans Do-Rags, Grills, And Sagging Pants In New Dress Code

I think its excellent. The expectation is that these young men will graduate from Morehouse to become professionals. There’s few corporations that would allow their employees to wear du rags or sagging jeans so why not let them get used to it from the beginning of their education. They need to learn to dress the part if they are going to carry themselves as professionals.
Plus underwear are meant to be worn UNDER your clothes…there is no reason why I should need to see your drawers!!!! Pull your pants up men!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D2hdnLj00Q

I think all this s**t is too much….rags should be worn at home to do housework; grills are just plain tacky and can screw up your gumline and teeth, too(my late grandfather did that back in the day, and lost his teeth);and as far as the sagging pants. I DESPISE it! I wouldn’t hire a guy with sagging pants even if he has BA or a BS…why would a guy like to wear them like that in the first place????? I think they are inviting, if you know what I mean…You don’t see ladies doing that, because they WILL be APPROACHED, and not in a good way…..

*If students don’t have sufficeint enough judgement skills to decipher when and where the sag their pants something should be done.

Sagging your pants DOES NOT HAVE HOMOSEXUAL PRISON ORIGINS!!!!!!! its a scare tactic that black preachers used to discourage young men from doing it once it became a fad. By tell us that its a symbol of being gay was a way to get men to stop.The reason alot of ppl think this is true is due to the fact that prison inmates are given pants with no draw string for fear they will commit suicide. They only have 4 sizes to choose from Small Medium Large Xlarge. Often they dont fit and since they have no way to hold there pants up they fell below their waist. Sagging your pants started in poor black neighborhoods because often mothers would buy their sons pants 2-3 sizes too big in order to insure that she wouldnt waste money buying clothes for a growing child. I dont wear my pants on my waist but, i do find it disrespectful to sag to the point you are showing your underwear.

Finally!!!! It’s taken wayy too long! Someone has finally stood up and said that this type of dress is NOT a POSITIVE portrayal of Black people!! God knows how much I can’t stand a grown man (30+) trying to talk to me with sagging pants and a do-rag!!! Damn! :-@!

This is about representing your school & yourself well. Morehouse is one of the most prestigious universities in the country, and it looks bad to prospective students and their parents, if the campus looks like a Gucci Mane video. You’re conditioning yourself to be an adult…a man no less, so what good comes of you wearing your clothes damn near at your knees, or a wave cap outside of the house? If you wouldn’t show up to work @ Goldman Sachs, or Morgan Stanley Dean Witter like that…why would you come out in public like that? Oh…and one more thing…it’s an all-male school…..why are you showing your ass to a bunch of men???

Some of these comments are really disturbing for such young minds to be in the gutter about these wearing of sagging pants-thugs now and thugs forever thuggish minds do thuggish things-nothing mindful to do but look stupid both black and whites & others are just as bad,I hope they do away with this style of dressing-no need for it-time to let go now and dress appropriately for once let this style go away and never return.don’t need to know what’s under your pants or what color your briefs are some are truely dirty and dengie, need to take them off and wash your butt, put some clean ones on and pull your pants up who wants to see that disgussing site, pitiful.

This is great,that some major group of black people have stood up and said
no to this ignorant,updated minstrel,coonery,buck show behavior.
Maybe,just maybe it might help black america wake up from the bad effects
of all this dumbing down that is been in full effect under the racist
republikkklan. These images and the behavior overall is ignorant,self hating
and self destructive to the afrikan/black race.
Now something needs to be done about all these slave plantation type
talk shows and these trashy,urban ghetto hood rat type books.
Maybe we can get back to being an intelligent race of people again on a large scale and ignorance will finally play out among black poor people
in this country.

I think it’s a good idea. In this world you have to live by rules and regulations. You should want to carry yourself as a “well-presentable” individual. I want to know why would you want to walk around with your pants hanging off your a..? I read the comment by jazzpast. Funny, but, you do know that in jail, a person who saggs his pants might as well wear dresses and heels. People are in such a search to individualize therselves that they are all the same. Being raised by t.v. instead of someone real, concreate. I remember the day I attempted to sag my pants. I walked in front of my mother and she said” unh unh, I don’t like that.” At that point, I knew that any real woman would not find that attractive. Let’s face it people, stereotyping is real and will always be. We all do it. So lets not get mad when it happens to you. If you carry yourself as a well presentable person, then you will be treated like one. If you want to look like a thug, or whatever title you wnat to give it, then you must be willing to except all that comes with the image. Everything causes a sub-conscience effect on a person. Of course you’re not suppose to judge a book by it’s cover, but, you can tell what type of person someone is by their choice of attire. So even if you start out as this person, being in this state for so long will cause a change, and overall, effect the way one functions.
Besides, I want to know from somebody, what does this image in return tell one about one’s self? Before answering, please think about it…