Dress Code???

Purdue recently turned away the idea of donning a dress code for students. Other colleges however, are implementing this idea. One such place is Illinois State University. At ISU, students are required to wear "business casual" clothing or else risk getting a zero on any assignments turned in that day. Check out the article: http://www.purdueexponent.org/?module=article&story_id=7359

This is ridiculous in my opinion. It's a really good thing administrators were reasonable and did not allow this to pass through here at Purdue. There's no way a dress code at a university with 40,000+ students is a good idea.

College is supposed to be about preparing yourself for life after it. In other world, it's about getting ready for the real world. Last time I checked, there were no dress codes in the real world. You are supposed to learn how to interact with people no matter how they are dressed. And you are supposed to be able to function at your highest level no matter how you yourself are dressed.

The only rule as far as clothing goes should just be that the student has all the places covered that need to be. That's all that needs to be said on that. There are going to be some problems with a dress code at the places that have donned it. What exactly is "business casual?" Polo? Shirt and tie? Khakis? Dress pants? There would be so many ways to interpret whatever dress code would be placed on students at college. Instituting something like this would just give college students another thing to protest about. I can flat out guarantee that this is a bad idea. Personally, I don't see a single positive out of this idea.

Again, this is just my opinion. I think doing this is not only ridiculous but will take away one way in which college can be considered as "preparation for the real world."