APPROVED DRESS CODE FOR STUDENTS

The Authorities of Adekunle Ajasin University wish to assure their students that the University’s determination to provide for them an all-round academic, intellectual and character molding is unshakable.

In the same vein, the University is also concerned with the quality of social and cultural image which its students portray both inside and outside the cause. Their dressing habit is at issue here. The saying that “the apparel often proclaims the man” is a truism for both men and women, boys and girls.

The University is all for its students being very fashionable in dressing and physical appearance, but they are expected to conform to what is considered decent and appropriate for the occasion.

Current trends in students’ style of dressing on campus tend to portray some form of aberrant norms of social/cultural behaviour. Many female students style of dressing can be described as unconventional. Flamboyant, or skimpy, resulting in a form of indecent exposure. The male students are not left out either. They wear ear and nose rings, plait their hair ad wear all manner of indecent, unwashed cult-type T-shirts and jeans with bathroom slippers to lectures ad some formal functions! Some sects have also stated to cover their faces at lecture, laboratory classes and during examinations and tests

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Most of these are a passing fad negative cultural traits or seer fanaticism which can no longer be tolerated on campus.

The University has decided, therefore that the following dress code shall be in force throughout the campus.

1                                Decent and clean dresses/clothes that are appropriate for the occasion must be worn on campus.

2                                Smart and corporate traditional dress is allowed as long as it does not contravene the general dress code.

3                                Students in professional courses such as Law, Accounting Banking and Finance, etc. should cultivate the corporate mode of dress appropriate for their profession.

4                                Students in the Performing Arts, Cultural ad Design Studies can only wear their creative and dramatic costumes, ad festival dresses during periods of performances.

5                                Religious or denominational modes of dress can only be worn during religious services or ceremonies. No such dresses should be worn to lectures, the library, examination halls, etc.

6                                Faculties and Departments which require special safety or protective dress modes such as aprons, overalls, gloves, nose and head covers should have the officially prescribed for their students.

7                                Sports and Games wears for athletes, sportsmen and sportswomen should be officially prescribed for this category of students to be worn in sports and games all sexually offensive and provocative dress i.e. dress that is transparent or that exposes vital parts of the body such as breast, chest, belly and thighs especially in girls are prohibited.

8                                The wearing of earrings ad the plaiting of hair by male students in banned henceforth.

9                                The wearing of special uniforms such as black T-shirts, black arm-bands, special caps by boys, special scarf’s and tattooed jeans by ladies, all of which tend to portray their uses as belonging to some secret groups on campus has also been banned.

CAUTION:

Any student who is found to contravene any of these dress code prescriptions will face immediate disciplinary action.