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Although official figures have not been released, an estimated 1200 students — five per cent of the student body — may have been “noted for future reference” during registration because of violation of dress standards.

Lyle Curtis, assistant Dean of Students and chairman of the Personal Dress and Grooming Committee, disclosed earlier this week that 400 of the 8,000 students who registered on Monday had registration packets “tagged for future reference.” He later indicated that the three day total might “end up around 1200.”

ASBYU Vice-president of Organizations, Chuck Henry, who is also a member of the Dress and Grooming Committee, accredited long hair and bush side burns for the majority of violations.

According to University Standards office 682 students were taken aside during registration last semester —405 coeds and 277 men.

Henry felt the males doubled or tripled the coed violators this semester.

“The girls may have been better prepared,” explained Gary Carver of University Standards, “and then girls” styles have changed greatly since last fall.”

Henry, who also chairmans a 10-students subcommittee of the Grooming and Dress Committee, felt there were definite improvements over the enforcement of the dress code last year.

“The students were observed by students to bring it down on a fairer type of judgment,” he noted.

“We were looking not so much for the length of hair, but the well-groomed look,” said Henry.

Violations in areas of hair, side burns, moustaches, sloopy dress, and hemlines and slacks on coeds were marked on cards and added to the student’s registration packet.

Henry said 24 girls were registered wearing slacks and Curtis mentioned earlier this week that “we had not more than 10 or 12 that have been stopped and asked to go and correct their problems.”

Students whose packets were tagged will be contacted through the mail with the idea “in the opinion of another student they were in violation,” said



Copyright Brigham Young University 22 Nov 2005