OAU students now risk rustication for provocative dressing, public kissing, hair braiding
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife now run the risk of rustication for indecent dressing, public kissing or hugging, skimpy dressing, painted hair, tattoos, and other forms of immorality as classified by the authorities in a new conduct/dress code to curb crime, truancy, lewdness, and lawlessness.
Female students can no longer sit on the laps of males, and vice versa. None is allowed to wear clothes that cover the face. Just as sexually provocative dressing by females will no longer be allowed on campus.
These are part of the code of conduct and dressing in the revised students’ handbook, which also ban backless clothes, transparent wear, off-shoulder clothes, bum shorts, tattered jeans, dreadlocks, males wearing earrings, females wearing cowries and micro/mini dresses
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Also banished are “sagging” of trousers or knickers by males and females; hair braiding by males; nose, mouth, eye or extra rings; crop/jump tops, unconventional wearing of caps, tattoo/indelible markings for males, multi-coloured hair braiding by females, haircuts with inscriptions, T-shirts with inscriptions depicting immorality, hooliganism, et cetera.
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Punishment for conduct/dress code violation
The handbook equally frowns at heavy make-up, rumpled and dirty clothes, and hair plaiting or weaving by male students, per reporting by The Guardian.
Male students are to keep their hair neat and well-combed at all times and the hair should not be coloured (except it is a natural colour).
The handbook says violators of any of the conduct/dress codes will be rusticated for one semester but any student with coloured hairstyles, and males with braided hair or spangled hair will be rusticated for two semesters.
They will also be punished with rustication for two semesters, students found touching, kissing or hugging a member of the opposite sex or found massaging or sitting on the laps of someone of the opposite sex.