RIDICULOUS rules in college!

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I saw this story in Bangalore Mirror about the new rules for fresher in colleges. I have just one thing to say...this whole thing is RIDICULOUS.

Iam sure all of us who have been to college know what an integral part of our lives it is. The fun we had bunking classes, the fun we had attending classes and how everything we did was FUN. The heterogeneous group which consisted of both girls and boys, the platonic friendship shared, the innocent and some non-innocent fun we had. I wonder where that FREEDOM has gone. The kids entering college are gonna have none of these. I feel very very sad for them.
Just imagine a “separation code” which is means male students cannot sit with female students inside a classroom!!! When are we going to teach our youngsters to be comfortable in the presence of the opposite sex? That ALL of them are not beasts and its not “wrong” to sit next to a boy/girl and AIDS doesn’t spread by touch???
Someone has prescribed a code of ethics where mingling between students of the opposite sex is looked as intimacy!

“Hello!!! Sir / Madam, what exactly are you thinking? How much more pervert can your mind be???”

Some other college has banned high heels bcos its injurious to heath!

“Hello Dear Principal, keep you college canteen and toilets clean and then your students will be hale and hearty”

When it comes to bunking I kinda agree with the colleges to an extent and also caution students that if you don’t want you college to swallow more of your parents hard earned money, DON’T BUNK.

Dress Codes are another big pain. Why do you have to enforce something on students? This makes them rebel more. College lecturers talk in length about the “teen”age and how it can make the person do things. By enforcing a dress code in the college, don’t you think the college is not taking complete responsibility of a student’s growth. They restrict students from wearing particular kind of clothes in the college premises, I have known students who hide clothes in bags and wear them once out of home/college. If they ever get into trouble the first name they drop is that of the college! Now that’s bad PR. You don’t want to issue statements in the press about dress codes and the very next day you have your student caught at a rave party and the college name in the very same newspaper.
Instead – Give your students the liberty, let them analyse and think what is good for them. If you stumble upon inappropriately dressed students, send them home on the spot, confiscate the ID cards, fine them, form student leaders who will report campus irregularities. Do things to make them realize their mistake. The college will be responsible for shy and introvert citizens in the big bad world. Students who are not taught to think for themselves will never excel.
When else in life will your students get to wear those funky tees, cargos and jeans??? All corporates and work places have enforced formal wear. They will be wearing it for the rest of their lives, let them have fun in college and cherish good memories of college like we did.

So all city colleges, take a cue from UP University, they have banned any kind of enforcement of dress codes. Bangalore being a Cosmopolitan City can do much better.

Don’t expose to the younger generation that Educational Institutions are incapable to moulding them into responsible and worthy citizens.