Student expelled after row over short dress

[NickB79]

Source: Reuters

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - In Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university student has been expelled after violent protests by students outraged at the short outfit she wore on campus.

The Universidade Bandeirante (Uniban) said it had expelled the student, Geysi Villa Nova Arruda, 20, for "flagrant disrespect of ethical principles, academic dignity and morality," in a statement published in some Sunday newspapers."

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A video showed Arruda sitting in a classroom in a mid-thigh length red dress, then six military police officers protecting her as she left the campus wearing a white jacket. A line of students stood by chanting "whore."

Another video showed a mob stopping and kicking her car and blocking her when she tried to escape on foot.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5A830V20091109

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Unbelievable. It doesn't even sound like she was wearing that short of a dress. WTF?

[WriteDown]

1. In Brazil?

Seriously? When I was in that area, I was amazed by what the 14-15 year old women wore let alone the college-aged girls.

[MajorChode]

8. You'd think they would be sooner expelled for wearing a long one

[ensho]

2. what they wear on the street/beach/etc. is one thing. what they wear

at university is another thing. apparently the school thinks learning shouldn't be distracted and that learning should be taken seriously.

I can see their point. but the students shouldn't have acted in such a rude way with kicking car and calling names. the univ. staff needs to counsel the rude students.

[pnwmom]

4. Do you really think this skirt should have gotten her expelled?

[pnwmom]

3. Well, when you look at the photo,

it's even harder to understand.

[mike_c]

5. lol-- they should see some of MY students....

:rofl:

[Warpy]

6. Yeah, the reaction was astonishing

Those kids clearly have something awry in their cultural upbringing.

I can see that sort of thing happening in Saudi, but Brazil?

It's a good thing she was expelled. After that, her safety would have been a real problem in that school.

Outraging social convention is always risky. Those of us who were hippies in the 60s have paid for it all our lives.

[mike_c]

7. actually, I'd say that those of us who were hippies in the 60's...

...have BENEFITED from it all our lives! :rofl:

[Spike89]

9. Probably more to this story

I don't know the laws in Brazil, but I can assume they are similar to ours, in that student data is private. The school shouldn't and apparently hasn't made all the details public. The full story never says that her dress was the reason the university expelled her, nor does it explicitly say that is why students were outraged. It sounds much more like it was her attitude and behaviors than simply the dress. That isn't that "shocking" a dress, but then the dress Sharon Stone wore in Basic Instinct wasn't shockingly short either, er if I recall correctly.

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