2008 Woodie Awards
Another Take on Fashion at SSU!
A difference of opinion on clothing trends on school campus
Danielle Zelisko
Issue date: 2/26/08 Section: Opinion
It is true that we are all here for a degree and an education. I would hope the newspaper would reflect that, at least to a certain extent. So why do I feel like I'm suddenly being bombarded with middle schoolmagazine celebrity gossip when I read it?
College, along with being a place to get a degree, is also an experience and a place for us to open up our eyes and realize that there are people around who are incredible different from us...and that's okay.
I'm someone who dresses "creatively," or so people say when they want to be polite. I would probably never wear or own a pair of UGG boots, and I don't generally dress in a revealing manner, but this article still offends me all of the same.
"Class" is all relative and subjective. A person cannot judge class simply by the way a person dresses; he or she has no right to assume that a person is stupid, inferior, or incomplete in some way just because of a short skirt or a pair of boots.
We are all guilty of making assumptions based on appearances, but it is not something that should be celebrated in our school publication.
Let's stop rewarding this judgmental behavior and instead start showing everyone how to be more accepting of others who look and act differently from them.
College, along with being a place to get a degree, is also an experience and a place for us to open up our eyes and realize that there are people around who are incredible different from us...and that's okay.
I'm someone who dresses "creatively," or so people say when they want to be polite. I would probably never wear or own a pair of UGG boots, and I don't generally dress in a revealing manner, but this article still offends me all of the same.
"Class" is all relative and subjective. A person cannot judge class simply by the way a person dresses; he or she has no right to assume that a person is stupid, inferior, or incomplete in some way just because of a short skirt or a pair of boots.
We are all guilty of making assumptions based on appearances, but it is not something that should be celebrated in our school publication.
Let's stop rewarding this judgmental behavior and instead start showing everyone how to be more accepting of others who look and act differently from them.