Personal Diary © Burhan Rasool

http://www.nu.edu.pk/codeofconduct.aspx 

Regarding Dress Code it says, ”The students and staff of the university are expected to dress keeping in view the local cultural values. Students and staff should not wear tight or see-through dress, shorts, or sleeve-less shirts. The dress should not have any script or image, which appears to be provocative or indecent. The students are not expected to put on makeup or expensive jewellery.”
==== In my opinion, the last sentence contradicts the first.

Talking about Harrasment, it says “Students will be respectful to members of the opposite gender and will refrain from any behaviour that can be interpreted by others as ‘gender harassment’”
==== Would asking for friendship or proposing to marry, be considered as ’gender harassment’ ? How about just talking to the opposite gender??

The Best part goes like this, “Students are strictly reminded that gender mixing is permissible only within the accepted social and cultural norms of the society. Faculty tolerance should not be construed as an approval to undue intimacy and unacceptable proximity, openly or in isolated areas.”
==== There is radical socio-cultural change on the move. Things considered unacceptable socially and/or culturally (in a particular circle of people) in the past, are acceptable today. So Who defines acceptability?

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