In a bid to tackle immorality and indecent dressing on campus, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife has prohibited public kissing, hugging between opposite sexes, skimpy outfits, tinted hair, and tattoos.
The university mandated that students must avoid face coverings and sitting on opposite-sex peers’ laps.
It also asked the students to desist from wearing any dress or items that cover their faces and also banned opposite sex students from sitting on each other’s lap.
The school management also bared sexually suggestive clothing.
These directives are part of a revised students’ handbook that outlines codes of conduct and dress guidelines.
The updated handbook prohibits several clothing items, including backless garments, transparent clothing, off-shoulder attire, bum shorts, tattered jeans, and micro/mini dresses. The university has also banned certain hairstyles, accessories, and jewelry for male and female students.
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It vowed that heavy make-ups, rumpled and dirty clothes, and hair plaiting or weaving by male students would no longer be tolerated on the campus.
According to the school, violators of any of the dress codes will be rusticated from the school for one semester while in addition, any student found with coloured hairstyles, hair braiding for males, or spangled hairstyle for males will be rusticated for two semesters from the school.
It said it would rusticate students found touching, kissing and hugging a member of the opposite sex and students found massaging or sitting on the lap of the opposite sex for two semesters.
The school management, however, urged male students to note that their hair should be neat and well-combed at all times and that the hair should not be coloured (except it is a natural colour).
