The relevance of banning jeans

Well, it seems that UiTM is gonna hit a snag in no time, man! Students are no longer allowed to wear jeans to classes starting this coming June 26. The backlash – aha, I bet you readers can imagine it.

“Why do they create this fucking policy?”
“Are we guys gonna wear slacks everyday?”
“This is a fuck-you, man! Why are jeans being banned?”
“The staffs would do the laundry for us, wouldn't they?”
“This is bullshit! What have jeans got to with our studies?”
“They think by ordering us to wear slacks can straighten us up?”

Has any of these reactions come across your mind when imagining the backlash?

I tell you what, one of the above reactions was mine. It is you to guess which one. Although this newly-created policy has no big impact on me because I am the type of girls who wear baju kurung to classes every day except on Thursday when I have only a class. I’m not gonna waste my 15 minutes ironing a baju kurung and my energy doing the hand-wash laundry unless you wanna do the errands for me.

So, yesterday; 16 June 2011 – I went to a class at 8 in the morning. My group mates who consist of Daniel, Shatri and Adzhim, and I sat together at the back, preparing an outline for our first BEL332 assignment which is a forum. Another group from H class was sitting on the table in front of us. Well, I know them but rarely talk to them. Yesterday was my first time having a discussion with them about a momentous issue that hit us recently.

The jeans-being-banned issue.

To tell you the truth, we hardly see the relevance of banning the wearing of jeans. Do you see any? Well, if you do, readers, I’ll be honored if you drop me a comment, telling and clarifying the relevance of banning the wearing of jeans that you see. It’s because I seriously cannot see any other else but to standardize the appearance of the students which was clarified by a member of the group from H class named Amiera.

This institution wants us to look uniformed like we used to formerly in primary and secondary schools, when the boys wore green trousers and white school-shirts whereas the girls wore sky-blue skirt or pinafores with white school-shirts too. My current classmates and course mates, do you still remember how we used to look like back then?

It’s okay if you don’t. Just look at your younger brothers and sisters who are still schooling. It’s gonna make us look like school kids. I thought they wanted us to grow up! What is with the policy then?


Calm down, mates. Don’t rant baselessly. I do agree with most of you who disagree with the new policy. Well, let’s back to the main idea of never pointing our fingers at others before we delve this matter. Just so you know, these policy makers won’t add more and more policies if they didn’t see any drawbacks that they could not handle by means of advising one by one.

They might have seen the delinquency of us which has probably made them miss making new policies. Let them be. One of my group mates who you-are-to-guess suggested that we ignored and pretended as though we had no idea of the newly-created policy. I wondered and still do if it would work. What do you think, readers? Would ignoring and pretending as if we didn’t know about it, work? I don’t know, seriously.

All I have in mind right now is, hadn’t any of us wore slippers to classes, this policy would have not even existed! According to Amiera who is one of the Pre-Law High-Committees, wearing slacks would make all the students wear proper shoes as they ought to. It’s simply because no one wears slippers with slacks!

She’s got the point there! *claps*


However, there’s something obvious that people will bring up, nevertheless. Or I might just be the starter?

Just because of the fucking slippers, we all aren’t allowed to wear jeans? It’s just the same, man! What have slippers got to do with our studies? What, those who wear shoes are more serious in their studies compared with those who wear slippers?

Wearing shoes to classes signifies the manner the students have in them? And wearing slippers shows how immoral the students are? What is the institution trying to show to us? The institution lacks of high-quality lecturers, which is what they should think about! Not messing with students who have more material stuffs to blitz on. Oh gosh! What is happening to the world?

As a matter of fact, if they observe with awareness, they will barely find male-students wear slippers to classes, seriously. The boys even always strut with their expensive shoes kot! It is like if they could, they would want the whole world to know what they had got on. The girls usually wear sandals or sneakers.

This is the result of the policy makers trusting the incredibly annoying guards who have got nothing else to do that they are too free to wreck the students’ lives. My friends’ lives. My life.

In a word, I believe they have the right to make rules and policies, I believe there are some among us who are overly obstinate not to wear slippers to classes – duh, I apologize on behalf of them, I believe uniformity embraces all races together but I cannot accept the banning on the wearing of jeans for I believe that wearing jeans has got nothing to do with our studies or us attending classes or playing truant.

Change is good even though it may be hard, but this one particular change is going to deter the present problem of delinquent teenagers. You’d better be prepared with the coming snags, beloved university!