Date:20/05/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/05/20/stories/2006052023530300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Bangalore University to rethink dress code

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Bangalore University Syndicate is rethinking the issue of enforcing a dress code and making separate seating arrangement for students in Bangalore University.

The issue has been put on hold for the moment after taking into view public sentiments, said acting Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University B.G. Sudha in a press release. She said the issue would be taken up in the next Syndicate meeting to be held on May 30.

On May 5, the Syndicate decided not to let boys and girls sit next to each other in class and also to impose a dress code for the students.

The decisions were in part at least influenced by the brutal attack on a group of women students in the English Department on May 2.