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Show 'Skirts Are Up; Spirit Is Down5 Ute Morals? sOIC DEAN FROBES said the "spirit" was in fact low, that it was hard to form a cohesive core within a campus when so many students live at home. She noted that where a student still maintains a sometime identity with his neighborhood, home town, local friends, it is difficult to get him to identify with his school (which, after all, she noted, was the basis for school "spirit").. Short skirts and Ute "morality" and a comment on University spirit and "cohesiveness' highlighted a journalism department press conference con-ference yesterday at the University Univer-sity with Dr. Virginia P. Frobes, Dean of Women and Assistant Dean of Students. Dean Frobes, discussing behavioral beha-vioral problems at the University, noted that instances of violations of certain University regulations are no greater now than in past years. "Dean Frobes, I returned from Europe after two years," explained one inquirer. "Upon coming home I have noticed that women's dresses, dress-es, here are shorter, above the knees, that girls even wear very short shorts to class, and I noticed that girls wear slacks and levis more often than I remembered. How do you feel about this?" "THERE HAS certainly been a major change over the years in dress. There is no support for (more suitable clothing) in. the peer group (i.e., the students themselves). "Controls would mean police, which is a virtual impossibility, because be-cause of the nature of the campus (being 'streetcar' where students are travelling on and off campus constantly with little proximity to administrators). "The change that would need to take place would haves to occur within the peer group, and their values are different now than in the past and changing all the time." Dean 'Frobes discounted any relationship re-lationship between extremely casual casu-al dress found all over campus and ability to educate students. "Once in a while a professor ca'Is up with a comment on feminine femi-nine dress," she noted with tongue-in-cheek, "and complains about the difficulty of teaching class in which a girl with shorts is sitting.' "Does the change in dress indicate indi-cate any change in morals with the University coed?" a student asked. "It may be a symptom of changing chang-ing attitudes or values," she replied, re-plied, then indicated that the use of the word "morals" was perhaps per-haps ambiguous. "Now if you mean sexual promiscuity," she said, "that is quite a different meaning.. I would say that this sort of behavior be-havior occurred less at the University Uni-versity than in other areas of society." "I would cite as reasons for this the fact that students have many other areas of interest, many outlets." out-lets." She noted that such releases would include music, studying, intellectual in-tellectual pursuits. A student asked if she thought comments heard around the University Uni-versity community concerning low school spirit were well-founded. |