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Show SHOULD TEEN AGERS New York City : The headmaster of a private school planted himself in the doorway, armed with a pair, of scissors to slice off the bangs of male longhairs. Two boys lost forelocks; before getting fhrough'the school door. Here and there, infuriated teenagers have staged demonstrations. In Springfield, Va., for example, where ducktail and Beatlelike manes boys marched on a picket line. One sign read you have to be bald Some youths argue that shaggy haircuts and Constitutional rights mini-skir- ts are hut many parents and school officials disagree By THEODORE IRWIN for an education?" s The issue is considered so that parents in three states have instituted lawsuits' to defend their offspring. A ban on long hair, they argued is an "invasion of privacy"" and therefore violates Constitutional rights. In two cases, even the American Civil Liberties Union rushed into the fray. The length of a boy's hair, the ACLU maintained, is completely a matter of parental decision. Legally, one of the most provocative cases concerned pretty Sharon Ann Dalrymple of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. One bitterly cold day last February, Sharon Ann, who had been ill, was told by her mother to wear slacks to school. Once there, shejvas sent home be- cause the principal believed in a "wholesome and showcase look" at his high school. Retorted Mrs. Dalrymple: "A -- showcase is where you display dummies." After the case was presented to him, the state commissioner of education, James E. Allen, Jr., ruled in e a decision that public- school autliorltiefr-ma- y nut unrea- sonably compel students to wear a particular kind of clothing. Dr. Allen' cited a case from 1874 (it was a problem even then ! ) in which a school board was overruled when it expelled -- a girl because of the way her mother arranged the child's hair. But Commissioner Allen held that a school board does have thi power and obligation to make reasonable rules and that it clearly has the right to ban any clothing that is "so distractive as to Interfere . with the learning and - teaching process." WlaludotIteenager8themselves-- " think about it? Here is a cross section of their opinions gathered 3 by Family Weekly: "Fads make life a bit more col- orf ul they represent-ir-changi-- if world. Wouldn't Jife there were no fads about? The type of clothes yoU' wear reveals your perJeanne Kiger, Staun--tosonality." n, 1 Va. " w?.!?JNyLJiJill.achool,20-- - rDo DRESS AS THEY LIKE? . "At our pool, boys withjong hair are kept from swimming privileges. That's not fair. Girls with much longer hair don't have to wear bath- ing caps . . . We should al be allowed to dress as we like, as long as it's in clean clothes. But I don't like the overtight kirts on girls;" David Ansel, Lancaster, Pa. are very comfortable, and I like the way they look V.'j But don't likeJtheJong hair some boys wear now because I think it makes them seem to lose their, -- -- I "Hip-hugge- rs J seri-ou- . 'I J J seven-pag- homes and classrooms the nation, teenagers and their elders are skirmishing oyer Beatle-typ- e haircuts, INacross mini-skirt- s, hip-slu- ng trousers, granny Presses, and other current youthful fads. How serious is this, battle? Is "eccentric" groomour ing in bad taste or is itmerelyL as many psychologists guess, an effort to xpress their identity with- their peers? "It's insulting and humiliating," charges one Iowa boy, "to force' us Jo dress the way grownups want us to look i" Counters a New York educator: teen-ager- s' Family Weekly, October S, 1$6$ 'Don't tell me that long hair on a teen-agtoday has anything to do with individualism. A sloppy head is indicative of a sloppy mind." In the ongoing tempest,, controversies have erupted in many states.r Among them were these recent, typical incidents Kenosha, Wis. : At Tremper High School, the principal ordered 150 mopheads to leave and hot return" until they saw a barber. l, Haverhill, MasSj- - The football coach issued this edict to 47 players : "Either get , haircuts , or don't play ball. I'm not coaching a girls' team." : San Fernando Valley, Calif .: Pamela Lee Smith, a senior, was booted outof-achool forswearing knee-hig-h boots on a sunny day. er high-schoo- nine-year-o- ld ni be-dre- ary Linda MuUineaux, of Austin, Tex., models a noncontroversial wardrobe. Linda masculinity." MuUineaux, ." Austin, Tpy, "It may be true that clothes often influence a stranger's opinion of a teen-age- r, but the kind of clothes we wear does not change our character."- Mark Silber, Roch' ester, N.Y. "I dislike boys' clothes that make them appear feminlneFsuch things" as ruffled shirts." Carol DuGonda, Canton, Ohio "Long hair on boys is strictly a rebellion by some who , want to stand out in the crowd." Donald Beebe, Norwich, Conn. rhe hew styles are all right to. & certain extent, but they are not- -- teen-age- rs - . |