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Show COEDS AND THEIR LEVIS SOON PARTED University of Utah coeds of a horsey turn of mind cried out bitterly bit-terly this week when school officials of-ficials enforced a recent ruling against the "half-size overalls known as "levis," in horseback riding classes. The girls, it seems, wanted to get away from the formality of the English boots, tricky pants, jackets, shirts, ties and hats of the formal riding habit, and wear levis and plaid sport shirts, after the style of western ranch life. Official objected on the grounds that the levis often appeared with legs slashed in a fringe ,to the knees, fit the coeds like the traditional trad-itional paper on the wall, and that the plaid shirts were worn half unbuttoned with shirt-tails a-fly. - Gone are the days of lounging about on the campus lawns in dirty levis "For relaxation the college woman must now recline against a background of white roses and delicately poise a red ing crop behind each ear to satis- ry campus officials," according to one irate horse fancier. The press officialdom has creased the baggy knees of the blue denims and doomed them forever to off-campus wear for college equestriennes, equestrien-nes, however. Male opinion on the controversy controver-sy differs more than the proverbial prover-bial elephant and mule of national nation-al fame, and a cross section reveals re-veals that as far as college men are concerned the women can ride horses in everthing from levis to strapless evening gowns, and it's all right with them. The only thing worrying the backers of the bill is how the horses are going to respond to the toning-up which college heads have given female riders. Equine quadrupedes will of necessity be forced to buck their charming riders in a more dignified fashion, fash-ion, or run the risk of incurring the severe disapproval of the dean of women and of the army men who have classes in charge. |