Posted on 02/19/2007 7:57:30 AM PST by dead
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A student and aspiring actress who appeared in a revealing dress at the Thai equivalent of the Oscars has been given two weeks community service by her university as punishment for undermining morality.
Chotiros "Amy" Suriyawong, a final-year student at Bangkok's prestigious Thammasat University, ensured maximum media exposure by stepping out last week in a full-length black gown, tantalisingly split from cleavage to hips to hem.
Overnight sensation ... Thai actress and uni student Chotiros Suriyawong became
immediately infamous for her questionable choice of evening gown at Thailand's version
of the Oscars. The controversy provoked disciplinary action from her university, which
has imposed a penalty requiring her to read to the blind for two weeks. Photo: Reuters
But university chiefs were unimpressed, describing the outfit as "obscene" and giving her 15 days of book-reading to the blind as punishment, newspapers reported on Friday.
"That dress", which Chotiros had to show to university staff to prove it had special "sewn-in" underwear, sparked a frenzied debate about public morality in the Buddhist country, which remains coy about sexuality despite its reputation as the anything-goes prostitution capital of southeast Asia.
One producer went so far as to delete all footage of Chotiros from one of his films, domestic media reported.
"I'm sorry," a weeping Chotiros told a news conference on Thursday. "If I'd known it would have been so controversial, I wouldn't have done it."
Tulsathit Taptim, editor of the English-language Nation newspaper, said the brouhaha had "exposed ugly truths" about Thailand and its male-dominated society.
"We have never heard of universities firing male students for visiting prostitutes, or companies demoting male executives for fathering illegitimate children," he said in an editorial.
Yowsa!
Hot stuff !
YYEEAAAHHHHH
She wears that 'bruhaha' rather well; nothing 'ugly' I can see....
I wonder what she's studying and what her GP average is.
(Now let's hope a bunch of 50+ year olds like Babbs doesn't imitate her during the Oscars...)
Probably a fitting penalty- she probably inspired a lot of people to make themselves go blind ;-)
hubba hubba.
Univiersities acting in Loco Parentis. A concept that is making a come back here in the states.....
Read to the blind? They won't appreciate her assets very much. She should read to the deaf.
Nonsense.
Again.
She can read to me all night long!
I've been a bad, bad boy.
That seems to be something of a consensus.
I think the headline writer was trying his/her hand at comedy...
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