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HUDSON - Every school day Hudson High students arrive to find Old Glory flying over the campus. On Wednesday, though, there was something else."My stomach just dropped," 17-year-old Melissa Foster said Thursday."I got the instant sick feeling of who would do this and why?"Flying over the school was a Confederate flag with the words "I ain't coming down" printed across it. It fluttered over the campus from the darkened morning hours until the first half-hour classes, its halyard cut so that it couldn't be lowered.Some students, offended by the symbol they equate with racism, spent the morning trying to find...

Malaysian City Imposes Islamic Dress Code On Women Malaysian women in Islamic dress By Kazi Mahmood, IOL Southeast Asia Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, January 10 (IslamOnline.net) - The Malaysian city of Kuala Terengganu, in the northern state of Terengganu where the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) is in power, has imposed its own dress code for non-Muslim women working in the private sector, creating havoc in some quarters of the largely Muslim country. On Saturday, January 10, the PAS defended the Terengganu government’s imposition of a dress code for women workers, saying that provocative dressing by women has “a very close...

<p>PONTIAC — After watching in disbelief for more than two years as people came to Oakland County Circuit Court dressed for a day at the beach or the movies, Judge James M. Alexander had seen enough.</p> <p>Now the court has a new set of rules to govern not only what people wear in court, but also how they behave. The code spells out what attorneys, jurors, witnesses and other visitors may wear and forbids such activities as gum chewing and reading newspapers. The new rules took effect Thursday.</p>

DES MOINES (AP) - A soldier who lost both legs in Iraq was denied entry to a Des Moines-area nightclub last week because the shoes he wore on his prosthetic legs were too casual, the Des Moines Register reported in a copyright story. Spc. Robert "B.J." Jackson, 22, who lost his legs in an explosion last August, was wearing black suede Nike sneakers. "They're actually pretty dressy," said his wife, Abby. She said she and her husband told club employees that "those were the only shoes he can wear with his prosthetic legs," but they still were turned away.

Nashala “Tallah” Hern is an 11-year old school girl in Oklahoma. She is also a practicing Muslim. Because Nashala is a practicing Muslim she wears a hajib, the traditional head covering of the Muslim woman as a duty to her religion. But the school officials at the Ben Franklin Science Academy, the school she attends, instituted a dress code that includes the banishing of any type of headwear in order to thwart a gang problem. They have told Nashala she can’t wear her hajib because it violates the school dress code. While there are many who would say that the...

Dress code in PUSD gets mixed reviews Porterville, California By Henry Winckel, The Porterville Recorder When 13-year-old Jerica Fagan shops for clothes to wear to school, she'll try on a shirt, then raise both arms over her head. "That's to see if the shirt goes past my midriff," she said. "If it does, I don't buy it and I get a bigger one." Jerica wants to make sure her shirts meet dress code standards at Alta Vista Elementary School. Bare midriffs are not allowed. And that's a good thing, Jerica said. "I think it's good to have a dress...

Girl Kicked Out Of School For Wearing Muslim Scarf Thu Aug 28, 6:33 PM ET A local teen was about to enter her senior year at South Euclid's Regina Catholic High School but she got kicked out because of her Muslim headscarf. NewsChannel5's Joe Pagonakis reported that Amal Jamal, 17, was told that wearing the headpiece to class is in direct violation of the uniform dress code. The school dress code specifically states that students are not allowed to wear hats, head wraps or bandannas. School officials said they would not make an exception for the teen. So far, the...

<p>I am a 15-year-old sophomore at D.C. Everest Senior High School, and I am writing about the Aug. 13 editorial regarding student dress codes because my mom always told me I am not to complain if I am not willing to take action.</p>

<p>Body piercing, earrings and school uniforms came under attack at Tuesday's Discipline Policy Review Committee meeting, where members discussed whether to allow boys to wear braids.</p> <p>The committee briefly discussed the school system's earring policy, but quickly changed the subject when Ruby Smith, district director of child welfare and attendance, raised the issue of body piercing.</p>

Nampa Student Told Never To Wear T-shirt Again By Jim Poston NAMPA - Is it patriotism or gun violence? It's the question at the heart of a flap at a Nampa elementary school. Park Ridge elementary school officials told 11-year-old Ethan Jansen to stop wearing his military themed T-shirt to school. The T-shirt depicts a monument at the Fort Lewis military base in Washington state. It shows "Iron mike" hoisting a rifle with a star in the background. School officials say pictures showing gangs or guns are not allowed in school. But Ethan's parents call the T-shirt an expression...

Sex row over tie rule A man who was ordered to wear a shirt and tie at work is a victim of sexual discrimination, an employment tribunal has been told. A dress code brought in by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stipulated that men working in Jobcentre Plus offices had to wear a collar and tie to work - but set no similar stipulation for women. Now Matthew Thompson, an administrative assistant at Jobcentre Plus in Stockport, Greater Manchester, has taken a test case against the DWP complaining of sexual discrimination. Women in his office were allowed to...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - School officials ordered a 16-year-old student to either take off a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "International Terrorist" and a picture of President Bush or go home, saying they worried it would inflame passions at the school where a majority of students are Arab-American. The student, Bretton Barber, chose to go home. He said he wore the shirt Monday to express his anti-war position and for a class assignment in which he wrote a compare-contrast essay on Bush and Iraq President Saddam Hussein. Schools spokesman Dave Mustonen said students have the right to freedom of expression,...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Toss those colored contacts, soldier, and forget about getting that alligator tattooed on your hand: the Army’s new uniform regulations take effect Aug. 1, and both are verboten. The good news is that you can wear your cell phone on your uniform now — if you need it to do your job and if it’s small enough, that is, according to the new regulation released last week. This is the first overhaul of Army Regulation 670-1 since 1992, although the policy — which covers all Army uniforms and grooming standards — has undergone several changes in the...

It's no accident that aides to New York Sen. Hillary Clinton dress the same way she does, favoring the same modified black Mao suit she's worn since the openings days of her Senate campaign. In fact, it appears Mrs. Clinton has installed something of a dress code based on her own idea of how the working class should look. Attending a recent New York City luncheon where the former first lady was present, the New York Post's Cindy Adams noticed that Hillary's staffers all seemed to be clad in "that omnipresent black." "Even black stockings when no pantsuit," Adams observed,...