Something similar happened when I was an undergrad at George Mason College, now George Mason University. We were one of the colleges of U. Va., where it was a tradition that male students wore coats and ties to classes, and perhaps on campus as well, but definitely to class.

So this Chancellor fellow decided this was a good idea -- most of the men did follow tradition already, but this idiot made it a rule. We actually had people thrown out of class by a couple of professors who were dual-hatted with administration roles. Many of us borrowed from our girlfriends and wore coats and ties and kilts to class.

The newspapers finally embarrassed him enough that he backed down and we went back to tradition. I doubt very much that either U. Va. or GMU have such a tradition today. This was back in 1964 or 1965.


TEd