Students staging a protest over the dress code

Identifier

PUApic_015907

Title

Students staging a protest over the dress code

Description

A pair of Pacific University students staging a protest against the university's dress code (right), while another pair of students opposes them (left). The woman on the right, Laurie Collins, wears clothes that conformed to the dress code, but she has added a placard that reads "We protest". The man on the right wears shorts, a shirt and sandals without a jacket or tie, which would not have conformed to the dress code. This photograph appears to have been staged in order to dramatize the protest, possibly for use in a publication. A stamp on the verso identifies it as having been created by Pacific's Office of Public Information (i.e. its publicity department). It was taken on Pacific's campus near Marsh Hall.

The photograph likely dates from circa March 1967. In that month, about 150 male students conducted a sit-in demonstration against Pacific's dinner dress code, which required "all men to wear a jacket and tie to dinner and women to wear either a dress or skirt as well as heels twice a week" (The Index, Mar. 6, 1967). This is one of several photographs that were taken on the same occasion; see also PUApic_015906 and PUApic_015908.

Creator

Pacific University

Date: Year(s)

1967

Date: Display

circa March 1967

Subject

Pacific University

Protest movements

Place

Forest Grove, Oregon

Source

Pacific University Archives

Copyright

English http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/