Dress code protester on table

Identifier

PUApic_015906

Title

Dress code protester on table

Description

A Pacific University student wearing a tie, shorts and sandals but no shirt, standing on a table to protest the dress code, surrounded by other students. Some of the other students are also protesting: one woman, identified as Laurie Collins, wears a placard that reads: "We protest." Others are either observing or opposing the protest. 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 appears to have been taken in a student lounge, possibly in McCormick 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_015907 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/