Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which he studied to develop his comments on police behavior patterns. In all cases, the patrolman had, of necessity, to use a great amount of judgment in his work. Wilson argues that police administrators can at best instill a certain style of approaching order maintenance into their policemen and dress them down afterwards for their actions in specific cases, but they cannot tightly control their patrolmen's behavior on the street...
...school upheaval started when blacks at Dorchester's English High School demanded permission to form an all black Afro-American Club and to wear African dashikis instead of the customary coats and ties. English's headmaster granted the dress request, but the School Department refused to allow the blacks to form their own club. The blacks walked out, and were joined by white students protesting the coat and tie rule...
...first demand came from students looking for more control over their school lives. The crisis was in large part a spontaneous cry for student power, and it was to some degree successful. Students won the power to make their own dress codes, and in at least one case--Boston Latin--they actually voted to retain the coat and tie rule...
...point of the old rule has been to have a certain standard of neatness," Glimp said. The liberalization of the rule was caused by new styles and ideas on dress which have changed that standard, he said...
Since the beginning of classes, the coat and tie rule has not been rigidly enforced in any of the Houses, though the Freshman Union has been customarily strict. Several of the upperclass Houses, notably Winthrop and Lowell, have been quietly experimenting with no dress requirements, creating confusion among students over the rule's status...