{"id":252504,"date":"2016-09-27T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=252504"},"modified":"2016-09-27T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T12:12:02","slug":"ban-on-miniskirts-shorts-not-out-of-place-gij-src","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=252504","title":{"rendered":"Ban on miniskirts, shorts not out of place &#8211; GIJ SRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Students Representative Council of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) has welcomed the management&#8217;s decision to ban miniskirts and shorts in the school.<\/p>\n<p>The Rector of the school, Wilberforce Dzisah who <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/23\/gij-bans-miniskirts-shorts-on-campus\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>issued the directive<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>early on, indicated that the caution follows concerns by management of the school about an increase in indecent dressing among students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManagement has raised concerns about an increase in indecent dressing by students. Management has therefore decided on the following and this should not only go to fresh men and women but for the continuing students as well. No shorts or miniskirts are to be worn for lectures. Clothes which expose your vital parts shall not be entertained,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement, the Women\u2019s Commissioner of GIJ, Suriaya Gomda has commended the move, saying it is not out of place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Women\u2019s Commissioner of GIJ, my take on the ban of mini skirts on campus by management is not out of place. GIJ is a professional school, and a noble institution for that matter; and ladies should dress accordingly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLadies on campus should respect the presence of male lecturers and their colleague-males. Let us not pretend that as ladies, our sense of fashion have resounding impact on them,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>She believes students who are aspiring to be professionals should \u201callow themselves to be groomed by existing structures, conventions and situational laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Students Representative Council of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) has welcomed the management&#8217;s decision to ban miniskirts and shorts in the school. The Rector of the school, Wilberforce Dzisah who issued the directive early on, indicated that the caution follows concerns by management of the school about an increase in indecent dressing among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":251104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/251104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}