Eh? What? Indeed

As a Latter Day Saint myself I'm interested in being compared to both a brainless cult and the Taliban. While the Church itself does ask its members to adhere to modest dress standards it is also down to personal choice and certainly not the same as some interpretations of modesty seen in Islam. Also, I doubt any Latter Day Saint would condone the actions of the people at the University, I certainly don't. Even if I think that a person dresses immodestly I have no right to jeer or shout abuse at that person. Misrepresentation of religious groups in this manner tars good people with a bad brush. You might want to do some research about people before making some sensationalist comments.

No, no, no - you got it all wrong

The Catholic cult is the one which is messing with young boys, not dress codes.

Please pay attention.

The flasher Mac, please

What actually happened

I studied with someone from the town where this happened. She said that the girl walked around the campus, from room to room, and was lifting up her skirt to show-off what was underneath.

She wasn't thrown out for what she wore, but for what she did. Bare in mind (like what I did there?) that this was an expensive, exclusive college, where people go to study, not play football in spacesuits, or dance around with pom-poms.

I'll get me coat on me way out.

Football in spacesuits

Gee, ta for that "playing football in spacesuits" line - that's another keyboard/screen needing coffee cleaned off of it.

I shouldn't see it as amusing, if some get their way then rugby will have to have the mega-padding too.

Er... no.

"that this was an expensive, exclusive college, where people go to study"

I'm from São Paulo, and know that university quite well -- have had undergrad students from there attending our winter courses when I was still in grad school, and have a friend who works there at their TV station.

It's NOT exclusive, and not that expensive either. Most students in private universities in Brazil are from lower middle class or lower in socio-economical status -- because they often could not pay for good elementary and high school, they are not well prepared enough to get into public universities. Uniban is mostly a diploma mill (in spite of the good intentions of many faculty), there's a ton of units all over the place, and as long as you pay your monthly fees, you're fine. As the semi-joke goes for that type of school, "if you lose you ID card in the sidewalk in front of their door, you're admitted" (BTW, yes, we've always had mandatory national ID cards, boo hoo). Such establishments are also nicknamed "uni-esquina" ("uni-corner", because there's one in every street corner). They try to hire the cheapest professors possible -- i.e., people without any graduate school or teaching experience. Therefore government had to pass a law forcing "universities" to hire a minimum proportion of instructors with masters or PhD degrees. And even then they find ways around that too.

Now, as to whether she was behaving in the way you describe, I can't comment on that. I wasn't there, or haven't talked directly to anyone who was. But I haven't seen, in any of the Brazilian news I read on this, anyone describing things happening like that. So who knows. Either way, even if she DID do what you've been told, that wouldn't justify the near lynching, I believe.

In Brazil, the "exclusive" universities where "people go to study" (well, some of them at least) are the public ones -- where tuition is completely free.

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As little faith as I put in media accounts, they are probibly still safer then to beleave some random person on the internet who "knows someone who went to school there"

Re: What actually happened

But with no disrespect to your study-colleague intended, that is exactly the sort of friend-of-a-friend story that activates my BS detector. It sounds plausible, but it's the "she deserved it" excuse that we've heard before.

@What actually happened...

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Canuck female apparel

Hmm, if it's spandex and thongs in autumn and spring in Canada, then we know where Geordies emigrated to.

Note merely the headlines!

That would be a mean trick.