College Policing

University vice chancellors in Tamil Nadu love moral policing. Not so long ago, there was the VC who banned  mobile phones to protect students from ‘unhealthy relationships’.

University vice chancellors in Tamil Nadu love moral policing. Not so long ago, there was the VC who banned  mobile phones to protect students from ‘unhealthy relationships’. Now Dr Mayilvahanan Natarajan, vice-chancellor of Dr MGR Medical University, wants to produce ‘morally upright’ medical students. So no T-shirts, jeans, skirts, sports shoes, jewellery, nail polish and perfume at 15 government and affiliated medical colleges from June 2010. “Flowers, nail colours and perfumes could cause allergies to patients. The dress code is not just to maintain decorum but for the good health of students and patients too,” says the VC. And according to Dr Natarajan, his new rules will keep medical colleges ‘sex-less’.