'Slutty Wednesday' at One High School in New York

To protest the school's new dress code, students at Stuyvesant High School in New York City took a stand against the administration. Last week, nearly 100 students participated in a student-organized "Slutty Wednesday" protest.

The students- both boy and girls took to the streets of lower Manhattan in revealing clothing, with flyers that read, "Redress the Dress Code."

It still remains to be scene if the protest was a success.

The much discussed dress code bans the exposure of midriffs, visible underwear, shoulders and lower backs, and mandated that the hemlines of all shorts, skirts and dresses fall below the line of the fingertips. It also prohibits students from wearing articles of clothing with images or words deemed inappropriate.

Freshman Lucy Greider, who claims that she’s been sent to the office 10 times this year for dress code violations, told the New York Post: “We work our a**es off here and school is about learning. Clothing is not important."

The administration has a different perspective on the matter. Principal Stanley Teitel told a student resporter from the Stuyvesant Spectator that the new dress code was put into place because students were wearing inappropriate clothing to school last fall.

Stanley Teitel
“The bottom line is, some things are a distraction," said Teitel. "And we don’t need to distract students from what is supposed to be going on here, which is learning.”

The students at this school are above-average students and do well on standardized tests, they didn't appear to be too distracted.

Maybe it was the teachers and staff that were distracted.

If nothing else, it gives us another reason to call Wednesday, "Hump Day."

RickLimpert.info Picture of the Week: Mademoiselle Mahut

Leave it to a French guy to wear a dress...

It seems like the 11 hour marathon match at Wimbledon against John Isner did something to Nicholas Mahut's brain. 

Well maybe not, but Mahut is becoming known as one of the best sports in tennis and he's on his way to becoming the "Clown Prince of Tennis."  I guess you could say the Meadowlark Lemon of tennis.

Here is is this past week playing an exhibition mixed doubles match at the Hopman Cup in Australia against Isner and Bethanie Mattek-Sands.  Mahut borrowed one of his partner's outfits to play a set of mixed.

I love the Mattek-Sands socks and the pink headband is the topper.

Unless he gets a last-minute wildcard, he will have to go through qualifying to play in the Australian Open.  Good luck to Mahut.

Here's Isner and Mahut back at Wimbledon, with Mahut in shorts and not a dress.