As a Catholic Owned School, the owners are fully justfied in putting in place the dress code. Although there has been alot of controversy regarding the church in the recent past, there is more GOOD than BAD things that comes out of these handline/Conservative positions.

I'm also a alumni and I now work at a place where there is no dress code, the real purpose of the dress code is to instill elements of fascism and control, after all it is run by Upus guys but it was a really good place.

There is only good to be found in dressing decently and for the occasion.

As the owners of the said property, the administration has every right to ask that some rules be followed. However, they having that right, doesn't make them logical or correct.

However, let us not play games with the truth. There is no scientific or business research that shows that dressing in a short sleeved shirt makes a bad manager. How you dressed in school has absolutely no bearing to your performance at work. Otherwise, all UON students are doomed.

There are places that require a particular dress code. I don't expect to see a wedding dress in a funeral.

However, college is definitely not one of the places where formal (according to some) dressing should be demanded.

College is a place where you are supposed to learn how to make choices and live by your choices. It is where you learn how to try and make wrong choices and correct them. It is never where the lecturer tells the student "the truth".

By denying young boys and girls the opportunity to dress flimsily and get punished by society, we are creating a bunch of robot managers who can't think outside the company manual.

And you wonder why mama mboga and a charcoal burner has a higher chance of success in business than an MBA student.

Do the Professors and the other employees at Strathmore also have dress codes? Or is it only the students?

Let us all assume the Catholic church (and the Opus Dei) bought out a company, such as Safaricom. Would it be alright to extend the dress code to the employees and their customers?

If I paid Strathmore to privately facilitate a seminar in business and management for a team of IT guys, would Strathmore require that they dress formally or else?

There is a big difference between strath and catholic university in karen and they are both catholic schools. Therefore people arguing that the dress code is because it is a christian school or a catholic school are so wrong. It is also SAD to not that people who attended the university have no idea where the dress code came from. What a shame you earn a degree or diploma and you have no idea about the place you got it shame. I shall educate you all.
The dress code is more to do with the particular wing/sect/ whatever you call it that started the strathmore, the opus dei sect.

St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, makes this point in a far more eloquent manner

I believe You should dress in accordance with the demands of your social standing, your family background, your work... as your companions do, but to please God: eager to present a genuine and attractive image of true Christian living. Do everything with naturalness, without being extravagant. I can assure you that in this matter it is better to err on the side of excess than to fall short. How do you think Our Lord dressed? Haven't you pictured to yourself the dignity with which he wore his seamless cloak which had probably been woven for him by Our Lady? Don't you remember how, in Simon's house, he was grieved because he had not been offered water to wash his hands before taking his place at the table? No doubt he drew attention to this example of bad manners to underline his teaching that love is shown in little details. But he also wants to make it clear that he stands by the social customs of his time, and therefore you and I must make an effort to be detached from the goods and comforts of the world, but without doing anything that looks odd or peculiar.
I don't appreciate the strictness but those are their rules you either live with it or move on simple. I hope this argument can be laid to rest now.

...problem could be with Opus Dei who live in an imaginery perfect world..

Interesting reading, many opinions and many facts. We should encourage airing of our Opinions (always noting our personal bias) and Facts (realizing we choose selectively what suits our arguments).

But what of RESPECT: our upbringing demands more of us. Here we are talking about a Kenyan institution respected internationally, by alumnae, changed the lives of many. And the issue is nothing to do with malpractice or dishonor, and we still can't live and let live?

We individually demand more respect be accorded us by our family, friends, workmates... I bemoan the collective loss of our character..

definition - Kenyan [ˈkɛnjən ˈ, kiːnjən, Ken′•yan] n

-a native or inhabitant of Kenya

-a homeless person you invite to your house who wonders aloud why there is no bacon for breakfast.

-a person who will give you expert advice on why your relatively reputable training institution is not producing world class brains when they cannot show a two-student village polytechnic let alone a world class project to their name.

give the devil his dues - a good chunk of kenyans in the country and the diaspora have strath to thank for facilitating their degree, acca, cpa, cfa, cisa na kadhalika.

joke is - strath is doing something about bettering kenya's brainpower while 'experts' with international (a.k.a. google search engine) experience sit on their behinds dishing out textbook advice.

beware of kenyan 'experts' -
http://www.nation.co.ke/...86/-/idvbti/-/index.html