THE PARROT SPEAKS

IMPROPER DRESSING: MARLIANS INVADE VET

Very recently throughout the country, there is this conception going around about people who are awkwardly behaving and purposefully deviating from the norms set out by the society. They are called marlians—the ones who fear no authority and go by their own rules.

Well, marlians have invaded our dear faculty and some students have metastasized from being an actual vet student to marlian vet students. Some students now exhibit different awkward behaviors that were not prevalent in the faculty, in the premarlian era. As equivalent to the belief that marlians don't wear belts, many students pigheadedly leave out belts from their professional dress code, just to show how baddest they are. We have also seen students attending classes within the faculty obviously informally dressed, saying they just lost the professional vibe, directly infringing against the requirement of the faculty regulations.

While there is absolutely nothing wrong with people playing by their own rules, there is need to employ a lot of sense in doing that and it is important for them to realize that their own rules should not jeopardize the explicitly laid down standards of the profession.

For students that wish to stick to their marlian disposition, a warm reminder is for them that it is our collective duty to propel the image of our noble profession positively. Even if you want to be a marlian in 2020, be a marlian who abides to rules, a marlian in academic excellence, a marlian in positive societal changes and of course, a marlian who will graduate with DVM.

FEMALE DVMIII STUDENTS SENT OUT OF CLASS ON ALLEGATIONS OF IMPROPER DRESSING

Some females in 400 level, on 10^th December 2019, were sent out of parasitology class because they were allegedly informally dressed. The female students, having expected the unfortunate situation, have gone out of their ways to wear incredibly bigger sized skirts, but their attempts were made futile as many of them were walked out of the class.

Every time female paraclinical students of veterinary medicine have certain courses in parasitology, a kind of compound frenzy begins amongst them and many girls would be seen wearing huge skirts, two to three times their original size. While on their way to class, much to the hilarity of passersby, people always think they are going for divine evangelism. Their amusing choice of attire is because female students will be required to stand up, from row to row, for careful inspection of their dressing, with particular emphasis on the backside. If any lady is found wanting in this cold scrutiny, she is immediately embarrassed and sent out of the class.

Improper dressing is a social vice that plagues veterinary medicine as a whole. As a professional course, students are meant to be dressed in a manner equivalent to that of the prestige associated with the course. Since the new rule of professional dressing was implemented within the faculty more than two years ago, students have done their best to abide by the rules; skirts and ties are now a norm in the faculty. But despite their rapt effort into abiding to the faculty’s professional dressing standard, many students still become victim of assumed improper dressing and some of them have been driven to tears, frustration and extreme bitterness. Due to this, many female students grit their teeth and try to let the unfortunate situation wash over them, telling themselves it would be over the moment they leave the paraclinical departments.