CCSF Accreditation Day 2013 and CCSF 1963

I need to do more prep for tomorrow's classes, but I did respond to the feedback form for our all-day workshops at the Ocean Campus today.  (It was much more stimulating and informative than I expected.)  I just got a message from a New Zealand friend who's paying attention to both the fires in Yosemite and how they could affect our water supply and to America's Cup, which New Zealand will probably win.  (I hope so!)  But I wanted to post something here before midnight.  Here's an item from the SF Chronicle:

Sept. 18: San Francisco City College was accused yesterday of taking uncivil liberties with a coed's right to wear what she chooses. The coed in question happens to choose slacks. And sandals. When 27-year-old Susan Slightam showed up on campus that way the other day, administrative eyebrows rose. Go home and change clothes, Mrs. Slightam was told. She obeyed. But she didn't stop there. Mrs. Slightam has strong convictions. She called the American Civil Liberties Union. Yesterday in a letter to Schools Superintendent Harold Spears, ACLU Executive Director Ernest Besig arched his own eyebrows a bit. "Isn't a ban on slacks going a bit too far." Besig hastened to say that he, personally feels that "dresses are more attractive on ladies." But at the same time, "it seems to be clearly unreasonable to make such a requirement so long as the slacks are not of the tight-fitting kind." Dr.

Spears, for his part said he and Board of Education Counsel Irving Breyer had decided the ban was legal, and anyway, "it's the college's business."