Utah Homecoming Cut Short by Short Dresses

DIANA LI
News Editor

Homecoming is an annual tradition celebrated by high schools across America that is an undeniably major event. However, after much anticipation for their Homecoming dance, students at Utah’s Stanbury High School (SHS) were disappointed when dozens of girls were turned away from the Homecoming dance due to dress-code violations.
According to the school’s website, “[d]resses should be at or near knee length.” Left up to subjective interpretation, dresses of varying lengths were deemed inappropriate while others passed inspection.
Some Alhambran students feel that SHS’ ban was unjustified.
“It’s not fair if the dress code wasn’t specific and people already spent their money buying their outfits for the dance. Even though [a make up dance was held], it’s just not the same,” senior Lucy Wang said.
In protest, many students showed up at school in their formal attire the following Monday. SHS Principal Kendall Topham issued an apology to those who were not allowed entrance into the event; a replacement dance was scheduled for those who were not admitted into that Homecoming festivity.
“It’s good that [the administrators] held a makeup dance,” junior Anissa Orozco said. “They should have made the dress code more clear to begin with […] to avoid these kind of problems.”
SHS plans to rewrite its school dress code in order to prevent future problems that may arise.