In Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university student has been expelled after violent protests by students outraged at the short outfit she wore on campus.
The Universidade Bandeirante said it had expelled the student, Geysi Villa Nova Arruda, 20, for "flagrant disrespect of ethical principles, academic dignity and morality." Her dress sparked student protests last month in the largely Roman Catholic country.
A video showed Arruda sitting in a classroom in a mid-thigh length red dress, then six military police officers protecting her as she left the campus wearing a white jacket. A line of students stood by chanting "whore." Another video showed a mob stopping and kicking her car and blocking her when she tried to escape on foot.
Brazilian bloggers have pointed out the irony of the hatred directed at Arruda by fellow students in a nation so obsessed with physical beauty. "Pure hypocrisy ... Once February and the Carnival comes round everyone will be naked and no one will find it abnormal," said one commenter on the O Globo news website.
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