By Jane Mattingly

2:15 p.m., sitting in class with a painful distraction:  plumber’s crack.
The professor is preaching about something very crucial to a student’s academics. However this outrageous calamity is in view. The exposed girl is very nice and certainly fashionable and trendy. But gravity, as it tends to do, has slipped its sneaky thumbs into her belt loops and created this unfortunate spectacle.
Look away, is the advice that comes to mind; it’s not so easy though.
Try to angle a book in a way that covers it up, but it’s no use. To take adequate notes, look up at the board and back down constantly and the dreaded crevice falls right in the line of fire. Doesn’t she feel a breeze?
Many have found themselves in this painfully awkward position. Sometimes, it’s not intentional. Usually, it happens completely by accident and it’s pretty innocent.  It can often seem like an episode of Tila Tequila though.
Some students might just be showing a little too much skin — legs, cleavage, etc. Sure, we’re pretty comfortable here on campus, right?
Does that make it OK to wear booty shorts and spaghetti straps to class? Here is what some students had to say:
Theatre arts major Stephanie Fitzsimon, a Monticello, Ky. native, said when she first came to Louisville, she was a little shocked by the way girls dressed. She adjusted pretty quickly to it, but it was not something she was used to.
“We live in a sexualized society,” she said. “It’s not a big deal, and it’s more accepted [in Louisville].”
Other female students agreed — Crystal Adams and Amy Feketik said they didn’t think it was a serious problem, but admitted they  really don’t pay attention to that sort of thing. Adams, from Frankfort and Feketik, from Cleveland, Ohio, said they have seen it all before.
Male student Zach Letteer, a mechanical engineering major has noticed this faux pas and doesn’t find it particularly attractive.
Cleavage and skin-showing isn’t a major problem and doesn’t really bother him. Though, “It says something about the type of person they are,” he said. “But it’s their choice to dress like that.”
He and other students suggested that perhaps girls who are choosing to dress like this are experimenting with the new freedoms that college provides, and it might be a sign of rebellion. Whatever the reasons, they’re free to dress how they wish. But the repercussions may consist of a tainted reputation or being known as “the plumber.”
This is about boys too, especially those who insist on exposing their boxers.