BATON ROUGE — Southern University proposed a campus-wide dress code at a meeting on Friday.

Southern University Chairman Attorney Tony Clayton said that the idea came to him after noticing other schools around the country, particularly Historically Black Colleges and Universities, roll out dress codes.

"I walked around campus the other day, I think we need it," Clayton said at the meeting.

WBRZ asked some Southern University students whether they feel a dress code is needed on campus.

"I feel like we grown. We really shouldn't need a dress code, but at the same time, they do be wearing some skimpy stuff around here," freshman Derrion Cyprian said. 

Sophomore Essence Nelson says she feels the university should have guidelines on what is appropriate to wear on campus.

"Maybe not an extreme dress code, but definitely like what shirts you could wear, and bottoms should not half show your buttocks, and like you should not have a lot of cleavage showing," Nelson said. 

Freshman Kristian Tinsley shares the same sentiment.

"I've seen far too many students on campus come outside of the dorms in things that shouldn't be worn outside of the dorms, and I feel like it would add a sense of structure to campus to have students wear a specific type of clothing and have certain clothing not be in the classrooms," Tinsley said. 

Some students say they'd like to see students dress for the career they are majoring in.

"For example, I'm in mechanical engineering, expected to dress professionally, to that degree. If you're in law school, then of course you want to dress in business management and things like that. It's just being respectful to that major you're going for, trying to pursue," Southern student Isaiah Williams said.  

Sophomore Madison Parker says she can see both sides. She says she would like to see a dress code because of some of the things she's seen people wear on campus. 

"I see people wear bonnets and pajamas to class all the time," Parker said. 

But Parker also says people should have the freedom to dress how they'd like. 

"We're in college, and like, this isn't high school and I feel like we should dress how we want to dress," she said. 

Tuskegee University implemented a new dress code that prohibited students from wearing bonnets and durags, along with revealing clothing and bedroom shoes, according to a report by ABC, reviving debates on whether dress codes perpetuate anti-Black stereotypes against students. 

Clayton advised that the chancellors discuss the issue ahead of the next meeting on Sept. 18, where it could possibly appear on the agenda.