Dale Miller

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Pumped up

A Male university employee who chooses to wear women’s clothing to work should have skirted the opportunity to be photographed in front of the school’s sign, the chancellor said Wednesday.But Dale Miller, manager of networks and technical services at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, won’t necessarily lose his right to wear what he wants to work.

Chancellor Charles Hathaway said Miller’s picture and accompanying article in Tuesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette had prompted about a dozen calls to his office, several from people threatening to forego future financial support. Hathaway declined to discuss what steps the university would take in reaction to the article.

Though Hathaway said his “greater objective is promoting the concepts of freedom of ideas and freedom of expression on a university campus,” he added that those freedoms should “be tempered by the standards of society.”