ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Some students at Henderson State University were offended by a recent ban on “sagging pants” because they think it’s racist toward black people.

University officials recently installed signs in the student center that states profanity, excessive loudness, rude behavior and sagging pants will “not be tolerated” because they distract from the learning environment. Sagging pants are already outlawed in Arkansas’ K-12 schools, Inside Higher Ed reports.

“Posting the signs was in response to increasing concerns expressed over the past year by students, faculty, staff and community members about appropriate behavior across our campus, both in and out of the classroom,” Henderson State spokeswoman Tonya Smith told the news site.

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“Our faculty in particular had experienced an increase in inappropriate classroom behaviors that were disturbing the learning environment.”

The simple requests for decent behavior, however, is getting some students’ underwear in a bunch.

“The group that I’m representing was outraged by the sign,” HSU student Daisha Haggans told KATV.

Classmate Kristin Bell told the news site the “no sagging pants” request is “politically insensitive to certain groups,” like young African American males.

“They felt like they were being targeted,” she said.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education also weighed in, and sided with the students.

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“Absent some kind of showing that sagging pants could somehow disrupt the education environment in a clearly, truly unreasonable way, which is hard to fathom, this is a blatant overreach by the administration,” foundation director for legal and public advocacy Will Creeley told Inside Higher Ed.

“It’s dismaying that a public institution of higher education wants to treat their students as if they are in grade school,” he said.

Creeley thinks the other behavior prohibited by the signs is also uncalled for.

By asking students not to be profane or rude, the university was “really going for the trifecta,” he said.

But the university’s recent requests are certainly not the first time officials have required people to pull up their drooping drawers.

“Several cities in Louisiana have sagging-pants bans that carry with them $150 fines or 15 days in jail. Last year, residents of Ocala, Fla., were barred from wearing pants that fall two inches below the waist,” IHE reports.

The Florida ban, which carried up to a $500 fine and 60 days in jail, was repealed shortly after it went into effect when the NAACP alleged the city was targeting young black men, according to the Associated Press.

That’s essentially the same reason why Henderson State officials are now backpedaling on the signs, and removed them last week.

Officials sent a letter to students to apologize for the signs, and reiterate that they didn’t “specifically target” certain students. The school does not have a dress code, but officials said they still plan to enforce the rules whether the signs are up or not.

“We have removed the signs,” the university statement read, according to IHE. “However, we remain committed to supporting campus and classroom environments conductive to learning and respect for all members of our community.”

Perhaps ironically, 2011 legislation that outlawed sagging pants in Arkansas’ K-12 schools was sponsored by state Rep. Tracy Steele, an African American, KATV reports.