Word: robinsons
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...recommended that Peninsula change the flier advertising this event. This pathetic gesture, suggesting a mere cosmetic change, fails to address the real issue and is another example of the University's evasion of the matter of hate speech. Tamara D. Duckworth '91-'92 Mecca J. Nelson '92 Lisa-Marie Robinson...
Most of the park's attractions will be familiar to veterans of the California and Florida venues, though some have been retooled and upgraded. La Cabane des Robinson (Swiss Family Robinson Tree House) includes cunning new cave trails of "rock" artfully sculpted by the Disney team. Pirates of the Caribbean is a spookier and more elaborate cruise among brigand lowlifes. Big Thunder Mountain has been refined into one of the great coaster rides, with new ascents and dips and two hurtling trips in the dark...
...Florida, Jacksonville Shipyards is appealing the January 1991 ruling by a federal judge that a welder named Lois Robinson was harassed by male co- workers who put up graphically sexual posters and calendars, some showing women being abused. Among the offensive materials was a poster with a frontal view of a nude woman and the imprinted words USDA CHOICE. One surprising supporter of the appeal: the American Civil Liberties Union, which also opposes the Massachusetts bill...
...street," contends Mary Ellen Gale, a Whittier College law professor and member of the A.C.L.U.'s national board. "If someone shouts an obscenity on the street, you're not captive and you're not being denied equal opportunity. But it's different when it happens in the workplace. Robinson's ability to do her job was affected...
Other A.C.L.U. officials readily concede that Robinson was sexually harassed by lewd comments of male welders and X-rated scrawling in her work area. But they argue that U.S. District Judge Howell Melton went too far in responding to the complaint. Robyn Blumner, executive director of the Florida A.C.L.U., argues that Melton's sweeping order, which barred male workers from bringing sexually suggestive materials to work, would have applied as readily to a newspaper brassiere ad as to the crude posters that offended Robinson. Beyond that, she says, Melton's ruling that workers cannot even possess the pornographic calendars clearly...