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Upset by what they deemed sexist and derogatory names for popular dishes served at a campus cafeteria, students there have forced the removal of "Saucy Chick" and "Sensual Sausage" from the menu of the Hatch student restaurant...
...issue raised by the Government Department's decision is much greater than Klein's case alone. What must be addressed is not the possibly politically biased or sexist motivation behind the current decision, but the implications this move has for women and the study of women at the college in general. Ethel Klein is only the most recent un-promoted or un-tenured woman in a long--and distinguished--line of scholars who we feel have been refused a place on the faculty due to their sex, their feminism, and their concern for Women's Studies. A few facts illuminate...
...women were outraged. "Extremely distasteful," wrote Dr. Anne L. Barlow, president of the American Medical Women's Association, in a letter protesting the ad about the woman doctor. In 1981 and 1982, the New York City-based Women Against Pornography gave the Maidenform ads a ZAP award for sexist advertising...
...what never should have become a "matter" at all. Earlier rumors had emanated from New Jersey that Princeton was "tactfully" discouraging Shields from completing the application process; low-level noise that, even unsubstantiated, reflected more poorly on Princeton than on Shields. And when anticipation on campus spilled over into sexist crudity in the Princeton humor magazine Tiger--which featured a list of "Ways to Pick Up Brooke Shields If and When She Arrives on Campus"--Princeton fired the editor in charge: an action that all but wooed back the pestilence of press coverage...
Wendell M. Long, the outgoing president, said he is sorry that the parody has been labelled "sexist" by some critics, since he said the intention of the article was to parody these sexist stereotypes...