'Real world' education rejects sexism. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)

If higher education provides 90% of its opportunities to learn through out-of-classroom experiences, some students learned a lot this fall.

* At Iowa State University, eight female students in a Women's Studies class complained about a mural in the kitchen of a coed dorm that features three heavily-armed soldiers, one carrying a beer keg and another a buxom women. Students have added items to the 1984 mural, including condoms and references to a date rape drug.

After complaining to administrators about the sexist art that harasses women, in violation of a university ban, the students got nowhere. So they papered the campus with fliers citing recent statistics on date rape. They were told to resolve their differences with its male supporters.

The educational discussion helped the men understand why women found it offensive, and the men erased the graffiti and asked the university to paint over the woman, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on November 28, 2002 and The ...