LETTERS: Sexism is a problem of society

To the Editor: How is it that although all women apparently feel degraded by men's stares, they wear skin-tight pants, low-cut shirts, short shorts and even shorter skirts? Perhaps the efforts of the Take Back the Night committee should also focus on the women who perennially convey their eagerness to cover as little of their bodies as possible. Moreover, it's ridiculous that society, television and especially the fashion magazines of today's world encourage such behavior with our support. The problem isn't Penn men; the problem is society, men and women. Marc Aneed College '99 Follow the A-3 elections To the Editor: I read with interest The Daily Pennsylvanian article "Council calls for arbitration to resolve A-3 elections," April 2 and the editorial ("A push for new A-3 elections," DP, 4/3/97) that followed the next day. I thought to myself, "Finally, after half a year of waiting, the DP is giving this issue the attention it deserves." But after the editorial, there was nothing more said about the elections. Nothing. If the undergraduate student government refused to release election results or failed to publicize elections the DP would rant and rave about it daily. Although the DP may be a student-run newspaper, A-3 employees make up a substantial portion of its readership and deserve to benefit from the same type of public scrutiny of their representative body that the DP provides for undergraduates. I would love to see more attention paid to these elections. Even a daily count on the editorial page of the number of days since the election results should have been announced would be a nice gesture. Benjamin Goldberger Engineering and College '98 Former Chairperson, Nominations and Elections Committee