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To the Editor: This fall, when feminist activist Gloria Steinem visited Penn's campus, she reminded us of how far women have come in the struggle for equality and how far we have yet to go. As Penn students, most of us have never experienced overt differential treatment in the classroom or faced limitations in our career choices because of our gender. Certainly, as women on Penn's campus, it is easy to forget that sexism still exists. Lori Sherman Nursing Grad '01 Greening the Green To the Editor: Keep College Green clean. It's not that difficult. I go out to the Green almost every day. It's a nice place to sit down and eat lunch and run into friends and just while the day away. Unfortunately, there are lots of people who trash the Green. They are too lazy to throw out their bottles or their brown lunch bags and they let the wind have its way with their DPs. The Green is a beautiful place in the spring, it is one place where we can go and relax and for a brief time forget that we are in the middle of a city. The Green is the closest thing to nature that we have on campus and leaving garbage strewn all over it everyday is just disgusting. I do what I can when I am out there, picking up trash and such. But I can't keep College Green clean all by myself. So let's all do our part, pick up after yourself, give dirty looks to the slobs who are used to being picked up after, yell insults to people who get up and leave in their wake a sea of napkins and bottles and newspapers. Or humbly pick up after others and hope your example will catch on. But keep it clean. Louis Zahner Wharton '01 Alumnus weighs in To the Editor: Last weekend I and other Off the Beat alumni returned to campus for the group's spring show. I talked with my fellow alumni, and with a few current students as well, about the University's new and, in my view, misguided gloss on an otherwise sensible alcohol policy. Alcohol can kill. There is no debating that. Yet the laws of Pennsylvania allows adults to drink. Citizens over a certain age are permitted to choose for themselves whether to consume alcohol; the law has at least that much faith in our judgment. Apparently, in response to tragedy, the University administration has had a crisis of faith. So it has decided to treat even those Penn undergraduates who are permitted by law to drink as children unable to make informed choices. I would have thought the administration had more respect for the intelligence of its students. Neil Gever College '90