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WATERLOO (CUP) — The president of the University of Waterloo is determined to main- tain the university’s 15-year old Miss Oktoberfest beauty pageant, despite a letter campaign and 1500-name petition protesting the sexist nature of the pageant.

In a letter to the university’s Women’s Centre, Doug Wright said he is concerned that if’the administration gives in on the issue, it will “expose the Univer- sity to pressures of every sort in favour of, or in oppgsition to, political and ethical opinions’ from a variety of interest groups.

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be improper for the university to ban such an event on this cam- pus,”” Wright said in the letter. “A university is ill-equipped to establish itself as a censor or moral judge, nor should it ever be in that position.”” e

Members of the. Women’s Centre, however were unhappy with Wright’s decision. “It was a cop-out,” said Stacey O'Sullivan,

“He is saying that the Univer- sity can’t make a moral judgment which has been in the past, with Enginews for example,’’ said O'Sullivan.

Enginews was a controversial monthly tabloid published by the

UBC Engineers don’t think pink

VANCOUVER (CUP) — The University of British Columbia engineer’s cairn — a concrete structure based on a traditional pile of rocks used to mark trails — was painted hot pink-recently to mark Gay Pride week.

An anonymous group painted the cairn hot pink and added the words “we are everywhere” to the base. The engineering cairn is usually white with a big red E.

Students at the engineers head- quarters, the Cheese Factory, blamed the gays and lesbians for the paint job.

“I could take science, aggies

(agriculture students) and forestry but gays and lesbians have gone too far,” said Rich Fitzpatrick, an applied science student.

Various campus groups paint the cairn to celebrate their weeks. Last week was gay and lesbian week at UBC.

Tanis Sueden, vice-president of Gays 272 Lesbians of UBC, said the yo» had no idea who pais: -d the cair

“It could have been gay en- gineers or say art students,”

Sugden said. Sugden added that it was not planned by the gay club.

Jim Wickens, engineering undergraduate society —_vice- president, said that many grouns attack the cairn.

“Its an easy thhag iv gu ui, Wickens said. Wickens said that other groups painting the cairn didn’t bother him.

One student said the cairn was now three pink triangles. Nazis in the second world war marked gay men in concentration camps with pink triangles. The gay liberation movement now uses the pink triangle as a symbol of pride.

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engineering society until late last semester. It stopped publishing due to pressure from the univer- sity administration and women’s groups over its sexist content.

The Women’s Centre is scout- ing around for an off-campus venue for the pageant, held each fall.

‘Women who want to be in the Miss Oktoberfest pageant must have never lived in a common-law relationship, have never had an abortion and must be unmarried.

“The message is if you're not pure and virginal, you're not a real woman; you’re not desirable,”” said O’Sullivan,

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