January 14, 2005

Out of Toon

By PAUL FAIN

A series of comic-strip postcards designed to recruit California high-school students to a liberal-arts college in Nebraska instead prompted a faculty outcry that caused administrators to stop the mailings last month.

Doane College halted the cartoons after faculty members, citing the sexist implication, objected to a panel that depicts a fictional high-school student daydreaming about being surrounded by attractive women at the college and getting to "play the field."

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