Tufts Republicans Protest Outrageous Events

For Immediate Release
 February 19, 2004
Philipp Tsipman, President, 617.627.1898, philtsip@yahoo.com
Nicholas Boyd, Vice President, 617.627.8245, nicholas.boyd@tufts.edu
Rachel Hoff, Women’s Caucus Chair, 617.947.7385, rachel.hoff@tufts.edu

Tufts Republicans Protest University ’s Pornographic “Sex Fair” by “Taking Back the Date”

Just last Wednesday, the Tufts University Campus Center was taken over by students, administrators, and faculty taste-testing lubricants, taking part in the “Condom Olympics,” and marking on life-sized fully-nude drawings where they like to be rubbed, touched, kissed, or licked.  Photos from the fair, available online at http://ase.tufts.edu/republicans/sexfair.htm, also show the Tufts Office of Student Activities Director, Jodie Nealley, posing as female genitalia (dscn0247).

On Thursday, an owner of a sex novelty store will be presenting about the "joys of toys" and "everything you've ever wanted to know about sex" at a freshman dorm, sponsored by the Office of Residential Life and Learning.  And on Friday, the university is sponsoring another sexually explicit "sex fair," Vulvapalooza, a "free event celebrating vaginas."

“The gratuitousness of these events is incredible” said Tufts Republicans President Philipp Tsipman, “The university is sending a clear message that anything goes here.  Tolerance is in and decency is nowhere to be found.”  In contrast to its recent actions, last year the university administration was swift to respond to the word “gay” written on a washing machine as an objectionable incident of “bias.”

“The University should not be promoting such a degraded view of sexuality.  Instead, Tufts should be promoting the truly healthy conceptions of love and relationships,” said Rachel Hoff, Tufts Republicans Women’s Caucus Chair.  As part of a nationwide movement to “take back the date,” coordinated by the Independent Women’s Forum, the Republicans are asking their fellow students to reconsider the “hook-up” culture on the Tufts campus.  “What we’re asking is, ‘Don’t you think you deserve something better?’” said Tsipman.

The February 11th “Sex on the Hill” fair was organized by the student organization Tufts VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood with the participation of the Tufts Health Service.  The Tufts Women’s Center is sponsoring the “sex fair,” Vulvapalooza, as well as performances of The Vagina Monologues, on Friday, February 20th and Saturday, February 21st.

The Tufts Republicans club is a student organization that works to promote Republican and conservative ideas at Tufts University through education, activism, and political involvement.

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