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- <text id=93TT2448>
- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: No Cap and Gown
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- SOCIETY, Page 23
- No Cap and Gown
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Sexual-harassment charges help send Berkeley's Naked Guy packing
- </p>
- <p> Even the University of California at Berkeley, birthplace of
- the Free Speech Movement, has its limits. The quiet insistence of
- Andrew Martinez, a.k.a. the Naked Guy, on attending classes and
- strolling on campus in the nude finally ran afoul of both
- Berkeley's rules and politically correct culture.
- </p>
- <p> Martinez, 19, began appearing au naturel last September,
- having led a campus "nude-in" to protest social repression.
- Campus police arrested him, but the county prosecutor refused
- to prosecute, concluding that nudity without lewd behavior was
- not illegal. The university then banned nudity. Martinez
- persisted, until some female students charged that his behavior
- constituted sexual harassment. That did it. "Yes, we're a
- bastion of free expression," a university spokesman explained.
- "But first and foremost we're a bastion of higher education."
- Thrown out of school, Martinez plans to write a book about his
- experience.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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