MASCULINE RIGHTS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1928, Page 8

MASCULINE RIGHTS

GIRL STUDENTS CRITICISED

French mule students are about to declare war oil their bobbed-hair sisters, who, they declare, invade the university 'Classrooms, take with them odours of perfume and lipsticks which disturb professors and students alike. An international conference df male students from various European universities is being organised to discuss the best means of relegating women to separate classrooms. “ They annoy us in our work.” declare some of the most advanced students at Sorbonne. “In the law schools their bobbed hair, rouged lips and cheeks, and even blackened eyebrows and lashes strike a note entirely out of harmony with the traditional solemnity of the French judicial system.” One of the chief objections is to the overpowering effect of odours of perfume and rouge in badly ventilated classrooms. Even the professors sniff in ill-dis-guished reprobation the students declare. But nothing can be done until the heads of the faculties at the various universities in France give their support to the movement for ‘‘Masculine Rights.” British university students are declared in Paris to be as eager for the change as the French students.