A customer walked into an Amoco station in West Dundee, Illinois, at 3:30 a.m. on December 6, 1991 and bought a pair of gloves. Minutes later, a West Dundee police officer walked in and told the proprietor that he'd violated a local ordinance forbidding the sale of anything except automotive products between 2 and 5 a.m. The Amoco station could be fined up to $500.

The customer had tried to buy the gloves at the Shell station across the street, but when the clerk there refused to sell them, the customer went to the Amoco instead and bought the gloves there. The clerk at the Shell station then called the police to report a violation of the zoning ordinance.

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The University of Arizona's "Diversity Action Plan" expresses concern over discrimination against students on the basis of "age, color, ethnicity, gender, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, Vietnam-era veteran status, socioeconomic background, or individual style."

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A reproduction of Francisco de Goya's painting The Naked Maja that hung in a Penn State classroom has been taken down after a female professor complained of sexual harassment. "Any nude picture of a female," she noted, "encourages males to make remarks about body parts."

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