U.C. Santa Cruz student Kanya Dorland has protested campus bathroom signs, saying that they perpetuate sexist stereotypes by showing a "petite, passive woman in a dress, and an aggressive, broad-shouldered man in pants." If the university does not change the signs, Dorland suggests that the women of U.C.S.C. "empower themselves" by tearing them off the doors. This caused quite a stir with the administration, as each of the signs cost $15 to produce, and with 400 bathrooms on campus, this would ring up quite a bill. No word on whether any work is being done to come up with an alternative set of universal symbols to differentiate men and women.

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