P age 4 -The Michigan Daily-Friday, June 12, 1987
Beer ad voted most
sexist in contest

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By KENT WAGNER
A flyer entitled "Why Beer is
Better Than Women," found in a
University dormitory, won the local
competition for the most sexist ad -
vertising.
The Ann Arbor Citizen's Advi -
sory Committee on Rape Preven -
tion sponsored the third annual Sex -
ism in Advertising contest designed
to better examine the images of wo -
men presented in the media.
CACORP holds a competition
each year for the most sexist adver -
tisement, both locally and nation -

ally.
In the national competition, a
Georges Marciano advertisement
won with more than 200 of the 350
votes received. McCabe said she and
the other members of the CACORP
were in the process of drafting Mar -
ciano a letter informing him of his
dubious honor.
This year's local competition,
which is intended to include adver -
tisements from the entire Ann Ar -
bor community, featured only Uni -
versity ads.
See SEXIST, Page 8

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A woman holds her child at a candlelight vigil held Friday, June 5, by Neighbors Against the Gun Store
(NAGS) to mourn the grand opening of the Ann Arbor Rod and Gun Co. on Packard Rd. About 30 NAGS
members attended the vigil. The woman requested anonymity because she and other NAGS members have
been harassed in recent weeks.

NAGS continues protest 4
By ELIZABETH ATKINS
Last Friday evening the weeks because Big Ten's owner
Neighbors Against the Gun Store leased the Packard Road-East
(NAGS) held a candlelight vigil in Stadium building to the gun store
front of the Ann Arbor Rod and owners.
Gun Store to mourn its grand Curtis Estes, the vice president
opening in their neighborhood. and chief executive operator of the
The group has also picketed the Big Ten party store, said he agrees
Big Ten Party Store on Packard St. that NAGS have the right to
every Saturday for the past several express their opinions, but he added


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of gun store
leases were not made to be broken.
"I can't walk next door and say,
'Give me the lease,"' he said.
Ann Arbor City Councilmember
Dave DeVarti (D-Fourth Ward) is
currently working with NAGS to
develop new city ordinances which
would allow city residents to review
any future plans for gun store
'establishment in their
neighborhoods.4
Shirley McRae, a member of
NAGS, said the group has picketed
the Big Ten store-every Saturday for
several weeks by carrying signs and
distributing leaflets, which call for
an economic boycott of the party
store.
Brian Chambers, one of NAGS
chief organizers, said the group now
has a mailing list of about 500 Ann
Arbor residents and holds weekly 4
meetings in members' homes.
Chambers said Estes told the
group they were having a negative
impact on their business.
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