It may be asked why the Women's Center at Barnard
College is sponsoring a panel on male chauvinism at
Columbia and why the panel consists of men.

These are three answers:

1) The charge that Columbia is a bastion of male
chauvinism is a serious one. It is a charge which I
personally have often and publically made.

It is a serious charge because it implies that
the attitudes which men have about themselves, each
other and women are harmful, alien to humane values.

Yet, as far as I know, a group of men at Columbia
has never before publically discussed those charges.

Nor have they, as far as I know, engaged in
public questioning and debate in a completely open forum,
except for an infrequent open hearing.