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Goya’s Gotta Go: A reproduction of a famous Goya painting of a nude woman has been taken down from a classroom wall at Penn State following a complaint from a woman professor that it was a form of sexual harassment. “Nude Maja” had hung in the music room on campus for more than a decade. The president of the Student Government Assn. called it “ludicrous censorship,” but the Liaison Committee of the Penn State Commission for Women said that female faculty “find if difficult to appear professional when forced to lecture to a class with a picture of a female nude on the wall behind them.” Four other paintings were taken down to avoid a debate over what should and shouldn’t be displayed.

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