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IN THE NEWS

Robert Hollis

Skirting the issue

(Editor's Note: The following clipping appeared in the San Francisco Examiner November 10th, 1978, in a story by Robert Hollis. It is interesting and unusual so I thought you should all see it. He's got a lot of guts and I wrote and congratulated him.)

Bill Cushing, a College of Marin behavioral sciences major, is acutely self- conscious whenever he crosses his legs, "probably more so than most women."

He also regularly shaves them.

"I can't take the feeling of the hair on my legs rubbing against the cloth of my skirt," he said yesterday, sitting casually in a sun-splashed patio behind the col- lege's student center.

Cushing, a 34-year-old twice married (and divorced) father of two, is unique among the students on the Kentfield campus.

He wears skirts. He always wears skirts.

What's more, he thinks that more

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