It would seem that Bates College has set new guidelines for what is acceptable treatment of women. On Feb. 4, the college allowed rapper Snoop Dogg to speak against sexual harrassment. This is the same “artist” who raps the old standards “187 on an Undercover,” “Murder was the Case,” or that all-time favorite, “Fresh Pair of Panties.”

The lyrics to those “songs” would probably not be published by the Sun Journal, so if anyone is interested in seeing the talent of Snoop Dogg, he will have to go to the Internet.

Sexual harrassment, as defined by Webster’s New World Dictionary, is “inappropriate, unwelcome behavior by an employer or colleague that is sexual in nature.” I have to assume that the president of Bates College was aware of Snoop Dogg’s presence on campus and approves of that type of diversity. The glorification of violence and misogyny has been brought to the new level of an art form.

Maybe Snoop Dogg and the college president can rap/sing “Girls Gone Wild.”

Peter Stenberg, Lisbon Falls