Arizona State University has taken disciplinary action against a former executive vice president of student government, Brian Buck, for his participation in a sexually explicit film taped on and around ASU's campus. Produced by the company responsible for the Indiana University dorm tapings Erin mentioned earlier, the film's opening scene shows Buck kissing and fondling two naked actresses in a shower while his fraternity brothers look on and cheer. Although Buck did not have sex with the women, and does not appear nude himself, his soft-core scene earned him an array of hard-core punishments from ASU Student Life, which decided that Buck's antics violated the "public sexual indecency" clause in ASU's code of student conduct. Buck is now barred from holding any position in any student organization, a ban that effectively forces him out of student government. He is barred from holding any employment position at ASU, or from residing on university-owned property. As if that weren't enough, Buck has been placed on probation for the rest of his time at ASU; he must compose a twenty-page essay with the pithy title "Reflections on Integrity"; he must perform 100 hours of community service; and he must write four letters of apology. This laundry list of sanctions cannot be appealed. Buck's lawyer, outraged by the extensive punishments and by the denial of due process, intends to sue ASU for breach of his client's constitutional rights.

It's interesting to note that when five female Arizona State students appeared topless or fully nude in Playboy's November 1999 Girls of the PAC 10 issue, explicitly representing their school, the administration took no disciplinary action against them. If it had, campus feminists would doubtless have rallied behind the women, defending their liberated sexuality and their right to exhibit their bodies however they chose. You have to love the double standard....