When Ashdown House's "Jungle Party" posters featured images of Tarzan and Jane, Aimee Smith started an extended discussion on several Graduate Student Council email lists by stating that the posters provoked "a hostile working environment for women at MIT" and were in violation of her civil rights.

Aimee also objected to posters advertising DKE's "Playboy Party," which included images of the Playboy rabbit logo, by writing "KKK" over "DKE" on several posted copies. Her attempts to liken Playboy to a hate group apparently went unappreciated by several fraternity members, who interpreted her actions as an accusation of racism.

Explaining her tactics, she said, "I don't really expect much from those young men in terms of honest, open, probing dialogue. They're pretty much idiots. So when I do something like that, it's more as a symbol to other people... so that they know that not everyone on campus tolerates that." She later made a counterposter entitled "DKE Gyno-Nazis Go Home," which linked reading Playboy and similar magazines to sexual aggression against women.

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