Academics Call for Clamp Down on Lad’s Mags

UCU, the biggest trade union supporting academics, wants shops on campuses to stop selling lad mags or at the very least prevent them from being on display.

At the annual congress, at which all UCU representatives attend, it was heard that the banning of lads magazines would reduce the growing lad culture in higher education.

Last year at a Glasgow University Union Ancients debating competition, it was widely reported that sexist heckling disrupted the final, with later evidence of groping and inappropriate touching.

The report said that “There was some suggestion such sexualised behaviour from some student members had become normalised, with some of the female students accepting the behaviour as part of membership of GUU.”

At Stirling, members of the Men’s Hockey team were banned from representing their university after singing sexist songs on a public bus.

Janice Aitken, UCU Scotland’s equalities officer explained that Dundee University also faced similar issues where a rugby team hurled abuse at members of the feminist society

She also explained that “We have to think about the impact it has on a female student entering a university shop to find magazines on sale that depict women as sex objects.

“It is equally important that male students are also aware that the university views these sort of magazines as unacceptable.”