SIDNEY SMITH HALL –
Professor Gregory Wei upset the LIN100 syllabus this semester with the additition of Playboy magazine’s October issue. It is to be introduced in place of a previous example text, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, and will be sold in the U of T Book Store for individual analysis.

The decision has drawn ire from much of the Linguistics faculty for being potentially lewd, but Professor Wei insists that they will only read the magazine for the articles.

“I understand why some people might be turned off by the material,” he said in an interview with the Toike Oike, “but Frank Revera’s use of definite and indefinite articles is one of many things that I find stimulating about this particular issue. I think it will facilitate just as much navel-gazing as other texts.”

The October issue was the top-selling Playboy of last year, featuring several long pieces amongst the spread of models. Not that we at the Toike would know about that kind of thing.

Professor Wei’s lecture section received a 300% increase in enrolment this semester, which some attribute to his unique outlook on the course material.

“It’s great to see students taking an interest in the curriculum,“ Wei said. “I’ve been trying to cover content that would have interested me when was a young man studying at the University of Toronto.”

When asked how he could support an academic environment where male students gawk at women, the Dean said, “I’ve been trying to get rid of the engineering department for years.”