On behalf of the students in my and other introductory women's studies courses, I want to thank the Collegian for providing coverage of the 16th Women's Studies Undergraduate Forum ("Forum to present women's concerns" Tues., Nov. 30).

I was interviewed for the article about the Undergraduate Forum and quoted in the article that appeared in Tuesday's Collegian. While all of the quotes attributed to me were accurate, the reporter's text throughout the rest of the article (as well as the captioned photo that appeared on Wed., Dec. 1) misrepresented the goal of the event and my perspective on it. When you continue to think of topics such as domestic and sexual violence as one of those "women's issues" you do a disservice to victims and survivors -- who are both women and men -- and you do a disservice to those women and men who are proactively fighting to address them.

In effect, you remain part of the problem and not the solution. The topics addressed in women's studies courses, including the ones highlighted at the Undergraduate Forum, are feminist issues. They affect all of us. The solutions require everyone's active involvement.

The students in women's studies courses who presented projects at the Undergraduate Forum are trying to change campus culture that thinks, for example, of sexual assault and rape as a woman's issue.

More than 600 students spent this semester examining feminist issues such as men's violence against women, and generating proactive solutions that require us to rethink these topics as global and community issues. It is unfortunate and deeply troubling that the Collegian doesn't get it.