Law School Men Bake Cakes for ERA

More than 40 wild and crazy liberated administrators, professors and students at the Law School baked pastries for the fourth annual Men's Bake Sale, held yesterday in Harkness Commons, to raise money for the Equal Rights Amendment ratification campaign.

The J.S. Mill Society, which convenes only once a year to sponsor the sale, raised over $400 from the pastry auction and bake sale, Dave Moyer, a third-year law student and president of the society, said.

The society takes the name of John Stuart Mill because he called for women's suffrage in the British Parliament in the mid-nineteenth century, Warrick said. "Mill was ridiculed, yet the work of men at the bake sale today is a sign of how far women have come," Warrick said.

Frank E. Sanders, protessor of Law, said he baked chewy granola cookies because they "are good for eating and good for the ERA." The bake sale showed that "all that goes on at the Law School is not just law," Sanders added.

William L. Bruce, vice dean at the Law School, said he planned to bid on his oatmeal cookies to "prevent some poor student from being poisoned."

Abram Chayes '43, Frankfurter Professor of Law, said he could not bake anything because his oven is in Washington. He then bid $10 for a strawberry torte.

A group of female law students paid $50 for a creme pie, which they threw in the face of Howard Gutman, a first-year law student whom the auctioneer called a notorious male chauvinist. However, the auctioneer said, "Gutman isn't really a male chauvinist, he's just a good sport."

"I agreed to have the pie thrown in my face because I thought it would look really, good on my resume for med school," Gutman said.