The University of Colorado received much negative publicity in the last year
about allegations that its football coach and some players had sexually
assaulted or harassed female students, and it fell upon the school's
president, Elizabeth Hoffman, to try to minimize the damage, and she
apparently took that task seriously at a deposition in a federal sexual
harassment lawsuit. According to a leaked copy of the deposition, reported in
June by KUSA-TV (Denver), Hoffman denied that what some call "the C-word"
(cunt) is necessarily "filthy and vile." "It is all in the context," she
strained to explain. Asked for an example of a "polite" context, Hoffman said,
"I've actually heard cunt used as a term of endearment." [KUSA-TV (Denver),
6-15-04]