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For an April Fools' Day joke, the Arizona Daily Wildcat ran an Issue of the Week prank claiming that engineering at the UA was "a man only major."
The prank hit a soft spot in the College of Engineering & Mines.
The college houses the fewest undergraduate women of any UA college, and engineering officials say they are working hard to attract women into a field that traditionally has a difficult time recruiting and retaining female students.
"Articles like that do more damage to what we are trying to do than just about anything you can imagine," said Tom Peterson, dean of the college. "We know we have a long way to go in establishing gender equity. We're not ignoring it. We are working really hard to try to solve it."
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