Several Iowa State students and members of the Ames community spoke out against a proposed juice bar in Campustown at a forum hosted by the Student Union Board in the Memorial Union Wednesday.

Matthew Goodman, member at large of the Student Union Board, opened the discussion. He said that as far as he knew, the juice bar was going to open in Campustown. He then turned over the discussion to a three-member panel.

Lynette Hornung, a graduate student in political science, said as a female student, she is concerned about the safety problems a juice bar in Campustown might cause for dancers and all women.

“The location and nature of the establishment causes more gray lines about what is acceptable behavior and what is not,” she said.

David White, director of Men’s Awareness at the YMCA, said his concern was that men might not know how to handle the heightened sexual arousal caused by watching naked women dance.

“The idea behind a juice bar bothers me because it turns women into objects. It also plays on men’s sexual desires,” he said. “They’re making money by pushing mental buttons in men.”

Associate Professor of Philosophy Bob Hollinger said defending censorship is never justifiable. However, Hollinger said he isn’t in favor of opening a juice bar in Campustown because juice bars are potentially dangerous for women.

The forum also invited members of the audience to express their opinions.

One student was concerned that those under 21 don’t have anywhere to go on weekends. He felt there should be places students under 21 can go other than a juice bar for entertainment. Another student said juice bars are like toxic wastes. The student said nobody wants to have them in their neighborhood, but the fact is that they’re there and people are going to them.

“I think it’s a terrible thing,” White said. “It’s going to take a rape or something of that nature before people do something.”

But Hollinger said it was a convenient excuse to blame juice bars for causing rapes. He said rapes are already happening without a juice bar in Campustown.

“Our society is the sickest society in terms of sex,” he said. “Actually the campus is a whore house, but that’s beside the point.”

Jeff Kentner, who will manage the juice bar, was scheduled to be on the panel. He did not show up.