There’s nothing funny about sexual harassment.Well, hardly ever.In this particular case, it’s tough not to crack a smile.Reader Dean Ab-Hugh, from the Wayne County burg of Apple Creek, notes that he might have some ’splaining to do if he ever runs for president, because he once was the target of a co-worker’s complaint to Employee Relations.“Many years ago,” he writes, “I was at a company party in North Carolina, wearing my BALL-U shirt.“A very militant and angry female accused me of sexism. I told her the shirt was from Ball State University, and my daughter (a recent graduate of BSU) had sent it to me.“Angry female said there was no such place as Ball State University. She almost had me there; as a Bowling Green alumnus, I don’t normally recognize the existence of Ball State.“I suggested that she was free to go to Employee Relations and file a charge, but I wasn’t going to take off my shirt. It had become a matter of principle.“Angry female did go to Employee Relations to file a charge and (you’ll never see this one coming), the lady she talked to was a graduate of Ball State University. Honestly, I hadn’t known that.“Well, actually, I was single, and I might have dated the Employee Relations lady a few times.“But I never wore my BALL-U shirt thinking it was going to stir up a fuss.“Charges of sexual harassment take many forms, and some of them are inconsequential.”Puzzling changeSpeaking of potential sexual misunderstanding, I’m surprised at the new name given to an Akron citizens group.The longtime club recently announced that it will henceforth be known as the West Akron Neighborhood Group.They could have gone with, say, the Neighborhood Group of West Akron, but no. In news releases they are proudly trotting out their new acronym: WANG.Times changeSpeaking of matters of the loin, a nice woman who works at my gym gave me a college textbook she used at Kent State in 1960 called Modern News Reporting.Chapter 29 is devoted to covering sexually oriented stories. Early in the chapter, author Carl Warren bemoans the fact the typical young reporter is steeped in “the finer points of diplomacy, politics, economics and science,” but is hopelessly naive when it comes to dealing with sex.“It is perhaps small wonder that he flounders. Taboos and restrictions on the discussion of sex at home and in the classroom have limited his learning. He has never written an English composition or even a personal letter about sodomy or indecent exposure. He may be confronted with them during his first week at work.”Only secondhand, we would hope.“If instructors and students include sex news as an essential topic for study and practice, such training will be a boon to city editors. …”I couldn’t agree more. If I could go back to school, I would definitely get in a lot more practice.Numbers gameReader Donna Dale Davis of Orrville points out that, not only is Friday 11/11/11, but two times on that day, our digital clocks will read 11:11.Just takes oneOn Election Day, please permit me to trot out an old email from Louis Giffels of Marshallville, who has an interesting theory.“I never vote for a candidate who is running unopposed. I figure if the candidates are too stupid or too lazy to vote for themselves, then they deserve to lose.”In his small town, the vote totals for issues and candidates are often below 50, so nothing is impossible.Bob Dyer can be reached at 330-996-3580 or bdyer@thebeaconjournal.com.