Academics in Italy and elsewhere are criticizing Eugenio Gaudio for leading the judging of a student beauty pageant at the Sapienza University of Rome, The Guardian reported. Students were judged on their grades and also on their physical attributes in a contest to select the "most beautiful and wise" student. Many female professors have objected. Gaudio has noted that two of his predecessors played a similar role and the students in the contest "were not in bathing suits but in evening dresses."