(FORTUNE Magazine) – NEW HAVEN -- It didn't take long for the word -- a terse ''Victoire!'' -- to spread among the students who have criticized Yale University's introductory French course as intolerably sexist. Tracy Blackmer, ((a)) Boston senior . . . initiated a sexual-harassment complaint against ''French in Action'' . . . On Thursday, a French Department committee released a report that says she was right -- and that the course . . . must be changed . . . More than 1,000 other colleges and secondary schools use ''French in Action'' . . . ((which)) aims at total immersion in the language . . . It is best known for a series of half-hour programs . . . shot in Paris, ((in which)) students follow the soap-opera romance of Robert, an American . . . student, and Mireille, a French student . . . Critics of the course say . . . the camera often lingers on Mireille's legs or her chest . . . ''Mireille is portrayed as an object of desire that gets young men to learn French,'' ((complained)) a graduate student. In one . . . lesson, a student named Jean-Pierre harasses Mireille as she sits in a park. She eventually walks away. ''Rather than having students learn to be Jean-Pierre, we could have them learn . . . about ways in which this is a sexist situation,'' said . . . an assistant professor. -- From an article in the New York Times.