Frankly, I am amazed at the support given to this ugly UW HO. Good job HO! Great work at leading the Formula SAE team victory-oh that right- your 30 teammates can't go because you were a selfish little HO.  Brilliant idea HO suggesting that naked women draped on a car fosters an image of female intellectual empowerment...I really doubt the horny men viewing this photo see your brain potential. Nice touch HO on saying it was for an application for breast cancer charity calendar..that is why HO you posted it online for world to see.. an ugly UW HO.

The back story here (as I understand it, please correct me if I'm wrong) is that this person actually led the engineering team that built the car.  After finishing the project, she wanted to pose in a bikini with her work, and sell the picture(s) for a cancer calendar.  To this (profiting, even for charity, using university property) the Dean suspended the team's entry in this years race.
If this is the same punishment the Dean would give for any other financial side projects (say a team member plastered the logo of their own personal startup company on the car, and that company made no contributions to the project), then the Dean was being completely fair.
I suspect the pro-woman comments made were about being a female lead for the engineering team.  The engineering faculty at UW (at least when I was there) has a horrid male-female ratio, so kudos to any woman who takes charge.
And if she really did want to pose in a bikini in front of the car?  What could be more empowering than doing what you want?  Sure, acting like a sex object doesn't exactly move the feminist cause forward, but neither does dictating how women should act.

- the HO lead the team that worked on the chassis; the HO did not the entire car team
- the HO want the pictures to enter a modeling contest and contest for a supposed breast cancer calendar both of which would provide her with cash/fame, there is no altruism in her acts
- the HO action further degrade other women into being seen as a commodity than as people

as a leader she shows that women must sell their bodies in order to get ahead-hurray HO

I don't think I suggested that there were any altruistic intentions.  Nor did I suggest her choice was a progressive one.  Quite the contrary in fact.  "..acting like a sex object doesn't exactly move the feminist cause forward.."
My point was, in the spirit of feminism, she be free to make stupid decisions.

Quoted from Diddly

My point was, in the spirit of feminism, she be free to make stupid decisions.

how is the "spirit of feminism" supported by allowing her to be free to make her "stupid decision"? I don't see there is anything pro-female or feministic about it.

You're right.  She should be sent to a finishing school to learn how to act like a proper lady.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding feminism, but I thought it was all about giving women the right to make their own decisions?