Seton Hall University - Galleon Yearbook (South Orange, NJ)

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have equal access to the media, especially the newspapers. Two thousand women marched on the Pentagon. No major papers in the area covered the recent event. In New York City, there was a press conference against the use of young girls as sex objects. This was not put on a straight-news page in the New York Times but under the fashion section, Sheldrick said. This problem exists because most of the power positions are occupied by men, Sheldrick said. Also, many women ' s groups do not have the money to generate adequate publicity. There are three alternatives to solve this problem. First, women can stay in the es- tablished press and strive to obtain the decision-making power. Many times we are laughed at and are beaten down, said Sheldrick. Second, concerned people can meet with the media controllers, such as the editors and producers, and talk calmly about the lack of coverage for women and demonstrate the severity of their problems through petitions and accurate statistics. Sheldrick has been informed several times that women ' s actions are not newsworthy. Third, many women have become so frustrated with the established press they have begun their own radio stations and newspapers. The first radio station of this type hit the air waves in February of this year. The main goal of many of these media outlets is to have the main stream media take over their coverage and even- tually put them out of business. Q A. Girzberg Soviet dissident and former political prisoner Alexander Ginzberg spoke to ap- proximately 120 people in the Student Center April 13 about his years of oppres- sion and imprisonment in Communist Russia. Ginzberg, a central figure within the in- ternational human rights movement, spent more than nine years in Soviet prisons and labor camps until his release to the West in 1979 in exchange for two convicted Soviet spies. Speaking through a translator, Ginzburg discussed the continuing human rights struggle in the U.S.S.R. which has inten- sified in recent years despite continuing opposition from world leaders. Ginzburg first came to the attention of Soviet officials when, while working as a journalist, he published a literary journal containing works by young poets critical of the government. As Ginzburg ex- 26

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(Above and Below) Pam Sheldrick talked about women ' s image in the news media. (Left) Marilyn Hayes (l-r) and Dorchen Leidholdt founded Women Against Pornography.

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anc Talking with his hands as well as an interpreter was Alexander Ginsberg. plained the effort which ended in his 1960 arrest, The idea of a poetry magazine arose because poets understood the situa- tion at a time when no one else did. Commenting on the progression of Communism since 1917, Ginzburg noted that during its first 40 years, the Com- munist regime became a huge legal system that deprived human rights. Although Ginzburg wa s active in founding the Moscow-Helsinki Watch Group to monitor the Soviet Union ' s adherence to humanitarian provision of the Helsinki Accords, Ginzburg became a world-renown figure during his 1977 arrest when human rights groups and Nobel prize-winner Andrew Sakharow came to his defense while protesting his treatment. Ginzburg concluded his cause for world human rights has been based on the sim- ple idea of nonviolence. 0 Ttieater “Wliitelieadecl Bcy M The Theatre-in-the-Round ' s ' 80- ' 81 season opened with The Whiteheaded Boy, a lighthearted and winsome Irish comedy by Lennox Robinson. The play tells the story of the amusing cir- cumstances arising out of a not uncom- mon family situation. One of the sons of the Geoghegan family, Denis, is the mother ' s darling favorite because he is the youngest. He is a bright boy (or so the mother would tell us) but he is spoiled a nd consequently quite lazy. When he returns home after failing entrance exams to medical school because he was out betting on the horses, his three sisters and two brothers no longer will tolerate their mother ' s doting. Off to Canada he must go to prevent shaming the family. The plot is complicated by the threat of a breach of promise suit by John Duffy, father of Delia Duffy, Denis ' sweetheart. Denis has lost interest in the poor girl, as he usually does with most things, and has no intentions of taking her with him to Canada. All conflicts are resolved by some kindhearted and loving maneuvers of Aunt Ellen. Dr. James McGlone, once again, has channeled fine talent into a very en- 27