University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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feet above normal. More than 5,000 members of the Massachusetts National Guards were summoned to aid in the storm's cleanup. As for the cost, an ex- act figure will never be known. Esti- mates as to land, residential, and com- mercial damages reach the one billion dollar mark. UMass and the western Massachu- setts region appeared to endure the winter storm better than most of New England. Classes for day and evening students were cancelled on Tuesday, February 6th for the first time since spring semester of 1975. The Physical Plant had a large number of assorted plows, tractors, and trucks working to remove snow. The Boston Globe was not delivered during the storm. This marked the first time in 106 years that the paper was unable to distribute it's morning edi- tions. Local package stores and bars did a fairly good business. Sleigh rides, snow- ball fights, and a wide variety of snow sculptures occupied the free time of students who had the day off. - Susan Leahy of Everyiiimim ooc .5 V 1 D II. '. ' .I fl' ,Inj Hr . 4 V f I 1 1' . I W .,,. . J' ,-- 'J .X I ul- I' 44 ,l . RQ - V' I I at IL! -3- ,. 'Mt .J I ' 3 ' x :A ' ' 's I pp' ' 'U' .0 I vw , - ,..r - 4 if 3 at

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Blizzard '78 The storm of the century , as it has been affectionately named, is over. However, on subways, at bus stops, during town meetings, anywhere peo- ple gather, they will undoubtedly share stories on the devastation of the Great Blizzard of '78. Weather is a common topic of con- versation here in New England. It's di- versity, the difficulty in accurately pre- dicting it, and the intensity of what may finally arrive are factors that plague area residents. This past February a storm with hurricane winds dropped over a ton of snow on the eastern coastline which was still recovering from a lesser horror in january. The storm intensified for thirty-two hours and forty minutes and when it was over, fifty-four persons were dead including twenty-nine in Massachu- setts. More than 10,000 persons living on the coastline were evacuated from their homes. Some 3,000 cars and 500 trucks were stranded just on an eight- mile stretch of Route 128. A record twenty-seven inches of snow fell and tide levels reached more than sixteen Weather Report: A Little it f. N Students here at Umass Qf N are subjected to many E different types of V ,fs-:Y weather during the f year. Wind, rain, snow ,I Al ' , W N and a occasional sunny Y X f f If I day are part of the K I' 1 f l weather's repertoire Z n- ' here in Amherst. . 'J 1 H Student artist Bob ' g , W!! Burnett gives his 25 cf, K7 comical viewpoint 0 ' J g u - here. - s ,- f 0 -.afb , ! Q Q i -f X X so ' s. , 1,--7 ' ,,,,, ,See X, T ff M - T +ve Q c 4- . fn! U , . ii- X !X -ff l. X 0 wie Xmwfiz. ,,--..j... -ff .X Q l ig- V2 e k.lL EY - ' , ' gig if T I if l t 5 'Y anne D V P WY -V Q ,f 'T of-' if W L ie? Q - ik .Q . . .f tb ' me 1 --.Q A E -l zz We ' . WWTP ' mf 1 :ll X- f ll l ,gli-W l Qsqts.. I K si 0 4.99 s- 'TTL ' Q' 0 i 'il Q- .nfl 30

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Women's Week International Women's Week lMarch 6-'VII was celebrated at UMass this year with a week of activities, ranging from concerts and theatrical presentations to lectures and workshops on a variety of topics related to women's lives. The celebration officially opened Sunday with a concert featuring singer! cultural worker Holly Near. Before Near came onstage Irene Richard, Stu- dent Activites Program Advisor and organizer of the week's activities, wel- comed the 2000 people present to In- ternational Women's Week at UMass. Byrdie Klix, workshop coordinator, gave a brief rundown of the week's ac- tivities and UMass student Aundre Clinton read a poem dedicated to her mother. You're going to hear a lot of songs about women's lives tonight, said Near after her opening number, mostly not the kind you'll hear on AM radio. For the following two hours, Near and accompanist Iudie Thomas guided the audience from smiles to tears and back again with stories of women in many different situations - from those taken away by the Chilean junta to those standing defiantly on the Appala- chian soil which the big machines of strip-mining threaten to literally pull out from under them. The concert closed with Near asking An Enlig htening Time For A11 Men's Weekend Men's Liberation.' From Brutal To Gen- tle Gender Tyranny This article is a gathering of instances in which men have demonstrated con- tempt for women. The latest and possi- bly the most refined version of this contempt is the Men's Liberation Movement. Men's Liberation is a reaction to feminist dignity and call for justice. This reaction has taken the form of a many tenticled co-optation of feminist con- sciousness-raising experiences. To ex- pose this political and moral irresponsi- bility of men is a serious and most fun- damental necessity. Such justice must be done with clarity, honesty and truth. What I have written does not have all the whys and hows adequately an- swered. Rather, I mean these words to simply be an act of refusal to tell lies about men's intentions and purposes. Any man's intent and purpose is clear: he values his life over woman's, and he works to ensure his ownership and exploitation of women by acting against women's bodies and minds. When a male in this culture ascribes to these ethics and politics, that male is aspiring to be a man. For instance: a male is a man when he dismisses or defends a newspaper's sabotage of feminist journalism li.e. the University of Massachusetts Daily Collegianj. A male is a man when, upon request by a companion woman hitch-hiker that he sit next to the male driver, he claims to be oppressed by being stereo-typed as the protector . And a male is a man when he thinks silently to himself or hisses aloud at a feminist demonstrator, Dyke - what she needs is a good f---. These are instances of masculinity and manhood, the intents and pur- poses of which are to make a male un- like woman, thereby making him a man. Being a man then is clearly a moral injustice to all women. Being a man then is a crime against all woman. And because no woman, in her heart of hearts, chooses such indignity and abuse I believe that being a man is the rape of women's lives. To identify with the Men's Liber- ation Movement a male must cooper- ate with an unspoken pledge of alle- giance. The pledge goes something like this: Every sane man is accountable to his conscience for his behavior. You can find this statement in Webster's ln- ternational Unabridged Dictionary where it used to explain the word ac- countable. I reject this statement, this allegiance to men, on three counts. First, for as long as there has been written history, sanity has been defined on men's terms. For example, sanity in this culture is the tacit assumption by the medical health establishment that women's bodies are rightfully laborato- ries for scientific research and practice. The consequences are appalling. In 1970, in San Antonio, Texas, Dr. joseph Goldzieher gave sugar pills and contraceptive foam to 390 Chicano women who believed they were get- ting birth-control pills. Goldzieher was studying whether women unknowingly taking placebos would have the same side effects as women using oral con- traceptives. Four months later ten women became pregnant - unfortu- nate side effects. Or consider the fact that punctures and infections from intrauterine de- vices occur far more frequently than conventional health agencies care to talk about, and that no physician or re- searcher is certain of the effect on a woman's body of the copper in a Cop- per-7 IUD. Consider as well that in a UMass Peer Sex Education course, future student educators are taught the safety rates of various contraceptive devices. If, however, a male were to truly consider the consequences of his participation in the act through which human life is created, rather than reducing contra- ception to a matter of statistical conve- nience, his erotic attitude towards his lover would change markedly. But to be a man means to enjoy con- venience, liberty, safety and profit at every woman's expense. It is not inci- dental that these physicians, gynecolo- gists, researchers, marketing adminis- trators and educators are predominant- ly all men. Another example of sanity is this cul- ture's complacent and titilated accep- tance of pornography. Hustlerand Hol- lywood, Madison Avenue and the mu- sic industry, all thrust their cameras and microphones into the collective dignity of woman-kind. Woman's bodies are chained, clawed, and tethered in leather on the record jackets of Atlan- tic, Electra and Warner. Ironic and satirical movies like Inserts, shown this year at UMass, display vivid rapes and batterings without a single coher- ent repudiation of these crimes. The UMass Peer Sex Education course nev- er once discussed rape, battering, or pornography. Because this terrorism and torture is accepted as normal - thus sane. These photographers, busi- ness managers, editors and educators are, in overwhelming majority, men. Or consider this judicial practice of American cultural sanity. lt ,is generally known that police will not intervene in the battering of a woman by a man if