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•I Westminster a la Mode I f you went by the calendar, winter arrived December 21, but if you gauged it by the temperature and snowfall. Mother Nature did not lower the boom in these parts until the first of the year. When classes resumed for January term, the campus was a veritable winter wonderland of icicles and snowbanks. In fact, you had not really lived until you had seen the ivy walls of Old Main snug- gled in a blanket of snow and frosted windows. When winter finally arrived, there was every indication that it might never leave. Some said the lucky ones were those that left on internships or trips to milder climates. Most envied was Dr. Clarence Harms ' biology class that went to the Virgin Islands. But there were also trips to England, Vienna, and other areas of Europe. Winter in New Wilmington was not that terrible. All one had to do was follow the tracks in the snow that led to a score of winter activities. For instance, devoted ice skaters were out in force on Brittain Lake and more than once shoveled off an area for skating. What else was there to do when the snowflakes were in the air? Little kids called it sled-riding, and the big kids called it traying. All one needed was a cafeteria tray and a slope. The trays came courtesy of Saga and the hill in front of Hill- side Hall seemed custom made for the sport. For those that preferred the bigger hills, there was skiing. The ski club sponsored weekly pilgrimages to the nearby mountains of New York during January. The week of vacation prior to the start of spring term found 76 skiers visiting the slopes of Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, to try their luck. It was not that difficult to dis- tinguish the fair weather folks from those that enjoyed the Arctic type atmosphere. Comments ranged from Kim McLaughlin ' s, I like skiing down the hill to supper at Russell, to Rich Nicklas it ' s fantastic, I love this time of year! - William Jones Ours was a world of our own dis- covery, and January term allowed the student to creatively discover his world through varied and unique opportunities. Whether he selected an on-campus class, an internship field experience, an independent study, or a travel seminar, the options were provocative diversions to regular term studies. Visitors on campus during January developed new friendships and in- creased student exploration into the novel social interactions found in those new relationships. As part of an exchange program with Westminster College in Oxford, England, a group of English students graced our campus through the January term and lent a certain appeal to the educational atmosphere. PEERS students became college actives as they chatted in the dormitory lobbies, ate in the dining halls, or rode snowy campus slopes on cafeteria trays just like the old pros. In every respect, January term afforded the student renewed in- centive for building on previous interests, and for revealing to him- self other hidden potentials. - Betsy Maher ® Top: A soft layer of fluffy new snow acts as a winter blanket on this evergreen. - M. Robertson Above: Mark Nystrom, Cathy Spoa and Paula Mays include a visit to The Metropolitan Opera during their theater class trip to New York City. The class also viewed such big name shows as The Littlest Whore House in Texas.
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If A Man Could Burn His Bra . . . i eople who were not a part of the early years of the women ' s movement tend, I think, to visualize a series of sharp and usually uncomfortable images: the famous bra-burning; Kate Millett declaring her bisexuality; campus sit-ins; Jane Fonda combining feminism and anti-military radicalism; Gloria Steinem looking like a model and breathing fire — all these were captured on TV tape and photographs, and expressed in the often inflammatory prose that characterizes the beginnings of any radical political movement. My own memories are more prag- matic, more concerned with very speci- fic issues evolving from life in a large university, (Cornell University, Ithica, NY.). My colleagues, women students and faculty alike, organized new courses focusing on the problems of women in several scholarly areas. We asked for and eventually got the removal of the admis- sions quota system (based on gender) from the various colleges of our univer- sity. We organized seemingly endless conferences, seminars, panel discus- sions, and the like, to bring in outside speakers and expertise to help us with ideas and to give us clout and self-con- fidence in equal measure. We responded to pleas for help from union women in the area who wished changes in both their union structures and their re- lationship with management. We passed around innumerable petitions to the state legislature and organized marches and sit-ins in the state capital to get new legislation passed to remove old injus- tices, at least at the state level. And finally, our primary struggle, lasting several years, to organize a Women ' s Studies Program on our cam- pus, culminated in its funding and accep- tance as a respectable academic disci- pline. It was one of the first in the country and it now has a roster of scholars combining their own research and teaching interests with those of women ' s history, psychology, etc., in their respective disciplines. Having come so far in a few years, all over this country, how can women be sure that the righting of old wrongs will continue, that they will stay even in the same place, and lose ground? Is the passage of ERA necessary? None of us knows at this point if ERA, even with the recent extension, will be passed. What I feel, however, is that whether or not this amendment becomes the law of the land, nothing will be the same again. I doubt if even Marabel Morgan (author of Total Woman) would want to give up the vote or her right to sign a contract or to own her property or to be protected from physical abuse. The achievements of the past decade are simply an exten- sion of these rights (not privileges) won by our great-grandmothers. The most recent women ' s movement, even in the late ' 60 ' s, seemed to con- cern itself only with the problems of middle and upper middle class white women, especially those on college cam- puses. Now it has come to include black and Chicano women, union and non- union blue collar women, housewives wanting their own pensions and social security, working mothers, and combi- nations of these. What do these have in compion? It is hard to connect and see a common ori- gin for problems such as the right to equal physical education facilities for women in educational institutions; the right of women to work underground in the coal mines of Kentucky; the right of women to stay home and raise their children and at the same time to have a just claim to their own pensions for those child-raising years; the right of working women not to undergo sexual harassment on the job, whether for pro- motion or simply to keep that job. The list is endless, but the topics are all connected. The connection has to do with the tra- ditional sources and distribution of power, not only in America, but in all societies. The history of the human race is the history of the reordering of pri- orities and the redistribution of power, almost always as the result of agitation by radical political movements. The wo- men ' s movement is therefore essentially simply a part of the world-wide human rights movement. What America is mov- ing toward is clearly a more androgy- nous society, in which people can do any kind of work that suits their talents and inclinations, in which they can share power and decision-making at all levels, whatever their race, whatever their gen- der. The women ' s movement is a people ' s movement. -Patricia Lamb (8) 14
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