Oregon daily emerald., July 10, 1973, Image 1

Photo by Clay Eats
One of 30 women demonstrators picks
up a crumpled sign Monday morning on
the steps of Johnson Hall after a man
ripped the sign, which read “Sisterhood
Is Powerful,” down off the building’s
pillars. The man interrupted the
women while they were singing, by
shouting at them: “You can’t be
liberated and be for abortion at the
same time! You can do nothing worse
than commit an abortion!” He then
pointed his finger at some of the
women, who had started laughing and
singing louder, asking, “Have you
committed an abortion?”
As the women sang louder and
louder, he ran up the Johnson Hall steps
and ripped down on the the signs placed
there earlier by the women. Then, he
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came down the steps, arguing with
several women, and shaking and
pushing one other woman. “You just
don’t want to talk,” he shouted at them.
“When somebody comes to talk with
you, you don’t want to talk! ” He left the
demonstration, saying, “I’ll be back
here tomorrow at the same time! ”
The women had placed signs on the
Johnson Hall pillars and balloons on the
building's railings as part of their
demonstration in favor of having the
University provide free day care and a
women’s studies program for its
students. The bulk of the demonstration
was the enacting of a play, called “The ,
Independent Female or A Man Has His i
Pride.”
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PhiJto by Clay Eals
An unidentified man lunges toward one of the feminist posters which decorated the
exterior of Johnson Hall during the Monday demonstration.
Feminists present demands
Eugene-area feminists occupied the
steps of Johnson Hail during a day-long
demonstration Monday. They presented
University President Robert Clark with a
list of six “Day Care and Women’s Studies
Demands.”
The women taped large posters to the
front of the building to dramatize their
demands to the passers-by. During the
five-hour demonstration the women
passed out copies of their demands and
performed “The Independent Female, or
A Man Has His Pride,” a humorous and
satirical playlet illustrating the plight of
women.
Approximately 30-40 women par
ticipated in the demonstration, which was
peaceful except for a brief incident in
volving a male observer who shouted
obscenities and tore down one of the
posters.
Jeanette Silveira, a Psychology
Research Associate who participated in
the demonstration, said the women
countered this harassment by singing and
ignoring the man.
Another participant told the Emerald
that the list of demands “are for com
munity women as well as University
demands. We’re asking for action on these
demands. These things can easily be put
into effect by fall quarter.”
The list of demands begins: “We are fed
up. The University treats women as if we
didn’t exist. We will no longer tolerate this
‘benign neglect.’ Women are half the
people and we want half the University.
Women are here. Our needs are real.
We’ve talked, negotiated, suggested — but
now the days of sugar and spice are over.
The University had better get off its ass!”
The women demanded:
1. That the University provide day care
facilities for all University families that
need them (staff, students, and faculty).
2. The immediate hiring of a full-time
Acting Coordinator of Women’s Studies to
be recruited by the Ad Hoc Committee on
Women’s Education.
3. That money be set aside from “con
tingency funds” to hire faculty to teach
Introduction to Women’s Studies and 15
other courses.
4. “Free access to all classes for all
women. Free access necessitates: 1) Free
or sliding scale tuition, and the abolition of
the absurd $20 per credit charged by the
Division of Continuing Education. 2) Night
classes and other arrangements for
women who cannot attend class on a
regular basis. 3) The right of all women to
attend and receive credit for all University
courses without being a regularly enrolled
student or a degree candidate.”
5. A campus women’s center.
6. A women’s clinic to be held at the
student health service one day per week
“open to all women in the Eugene com
munity.”