Author praises women's center
By Pam Cline
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Society must be introduced to a
thorough analysis of women's
contributions and perspectives if
female values are to be brought
out of the home and into the
public sphere, a leading
sociologist said Sunday.
Such a view represents a step
"in establishing knowledge of our
society and others," said author
Jessie Bernard before a capacity
crowd in the EMU Ballroom.
Bernard's speech officially
celebrates the recent $3.5 millon
bequest to the University's Center
for the Study of Women in Socie
ty. The gift came from the estate
of William Harris in honor of his
wife, the late Jane Grant. A co
founder of The New Yorker
magazine, and a feminist. Grant
recognized the need for a center
to conduct research of women.
A veil of invisibility covers the
world of women, Bernard said. In
Grant's day feminists were seen as
misanthropes who hated men and
"that’s no truer now than 60 years
ago," Bernard said. Women deal
with a male-created world of
capitalism and "profit is its
motor." That world would surely
have collapsed if women hadn't
salvaged it from its own excesses,
she said.
"The major flaw in the whole
corpus of human knowledge to
date is that the male perspective
deals with women only in how
they relate to men," Bernard said.
She urged women to challenge
the assumptions of the male
paradigm, and stop judging
themselves by that standard.
Minimizing gender differences,
whether biological or socialized,
is an insult to women, she said. It
only reinforces the male way as
proper. And male and female
talents are not identical.
"There's plenty of room for all
the talent we can find, and we
must not let the talent in female
bodies hide," Bernard said.
Women's "scholarship has gush
ed from springs that have been
dammed" and the movement
must have "hope to sustain it and
lessie Bernard
Photo by Dave Kao
anger to maintain it."
In her tribute to Grant and
CSWS, Bernard said that "tradi
tional media fail the public" in
gathering news and expressing
opinion.
"The complex issues of the
times demand the creation of new
skills and techniques to more ac
curately reflect the times and the
changes in society,” she said.
What women do and have done
needs to be interpreted and
reported, she added. This and
other important subjects need
research.
"I salute the center and more
power to it.”
Panels and parades
protest arms race
Students for a Nuclear Free
Future and the faculty Arms Con
trol Group are co-sponsoring a
program at the University this
week entitled "The New Arms
Race — or New Ways of
Thinking?"
The program, part of a nation
wide week of action, will include
films, panel discussions and
rallies
The public is invited.
SNuFF representatives say the
week is designed to inform peo
ple about the new arms race — the
renewal of anti-Soviet hysteria, the
development and deployment of
first strike weapons, and the plans
for lighting and winning a nuclear
war.
Also, it's intended to show peo
ple new ways of thinking, such as
peace and nuclear weapons
education in colleges and public
schools, arms control proposals
and moral and religious perspec
tives, sponsors say.
Similar events are planned
around the nation in more than
700 campuses and cities.
Today's schedule includes a
peace parade from the bookstore
to the EMU courtyard beginning
at noon and a presentation, "The
Evolution of the Arms Race and
America's Nuclear War Fighting
Strategy," by Steve Johnson of the
Pacific Northwest Research
Center at 1:30 p.m. in the EMU
Forum Room.
Also offered are "The Rhetoric
of the Soviet Threat" by David
Frank, University professor of
speech at 3 p.m. in the Forum
Room and SNuFF's weekly
meeting at 5:30 p.m. in 112 EMU,
as well as an all day bake sale
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second for 3:30 p.m.
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beginning with a panel discussion
of "Alternatives to the Nuclear
Arms Race." A second discussion
will center on the Bishop's
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weapons, followed by a film. That
evening at 8p.m., the moral and
religious aspects of the arms race
will be discussed at the First Con
gregational Church.
Friday's culmination will feature
a "die-in" in the EMU courtyard at
1 p.m. following a children's play.
Also scheduled at 1:30 p.m. in 101
EMU is a panel discussion titled
"Should Public Schools Address
the Issue of Nuclear War?"
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