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THURSDAY / 24 APRIL 1980

Sonia Johnson Discusses Her and ERA Sonia Johnson had been a devout follower of the Mormon Church all her life, as her family had been for five generations, accepting the conservative, traditional life favored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Then, after returning to the U.S. in 1976 from living overseas with her husband and children, she wanted to find out about the . Johnson was "mildly pro-ERA" but the Mormon Church strongly opposed it; she sought information to resolve her dissonance. Johnson explained last week the subse- quent actions and reactions that led to her support of ERA and her excommunication from the church at a lecture sponsored by the University's Women's Studies Program. Johnson, now president of for ERA addressed about 80 people, most of whom were women, to discuss herexile from the tabernacle. In a soft voice that she called a" Mormon voice" she made several disclaimers: she was not hereto speak for the Mormon Churchor Mormon women or even Mormons for ERA. Sonia Johnson was on campus to speak on ERA and the Mormon Church from her perspective. Sofia Johnson explains that there is nothing she wouldn't endure for ERA. Johnson said that she "fell in love" with ERA while attending a church meeting where the "Man of the Year of the Atomic Energy Commission" explained the church's Melvyn Hammarberg: Wring the opposition to ERA. He arrived unprepared to speak on this topic which was of great Mormon Past concern to Johnson. Consequently, she became angry at his insensitivity to women's While many Americans may see the particular culture area in a restricted time needs and concerns, lost confidence in the Mormon Church, or the Church of Jesus and place," Hammarberg said. The Latter- Atomic Energy Commission and the men of Christ of Latter-day Saints, only through day Saints were chosen out of the depart- the church. the headlines produced by the Sonia John- ment's desire to "turn some resources west- Johnson recalled how she "heard the son controversy, a group of University ward." behind his words" and feelings suddenly graduate students is gaining a much more The Mormons were also singled out from realized that it was condescending "love." insightful view. among other Western groups because of (continued on page 6) They are members of the Mormons in their unique concern for record keeping. Utah ethnography course taught by Profes- "The Latter-day Saints area special group sor Melvyn Hammarberg, graduate group in part because their own value system chairman of the American civilization encourages record production by individuals department. The course represents a depar- and a record preservation system by the ture from the traditional "East Coast" church, which results in a well documented orientation of American history, and at- group." Hammarberg said. "Historical " Lindback Awards recipients named, page 2. tempts to understand the culture of a group ethnography depends on records." " Provost announces exam rules, page 6. whose values are a departure from those Hammarberg also pointed out that the " ICA Director Janet Kardon discusses Ve- predominant in American culture. nice Biennaie, page 8. Ethnographic courses attempt to study "a (continued on page 3)

Distinguished Teachers Win Lindback Award

Nine University professors have been Dublin, and earned his masters of arts at Sobejano, a native of Spain, received his honored with the Lindback Award for Cambridge. Harty has been with the depart- doctor of philosophy and letters from the Distinguished Teaching for 1979-80. The ment of anatomy in the School of Medicine University of Madrid. He has taught at winners were feted by the Lindback Society since 1953. major universities in Europe and the U.S., in the Rosenwald Reception Gallery of Van Glandt received his masters of scienceand joining the Pennsylvania faculty in 1973. His Pelt Library on April 22. his doctorate at the University in chemical major interests are 17th centuryand contem- The winners in the health area are: Robert engineering. His list of honors includes porary Spanish literature. He has published James Eckroade, assistant professor of fellowships from the United Nations, the numerous articles and books in the field. poultry medicine in the School of Veterinary U.S. Bureau of Mines, and a Fulbright Winter received her masters degree from Medicine; Brett Bruce Gutsche, professor of award. A member of the department of the University of Chicago, and earned her anesthesiology and obstetrics-gynecology in chemical and biochemical engineering since doctorate from Columbia University. A the School of Medicine; Henry 0. Trow- 1977, Glandt's research interests encompass member of the history of art department bridge, professor of pathology in the School the classical and statistical thermodynamics since 1976, Winter holdsjoint appointments of Dental Medicine; Clifford H. Jordan, of interfacial phenomena, absorption, in Oriental studies, and the ancient history professor of nursing in the School of monolayers, and theories of liquids and of and classical archaeology graduate groups. Nursing; and Michael Harty, professor of solutions. Heis a past recipient ofthe S. Reid She has worked with excavations through- anatomy and orthopedic surgery in the Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching out the Mediterranean and the Mideast, and School of Medicine. in the College of Engineering and Applied is widely published in the area of prehistoric The winners in the non-health areas are: Science. and ancient art. Eduardo Glandt, assistant professor of Mann, a member of the anthropology The Lindback Awards were established in chemical engineering in the School of department since 1969, received his masters 1961. The winners in the health areas are Engineering and Applied Science; Alan degree and doctorate from the University of chosen by an ad hoc committee chosen by Mann, associate professor of anthropology California at Berkeley. He has done paleon- the Vice President for Health Affairs. The in FAS; Gonzalo Sobejano, professor of tological field research throughout the professors in the non-health areas arechosen romance languages in FAS; and Irene world, and has published extensively on by the Provost's Staff Conference from a list Winter, assistant professor of history of art early man. of finalists presented by the Lindback in FAS. Committee on Distinguished Teaching. The Eckroade received his doctorate in veteri- committee is composed of five faculty nary medicine from the University of members who have received the award and Georgia School of Veterinary Medicine and Garden Party Auction five graduate and undergraduate students. earned his masters in pathology and docto- -s.i.S. rate in pathology and veterinary science Benefits from the University of Wisconsin. His research interests range from thestudy ofthe Alumni Center interspecie transmission of transmissible mink to the use of encephalopathy compost- The University's Wharton SinklerConfer- ed municipal garbage as poultry houselitter. ence Center in will be the setting A member of the since Wyndmoor Pennsylvania faculty June 21 for a garden party auction spon- Almanac 1976, Eckroade is active in a Volume 26. Number 32 wide-ranging sored by the Association of Alumnae of the of and variety professional community University. The news magazine of the University of services. Proceedswill be used forthe restoration of Pennsylvania, published in Philadelphia each Gutsche received his M.D. from the Eisenlohr Hall, 3812 Walnut Street, to be Thursday throughout the academic year, monthly of Rochester School of Medicine during June. July and August. University used as the University's Alumni Center. and Dentistry, and joined the University in Once renovated. Eisenlohr Hall will Acting Editor C. ANNE VITULLO 1969. His duties stress obstetric Acting Assistant Editor MARGUERITE MILLER teaching become the permanent home for the Univer- Editorial Assistant SALLY SORENSEN anesthesia, a field in which he has published General Alumni the offices for Work-Study Assistant VIOLETTE PHILLIPS sity's Society, Designers CAROL ROESCH LOMBARDI. widely. Alumni Relations and the Pennsylvania ROBIN RYAN his D.D.S. the Trowbridge earned at Gazette. 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Mining the Mormon Past (continued from page 1) study of the Latter-day Saints is also a unique opportunity to observe the first 150 years of a new world religion. Although the church is often seen as a purely American phenomenon, he noted that the next several temples are being built in third-world counties, and that by 1990 the church estimates that a large proportion of its membership will be Spanish-speaking. The beliefs which encourage the Mormons to keep and preserve records stem from their attitudes on ancestry and on the way in which events in the world are recorded. In order to enter into godhood and thus heaven, Mormons believe that an individual must go through certain temple ceremonies which seal families together. The family is the unit the church believes to be most important and endows it with eternal signfi- cance. Devout Mormons attempt to trace their ancestry, and have the temple ceremonies performed for the deceased members oftheir family, hence the interest in genealogy. Mormons believe that all events which Professor Melvyn Hammarberg In his College Hall office. occur in the world are recorded by God, and that recording history aligns with this divine Hammarberg suggested that internal discus- a system which recognized that people doall task. "The Latter-day Saints have the image sions in the group probably weigh more sorts of things," he said, pointing that they of the Book ofLife asifit were God's record- heavily on the decision than what outside developed systems of public forgiveness for keeping," Hammarberg said. "All events and scholars write. sins which prevented guilt from building in actions [are thought to] leave an indelible The action to limit historians' use proba- the community. mark. One keeps a record of one's own bly concerns "the larger question of the The well-defined leadership and explicit action of what happened in the latter days." direction the church will take," he said. set of rules developed by the group also As a result of these interests, Mormons "History may be useful for current and helped it settle the area without abandoning have voluminous records about their own future policy, but some are uncomfortable its "civilization." The Mormon Church has a history: diaries, family records, church that it may point out discrepancies between very strong communitarian spirit, he said, records, manuscript collections, and exten- current policy and past practice." and thus families settled the Great Basin in sive bibliographies ofarticles written by and Historical mining of some of the available communities. about themselves. data can also have embarrassing personal The Mormon ethnography offers Ham- As an example of the types of material consequences to some Mormons. Hammar- marberg's graduate students "an arena available for the class, Hammarberg noted berg pointed to health codes which urge where the focus is on substance and it is the existence of specialized collections. "Latter-day Saints to refrain from coffee, possible to be open to whatever methods and Many Mormons kept diaries of varying tea, drugs, tobacco and other taboo substan- theories which help to makethe substance of literary quality, although the key to their ces. Considerable evidence in the diaries the research clear," he said. study is the repetition of the experiences indicates that they were often heeded in the Thus, one of his students is using the described in them rather than literary merit. breach, even with leading families. methods of demography to study genealogi- In a diary collection concerning the two "In a society of highly visible family cal and census records on Mormon families. year missions that many young Mormon networks, such personal information is Another is concentrating on a more qualita- men take. Hammarberg said "the repetition sometimes disconcerting." he said. This type tive approach to history, studying a diary to is important for getting at the pattern of of historical work is "seen as letting skeletons discern cognitive categories used by the experience that was a shared part ofcoming out of the closet." writer. Still another is examining the use of of age." A collection of diaries kept by The discovery that the Mormon pioneers the figure of Joseph Smith, founder of the church leaders who were imprisoned for were human often doesn't rest well with church, as an authority figure in the rhetoric polygamy by the United States government some present Mormons as the epic of the of Brigham Young. also are invaluable for flushing out the Mormon exodus and founding of Salt Lake As a student of Mormon culture, Ham- shared patterns through which a historical City tends to be cast in romantic terms. marberg is fascinated by the "negative press" ethnographer may understand a particular "The experience of the Latter-day Saints the church is receiving because of the culture. as a people, particularly their persecution, Johnson excommunication. He pointed out The willingness of the general authorities their exodus to the west and the prodigious that church members claim Johnson was not of the Mormon Church to open their efforts of the pioneers to build a new society expelled because of her views on ERA, but extensive archives to outside scholars has in the desert area of the Great Basin, where because of the personal attacks she sup- also been a boon to historians, Hammarberg they made the desert bloom likea rose" leads posedly made on church authorities in said, although the period of recent free many to see their forebearers in heroic terms, pursuing those beliefs. He noted that a long access may be closing. While a small part of Hammarberg said. feminist tradition exists in the Mormon this potential restriction could be attributed In some aspects, Hammarberg shares this community, and that other Mormons also to the fear of antagonistic scholarship, respect for the Mormon pioneers. "They had favor ERA. -S.J.S. 24 April 1980

3 The McCarter Theatre production of Hat' Fever is April 24-May directed by Nagle Jackson. Call Ext. 6791 for ticket information. 24, Thursday Colloquium: The Medical Student Research Colloqui- 25, um presents research activities of medical students I-S Friday p.m. in the Lecture Room D. Med Labs Bldg.. School of Arbor Day: The Morris Arboretum's annual Arbor Day . Medicine8025 . For information. callExt Mrs. Bakerat celebration features tree seedling giveaways, special tours for school groups, displays, workshops and walks. presentsLecture:TheSchoolofMedicineDr.David The arboretum is located at 9414 Meadowbrook Spector. pathology department. Washington Universi- Avenue. The celebration in the Hillcrest Pavilion is open ty. St. Louis. Missouri on Regulation of Expression of 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through Sunday. Integrated Sequences in Superinfected Adenovirus Concerts: The Penn Jazz Ensemble holds its spring Transformed Cells at 11:30 a.m. at 235 Johnson concert at 8 p.m. in Zellerbach Theatre of the Pavilion. Microbiology Library. Annenberg Center. Call ext. 6791 for tickets. Musicals: West Philadelphia's neighborhood perform- The Choral Society, with William Parberry, conduc- ing troupe. The Marygold Theatre Company presents tor. and the University Symphony, with Eugene The Fantasticks through April 26 at the Parish Hall of Narmour. conductor, present Mozart's Coronation St. Mary's Church, 3916 Locust Walk. Call 386-39l6 Mass, Buckner's Three Graduals and other orchestral Dinner/the-. tonight . .m p 8 is time Show . reservations for works. The concert, beginning at 8:30 p.m., is in Irvine atre productions at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Auditorium. Free. Horizons, a new medical school theatre group, The Ethnic Folklife Festival at International House presents Starling Here. Starting Now, a delightful sponsors a Puerto Rican Concert featuring traditional musical revue by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shore. folk music of Puerto Rico. Admission to the 8 p.m. The production is in the Dunlop Auditorium of the new concert is $3, children and senior citizens $2. For more . MedicalSt Education Building. Hamilton Walk36th & information call 387-5125, Ext. 201. at 8:30 p.m. through Saturday. Tickets are $2 in Ice Skating: The University Ice Skating Club meets advance. $2.50 at the door. Call Ext. 7192 for more every Friday. 4-6 p.m. at the Class of '23 Ice Rink. information. Members and guests are invited to participate. For information call 471-6241 or 342-8638 evenings or Seminar The National Health Care Management weekends. Center Research Seminar Series presents William D. Musical: The Annenberg Center "Theatre for Children" White. visiting Research Scholar. Center for Health Series presents a musical from the Performing Arts Studies, Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Yale Repertory Theatre. Young Tom Edison and the Magic University speaking on The Diffusion of Mandatory Why. Performance times in the Zellerbach Theatre are Licensure Laws for Nursing Personnel at 4:30 p.m. in Friday, 10 am, and 12:30 p.m. and Saturday, II a.m. the Colonial Penn Center Auditorium. and 2 p.m. For information call the Box Office at Ext. Sports: Women's softball competes against Widener at 6791. Widener at 4p.m.: men's outdoor track competes in the Sports: Men's baseball competes against Navy at Bower Penn Relays at Franklin Field through Saturday; Field at 3 p.m.; men's golf competes in the Ivy women's outdoor track competes in the Penn Relays at Tournament at Yale through Saturday; sailing team Franklin Field through Saturday. competes for the Kennedy Cup at Navy through Theatre: Noel Coward's Hat' Fever starring Celeste Sunday; men's tennis competes against Navy at Lott Holm runs through April 27 in the Zellerbach Theatre. Courts at 3 p.m. University students sail along the Schuylkiil River.

Deaths Worth Noting Venturi Addresses Arnold V. Davis, a clinical associate pro- laboratory assistant in 1978 and became a fessor at HUP, died in January. He was 51. research laboratory technician in the Philomathean Society Davis first came to the University as an cardiovascular-pulmonary area of the " Robert Venturi, whose work is credited intern in 1954. and was precepter for School of Medicine in 1979. He attended with helping to redirect the course of residents in surgery at HUP from 1955 to classes in the College of General Studies architecture, will deliver the Annual Oration 1960. He became an instructor in the from 1975 through 1977. this year for the Philomathean Society of the Medical School in 1962; an associate in 1971; He is survived by his parents, Mr. and University. a clinical assistant professor in 1976; and Mrs. William Klaus. The address, a rare public appearance for clinical associate professor in 1979. Venturi, will be held Tuesday, April 29, at 8 He is survived by his wife. Helen A. Seltzer, a student in the College p.m. in room 200, College Hall. of General Studies, died March 23. She was The Philomathean Society is the oldest Wade H. Everhart, Jr., a 1958 Wharton 32. continuous literary society in the U.S. The graduate active in alumni student recruiting, Seltzer came to Pennsylvania in spring event, which is free and open to the public, died April 8. 1979 to pursue a degree in nursing. She is will be followed by a reception in the Everhart, head of his own insurance survived by her husband, Daniel. Philomathean Society Halls on the fourth agency, was a key member of the alumni floor of College Hall. student recruiting program, and was presi- Harry V. Smith, an information control Venturi, who specializes in architectural dent of the University Alumni Club in the clerk, died March 26. He was 66. and urban design, is well known for his book Fort Lauderdale area. Smith joined the University in 1973 as an Complexity and Contradiction in Architec- Contributions may be made to a special information control clerk in thetax informa- ture. In it, he proposed an eloquent architec- memorial book fund, in care of Raymond C. tion and control area of the Comptroller's ture that draws on formal and decorative Saalbach, 618 Franklin Building/ 16. Office and retired in 1978. He worked on a traditions, regional styles and the particular- part-time basis in the Faculty Club from ities of context and purpose, to create a William R. Klaus, a research laboratory December 1979 until he was taken ill. distinctive imagery and identity for new technician, died March 13. He was 26. He is survived by his wife. Catherine. buildings. Klaus came to the University as a

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26, Saturday Sports: Men's lacrosse competes against Brown at Medical Research. Australia on Carbohydrate Defined Franklin Field at I p.m. la Antigens at 11:30a.m. in room D-213 A and B in the Movie: Penn Union Council presents 2001: A Space Medical Education Building. Odyssey at 8 and 10:30 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium. Admission is $1. 28, Sports: Men's baseball competes against Princeton at Monday 2, Bower Field at I p.m.: men's heavyweight crew Colloquium: The Annenberg School of Communica- Friday competes against Yale for the Blackwell Cup at the tions sponsors Peter Steiner of the University's Ice Skating: The University Ice Skating Club meets Schuylkill River: men's lightweight crew competes department of Slavic Languages, on Dual Asymmetry every Friday. 4-6 p.m., at the Class of '23 Ice Rink. against Princeton for the Wood-Hammond Cup at of Cultural Signs at 4 p.m. in the Annenberg School Members and guests are invited to participate. For Princeton: women's crew competes against Princeton. Colloquium Room. information call 471-6241 or 342-8638 evenings or Dartmouth and Williams at Pittsfield. MA; sailing Seminar The Administrative Assembly Brown Bag weekends. competes against Textile. Drexel. Haverford and Seminars hosts E. Craig Sweeten, on Fund-raising at Sports: Women's outdoor track compete in the EAIAW Villanova for the Hayward Trophy at Penn's Landing Pennsyvania in the Harrison-Smith-Penniman Room Championships in Pittsburgh through Saturday. in competes softball women's . Sunday through . .m a 9 at of Houston Hall at I p.m. the Ivy Tournament at Yale through Sunday; men's Sports: Men's baseball competes against Wagner at tennis competes against Princeton at Lott Courts at 2 Bower Field at 3 p.m.: women's softball competes P.M.: women's tennis competes in the Ivy Tournament against Textile at Textile at 4 p.m. 3, at Harvard through Sunday. Saturday Workshop: A children's workshop on Art. Architecture Sports: Men's heavyweight crew compete against and You, will be held at ICA at II am. The workshop 29, Tuesday Harvard and Navy for the Adams Cup at Harvard; will be followed by a brief walking tour of public men's lightweight crew compete against Navy for the sculpture in the area. It's all part of ICA's Young Sports: Women's lacrosse competes against F & M at Callow Cup at the Schuylkill River: men's lacrosse Peoples program in conjunction with the current Franklin Field at 7 p.m. competes against Hofstra at Hofstra at 7:30 p.m.: sailing exhibition Urban Encounters: Art. Architecture. competes for the Varsity Elims #3 at Penn's Landing Audience. Admission is free: everyone is welcome. through Sunday: men's outdoor track competes in H EPS, the Ivy League Championship at Franklin Field 30, Wednesday at noon. Council Meeting: University Council will meet in the 27, Council Room of the Furness Building. 4-6 p.m. Sunday Movies: Exploratory Cinema presents the premiere of Bazaar: International House April Bazaar, on the first two 1980 documentary film lab productions by students Continuing Exhibits floor of the International House. II a.m.-4 p.m. Food, at the Annenherg School. One film looks at the Sir Peter Shepeard: Collected Works in the Faculty Club cultural objects and clothing will be for sale. Philadelphia art world while the other examines the Lobby. Monday through Friday. 9 a.m.-9 Vietnamese in The films will p.m. Concert: Israeli Independence Day Concert at Interna- immigrant Philadelphia. be The Shadow Catcher: E.S. Curtis in the University tional House, co-sponsored with the Jewish Campus shown in the Studio Theatre in the Annenberg Center at Museum. Tuesday through Saturday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.. Activities Board will be in Hopkinson Hall at 7:30 p.m. 7 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $2. $1 with ID. Sunday I p.m.-5 p.m.. through July. Admission is $5.: $4 in advance. Urban Encounters at the Institute of Contemporary Art Recital: The Combs College of Music presents a in the Fine Arts Building. Monday. Wednesday-Friday. graduate composition recital at 2 p.m. at the Annenberg 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.. Tuesday. 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m., weekends Center. Admission is free to the concert which will Thursday 12-5 p.m.. through April 30. feature the original works of composer Thomas Glenn. Seminar: The microbiology department presents a Marianna Orth at Gates Hall. Morris Arboretum 9 a.m.- The performance will consist of music both orchestral Microbiology Seminar featuring Dr. Terry J. Higgins, 5 p.m. weekdays. Orth's large canvases brightly depict and electronic instrumentation. Department of Microbiology. The Curtin School of the world of plants. April 21-May 16.

ICA Presents photographs, which will be reproduced as Alumni Run Honors Spring bus placards, will be in several hundred Outreach Program SEPTA buses during May. Dr. Cummings A " The Institute of Art will fully illustrated catalogue documenting " The Second Annual Alumni Run will be Contemporary ICA Street will ICA Street a of Sights be published by ICA held in honor of Dr. Willis N. present Sights, program this summer. Cummings, performances. exhibitions and assorted D'l9. varsity track star and first black to happenings around town. ICA's major Annual Golf Outing captain a Penn team. The 5,000 meter (3.1 spring outreach program will transform mile) run will wind its way through the Center City Philadelphia into an extended Encourages Competition campus beginning at 9:15 am. on Alumni 'gallery' for this three-part series of events. " The Second Annual Smokey Joe's/Uni- Day. Saturday. May 17. The race is Windows: ICA Streets Sights, opens May versity of Pennsylvania Golf Outing will be sponsored by the Class of 1974 in conjunc- I at 6 p.m. and continues through May 18. on Alumni Weekend, Friday, May 16. tion with The General Alumni Society and Five artists' installations, created especially Alumni, students, faculty and staff are the Spike Shoe Club. for John Wanamaker's display windows on invited to spend the afternoon at Overbrook Alumni, spouses, and children (16 and Market Street between 13th and Juniper Country Club in Bryn Mawr. over), current students, faculty and staff are Streets will be on view. Competition is encouraged by classes, eligible to participate. For awards purposes, Performance: ICA Street Sights on clubs and individuals. The winners may entrants will be grouped into categories Saturday, May 10, will be an afternoon of decide whether the proceeds of the tourna- determined by sex and year of graduation. performances. A Few will be presented on ment should go to Annual Giving, any Penn Awards will be given to the top ten overall the northwest side of City Hall at noon by sport, or to the new Alumni Center. finishers, and to the first three finishers and Tina Girouard. All The World's A Stooge A buffet lunch will beserved at 11:30 a.m. top team in each category. will be performed at TLA Cinema, 334 tee-off is at 12:30 p.m. The $30 per person Enter the race before noon on Friday, South Street, at 3 p.m. by Pat Olessko. entry fee includes lunch, greens fee, a caddy May 2 and you will receive a race T-shirt. ICA in Transit: ICA Street Sights is a and cart. The entry fee is $5. photographic "bus project". ICA has com- To receive an official entry form or for To receive an entry form, course map or missioned six Philadelphia photographers to more information call Sandy Luckenbill at more information call Ext. 7811 or Denis create images reflecting the city. Their Ext. 8445. Cochran-Fikes at Ext. 5651.

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Excommunication and ERA

(continued from page 1) Johnson stressed that in all fairness the she said it is "good for people to see an should know that the Mormon to Johnson. Mormon women legislators example." According Church is a of ERA. She As a result of her excommunication last have been held in leading opponent ." always positions "exalted said the Mormons are "like termites in the December she has "found out a lot about but she warned that are the pits." "pedestals said, beam of our house." myselfand human nature." Shejoyfully She elaborated on this phenomenon: the The Mormon Church excommunicated .at least women are so much stronger than more oppressed a group is, the loftier the Johnson, preventing her from receiving we thought we were, nothing could break rhetoric becomes. communion and in me, there's I wouldn't endure for and humiliated," participating community nothing Feeling "angry, betrayed activities, she is allowed to attend ERA." Sonia Johnson became a radical feminist. although church. "It is most painful not to play the As the lecture drew to a close, after about For the first time in her life she said she was the former lamented. She two hours ofa sincere and rational dealt with that first. organ," organist presenta- angry with God and was with false tion Sonia Johnson became she concluded that officially charged spreading noticably angry After prolonged praying doctrine and church and distressed, "I'm tired of rhetoric, not sexist. working against saying, God is I want to see some action. I to 1978 Johnson was involved with leadership. defy anyone By quite Johnson admitted to where the church is women." ERA activities. The "Mormons for ERA" being politically say helping insubordinate but denied being doctrinally -M. F. M. banner astonished people when it appeared insubordinate. She has a desire for ERA. The strong in the 1978 Extension March for and freedom but in the Bill, additional time for political religious Extension allowing Mormon Church these two ideals are fused. states ERA, was in the to ratify passed Johnson, a former instructor with House of Then, I, college Dinner Honors Representatives. August a Ph.D. in education, is now 1978 the Senate Subcommittee on Constitu- English very single-minded about getting ERA ratified. Professors tional Rights held a hearing. Sonia Johnson Retiring was of who were asked to She said. "once you've seen, you can't unsee one the four people it," the subcommittee. Orrin referring to the church's position. testify before "I don't think bitterness is useful At the end of the 1979-80 academic Hatch the on any- year. (R-Utah) questioned people where," said Johnson who now realizes that Mars E. Coleman and William B. Castetter the religious panel but used his "church- "patriarchical religion is not helpful to will retire from the University's Graduate man's voice"-he is a Mormon-when women." her with her to as Despite long struggle School of Education. Dr. Coleman came questioning Johnson which she perceived faith in the church and and religious organized the University in 1945 and Dr. Castetter condescending patronizing. the she remains in A heated debate ensued on the Senate political ideology optimistic. arrived 1940. "I really do think something good is As a tribute to Drs. Coleman and floor since she did not respond to his the coming out of this," she declared. By Castetter a dinner is being planned by their questions as he had expected. Ironically, the church ERA incident excommunicating her put friends and colleagues: it will be held Friday. media coverage that followed this she received for back in the news. Johnson said May 9 at 7 p.m. in the Alumni Dining Room strengthened the cause of Mormons 5,000 letters from who were of Club. she was to people sorry the University Faculty ERA. Johnson said "grateful about her excommunication. She is a The of the dinner will be $15 Hatch Mormons for ERA public price per Orrin for making and a for the women's A cocktail hour at 6 issue." in Mormons symbolic figure person. begins p.m. a national Membership movement. Reservations must be made 9. For for ERA is now about 1,000, to by May according that about 20 of the information call Ms. at Johnson. Estimating percent Rosemary Klump members of the church are quietly pro-ERA Ext. 7015. Thechurch "raised my political conscious- ness overnight," Johnson said. In November 1978 church leaders organized a coalition of women to oppose Mormons for ERA. This was the beginning of her head-on battle with Provost Announces Rules Governing the church. According to Johnson the coalition was Final Exams instructed not to tell anyone that the men had organized them because, "people won't I) No student may be required to take 4) No instructor may change the time or understand." This misrepresentation deeply more than two final examinations on any date ofa final exam without permission from concerned the ERA proponent who suggest- one day during the period in which final the appropriate dean or the vice-provost. ed that they publicly admit what they were examinations are scheduled. the church of circum- 5) No instructor may increase the time doing. She accused hold a exami- checks and 2) No instructor may final allowed for a final exam beyond the venting the media, bypassing the in which ofthe free which have nation except during period scheduled two hours without permission balances press usually are scheduled and, when a effect on she final examinations from the appropriate dean or vice-provost. modifying people. Eventually the of was successful in the anti-ERA necessary, during period postponed No classes new material) making examinations. No final examinations be 6) (covering may as since were may be held the Review group register lobbyists they scheduled the last week of classes or during reading period. already lobbying at the Virginia State during sessions may be held. on reading days. Legislature. 7) All students must be allowed to see "When Mormons descend on the examinations be held legisla- 3) Postponed may their final examinations. Access to graded ture." Johnson said, "ERA isn't even the the official the first only during periods: finals should be ensured for a period of one issue." She that the leader of the week of and fall semesters. Students explained spring semester after the exam has been given. church is a and therefore his must obtain permission from their dean's prophet We to be as flexible followers think that God wants ERA killed. office to take a postponed exam. Instructors encourage professors "It looks like a movement in all courses must be to offer a make- as possible in accommodating students with grassroots against ready exam schedules. ERA but it is a tiny minority that thinks it is up examination to all students who were conflicting - being faithful to God." excused from the final examination. Vartan Gregorian, Provost

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The following listings are condensed from the Electrical Engineer 1(80306) 511,250-515.850. Bookstore Clerk (2 positions) 55,500-57.000. personnel office's bulletin of April 17.Becauseofthe Foreman, Repair and Utility (2689) S 12.900-$17.850. Clerk 11 (2955) S6.375-S8. 100. delay occasioned by printing schedules, these General Counsel (02972) manages legal affairs of the Clerk 111 (2880) $6.875-S8.750. Clerk IV listings should not be considered official. Some University; makes assignments and references as (8259) 57.425-59.450. positions may no longer be available. necessary; formulates and implements institutional Clerk IV (B0345) files and processes applications: Bulletin boards at several campus locations list strategies to avoid future legal problems; advises calculates and analyzes admissions data; analyzes full job descriptions. New listings are posted every University officials on legal affairs; performs related transcripts and calculates applicant's records; assists Thursday. Bulletin board locations are. Franklin duties (B.A.; JD.: 4 years legal practice or equivalent) with various admissions projects (familiarity with Building: outside personnel office, Room 130; Junior Research Specialist (5 positions) $10,375 transcripts and admissions work; ability to work well Towne Building: mezzanine lobby Veterinary $14.375. with data and detail) S7,425-$9,450. School:first floor, next to directory; LeidyLabs:first Junior Research Specialist (2 positions) (80335 Coordinating Assistant (29977) coordinates matching floor, outside Room 102; Anatomy-Chemistry protein purification; cell cultures; immunology (B.S. in gifts program; oversees processing of checks and forms; Building: near Room 35& Rittenhouse Lab: east biology or chemistry; 2 years experience) $10,375 compiles monthlyreports; maintains corporate tracking staircase, second floor LRSM: first floor, opposite $14,375; (B139) separates and purifies human and system (high school graduate; 3 years clerical expe- elevator Johnson Pavilion: first floor, next to animal white blood cells for tests of chemotaxis, rience) $8,625-510,950. Hall: first floor, near Room Custodian Union directory; Logan 117; phagocytosis, and adherence: some animal experimen- (3 positions) wages. Electrician maintains Social Work/Caster Building: first floor Richards tation (understanding of cell biology; experience with building electrical systems; repairs first floor, near Law School: and installs electrical substations Building: mailroom, white blood cellular techniques) $10,375-514,375. equipment: operates Room 28, basement Dietrich Hall: first floor, outside Librarian 1(2767) 511,250-515.850. and power distribution (knowledge of high voltage E-108. Manager of Operations (02949) $10.375-514.375. switch gear; experience with motor controls, motors. For further Information, call personnel services, Programmer Analyst 11(2 positions) 514.850-520.550. and 3-phase power systems) Union wages. Ext. 7284. is an Electrician I Union The University equal opportunity Project Manager (3 positions) S16.125-$22.725. (2794) wages. employer. Where qualifications include formal Regional Director of Admissions (2592) $14,850- Electron Microscope Technician II (A913) S9,650- education or In the training, significant experience $20,550. No longer accepting applications. S12.225. field may be substituted. The two figures In salary Research Specialist 1(4 positions) $il.250-Si5.850. Electronic Technician 11 (110344) performs servicing listings show minimum starting salary and maxi- Research Specialist I (80334) conducts experiments operations on various types of electronic equipment; mum constructs and wires starting salary (midpoint). Some positions involving cell culture media; platelet function (B.S. in complex electronic assemblies and listed may have strong internal candidates. If you chemistry or biology; 2 years lab experience with component boards (high school graduate; electronic would like to know more about aparticular position, platelets) $ll.250-Si5,850. shop experience desirable) $9,650-S 12.225. ask at with please the time of the Interview a Research Specialist iii (2 positions) 514.850-520,550. Engineer (2854) Union Wages. personnel counseloror hiring department represen- Research Specialist IV (80223) interacts with staff to Executive Secretary to the Vice President S10,000- tative. Openings listed without salaries arethose In create a team approach to the Long Range Plan goal S12.725. which salary Is yet to be determined. achievement; organizes and coordinatesthe activities of Executive Secretary to Vice President (2978) sets up others as they relate to instrument development; meetings: makes travel arrangements; deals with protocols for data collection, computer input and internal staff and associates of the University (high Administrative/Professional output, reporting, and data analysis (Ph.D. preferred; school graduate; 5 years secretarialexperience)$10,000- experience in program administration; experience in $12.725. or other health related fields)S Herdsman I S5.500-$7.025. Accountant 1(2 positions) 510,375-514.375. dentistry 18,625-526.250. (B90) Senior Intermediate of build- Assistant Director (2831). Systems Analyst $I6.125-S22.725. Draftsperson performs surveys Staff Writer 11 for various documentation; renders Assistant Director Annual Giving 11 (2870) $14,850- (2979) prepares manuscripts ings, drafting designs; perspec- 520.550. University publications either initiating text or editing tives (degree in interior design; I year experience) clients' works with S8.575-$10,850. Assistant Director Dining Service Administration manuscripts; designers; prepares estimatesand maintains control of individual Junior Accountant $7,975-S 10.150. (2957) 512,900-517.850. budgetary (2960) Junior Assistant Director of Residential Living (02912) job (BA.. verbal skills; communications experience) Programmer (8287) 56.875-58.750. Clerk $1 1.250-$15,850. $12,900-S 17.850. Library (2919) Union wages. of Rathskellar Assistant Director of Textbooks (2887) resolves Superintendent of Construction and Repairs (2690) Manager (B310) Hourly wages. MCST Operator (2482) $7.425-$9.450. customer problems; assumes responsibility for every $14.850-$20,550. Medical (B273) 56.875-58.750. facet of textbook operations in absence of supervisors; Supervisor, Mechanical Systems (2791) $14,100- Receptionist Office Editor $7,975-5 10.150. establishes high community visibility; communicates $17.850. Automation (2930) Project Budget Assistant (8249) 57,975-5 10.150. information to all levels (college degree or related Supervisory Herdsman (80308) $9.125-511.675. Assistant and experience; 5 years experience in university academic Project Budget (80337) processes records financial activities of combined academic and book sales; supervisory and administrative abilities). research Assistant Director of Utilities (2789) Si8.625-S26,250. department involving payments, deposits. Part-Time and statements Assistant to Director of Alumni Relations 11 (02907) Positions requisitions, weekly payroll, monthly (excellent numerical clerical accurate plans and coordinates activities of alumni secondary in aptitude: typing; Administrative/Professional in school committees and assists alumni and their children college training accounting preferred; related business $7,975-S 10.150. in exploring educational opportuntities at the Universi- Permanent Employee (80290) Hourly wages. experience) ty; schedules speakers for recruitment visits; enlists Temporary Extra-Person (B0288) Hourly wages. Receptionist (B242) 55.900-57.525. Records Assistant (2939) $7.975-5 10.150. alumni forcommittees in new areas; produces brochures Research I reads and reviews and film strips (college degree, preferably from Penn; Bibliographer (2973) hooks and articles; collates data andinformation: writes administrative and/or counseling experience) 514.850- Staff S20.550. Support reports and correspondence; assists in editorial work Associate Officer iii $18,625- (college degree; good typing skills: understanding of Development (2541) Accounts Payable Clerk (2961) $7.425-59.450. French: excellent telephone manner) $7.975-$l0.l50. $26,250. Administrative Assistant (2881) executes administra- Associate Director of Athletics 521.450- Research Laboratory Technician I (A971) $7.575- (2710) tive responsibilities relating to budgets and personnel 59.600. 530.225. records for large department with numerous sections Research Laboratory Technician II (3 Building Superintendent (2945) S12.900-S17,850. under direction of business administrator and personnel positions) and $8,575-S 10.850. Business Administrator prepares, administers, data coordinator: prepares reports on department Research Laboratory Technician ill (/3 controls budgets: has custody of special accounts; personnel and projects: assists in department purchasing positions) S9,650-$12,225. prepares reports: meets with agencies regarding fund- functions; performs typing of personnel lists, budgets screens and selects clerical staff; Secretary I (1 position) 56.375-S8. 100. raising and budgets; and related duties (college degree or experience; typing; Secretary 11(13 56.875-58.750. supervises all personnel records and reports, payroll ability to maintain accurate records; good facility with positions) Secretary III (14 S7.425-S9.450. administration, budget portion of applications, propos- figures) $7,975-S 10.150 positions) Secretary IV (2901) 58.625-5 10.950. als. budget controls and budget reports. (knowledge of Administrative Assistant 1(2positions) 57,975-5 10150. 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24 April 1980

Venice Biennale Exhibit Focuses on "Drawings: the Pluralist Decade"

While the Institute of Contemporary Art has created an image of national importance in the past sixteen years, the appointment of Director Janet Kardon as United States Commissioner for the American exhibit to the Venice Biennale has expanded ICA's Robert Kushner's Drawing for Aida' (1979) will appear in the Venice Biennale. reputation internationally. Kardon was appointed commissioner in early January after submitting proposals to the National Endowment for the Arts in earls' December. The exhibition opens June I in the Giordano in Venice, a large park specifically designed for this bi-annual artistic tour de force. The theme of the entire exhibit is Art of the Seventies and Kardon has responded with her own specific theme: Drawings: the Pluralist Decade. Kardon's choice of theme was based on a number of factors, chief among them easy transport. According to guidelines from the International Communication Agency, the show's sponsors, the exhibit must travel to other European countries after the Biennale closes in and so the American September, Above, Kardon escorts Joan Mondale will travel to and entry Portugal, Norway through the Urban Encounters' exhibit. At A show the use of Spain. travelling prohibits left, a drawing of Christo's 'Running Fence,' any installation pieces in the American one of the entries for the Biennale. Pavilion. Transportation aside, the use of drawings reflects what Kardon believes was an decision to choose certain artists was based American exhibit as well as the social and intimate decade for the art world with an on the need for those whose work best political changes affecting the art world in increase in autobiographical and perfor- exemplified any of these categories. the last decade. mance works. She does not believe the "Some of the drawings transcend the The most crucial aspect of making the definition of "pluralism" is a negative one, themes we've put them in and some mayjust show work has been keeping the proper time however. flirt with them," Kardon said. frame. For example, the current Urban "To me, the term means greater options She felt that artists from the various Encounters show at ICA was in the planning and freedom." Kardon said. The medium of sections of the country should be represented stages for almost two years. ICA currently is the drawing. which has assumed an equal in the Biennale. So. although the American submitting grant proposals for shows for fall status with painting and sculpture in the past art world is New York City-based. Kardon 1981. ten years, is one example of this pluralism. managed to gather a third of the 66 artists Yet the schedule for the Biennale has been The American entry breaks with the from other areas of the country. In many tighter than that for any of the usual traditional at the Venice Biennale where cases, specific projects were chosen for their exhibits. "I should have kept a diary," each country characteristically shows the particular representation of the decade and Kardon said. "but I just didn't have time." works of one or two artists. The American their location. Christo's Running Fence, the The selection process for the works was exhibit will show the drawings of 66 artists. fluid white fabric that stretched down the completed by mid-March. with essays for the The choice of the individual works was in West Coast eight years ago, was an example catalogue completed earlier that month. many ways the most difficult aspect of the of a peculiarly 1970s phenomenon. Currently, the works are being framed and assignment for Kardon. The catalogue for the show was begun packaging prepared. The show will be "I didn't have much time to seek out new immediately after Kardon assumed her shipped to Venice in May, Kardon will ar- talent." she explained, "so I had to choose position as commissioner. The volume will rive about May 20 to supervise installation. work that I know. I could have visited every include a photograph of every piece in the Although you won't see the American major American city but there simply wasn't show as well as essays on each of the exhibit unless you travel to Venice this time. Yet. I think this exhibition will categories by various critics and curators. In summer, the University will be treated to a represent new talent more so than any other keeping with the theme. "I didn't think that it similar exhibit in September when a draw- pavilion by dint of having 66 artists." should be just my voice in the catalogue," ings show representing different works of the The exhibit has been categorized into five Kardon said. "Most of the contemporary same American artists in the Biennale opens subdivisions: site-specific works: architect's critics emerged in the seventies as well as at the ICA galleries. "I think it's a nice drawings and artist's buildings: decoration: most of the artists." symmetry to think of the show being on both language (including dance and music nota- Kardon wrote the opening essay which sides of the Atlantic at the same time." tions): and "new image painting." Part of the touches on the general theme of the Kardon said. -V.V.P.

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