OBSERVER Vol. 18 No. 5 November 30, 1977 Front Page Photograph Evan Hall Women and Religion Gina Fiering and Stephanie Carrow Stone Row A Modest Proposal: John Large Page 2 Bridging The Gap Elliot Junger The Tewksbury Inferno Page 3 Photograph Mike Iantosca Campus Wars Paul K. Spencer Pollution, Cancer, and Bard George Smith Finch Fries Jane Hurd Page 4 Viewpoints G. F. Levinson [“It is two months since Heinz Bertelsmann answered my 2/77 Observer article . .”] Burt Brody [“O.K. Ludlow-ites, . Established a pattern of doing exactly as you’ve wished to do, . .”] [“After reading Arthur Carlson’s letter, . The student community is in so much trouble.”] Edward Colon [“To the ‘illicit’ animal owning community and caring community: . John Loda, . .”] Paul S. Arthur [“ . Level charges of lack of energy against students who hate your paper . .”] Mike Long [“When The Observer holds its regular weekly meeting, . Why are you never present?”] Stephanie Carrow Associate Editor [“ . People are smoking in the dining alcove where smoking is . Not permitted.”] Lea Magee [“ . Appreciate Roy Lisker’s concern but shallow polemic and posturing do not . .”] Burt Brody Page 5 Photograph Mike Iantosca Records Ry Cooder Showtime Robert Levers The Lower Depths Sheila Spencer In Progress: “The Farm” Gina Fiering Page 6 Judaic Resources Rick Landau Recurring Vision Sheila Spencer Page 7 “Forget Stone Row . .” Art Carlson Page 8 The Almost Final Midget’s Voice Read This Article Danny O’Neill B Ball David Penberg Photograph Mike Iantosca volume 18 number 5 November 30, T977 · I come before you all with a began with an assertion that the - good deal of trepidation. My ~ast east of main_taining the 49 living proposal that Peter Amato eal! a units in the row exceeds the room & community meeting with Dick boara money going towards it. And Griffiths et al on hand to d iseuss immediately questions arose the revamping of Stone Row-went aoout what the costs consist of. nowherc for a mon th. (Though The heat works sporadically, the Mr. Amato did assure me that the · washers and. uryers( w~ich service matter could presumably be all of main campus) are routinely handled within the week.) Anyt'low, out~of-order .... Too bad Dick when the meeting finally ' Griffiths was unable to show up was called ata day's notice it was with pertinent information at the a travesty. Relatively few stu- e hanged .time: Joe 'shoh~m point­ dents attended. But then few ed out that the occupants of a· ~~~med to be aware of the meet­ two-room suite together pay and ing's designated time. I nitially it avcrage $200 a month for their was to bc at 9:30a.m.- an ho~r quarters; in NYC similar living oddly conducive toa small turn­ space can be maintained ata out. Obligingly·; the admini­ profit for $200 a mon th. fGrantcd· stration switcned to 12:20 and the taxcs alledsedfy being paid on made an effort to distribute 600 acres of land are an added announcements to that effect. In everhead expense, but then New South Hoffman, the effort report­ York real esta te costs,run high.) ed ly ex~ended as far as dumping As weil, the point was made the not1ces on an unobtrusive that even if Stone Row does opcr­ shelf. lf that's so, someone was ate in the red, studcnts who've keeping in the half-assed laek­ been forking over $1 OO each mon th for a 'closet' on Robbins' Ev:rn 1!.11!/ Ttn~ Obscrvd adaisieal spirit of the whble Stone third Row enterprise. floor are entitled to look forward In any case, the students to some compensation in upper who did attend were treated toa colleg·e room draws. sl ide show and lecture of sorts bv Mr. Stonehil[ seemed to be r~Occupants of a two room suite together pay an average Mr. St.onehill, ~n architect rep­ under the impressian that, were of $200/month for their quarters; in NYC simi/ar living resentlng the frrm hired to mu­ there not a financial problem, no space can be maintained ata profit for $200jmonth. 1l tate the dorms. There and thcn J one would bother to cmploy him knew my proposal had been so:.ne­ or to deal with the HUD loan how mis-interpreted. Mr. Stonehill office. Which led to his second Continucd _on Page 2 .. "Women and religion are both import- · lity in the church, and yet lik c Rev. Shafer, to ~nt to human"rty and culture, and they'vc both havc rnixcd fcclings about the future of the mcreased humanity and culture,'' said Rev. church and the role of womcn in it. He won­ Fritz_Shafcr,,moderator of the ~ommunity Fo­ dercd whc.the~ women bccoming priests wasn't cus dtscusslon on Women and Religion, hcld on I ike their buying tickets on the Titanic. ~atu.r~ay, Nov. 12. Rev. Shafcr opcned the Elizabclh Koltun, teacher, writer and ect­ dJscussJon by Si}ying that he has worked to end itor of a book callcd The Jewish Womiln: New discrimination against womcn ch urch·workers. Prrspcctivcs, spoke o f the conflicts betwecn However while hc sees no biological or moral . bcing a )ew and bcing a feminb!. She said lhdt reasan why womcn ~annot becomc pricsts, he a~ a fcminist she doesn't want to fecl ticd toa sees no rcason wrv they should. He feels that patriarchal religion and a tradition which says· women priests weaken· what little authoritv that woman's chief role is child rearing, but she the church has by causing a break with tradition. docsn't want to forsakc'her religion either, es­ Rosemary Radford Ruethcr, authbr Jnd pccially ir. the light of the Holocaust. She feels Professor of Applied Theology at Garrctt- E van-. that the subordianate positian of women in · gcli~al Seminary, spQkc of the tradition of Chris­ judaism will nut change with women rabbis tian sexism. In Christianity 's early years the d is~ alonq.: the Jewish retigiolJS service itself must be trnctions bctween men and woinen were seen as charrgcd to in elude women. J ewish serviccs are unimportant in the· eyes oCGo~; however, this run uy the "congregation more than the rabbi soon degcneratcd to the belicf that women wcre and men fill"al l the religious functions. equal in heaven but not in naturc, so th-at it was Rev. Barbaro.1 Schlacter, an Episcopal not proper for th cm to bc on the same level wih Pr!cst from White Plains, sees he·rself as having a with mcn politically or sociaHy. Celiba<.:y was diffcrent <tpproach to the rninistrv than men: seen as the only way that women could trans­ that o f a mothcr figurc. Sile spokc··of the Eu~h­ ccnd the subordinated position that was cquated J.rist as bei ng not only a symbol of Christ's. sac­ in the male Cluistian mind wilh women's bio!og­ rificc but a j oy ful o~cJsion whcn ·cclcbrated by ical role, and the fear of sexuality was translatcd J. worn;:n, bccause of woman's tradition ..d role of foodgiving into the further oppression of women. Reuther and ga thering her ·f.tmily around <t Schlactcr, "Since l\1s. Ruether !Julntcd out sees the present . table. Womcn clergy wili kiss a purishioncr whcn earli­ to spread the word were women; th us tncse cfforts to incorporate wonicn cr that Christ did not ordain into the male clergy would bc morc like!y to shake hands. any rncn, why .ue women could also be conceived of as priests or­ church on an cqual basis with men as un women stiil extcnsion of Enlightenmcnt idcas, wh en the Rev. Schlactcr changcs the language of the Bible looking to mcn fur ordination?" daincd by CllrisL state of nature was seen as an idcal of cqua!ity in her sermom, saying, "Our God whom we call Rev. Schlacter replied that shc wanted to stay Another female Bard student objected to that could and should be regained. Father and know D.iso .lS Mothcr." She said that within the church, "with my brothers." Rev. Sch lacter's cquation of a woman priest The chur~h's attitudc toward women and womcn's struggle to bccome ministcrs leads thrm A woman frorn· the community asked the - with a mother figurc; she said that" her minbter scxual!ty was stressed by Gfenn Bucher, As~oci- · to identify with the struggles of their parishion· cntirc pancl what specifica!JY. could be doneto was a woman and she never rcgardcd her as her ate Professor of Religion at the College of Woo­ ers and of other opprcsscd groups. "feminizc'' the church. Rev.'Schlacter said that mother oras a motherlv fi~ure. Sh e asked why It is up to the membcrs a woman could not stcr in Ohio and the author of d book entitlcd, 1\ question and answer pcriod followcd • of a parish to rcquest a simply be viewed as a per­ St1'aight/Whitc/Malc. Hc told how hc had been the discussion. A man, in a tonc of cross-exami· female minister whcnevcr the 'need for a new son without Freudian connc<:tions, as male at ;1 mceting to discuss the ordination of womcn n.llion, ask ed Ruethcr whetli.cr she was speaking minister arises. pries~s are. Rev. Schlacter t r icd to qual ify her posit!On, and a man h.1d seriously asked ll'hcthcr this . as a Romdn CJtholic or Univers<!l theologian. Af­ A man from the community a:;ked Ms.