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Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College Publications, Special Bryn Mawr College News Collections, Digitized Books 1989 The olC lege News 1989-12-7 Vol.11 No. 6 Students of Bryn Mawr College Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_collegenews Custom Citation Students of Bryn Mawr College, The College News 1989-12-7 Vol.11 No. 6 (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1989). This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_collegenews/1413 For more information, please contact [email protected]. CIA's right to recruit at BMC protested BY RACHEL WINSTON Nineteen student protesters d isrupted a CIA recruitment session in the Campus Center last Wednesday night. The group, largely comprised of Bryn Mawr and Haverford undergraduates, formed a line in the front of room 105, reciting a list of eighty CIA "acts of terrorism" spanning the last forty years. The chorus of voices prevented CIA Personnel Representative Rebecca Browning from addressing around thirty interested students. The Office of Career Development, sponsor of the CIA visit, decided to cancel the meeting after the first half hour. Student job interviews were scheduled to proceed as normal the following Thursday. Undergraduate Dean Tidmarsh, also present at Wednesday's meeting, asked students to move the protest outside the doors of the room, so that the recruit- ment session might take place. The ma- jority of protesters refused to leave. "It is my responsibility to stop the voice of oppression from being legiti- Studentprvtestenmeresuccesfu/mpmmntiii$ aCiAncnabimntimacn. Kioto by Ontctai Jud» mized," explained Senior Kris Lafuente, when asked about her participation in the protest. Lafuente encouraged Bryn Mawr students not to allow the CIA on Mayor Perry tackles Hartford's crisis campus in the future. She cited numer- BY SEANNA MELCHIOR AND less people. Most of the homeless people can be solved. ous allegations of "terrorism" and "ille- RACHEL PERLMAN in Hartford are Vietnam veterans. The Funding also needs to be shifted to gal acts" on the part of the CIA, referring "American dream of home ownership is education. Inner-city schools need im- to sources including the Center for Mili- "No one can escape what's happening a remnant" of our past. Many American provement; they must begin by coping tary Research and Analysis based in New in theritliesl," says the Honorable Carrie cities are in a desperate situation. with problems of illiteracy, drug addic- York City. Saxon Perry, mayor of Hartford, CT, who One serious problem which Ms. Perry tion, personal safety, and security. She After the decision was made to cancel spoke at Bryn Mawr College on Novem- is addressing is drug abuse. Drugs are "a has implemented a program called the meeting, informal discussion groups ber 29. Ms. Perry, the first black woman new form of genocide" that "threatens to Operation Bridge, which has college formed, in which questions were raised to be elected mayor of a major northeast- desiccate an entire generation of black graduates working in inner-city schools and discussed. One Bryn Mawr student, ern city, has recently been elected to her young men." The war against drugs and to identify potential drop-outs and help who asked to remain anonymous, ex- second term in office. Ms. Perry pre- drug-related crimes is being fought in them stay in school. She has also worked pressed anger at the cancellation of the sented her perception of the problems Hartford. The mayor's commission on for a cooperation between the city of information session. "It's fine to express American cities are confronted with and drugs works to bring the schools, stu- Hartford and the University of Hartford. your opinion, but its not fair to interfere shared her opinions and plans on how to dents, churches, and law enforcers to- Any city high school student admitted to with our right to hear this presentation," overcome them. gether to deal with the problem. She is the University of Hartford pays half of she remarked. Ms. Perry believes that our domestic working to have the state legislature al- the regular tuition; if additional financial Other students emphasized the dis- problems are the greatest threat to na- locate more funding to deal with this aid is needed, it is given in addition to the tinction between rights associated with tional security. She said there are 32.5 problem. Drugs are "a pestilence that initial tuition reduction. free speech and the business of recruit- million people living in poverty in the disrupts all our lives." It is the problem Young people who are likely to drop ment. "I don't object to the CIA coming United States and three million home- which must be dealt with before others see mayors, page 10 see CIA, page 11 Ms. magazine discontinued; need lives on BY ALIX COHEN uted, feminist magazine such as Ms. the magazine will be reintroduced. Cath- about the assumption that the magazine would eliminate the need for itself; she leen Black, one of Ms.'s first advertising is past its prime. Other media publica- On November 11th an article in the hoped that the causes the magazine had saleswomen, stated that feminism is not tions have already relegated Ms. to the Philadelphia Inquirer on Ms. magazine espoused would be realized. But have the radical cause it was at the time of the fate of other outmoded American inven- called the women's publication "smart, we really reached the point where the magazine's creation. Black and others tions which survive only through nostal- impassioned, unapologetically partisan." general public has also become so say that feminist issues have been inte- gia, like the Automat. The Inquirer ar- After mounting financial troubles and a "smart," "impassioned," and politically grated into mainstream society and even ticle stated that "the impulse to use [Ms.] recent circus of ownership by four differ- and socially conscious that the need for appear in slick fashion-oriented maga- as a symbol of the current state of femi- ent publishers, this "feminist bible born such a magazine is obsolete? zines. In addition, the eighties have wit- nism is strong." If that is true, then does of the political turmoil of the sixties" (as On October 13th Dale W. Lang bought nessed the birth of many-other popular that mean feminism, as well as Ms., is described in Time) is facing its own Ms. and immediately ceased publication magazines dedicated to women's issues, facing the end of its era or "time" and demise. Gloria Steinem, oneof the found- of the December and January issues. Since such as Self, Working Woman, and should also be thrown to the lot of Auto- ing editors, stated that she looked for- the announcement, he and Steinem have Working Mother. But matty of Ms.'s mats, hoola hoops, and flower children? ward to the day when a widely-distrib- refused to comment on when, if and how dedicated readers are expressing doubt see Ms., page 5 OMEN & THE MEDIA: How are we portrayed? How do we portray ourselves? s e e centerspread, pages £. A Page 2 The College News November 29,1989 Editorial made unjustified generalizations To the Editors: accusatory tone that is hardly necessary, We are writing in response to the edi- pointing the finger at those who "only torial entitled "Activism for fun? Or for a get involved when we are carried along real cause?" (November 29). The edito- by other people's effort and planning, rial compared the well-attended pro- only go to the marches to which every- Alumnae letters express hatred and fear choice rally in Washington, D.C. of one else is already going[.|" The editorial November 12th to the sparse "pro-choice misses the point and process of social presence" at Bryn Mawr Hospital on the and political change. It isa smaller group Last spring's Alumnae Bulletin used pluralism as its theme, 18th, and seemed to say that the latter that must always do the organizing, and including articles by alumnae who had been members of minor- just wasn't "glamorous" enough todraw those who are truly committed realize ity groups while at Bryn Mawr. The "Letters" section of the Fall the same interest and support as the this and don't have a problem with it. Washington rally. But could there be, You have to constantly motivate the issue seems to indicate that the articles by lesbians drew the perhaps, other reasons for the notably general public and make them aware of most attention. There are three supportive letters in response to smaller showing of the 18th? The rally in the importance of an issue to their life. these articles, but there are also three letters which we find Washington was a national event, publi- That's the way you get lots of people to cized in national and local media for support a cause. That's the way the world deeply disturbing. months in advance, announced at SGA works. The responses from M.F. Oppenheimer '43 and M.J.T. Wallace and in the minutes, and advertised all And one final question: How can you MSS '55 condemn lesbianism ~ and the Bulletin, for giving it a over campus while the demonstration at tell the difference between someone who Bryn Mawr Hospital was an event or- is doing the right thing for the right rea- public voice ~ on religious grounds. Although we respect a ganized by anti-choice groups and only sons and someone who is doing the right broad spectrum of religious beliefs, the hatred expressed in publicized by a few posters on campus.

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