The Chronicle 76th Year, No. 123 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Monday, March 30, 1981 Friedl to receive plans for women's studies By Lynn Reddy women's studies. There are Conference in February. An ASDU ad hoc committee already 13 courses at Duke The committee is composed of working to develop an which could be used for this three professors and three undergraduate women's studies purpose," Tyler said. students: Chafe; Virginia program at Duke will be Other aims of the committee Dominguez, assistant professor sending a proposal early this include having the 13 courses of anthropology; Ida Simpson, week to Ernestine Friedl, dean grouped and listed as women's associate professor of sociology; of Trinity College of Arts and studies courses in the Bulletin of Tyler; Terri Mascherin, Trinity Sciences. Undergraduate Instruction and senior; and Cathy Tennyson, Because Friedl has not yet creating a position for a also Trinity senior. received the proposal, William women's studies advisor. According to Chafe, the Chafe, committee convenor and The committee was estab- committee hopes to have a professor of history, declined to lished last September in response from Friedl by the end STAFF PHOTO specify the exact contents ofthe response to a request for an of April, in time to develop CHICK COREA - Jazz musician leads an audi^partic- proposal and said that "the undergraduate major in something concrete for the fall ipation song at Friday afternoon's concert in the gardens. range arid number of activities women's studies submitted m semester. Corea and fellow musician Gary Burton played for two have to be further defined." July by the Association of Duke "I'm encouraged because the hours to an appreciative audience. The ultimate aim of the Women. The ADW proposal faculty is thinking big," said committee is to create an rose from interest generated by Tyler. "Dean Friedl also sat in interdisciplinary program in discussion of women's studies on our first meeting and seems women's studies, according to majors and women's centers at to be thinking along the same committee member Laurie the Second Annual Intercollegi- lines we are." Crucial meeting held Tyler, a junior in Trinity ate Conference, a four-day Friedl could not be reached for college. gathering of students from comment, but her secretary said "In such a program, a student eleven private colleges and that she is still "very on Solidarity stance could choose a major and then universities. Duke hosted the interested" in the committee have a concentration in Third Annual Intercollegiate and its proposal. By John Darnton party considerably and make it e 1981 NYT Newa Service different from any other WARSAW — A crucial Communist party in Eastern Central Committee meeting, Europe. Women and power which may well decide whether Barcikowski's remarks on the Communist Party opposes Solidarity were seen as Conference deals with national roles or cooperates with Solidarity, significant because he is By Lynn Reddy improve the position of women ally learnin opened Sunday with an attack regarded as a liberal and has Unlike many conferences on rf^Tcbntradiet'eaehothCT,she experience" "said" Benge'lsd'or! °" theindependent union from maintained indirect contacts women's roles in the interna­ "and it was my first exposure to ranking Politburo member. with the union at crucial points tional system, "Perspectives on Especially in the Third World, a professional conference. Kazimierz Barcikowski during past crises. Although Power: Women in Asia, Africa the "progress associated with charged that the union was much of his speech was and Latin America," held at westernization and develop- "What was fascinating was "penetrated" by people who undoubtedly directed at the Duke last weekend, focused ment really doesen't give witnessing the interaction ™ere *&** to push it into Soviet Union, as a signal that specifically on women and women any political power among the participants, becoming a political organiza- the Polish leaders recognize the political power. although it sometimes seems Women were finding out that £on to st™f^e against the dangers of the situation, it also During the conference, 11 that it does," remarked Diane they had done research that Communist Party and state. showed a stiffening of resolve m professional women gathered Civic, a Trinity senior who supported each other's theories. At the same time, however, the face of a general stnke before an audience of more than attended the conference. It was an intellectual success." Barcikowski came out strongly called by the union to begin on 50 people to present papers and in favor of democratic changes Tuesday. discuss where women have The conference was funded by Both Bengelsdorf and O'Barr within the party itself, Sunday's emergency session power, why they have it and a grant from the Center for stresse(j the importance of the including free elections and of the ruling body of the three- why they often do not have it. International Studies at Duke conference participants as role limited terms of office for its million-member party is "to enhance the teaching of models for Duke undergradu- leaders. Such changes, if put thought to be one of the most According to Jean O'Barr, international studies on the i t effect, would open up the ateg n 0 See Committee on page 2 associate professor of political undergraduate level," O'Barr science and coordinator of the said. conference, most literature published and many confer­ "Students in my political ences held during the last 10 science class [Women in years have emphasized "the Developing Societies] were the personal attributes of women primary audience but the and the need for women to catch conference also reached other up with men." undergraduates, graduate The presentations included students and faculty members, specific analyses ofthe political too. Because it was designed for power of African women and people who had some back­ African women's associations, ground it was a more intense options for female political learning experience than if it elites in Latin America, women had been designed for people and Scandinavian social policy with no previous knowledge of and women in planned develop- the subject," O'Barr added. ment. O'Barr said that she "tried to What all of the papers had in incorporate students in the common, however, was the conference. recognition that everything One student, Trinity senior PHOTO BY HEATHER MacKF.NZIE isn't always pointed in the same Laurie Bengelsdorf, helped plan ALL CAMPUS CARNIVAL Saturday's festival featured some rather exotic booths. direction, O'Barr said. the conference as part of an This hermetically sealed jail provided some tense moments for its inmates who awaited Measures that are intended to independent study project. "It a kiss to release them from bondage. Page Two The Chronicle Monday, March 30, 1981 ... Committee meets as strike nears OurWorld Continued from page 1 concessions that he construes as political, may face a important in Poland's history. It was shaping up as a personal challenge to his leadership. It is believed that Fish to talk on politics struggle between hard-liners and moderates on the he is strong enough to surmount it, but the country's Peter G. Fish, professor of political science, will 140-member Central Committee, polarized over the situation is so unstable that nothing can be ruled out. speak on the Supreme Court and the Reagan issue of how to deal with the union. The 10-man Politburo has been transformed by administration today at 4:30 p.m. in Few Divisions have been deepened by the country's leadership upheavals —there are only four survivors Federation Lounge. The talk is part of a spiraling crisis, with food shortages worsening, from before last summer's strikes — but the Central continuing series on Politics in the '80s sponsored Warsaw Pact troops on extended maneuvers in and Committee has not been so greatly changed. It is a by Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honorary around Poland, and the union prepared to call 10 conservative body, and, left to its own devices, would fraternity. million workers off their jobs indefinitely in two days undoubtedly favor a sterner line toward the union. But unless agreement is reached before then. it is meeting amid a public clamor for accommodation Forests' responses studied Stanislaw Kania, the party leader, a moderate who instead of confrontation. has been pursuing a tightrope course of trying to seek Boyd Strain, professor of botany, is leading a an accommodon with the union while fending off There are also pressures for change from the grass­ study in Costa Rica that is attempting to learn roots level of the party. This was reflected in the angry how tropical forests will respond to worldwide debate in Sunday's sessions, or at least the portions of climate changes. The National Science it relayed by the official Polish press agency, PAP. Foundation is supporting the study with a $39,986 Editors elected Speaker after speaker spoke ofthe crisis in the party, grant. The Publications Board elected editors two ofthe distrust and lack of credibility it has engendered Strain said that scientists are presently not sure editors for 1981-82 Friday night — Erica among the people and of the need to get rid of the old "how tropical forests will respond to continued Johnston, editor of the Chronicle, and Chris guard and get on with the country's "democratic clearing and destructive land use. "Strain said the Nichols, editor of Tobacco Road. renewal." Significantly, most of the critics were study is using the facilities ofthe Organization for Johnston, a sophomore, has been features editor workers, not party bureaucrats. Tropical Studies, whose North American of the Chronicle and is currently a reporter at the headquarters is here at Duke.