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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 1990 The olC lege News 1990-3-7 Vol.11 No. 9 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 1990-3-7 Vol.11 No. 9 (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1990). This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_collegenews/1410 For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE NEWS VOLUME VIII NUMBER^ FOUNDED BRYN MAWR COLLEGE MARCH 7,1990 KEEP ABORTION Naomi Tutu speaks AND BIRTH CONTROL at Swarthmore BY LIZ PENLAND in the places where they work and end up abandoning their wives and children, When Naomi Tutu first took the stage leaving them destitute. in Swarthmore's Lang Auditorium on Another evil sustaining apartheid Saturday, February 24, she was greeted which Tutu discussed was the Education with enthusiastic applause by the sev- Act of 1953, which was passed to ensure enty-odd membersof theaudience. When that "black South Africans would accept the clapping was finally dying down, their inferiority because of inferior edu- she said with a wry smile, "Let's hope cation." South Africa spends spends six you do that when I finish speaking." times more money on the education of a Tutu, daughter of Bishop Desmond white child than it does on the education Tutu, gives frequent presentations on of a black child. As a result, over eighty South Africa in conjunction with her work percent of black South African students Molly Yard speaking in Thomas Great Hall photo by Laura Hart for the Tutu Foundation. This founda- every year fail the final exam in their tion was begun in May 1985 to help vic- senior year of high school. tims of apartheid, especially refugees who Tutu also addressed the realities of the Yard urges BMC to were forced to leave South Africa and government-sponsored Death Squads, those within South Africa who were the existence of which the South African displaced from their homes. government unconditionally denies, Tutu holds a bachelor's degree in even though a member of such a squad vote pro-choice French and English from Berea College recently confessed in public his connec- in Kentucky, a master's in International tions within this secret network and BY RACHEL WINSTON and pocketbook against a stack of candi- Economic Development from the Uni- provided names of many involved par- date i.d.'s and press schedules. versity of Kentucky, and an honorary ties. The Freedom Caravan for Women's "In 1989, PA legislators had their day," doctorate of Political Science and Inter- Even within the more public sector of Lives, an on-the-road abortion rights she began, "but in 1990, the people of PA national Relations from the Universal police activity, brutality is perpetrated voter mobilization sponsored by the will have their chance to speak loudly Orthodox College in Nigeria. She is cur- with impunity, as exemplified by an National Organization for Women, and clearly in favor of abortion rights." rently pursuing a doctorate in Interna- incident in which three white policemen wheeled into Bryn Mawr'sThomasGreat Yard predicts "a voter backlash against tional Development at the London School severely beat a black policemen foralleg- Hall last Wednesday night, bringing with incumbents" who sought to deny women of Economics. edly not closing a gate, so severely that it a veritable bandwagon full of pro- the option of having an abortion. Tutu began her talk with a discussion he died a few days later from the injuries choice political candidates. With incumbent Governor William of the more insidious and deeply-rooted he sustained. No charges, or even sus- An audience of several hundred, in- Casey (Dem.) running for re-election on forms of oppression in South Africa, the pensions, wt/H handed out. cluding a large number of anti-choice a fervidly anti-choice platform, Yard "hidden evil that the world seldom sees Even though the Apartheid system is activists, arrived to hear speeches outlin- outlined NOW's endorsement of Repub- or notices ... evil which sustains the sys- so hideously violent, Tutu herself is an ing the latest strategies of the pro-choice lican Barbara Hafer in her bid for the gu- tem." She first mentioned the land re- staunch believer in nonviolent resistance. movement. bernatorial office. The PA chapter of moval policy which gives thirteen per- This belief she attributes to her father. As While technicians worked to correct a NOW is asking area voters to switch cent of South Africa's land, and undesir- she said, "I personally can't escape from faulty sound system, delaying the start from the Democratic Party to the Repub- able land at that, to the three million being my father's daughter. Twenty-nine of the evening's presentation, I had a lican in support of Hafer's primary race. Africans who comprise eighty-six per- years of brainwashing is pretty power- chance to talk with NOW president Molly Voters must cast their ballots within their cent of the population. This policy forces ful." As an example, she explained that Yard. Crammed into a hallway stacked registered party to select a candidate in men, who must seek employment far her father would say, whenever family with tables and chairs cleared from the the primary election. away from their homes, to live apart members would come home after par- Great Hall to make room for the event, Noting Hafer's "strong track record" from their families for the greater part of ticularly vivid encounters with the vio- Yard reviewed the Pennsylvania pro- and her positive reading on a litmus test the year. In turn, this splits many fami- lence of apartheid, "They [white South choice voting strategy, balancing her coat lies apart as men often take companions Students meet, react to three candidates for Dean BY MAGGIE J. KRALL It is impossible, and for our purposes, Department. She received her B.A. from Two other questions to which Goss- AND PATTI SAVOIE unnecessary, to present the entirety of George Washington University in 1956, man gave somewhat vague responses the candidate-student interactions ob- graduating summa cum laude, and were those about the importance of The final phase of the search for a new jectively; the scope of such an explora- earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at Johns women's colleges, and how to address Dean of the Undergraduate College tion is far beyond that of a newspaper Hopkins University in 1960. tensions on campus. She stated clearly began last week, with visits from three of article. Here are presented a few of the In student discussion after the meet- that she wants to be at a women's college the four candidates for the position. Eva points that the students found most ing with Gossman, it became apparent and is committed to women's education: Gossman, Janina Montero, Karen important, and some of the student reac- that the general consensus was that her "It's not a career move for me... I would Tidmarsh, and Faith Gabelnick were tions to each candidate. responses were vague and somewhat really like to work in a women's college selected from a pool of 75 applicants on Eva Gossman, the first of the candi- patronizing. Many students asked ques- ... I think it's a special time for Itheml". the basis of their past experience and on dates to arrive, began her visit on the tions about what role she would take in Even though she was asked to elaborate, preliminary interviews with the search 26th of February and stayed through the the progression of Bryn Mawr as an insti- students were left wondering what her committee. Included on the schedule set morning of the 27th. She is currently the tution responding to the changing world reasons are for wanting to be here. up for each of the candidates were meet- Associate Dean of the College at Prince- around us. While she acknowledged that Addressing the campus tensions issue, ings with Bryn Ma wr department.! I chair- ton University. Her area of academic the world is growing more complex, and she spoke briefly of building a curricu- personsand major administratorson both interest and expertise is philosophy, and that students need different skills and lum and providing models to address Bryn Mawr and Haverford campuses, as she taught at Goucher and Sarah Law- understandings to prepare for our "adult the problems, but offered no dynamic or well as separate coffee hour discussions rence Colleges during the SCs and 60's. and professional lives", she offered no concrete suggestions. with faculty and students, and a dinner She has also held various administrative innovative ideas, and presented no strong Janina Montero arrived on the after- with student organization members. positions at Princeton in the Philosophy motivation for change. EACE AND POLITICS: a variety of perspectives P from a variety of people see centerspread pages & Page 2 The College News March 7,1990 It has come to our attention that several members of the community were offended by the posters we put up calling for articles about Black "Herstory" Month. In using this term, we did not mean to imply that black history is valid only in a feminist Are we silencing our own voices ? context, nor did we mean to deny the importance of men in the legacy of black history.

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