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[ I ^ • ■ • THE COLLEGE NEWS VOLUMEHE XI Numbert- FOUNDEt) 1914 ~T^ BRYN MAWR COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 21,1989 How committed is BMC to campus accessibility? BY GRETCHEN JUDE towards the physical aspects of Bryn Mawr College, this reporter wondered Renovations and improvements of —"what about accessibility for the mobil- several campus buildings—most nota- ity impaired? Why weren't ramps or bly Pembroke East, Merion and Brecon— elevators included in the rather gener- cost the college nearly three million dol- ous construction budgets? Although, lars this summer. The most obvious according to Moshen Malek of physical construction, Pern East, was completed plant, the college is planning a complete . in thirteen weeks at a cost of $2 million; study of campus-wide accessibility Merion's staircases and fourth floor were "within the next couple months", the renovated atapproximatelv$180,(X)0,and college already "feels that there is ade- the first and fourth floor Brecon bath- quateaccess". Perhaps this isbecausethe rooms were improved, costing around college considers handicap accessibility $75,000. In addition, new storm windows not on a building-by-building basis, but were added to some Erdman rooms and in terms of the services the campus as a Erdman's roof was finally completed. whole can make accessible to the differ- More than half the dorm rooms on cam- ently abled. However, whenever I look pus were painted. Denbigh living room at the new staircases in Pern East and and backsmoker were refurnished, as Merion, or climb the steps to see my was the Perry House library. According Dean, I wonder when Bryn Mawr Col- to Chuck Heyduk, head of Student Serv- lege's financial priorities will illustrate a ices, this is the "best shape the physical commitment to true accessibility and plant of the college has been in". diversity rather than to aesthetics and With so much effort and funding going rhetoric. Newly constructed stairs leave Pembroke East inaccessable for differently -abled.. Webster v. Missouri—What Photo by Gretchen Jude. does it bode for Choice? Deans Hall and Mheta Taylor Hall moves towards diversity BY PATRICIA HANNAWAY uphold the Missouri law's preamble. The BY RACHEL PERLMAN Dean Mheta is excited to be back at preamble reads similar to: human life Bryn Mawr. Mheta was the warden in On July 3rd, the United States Supreme begins at conception and fetuses have There are two new figures in Taylor Erdman until the warden program ended; Court ruled upon a Missouri Statute that protectable interests in life and health. Hall this fall—Deans Marcia Hall and then she worked for the Philadelphia restricts access to abortion, reinterpreted This proclamation does not have a direct Sonia Mheta. College of Textiles in student and resi- Roe v. Wade, and agreed to accept three impact upon abortion regulations yet, Dean Hall was a sociology major in dence life. She has been working on her cases involving abortion in this term. but giving the state the right to define Bryn Mawr's class of 1978. Since she disertation hereatBryn Mawr for several Although the Webster decision left the where life begins is extremely dangerous. graduated she has earned an MA and years, so academically she was never fundamental right to abortion intact, it In accepting this definition of life, the PhD, both in sociology. She worked as a really separated from the college. Mheta did give states the new right to restrict distinction between abortion and research assistant for seven years in the was college-educated in India and came access to abortion. This newly acquired methods of contraception that function National Study of Black College Students, to the States six years ago to continue her state power and the Supreme Court after conception, such as the pill, becomes which was a "great research experience." education. She is expecting to complete decision itself have frightening political vague and arbitrary. This is especially The study particularity examined the' her dissertation this May. She has been ramifications. dangerous in the face of the possibility of success and failure of Black students in studying Indian immigrants in the U.S. The Webster decision basically effects the criminalization of abortion and the college. and the things that have fascilitated or six areas: (1) the idea that life begins at incredible lack of sex education. Last April, when Hall was on campus interfered with their adaptation. conception, (2) the use of public facilities The restriction upon public facilities to for Diversity Day, President McPherson Mheta says that applying for the posi- for abortion, (3) restrictions on those who perform abortions states that public suggested that she apply for the one-year tion of assistant dean "seemed like a can receive public funding for abortion, employees and public facilities can no position of assistant dean. Hall thinks natural thing to do," and that she is very (4) speech restriction on those receiving longer perform abortions. The statutes thatBrynMawrhas changed for the better pleased with her new position at Bryn public funds, (5) mandatory viability definition of a 'public facility' is one that since she was a student; "Bryn Mawr is Mawr. One thing that she especially likes tests, and (6) abandoning the trimester is under contract with the state. In much better, more interested in engag- about her job is the high level of contact framework of Roe. The impact of each of upholding this decision, the court has ing the issue of diversity...At least since she has with the students. As a student, these must be understood to the fullest given the state the power to 'prefer I've been back Bryn Mawr has indicated Mheta has found a caring and support- extent possible in order to forsee the childbirth toabortion', thus it is no longer it is sincere about addressing [these] is- ing environment at Bryn Mawr —"I think power that states can attempt to impose required to provide facilities for sues." Bryn Mawr has really helped me find in the future. abortions. This definition of public Hall still thinks that Bryn Mawr "has myself ...in some ways to become who I The idea that life begins at conception facilities included most hospitals, and to do better in attracting faculty of color, am. It is exciting to be part of that process is one that was determined invalid by clinics and doctor's offices receiving state especially women of color—and not just now... I am gratified to be part of what Roe v. Wade; however, now states can Continued on page 6 for [the sake of] students of color." makes Bryn Mawr College special." Sherman Anti-Trust Act invoked against BMC and others

BY BETH STROUD investigation was extended to include financial ones. than preliminary information on cost Bryn Mawr. Bryn Mawr is a founding However, if this practice, or any similar increases until final decisions have been For over a month now, the Justice member of the New England Overlap practice, involves an agreement to fix reached. Yet, in a letter which appeared Department has been investigating Group, a group of colleges and tuition increases, or to offer identical aid before colleges had released their official possible antitrust violation^ at about 20 universities which meet every spring to packages to specific students, it is in statements about tuition increases, the prestigious colleges and universities. The inform each other of their decisions violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Wesleyan University treasurer's office investigation is focused on the processes regarding financial aid packages. This act prohibits any agreements "in reported figures for cost increases at at by which tuition and financial aid are Students admitted to more than one restraint of trade or commerce." least six other schools. The letter, marked determined. If it can be proven that these college in the group generally receive The Wall Street Journal has run several 'confidential,' was apparently designed colleges engage in a price-fixing scheme, similar financial aid packages from all articles criticizing this practice and to pacify students and parents who were they will be subject to fines and forced to the colleges. The stated intent of this suggesting that it may involve illegal angry about rising costs by showing them make changes in their cost-setting practice is to avoid "bidding wars" over transactions. Some evidence is given for that Wesleyan was only implementing procedures. desirable students and to allow them to this possibility. For instance, the colleges an average tuition hike. The figures On Monday, September 11th, the choose a college for other reasons than claim that they do not share any more Continued on page 8 /-"") EDITORIAL Women's Studies: new Campus newspaper, feminist three-part leadership BY LISA ARELLANO frustrated Mawrters to travel to advocacy journal: a hybrid Swarthmore and U Penn in search of The new academic year has brought academic fulfillment. They are, however, The College News is a strange animal, a hybrid campus an exciting threesome to the Bryn Mawr encouraged by the expressions of concern newspaper, feminist journal, and advocacy journal. As a Women's Study Program. Jane Hedley on campus. They would like to encourage campus newspaper, it attempts to cover issues of relevance (English) is in charge of advising students to make compromises in course Women's Studies majors and minors, selections, when necessary, and attend to the college community. As a feminist journal and an JaneCaplan (History) is working on the the lectures sponsered by the Women's advocacy journal, it reaches beyond Bryn Mawr to deal with newly developed "Women's, Studies Studies committee. issues of broader significance for women. These two facets Newsletter" and convenes the faculty In general, the triad finds Bryn Mawr seminar in Women's Studies, and Carol a comfortable environment for Gender of The College News intertwine and inform each other. Thus, Joffe (Social Work) is coordinating the Studies pursuits. Hedley did suggest that an article about campus building renovations points out the lecture series and the Women's Studies the Women's Studies program is a bit effects on disabled women, and a centerspread on the recent budget. They all express an enthusiasm haunted by thespirit of M. Carey Thomas for their partners in feminist pursuit, but and her doctrine of equal education for Supreme Court abortion ruling includes information about acknowledge difficulties in the lack of a women—a notion which works against the options available for dealing with unwanted pregnancy full time Women's Studies coordinator. some of the basic principles of creating a at our own Health Center. As part of the triad commented "It seems feminist methodology. workable, actually...as long as its only All three expressed questions Only women may write iorThe College News. Letters for a short time. regarding the post graduate experiences from men are welcome; however, the bulk of the paper is Hedley, Caplan, and Joffe stressed the of Women's Studies majors. Both Joffe reserved for articles, commentaries, cartoons, graphics and importanceof Women's Studies crossing and Hedley proposed that ideally, departmental lines with the ultimate goal women with an interest in Women's photographs by women. This policy is intended to guarantee of being-"seamlessly interdisciplinary". Studies should major in a more traditional women the opportunity to define themselves in their own This breakdown of interdepartmental academic discipline, and pursue a minor. voices. barriors was projected as a potential Joffe stressed that that should include a academic revolution, and Joffe pointed strong contingent from math and the The expression of these voices is also a focal concept out that Women's Studies is on the natural sciences. in the philosophy of The College News. Letters and forefront. In spite an apparently minimal commentaries are not edited at all. Articles may be edited The three regret the lack of classes commitment from numerous for punctuation and typos, but content and style are not available to majors and minors this departments to provide Gender Studies semester: Only eight courses in Gender coures, the team of Hedley, Caplan, and changed. Stuidies appeared in the Bi-college Joffe are sure to bring a diverse and It is important to The College News staff to recognize the curriculum. In addition, certain courses ambitious perspective to the Women's complexity of feminist perspectives, and to be as inclusive as were restricted in enrollment, leaving Studies program. possible within our tradition of advocacy journalism. Welcome, class of 1993 Clusters bring new potential It's a College News tradition to include a welcome to new students in the first issue of the year. In the past, the editors have for involvement to campus offered advice for survival, praised or criticized the new cloass, BY THIDA CORNES tively involved in organizing events on and made cryptic references to Hell Week. campus while the majority remain largely Clusters are groups of dormitories, uninvolved. A possible by-product of To continue that tradition, we'd like to say: Get a full working on issues of social and intellec- wider community involvement could be night of sleep every now and then, and use caution when tual community life. A cluster consists of better distribution of information about sampling the tofu entrees. Bryn Mawr is a reciprocal relation- 3-4 dorms with its own steering com- campus events. mitee. Hopefully these will be composed The cluster system will not affect Room ship-we enrich as well as being enriched- by the institution and of a broad spectrum of the Bryn Mawr Draw or the meal plan, but Mary Osirims our peers. We make mistakes as we learn and grow, but this too community —students, faculty, admini- hopes that people will identify with their is part of the Bryn Mawr experience. Welcome to this challenge! stration, graduates, and staff— and will cluster and elect to live within it all four include every level of people, not just years. It is not meant to infringe on the officials such as dorm presidents and roles various groups play on campus, deans. The steering commitees will be in but rather to augment and widen the charge of coordinating events for the variety of options open to them. COLLEGE NEWS clusters. These events can include politi- SGA president Jaye Fox hopes that BRYN + MAWR COLLEGE VOLUME XI. NO. 1 SEPT. 21.198* cial, social and intellectual events, such individuals will feel that through clus- as films, dances, parties, speakers. Each ters they "can be involved in a campus Editorial Collective cluster has its own budget and can pres- activity without selling I their] soul to an ent proposals for funding. organization" and that clusters will be- Lisa Arellano Box C-7 526-5695 The genesis of the concept arose from come a middle ground between a large Thida Cornes Box C-215 526-5782 student outcry that faculty were not ac- campus forum and a small dorm meet- Cheryl Lee Kim Box C-l 299 526-7547 tively involved in student life. Members ing. Rachel L. Perlman Box C-205 526-5482 of the faculty met with reprenstatives of The clusters will be big enough so that BethStroud Box C-l 515 527-5536 SGA, Minority Coalition, and other stu- different circles of friends can meet and dent organizations to discuss the im- small enough so that discussion can occur Layout Editor Arts Editor? Photography Editor plementation of clusters. The funds will on a interpersonal level. This could in- Tracy Trotter Shari Neier Jamie Tortorello Gretchen- Krieger mainly be redirected from other areas corporate more input on issues such as Box C-825 Box C-735 Box C-821 Box C-147 such as the large party funds and dorm racism and homophobia and generate a 526-7576 526-7577 526-7577 526-5452 discretionary funds, but if the clusters more fruitful dialogue. However, when really took off, perhaps the college could all is said and done, Tne clusters are apply for grant money. Apparently there experimental and although they do pro- Editorial Board Mary Elizabeth Cave, Thea Gray, Tania Kendrick, Gretchen are funds specifically for improving stu- vide another channel of communication, Kreiger, Kelly Love, Shari Neier, Jamie Tortorello, Tracy Trotter, Laura Van dent life. their success or failure depends on the Straaten One of the aims of clusters to improve way the community chooses to use the Graphics: Audrey Driver, Thea Gray overall quality of student life, and to try structure. to forge a stronger sense of community Deadline: Saturday September30th 10am in the Rock office.. (That's when we identity for students by getting a larger Submissions, articles, starrt proofing) Please submit articles on a Mac disk. number of students involved in campus functions and improving student/fac- letters, etc., for the next The College New* is a Bryn Mawr publication serving the entire college community. ulty interaction. Although at the mo- issue of the semester: I'eople interested in joining the staff should contact one of the editors. The College ment only the administration and fac- Ncivs is published every other week while classes are in session. ulty are officially involved, another aim DUE SATURDAY SEP- of the clusters is to improve the level of TEMBER 30 10AM STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The College Newt seeks to provide a fonjm for the student communication with staff and tudents, faculty, administration, and staff of Bryn Mawr. While articles on topical graduate students. ROCK OFFICE. Please ubjects will be published, each issue will seek to examine in depth an issue of rele It is also hoped that the clusters will lyance to the college community. The College News welcomes ideas and submissions provide a channel through which more submit on Mac disk. We :rom all members of the community, as well as from outside groups and individuals students will feel that they have some- reserve the right to cut whose purpose or functions are connected to those of the College. thing meaningful to contribute, and to address the problem that some faculty late articles. and students see of a few students ac- Student Reflects on the life of Women in the Soviet Union BY KIMBERLY LIN go to church with the baby. Childcare is also a woman's job. Chil- Gorbachev. Perestroika. Glastnost. dren may start going to a pre-school type Important words which pervade the day care at the age of one and a half. writings of American journalists but what When my friend's daughter became ill, about other important words such as the husband scolded the mother for status of women, division of household improper supervision and negligence. Traditions work, and generosity? However, I have seen many fathers push- By Mandy Jones and Margot Hipwell falls to the sophomore songsmistress, I spent seven weeks in the Soviet Un- ing their child in a stroller, sometimes (Traditions Mistresses) and there are many different ways to do ion, nearly all of that time in Moscow, on with the mother and sometimes not. this. The advantage that sophomores a summer study program. I was one of At the dinner table during my first Now that the first few weeks of classes have is that freshmen are new to the the lucky Americans who had Soviet week, I made a terrible faux pas. My are over (finally) and everyone's settled college and aren't able to distinguish friends already waiting for my arrival. (It crime—I filled my friend's empty vodka down (relatively speaking, of course), upperclassmen on sight. Many songs is not always easy to know whether the glass. Nothing was verbally said to me, we might well ask ourselves: What's it all have been stolen by "fake freshmen." Soviet you meet in the kitchen or in the but my friends did look at me curiously. about? Why are we here, who leads us Usually sophomores do the deed, bhi in park wants to be a friend or wants to be If you are female at a Soviet table, and (fearlessly or not), what the hell is Parade 1986, a junior who was known for ner near you because he wants something you have an empty glass, you say some- N ight? Well, not being Phil majors, know- striking ability to look "freshman-like" from an American.) My Soviet friends thing to the effect, " I have an empty ing little about power and less about stole the song. Other methods of Parade welcomed me into their lives, and I had a glass." Then a man will fill your glass. Nietsche, and having, if not sharp and Night espionage have included hidden rare glimpse of Soviet life. Women do not generallypour drinks for clear epistemologies, then at least warm upperclassmen in hot air vents, the use of I would never, ever want to be a Soviet themselves or for men. My Soviet female and fuzzy ones, we might look deep into concealed microphones, and in one case, woman. If you think American women friendsonly filled their own glasses when your eyes and answer, "huh?" Reflection a sudden "blackout" during which cop- are second-class citizens, I don't know their were no men at the table. is good, but only when you can reflect ies of the song were snatched. how to classify Soviet women. I hesitate While I was in Moscow, a group of more than your own confusion. So we'll So much for the technicalities of the to make sweeping generalizations about students and teachers from California stick to what we know: tradishunz. (We tradition. Just what the hell is it and how the lives of Soviet women, but I do want descended upon my friends as part of the never claimed to know how to spell.) the hell did it evolve, anyway? Actually, todescribe several incidents. First, it must exchange program. One man and one And we'll try to relieve your tired minds Parade Night has only been called such be noted that my friends are unique in woman, Peter and Judy, headed the of burning unanswered questions (yeah, since 1911. Before that, is was known as that they have been to the United States, American delegation. Although the right) about Parade Night. Freshmen Rush Night and was a much are working in a scientific community Soviets liked Judy, whenever they had The first night of classes, anxious fresh- more sinister, even violent event. Fresh- which is heavily supported by the gov- anything of importance to discuss, they woombines (read-wombyns-read-wim- men would parade across campus to a ernment, and are married with children. spoke with Peter. mins-read-womoans-read-womons- great bonfire and then would have to Soviet fashion is reminiscent of the 70's As I mentioned above, my friends are in read-first-year-students), antagonistic engage in a "devil dance" or "snakedance" and the footwear quality is poor. Yet, in an elite group; not very elite, but most sophomores (usually wildly enthusias- around the leaping flames. On one occa- spite of this, the vast majority of women definitely not typical. I shudder to think tic ones at that), sympathetic juniors, and sion, an effigy labeled "freshie" was tossed wear high heels. These women wear of the life of the average Soviet woman. apathetic seniors gather beneath Pern upon the inferno. (Try to build mental uncomfortable shoes all day—while they But these Soviet friends are the most Arch and along Taylor Walk. The FROSH pictures of this. Mighty weird, n'est-ce stand in line for various products; while generous, giving, and anti-war people I then proceed through the upperclasses pas?) But alas, they tired of this. No, they walk through the streets of Moscow; have ever known. If I.would say, "I like in dignified, usually disintegrating to actually they really liked it, but in 1908 while they stand in a crowded bus or that calendar," it would come off the paranoid, form. If the weather is good, President Thomas wrote a letter to SGA metro. 1, in my Avia aerobic shoes, stood wall and be thrust into my hands. I found everyone follows to Denbigh Green. If, and requested that the tone of the tradi- less than the average woman, but at the a type of Moscow chocolate which I re- however, the gods think we must be tion be more sedate. She believed Parade end of the day, my feet would be sore and ally enjoyed and was of a quality sur- crazy, and it rains, it's off to Thomas Night should be more of a welcoming tired. Besides, even if a Soviet family passing anything I've ever tasted before. Great Hall. What follows is, as everyone ceremony than an apocalyptic soiree. Oh, were rich enough to own a car, in all I asked my friend Lena where I could knows, a step-sing, but without the steps. well. Party pooper. likelihood, the woman would never drive buy it and she didn't know. After I left, (It isn't until Lantern Night that seniors But times change, people mellow, and it. Women do not drive cars. The entire Lena called her mother-in-law who lived get their steps and freshmen get their fire laws multiply. And now we greet time I was in Moscow, I only saw a woman in the center of town. Somehow, when I lanterns.) our incoming freshmen classes with drive a car once. saw them 3 days later, they had a bag full Each class has three traditional songs, cheers and candy and sometimes very It seems strange to me that Soviet men of those chocolates for me. a Lyric, a Round, and a Parade Night loud horns. It may not be quite as spec- are unwilling to let their wives drive the During a discussion about the need for song. (Whether each class continues to tacular as the celebrations of our Found- car when women steer the direction of peace and understanding between the enjoy all of them for four years is another ing Wombyns, but the Mawrters of to- everyday life. Granted, women do nearly United States and the Soviet Union, my matter.) Sophomore year, a parody of the day certainly have less need for medical all the shopping and cooking, but men do friend Tanya began to cry. She listed the stolen frosh Parade Night song is added. insurance, and, hopefully get a better kow-tow to their wives'. The times I had number of Russians who have died in the Since about 1946, this has been pretty picture of our traditions and our college. dinner with them, it was usually with a major wars, from the Japanese-Russo War much taken for granted, but before then, So, for all of you who have been through group of six to ten people. During those to World War II. She does not want her it was not unheard of for freshmen to Parade Night before but had no idea of evenings, my friend would tell her hus- son, nor anybody else's son, to die in keep their Parade Night song a secret. In its gory past, here you are - Everything band what needed to be done (get milk another war. I have never seen such an 1941, the freshmen held their song re- You Never Wanted to Know but We for the baby, move and set the table, get intensity of emotion from an American hearsal in the middle of the hockey field Thought You Should Anyway. And for out the dishes, etc.) and he would do it. about the need for peace. to prevent sophomore spying, and re- all of you new to our community - He didn't have the initiative to do it So, when someone asks, "How was portedly pinned their copies of the song WELCOME TO TRADITIONS! himself; she had to direct him. But she Moscow?" I am silent and remember the to their underwear for ultimate conceal- also allowed herself to be directed. My above incidents, and countless others, ment. The sophomores were at a loss to Attention: Lantern Night isOctober 22nd female friend did not attend church, but most of all I remember the people. I steal the song, and realizing that they at 7pm. because her husband thought church was reply, "Ummm, interesting and wonder- had been outwitted, instead wroteasong Lantern Night T-Shirt Designs are due "silly." However, whenever he was not ful, but hard." praising freshman cunning. October 13th by 5pm to C-1329 or C- around on Sunday morning, she would Today, the job of song-stealing usually 1346.

/IL.1WW/ f o Calling all! The College News is looking for talented writ- ers, cartoonists, proofreaders, and layout people (especially those who know PageMaker)! In Of AJAr*M(r™£&Aae6' addition, we will be selecting new members for TUN A t-g&BlL; 10V CAUSA) ■nej! ttiFAif-! the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board is instru- v- '®£/fC mental in guiding the vision of the paper. Board AAK. BEAU" rg.if5rVD wir/f^er HM members are also committed to assisting at each layout and writing regularly. We are a biweekly paper. There will be an informational meeting Sun- [s £V0Vtrl\t PBgtf day, September 24 at 10:00 p.m. in Campus Center 105. Please come! If you cannot make the meet- CAl FVHl ing, please leave a message on the College News' yZksM answering machine (x7340). Call extension 7341) and leave us messages! Page 4 The College News September 21,1989 The good ship of recycling takes off with a gusty wind

BY LISA DURBECK no" to styrofoam, which can't be recycled or degraded. Organizations and staff After the final round of talks last could savemoneyand paper by reducing Thursday one fervent recycler stood at the frequency and size of advertisements the helm (balcony) of the campus center and publications. You know, do what and cried, "Full speed ahead!" Pulleys you can. pulled, gears grinded, sparks flew, and One would be foolish indeed to expect the recycling ship, the Ship of Dreams, Bryn Mawr students to support a cause some would say, tossed off its summer without knowing all thefacts. Particularly moorings and bloundered away to find when the facts'are so easy to obtain: new aluminum trade routes. Haverford college arboretum and The thirty-three swarthy Mavvrters run Howard Holden, assistant manager of a tight ship (to recycle a cliche): last BMC Physical Plant, are cosponsoring a semester theirbudget was twelve dollars. series of dinner talks entitled "What on It only looks threatening...It isn I a "coffin" Photo by Gretchen Jude With orchestrated effort they (strongly Earth Can We Do?" The first talk, at 6:00 but weekly) haul in nets of paper and p.m. on Wednesday, September 27, will aluminum. Queen Municipality always be "Waste, Water, and Watts." gets a cut of the booty in the form of a Representatives from the Philadelphia Water Company, Pennsylvania Power A library is a friend Thursday offering outside the back of the campus center. She likes her loot in and Light, and Waste Management, Inc. have been asked to speak. The second boxes. Newspapers she'll take tied in i\ KELLY LOVE ing if there is actually anything helpful bundles. Michael Stokes, recycling presentation will be held in October and there and how you would find it, if it coordinator of Montgomery county and will address "Paper, Plastics, and As we find ourselves in the middle of were there? Do you walk around near Pesticides." Both will be held at a soothsayer, predicts that by September [September, with classes now started in the card catalog, hoping that you'll be Haverford Dining Center. 26 of 1990 Municipality's palate will ?arnest, it is high time to address a seri- able to figure out what to look under The tide is turning on the issue of require nothing less than corrugated >us problem on our campus. before anyone notices how lost you are? recycling. The consciousness and the aluminum, office paper, and compost. How many of you study in your rooms, Do you realize, as you start work on yourl consciences of citizens and legislators Brvn Mawr will surely be embarrassed if b backsmoker, even the cafe, not because thesis, that you've never before really are rising to phenomenal heights. With we cannot offer these delights. Steve my of those places are truly conducive to used the library? thisattitude must come action. Recycling Handy of the Merion Township Sewage studying, but rather because the idea of My guess is that more than one stu- is one action for which the phrase "Think Transfer Station suggests that Queen setting foot in the library sends a twinge dent will answer yes to some of these globally, act locally" is especially Municipality's fleet of sanitation trucks if anxiety into your heart? How many of questions. It is without a doubt time toj will offer to pick up these items this very applicable. Each time you hold a non- ;ou spent the two weeks of shopping debunk the myths that give rise to the a reusable can or paper in your hand you October. jeriod searching for classes that won't too common phenomenon of library! It is uncertain whether our thirty-three have the opportunity to contribute 'equire research papers—because library phobia. The library is in fact there for all towards the preservation of our rain swarthy Mawrters, graduate students, esearch seems like a treasure hunt with students to use. To promote this end forests, reduction of the production of and staff members will be able to handle 10 clues and only dubious promise of there are numerous "reference sheets" global-warming methane, and the 1 the strain of keeping the Queen's pantry reasure at the end? And then, when the available just to the left as you enter the cleanliness and safeness ot our land, full. You can lend the crew a hand by iwful moment arrives and in fact you do library, which explain everything thatj water, and air. Call me Ishmael, but the offering vour time and talents. You can taVe to use your library, do you walk in you could need to know. These include only Moby Dick here is our attitudeabout also help bv reducing their workload: u'sitantlv, pointedly avoiding eve con- everything from what special collections! the finiteness of our world and its use junk mail as scrap paper, refuse or act with the librarians? Do you wander or resources the library has, what is reuse plastic bottles and bags, "just say resources. Ground in the reference section, wonder- Continued on page .5 The Question Woman chats with Mary Patterson McPherson

An Interview with Our President "Benjamin Disraeli'' know is one of Jaye Fox's, is that we work you were1 together to improve the social scene ot "\ es, Sylvia Plath was at Smith when BY ANASTASIA DODSON II. Serious Discussion Questions Bryn Mawr. Social life needs a lot of I was. She was older than I. She was in What do vou like best about Brvn Mawr work." * the senior class when I was a freshman. 1 Last year the Question Woman had College?" was taught by several of the people that the opportunity to interview President "The sttfoents!" What direction do you see Bryn Mawr taught her. I didn't know her personally, McPherson. The questions were divided Where were you born? moving in during the 199()'s? but I knew who she was on campus. She up into three sections: "Silly Questions", "Addlington, Pennsylvania" "I think we'll all be adjusting to the wrote poems that we then read. I later "Serious Discussion Questions", and How many brothers and sisters do you introduction of new technologies which met her husband, after she was dead." "More Silly Questions". ***Justso the have;are you older or younger than them? will probably change how we view our more gossip-oriented readers won't ruin "Two brothers and one sister... all business and how we communicate. I If you could change anything about Bryn my literary style by reading the end of younger" would see the college continuing to make Mawr, what would you change? this article before the beginning, I'll give every effort to strengthen its faculty in a "I would see that it had two hundred the answer to the most asked question How have theSevenSisterschanged since period of time that's going to be very million more dollars in its account." right now: 6'1.25". you were at Smith? dicey. It's going to be a tough hiring "Basically probably one of the major period for all academic institutions How do you feel about Bryn Mawr I. Silly Questions differences was that they werea groupof because there will be a number of College? Who is your hero/heroine? institutions that for many of us in the retirements in the next decade and a half "Well, 1 came her in 1961 to spend one "Jane Sutherland" country were the premier institutions and many fewer people applying to the year, and I've been here ever since, so I What is your favorite axiom or saying? that one applied to, because access was academy to replace them. So it's going to must feel pretty committed to the place. "80% of life is showing up." not possible to the "Yales" and the be a time when to keep yourself the kind When opportunities togoelsewhere have Who is your favorite author? "Princetons". Obviously now women of quality institution that you hope to be been presented they have not seemed to "Jane Austen" may go wherever they choose. Most of is going to be a harder thing to achieve. I me, even though the world might have When you were little, what did you want these intitutions are no longer in isolated see the college trying to cope with the thought so, to live up to Bryn Mawr to be when you grew up? situations and have benefited from appropriate inclusion of technology. I College." "Olympic Equestrian" engaging in a wider range of institutional see it working hard at its efforts to further If you could have any job in the world, relationships." diversify itself within its people and its III. More Silly Questions what would it be? programs. I would see it trying to give How tall are you? "A famous soprano opera singer" Do you think there is a lack of proper some kind of leadership in the nation in "Six-foot one quarter inch." Do you have any particular toys you like respect or discipline at Bryn Mawr? that regard, because I think we are making to play with when you're stressed out? "I think there's a basic lack of civility in a lot of good progress that other Added note: The Question Woman "My two dogs, Barclay and Hobbes" American discourse at this point, whether institutions are not yet even considering personally thinks President McPherson What kind of music do you listen to? it be in our political system, or whether it committing themselves to. I would see is a pretty cool Mawrter. "Classical" be the way in which we treat one another us probably having more outreach What is your favorite book? out and about in things like a crowded programs of interest- that is, I think the "Plato's Republic" airport or the Acme food line or in the programs that we've gone over the last Where do you go shopping for clothes? parking lot Do I see a little more of that five or six years will be improved to work "Yeager's in San Francisco and a small here? Not really. .. Lack of discipline is more with high school students, to work place in Wilmington, Delaware that does certainly not an issue here. Respect in a more with older students, to work more all its buying in New York" community like this for each other would with teachers, and trying to have the Where do you like to vacation? be the central concern for me. ... The college be a real community resource to "Abroad, in places without telephones." office should be respected, but the a variety of people and toservea broader What is your favorite animal? person's got to earn respect." population and other institutions as well. "Hedgehog" I also see it continuing its strong efforts to If you could choose anyone to be How do you think Bryn Mawr College be an international institution." President of the U.S., who would you will change under Dean Tidmarsh? choose? "I think that one of her concerns, which I Was Sylvia Plath at Smith College when

/ September 21,1989 The College News Page 5 Jean Wu comes to Bryn Mawr and nov/, a commerc'ta\ message- Raises questions about student diversity

BY CHERYL LEE KIM instrumental in implementing ah Asian- talking about difference. We can talk / . ' / American Studies course at Harvard in about differences academically, but we Jean Wu first became acquainted with 1974, She commented/'There is a very have no vocabulary with which to dis- Bryn Mawr College while attending the solid validation of diverse experiences cuss personal differences. That 'piece' is Ik is i0:0O and Sara s'ibs Summer Institute for Women in Higher when those experiences, those realities very important to me. Whatever context home,' Knowing it is or>so(e . Education. Her knowledge of Bryn Mawr are integrated into the academic curricu- I'm in, I will continue to work with that." SJLQ go out iftko the>V>eV>fc--.. was deepened when the college re- lum." Wu hopes to teach at BMC eventually, quested that she implement the Plural- Her experience «in the classroom led but for the moment she is busily involved ism Workshop, which she designed while her to ask to questions: What does it with the needs of non-traditional stu- she was at Brown University. mean to shape an ethnic identity? She dents such as post-baccalaureates and Born in China and raised in Hong mused," It's not static. There's no such McBrideScholars. Wu commented/'They Kong, her initial contact with western thing as a static experience. It evolves [non-traditional students] cannot but culture began as a Master's candidate at through experience, and every Asian- enrich the community. If we are open to Harvard's Graduate School of Educa- American embodies a different piece of engaging difference...a lot of them bring ... on her day St, poris tion. She went on to complete her doctor- that evolving identify. There is great very different backgrounds and experi- v*ea«-s f<»nt*> claiming sne ate there. Wu has now joined the BMC diversity within subgroups...So many ences to the community. Conversation ^ f ce>s vulnerable in a sVirt...J faculty as Dean of the Division of Special different voices are subsumed." on campus creates richness and results Studies. She was attracted to the College Often, Wu noted, the bi-cultural expe- in a kind of 'cross-fertilization.'" r because of its small size, its "no-apolo- rience requires one to reconcile two dif- Wu will be working closely with the gies commitment to striving for excel- ferent systems of metaphors, two differ- Dean's Office and Joyce Miller on issues lence," and her personal belief in the ent ways of looking at the world. "We of diversity. "There's still a lot of work to importanceof "nurturingand protecting need to work at evolving a unique voice, be done |on issues of diversity 1 across the a single sex educational context for a whole integrated voice, blending cul- nation, at all levels of education. Diver- women." tures." sity is not something peripheral or some- ... anu Martha r\CJtr Show* "Interest in diversity in institutions "In counseling, I found continuous thing that you walk down to the Cultural Louise Jrrejdtior\in pvibUc^^ brings up questions as to what education food for thought in how we're shaped by Center to find. It needs to be right here, should be. Howare wepreparing women education," stated Wu. "On the issue of where you are getting the finest educa- and men to take their place in society?" learning - we're never taught how to tion..." she asked. In addition, Wu was chal- interact with difference, to create new lenged by the idea of working with non- meanings in a very diverse society. No PATRIARCHY. traditional students. one can set that aside. It's critical. We've Welcome to BMC, Ms. Wu! While her main responsibilities con- never paid much attention to this...and IT WORKS. cern the Special Studies students, Wu is in a lot of ways, we're not very good at vitally interested in the undergraduate !>MV FOB. BV T*C CAMTA»6H ft* community. She stated/The past three "WMTH »M ADVERTISING weeks, I've been busy getting settled in, 1HJt> but I really want to get to know the undergraduate students...I'm very ex- cited to be here." A SIMPLE CARTOON Reb«c* fA«+*-'>3 Is discussion Wu's background at Harvard and at Brown makes her especially well pre- pared to make significant contributions |6+ ©V©«H* P'TOHSW collusion? 4-Wi*. V****"! p"^' f~Me*\tn to the Bryn Mawr community. She taught Stroud-Continued from page 1 courses in psychology and social rela- —~K~ tions, and as part of her clinical psychol- turned out to be exactly right or within ogy training for her doctorate, she was NO ft*MP 1% of the increases announced later on involved in cross-cultural counseling. Bryn Mawr has agreed to comply with As a student, and later as a lecturer at the investigation, but does not believe Harvard, she noted the void which then than any violation has occurred. In a existed for minority students. Wu was news meeting, President McPherson described the information-sharing of the Overlap Group as "normal fcL^MTO* LoUfO conversations," informal and involving Overcoming no binding agreements. A certain degree of cooperation is especially useful for AT1PKAL CURB private colleges, which have their own libraryphobim financial aid programs in addition to the money allotted by the government. Love-continued from page 4 Also, the bidding wars resulting from available at each of the smaller libraries a cease-and-desist order would put Bryn on campus, to something as basic as how Mawr at a disadvantage in terms of to use the card catalog. There are also recruiting needy students. "This publications called "research guides," institution cannot afford to be a million located along with the "referencesheets," r\n4 -TUA-V frW'»l«gei p«opt< dollars over its financial aid budget," which give information ranging from 5Hov<4 c Viang* VWiwijS i. t i-fe \«SS itff" said McPherson. the general to the detailed on how to go iA ' ***** cycle is the most fertile time. In order to Hannaway - continued from page 1 Under Roe the state cannot limit the find out more about this folks can call the woman's right to an abortion in the first Health Center any time and ask the nurse imbursement for any medical services. three months of pregnancy. The state can on duty, who'll be happy to answer your This is so obviously wide-ranging , that choose to impose some regulations in the PH/UY questions. in her statement, Justice O'Connor, while second trimester, but merely to protect M If it's been longer than 72 hours but the upholding the provision, wrote that she the mother's health. In the third trimester, period isn't yet late, the only thing to do was not sure if this definition of 'public the state can pass substantial regulations, is wait and see. If her period is late, the facilities' was constitutional or not. because there is a compelling interest in Health Center will provide a urine preg- The restriction of speech upon those protecting the life of the fetus. Justice nancy test Monday through Friday be- receiving funds seems the least Rehnquist and Scalia were in favor of tween 9:00 and 5:00. The Health Center influential, yet it has the potential to be removing the system altogether. likes to wait until a period is actually late the most damaging. The Missouri law O'Connor felt it 'problematic'. This is the or more precisely, until it has been 28 states that public funds cannot be used most destructive part of the ruling, as it days since the beginning of the last pe- to, "council or encourage abortion." The allows the state to begin regulating riod to increase the accuracy of the test. A court did not rule on this statute at this abortion at every stage of a pregnancy. first morning urine is also requested for time supposedly due to the narrow The question of at what point does the the test which further increases the accu- interpretation of the Missouri law, state have the right to begin protecting racy. The results of a pregnancy test are however, it did not deny the statute cither fetal life has been reintroduced, and only released in person by a Health Center If this law had been upheld, it would women who live in conservative states physician, mid-wife, or nurse-practitio- have allowed the state to prosecute those will face horrible consequences in the ner and the test only takes minutes to face of this decision. run. who were counseling for abortions; an area that even now is somewhat lacking. The court has agreed to take three If the test comes back negative birth other cases this session dealing with Looking at the state o control counseling is provided, and the The mandatory viability testing is one of the biggest issues in the actual Missouri abortion. The cases from Ohio and BY NICOLE HERCZFELD student is sent on her way. law. Ignoring the Roedecision of viability, Minnesota examine the need for parental If, however, the test coems back posi- the statute allows doctors to perform consent when minors request abortions. Since the July 3rd Supreme Court tive then the student is counseled on the viability tests todetermine the fetus' age, The case from Illinois focuses on a decision on abortion in the Webster v. three options — carrying to term and licensing law that requires clinics to have Reproductive Health Services of Mis- raising a child, carrying to the term and weight, and lung capacity, starting at the twentieth week of pregnancy. In the kind of costly and unnecessary souri, all 50 states and Washington DC. givining the baby up for adoption, and reaffirming this decision, the court did equipment required in hospital opera ting are battlefields in the ongoing war be- finally, abortion. The Health Center can add that the doctor may use her or his rooms. This is not only an unnecessary tween the Pro-Choicers and the Right-to- steer the student in the direction of sup- discretion in performing such tests. Yet, regulation but, as with viability testing, Lifers. The question Is: "What is going to port services in any of these areas, but the it has the potential to make abortions happen to a woman's right to make her decision is made by the student. If the the court also said it is reasonable for the extremely expensive and inaccessible to own decisions regarding her life and her student is confused or unsure about her state to require such tests in the interest of protecting fetal life. An increase in poor women. body?" wants she can discuss the options with a testing such as this would drive the cost All of the the statutes that have been Although Philadelphia Is a progres- counselor who will try to help her figure sive, liberal, and largely Democratic city, out what she wants to do. of abortion higher, making it even more upheld by the court and will be in the difficult for poor women to obtain the rest of Pennsylvania is mostly Re- If the student decides to have an abor- future are destructive to women's rights. abortions. The loss of freedom over our bodies is the publican and conservative. Governor tion the Health Center recommends the The abandonment of the Roe trimester most degrading and harmful of them all. Casey has made it clear to his constitu- Women's Suburban Clinic in Paoli. There framework points to the beginning of the This temptation to ignore the problem in ency that he would rather not have it as is an emergency fund if the student is landmark law's destruction. While the hopes that it will goaway exists, however, easy as it currently is to get an abortion. sure she wants an abortion but is unable As several other state representatives to pay for it. The student may also spend court did not overturn Roe, it saw no the threat to legal abortion

BY LISA ARELLANO activity. Inevitably, I am left at this point with the idea of potentially endangering able and complicated issues implicit in COMMENTARY in my logic considering the accessibility still more women's lives with something that debate alone.) There must also be a of birth control. The solution seems to lie like the Pill. This seemingly successful well organized demand for resources and It sometimes becomes necessary, in some combination of better education and safe solution pops up almost con- attention to researching new, safer form within the context of a heated political and an effort to ensure affordable meth- tinually on the pages of journals and of birth control. I suspect that whoever movement, to take a moment to rethink odsof birth control for all sexually active magazines in connection to some new makes decisions on the current state of longterm goals. I am concerned by what individuals. That brings up a new set of medical side-effect. Committing to the medical techonology has declared the often appears as a short-sighted concep- issues and dilemmas. daily hormone dosage no longer seems problem of birth control solved. We must tion of the issue of reproductive rights. It In the course of my three years at Bryn streamlined and efficient, it seems risky. send a message that it is not. Women is not that the right to safe and legal Mawr, I have had innumerable conver- There are other options, but they are must be free to obtain safe and legal abortions is not a vital aspect of the sations with women regarding what form either more unsafe (like the I.U.D.) or abortions, but they must also be free to struggle, it is simply to suggest that it is of birth control would be the best choice ineffectual (condoms or foam). obtain safe forms of birth control. The not the only, or even the most important for them. These are women who are al- I end up being struck by the enormity struggle for reproductive freedom is aspect. ready aware of the severity of the issue, of the issue. There indeed must be a necessarily central to the feminist politi- Were I challenged by an opponent to and who did not face any serious finan- conserted and energetic effort in the cal agenda; we must recognize the com- the choice movement to confirm that my cial hardships in accessing these re- stuggle for choice (there are innumer- plexities of that struggle. longterm goal was for women to be free sources. It was appalling to realize that to have abortions, I would be forced to with all that education and sufficient answer in the negative. It is all part of resources, there still wasn't any "per- Reproductive Options at Bryn Mawr that paradox of being pro-choice and fect" or even particularly good choice. anti-abortion. I can not deny the tragedy There seems to exist some kind of in verse continued from page 6 organization called called Amnion which in women being forced to carry an un- relationship between the stastical suc- the night after the procedurein the Health concentrates on helping owmen carry to wanted pregnancy to term, or in the birth cess percentageand theguarenteed safety Center if she is uneasy alone in thedorm, term by providing whatever help is of a child into an undesirable situation. I of vaarious birth control methods. How and transportation to and from the clinic needed. cannot seek solutions in a moral plati- does one answer the question "would I can also be arranged if the student is There are options if you or a friend tude that people simply need to "learn rather risk an unwanted pregnancy or unable or uncomfortable making her own thinks there's a chance that she is preg- more self control" in regard to sexual my health?" It'saquestion that no woman arrangements. Counseling is also avail- nant. Unmexpected pregnancy is a scary should have to answer. able through the Health Center before and soemtimes controversial subject, but Herein lies the complexity of the issue and /or after the procedure. it has to be dealt with, because it doesn't of reproductive rights. Statistics imply If the student decides that she would go away when ignored. If you have any that the number of abortions being sought like to carry to term but wants some further questions that haven't been ad- would decrease significantly were all advice on how to go about it logistically dressed by this article feel free to contact women aware of and able to access birth she is steered towards Dede Laveran, a the Health Center at ext. 7360. control. I see a logical solution there. Yet counselor in the Health Center with some I cannot help but feel uncomfortable expertise in the area of adoption, and /or The Student Health Advisory Committee Civil rights perspective on abortion issue BY LAURA VAN STRAATEN anti-choice activists depend on the right of Rights, but which is still and which to religious freedom, and are arguing must continue to be upheld as the key As this centerspread may suggest, there their side from a perspective that is deeply premise for the United States of America: fyjaAtcft^ is an extraordinary complexity to the rooted in specific religious and scientific Tolerance. pro-choice argument. In this views. Both anti- and pro-choice activists have BMC BU/E" H>US te/WE-S commentary, however, I would like to Let us turn now to look at the pro-choice the right to subscribe to their respective CAMPUS CBrtX&K €> 115 AM explore a new way of framing theabortion movement. Although rarely interpreted versions of science and religion, but each debate. Instead of focusing on the real in this fashion, the pro-choice movement side, indeed, each individual in this $10.00 - *eNl> NAMP k fcO* and detrimental effects abortion can be seen as exercising the right to country, must respect the other's right. I I ^MBOMOKVASAIS C-0^0 restrictions or illegality will have on our religious freedom, insofar as this right Understandably, it may be difficult to world, let us instead deliberate upon the ■■A.S.A.P. -fafc8-l03l signifies the right to adopt science as respect and tolerate scientific and follwing questions: Which rights does one's religion, or the right to atheistic or religious views which differ greatly from each side draw upon for support of its agnostic beliefs. Exercising this right, pro- and are oftentimes indirect opposition stance? What happens when we try to choice activists often refute the idea that to one's own; after all, the cohesion of view the conflict between the anti-choice the fetus is a person or a citizen to be any belief system, particularly that of 'MnRGMNG % and pro-choice activists as a conflict of protected by the U.S. Constitution. ' organized religion, depends upon the fundamental rights? The granting of personhood and conviction that that system is the only Anti-choice activists often argue against citizenship is tied up in a conflict between true system. Subsequently, a system of abortion on the grounds that fetuses have science and religion, or, as some may see scientific or religious belief often becomes i rights also, rights to life, liberty, the it, between varying kinds of religion, driven by the need to convert others to pursuit of happiness, etc. A major point since, after all, science itself is a kind of that particular system. made by anti-choice activists is that religion. Despite its pretensions to However, this is the United States, the the rights of the fetus must be objectivity, science is always country wherechurch and state have not defended since the fetus is unable irrevocably embedded in been and should not be co-joined, the todefend itself. The problem with subjectivity and in the cultural country where the notion of a totalitarian this argument, and this is key, and morai bias of its religion has been and should be 9 * *s is that the rights which anti- historical moment. abhorrent, and the country where choice activists evoke on Thus, the conflict that tolerance has been and should be the behalf of the embryo, are arises from the underlying legal and political premise predicated on the belief abortion debate of the land. i Pennsylvania ... that the embryo is a boils down to an We as pro-choice activists must respect person who is issue that is the right of anti-choice activists to share Governor Casey's opinion, actions protected by the Bill ironically not freedom of belief and freedom to make may be taken to make it more difficult to of Rights. In other ( explicitly their own choices, but only their own, obtain an abortion in the state of Penn- words, in order stated in based on their beliefs. Similarly, we sylvania. to defend the t h e request that anti-choice activists respect In late September of l.iis year, Repre- embryo, one Bill our right not to subscribe to the same sentative Stephen Friend (R, 166) will must grant religious/scientific views as they. Anti- support an anti-abortion bill designed to it the choice activists must refrain from what I require spousal/ parental consent; paren* status of have come to call "moral colonialism"; tal consent for minors; banning abor- citizen. they must keep their beliefs away from tions from public facilities; declining I n our bodies and out of our public funds that would normally go to coun- policies. seling women with regard to abortion; To conclude, I cite here and now and requiring all abortions to be per- a paraphrase meant to evoke formed in a hospital, as well as other the spirit and energy of the stipulations. epoch in which the If we want abortion to remain legal original words were and accessible, we must organize and written: All we are make our opinions count. At it saying, is give us a stands right now, there is a long | choice. hard fight ahead of us. Page 8 The College News September 21,1989 ARTS

■ < Sex, Lies, and Videotape a sneaky sneaky film Coming Attractions BY JAMIE TORTORELLO Campus arts: Video Showings of The Living Theater (Judith Malina former director) Word has it that Sex, Lies, and Videotape Paradise Now Sept. 22 4pm Goodhart MR is' the must see movie of this year. A The Brig _,-Sept. 23 3 pm Goodhart C.R. work that both critics and audiences love, The Connection Sep\_^3" 4:15 pm Goodhart C.R. the film revolves around the lives and Signals Through the Flame Sept. 24 1 pm Goodhart C.R. relationships of four central characters, Talk by Judith Malina Anne, her adulterous husband John, her The Living Theater: Past and Present sister Cynthia, and Graham, John's col- in Elizabeth's place. Sept. 24' 3 pm Goodhart C.R. lege buddy who has become strangely This hole leads to an even greater struc- Local movie theaters*: contemplative and enigmatic in his nine tural issue in Sex, Lies and Videotape. Very Ardmore year absence. Graham is by far the most carefully, the movie leaves completely U/A Eric Ardmore Theater 642-2000 compelling character, as a man who ambiguous the abusive encounter be- Bryn Mawr chooses to be self-emasculated and, in tween Graham and Elizabeth. Rather Bryn Mawr Twin Theaters 525-2662 fact, impotent rather than powerful and than focusing on this particularly un- Wayne potentially abusive. His character pleasantscene, the movieisstructured in Anthony Wayne Theatre 688-0800 achieves significance through serving as retrospect; the audience knows that Wynnewood a case study in how men attempt to Graham has done something awful, but U/A Eric Wynnewood Theater 473-3222 combat their own urges toward physical looks instead at his process of self reflec- and sexual violence. This significance, tion and growth. This structure is neces- *movie theaters listed are located on Lancaster Ave. and are accessable by train. however, is misleading because it is in- sary to the movie's appeal. Audiences complete. Elizabeth, the abused woman like it because it leaves us with a feeling in Graham's past, is notably absent from of satisfied completion (Anne and Gra- the movie. With her, is absent the vic- ham wind up together). If the audience HarDCore concert benefits tim's perspective and, hence, the great- were actually to see Graham rape or hit est ugliness of both the story and Gra- Elizabeth, and in fact, even if he simply ham's character. Anne, who is set forth stated directly that he had, we would be AIDS victims and homeless as Elizabeth's parallel, does not truly unable to overlook that action. His grad- BY RACHEL WINSTON "Promises," an exploration on the role of compensate for this omission. Although ual atonement would be overshadowed the 'promise' in our society. In "Burning she is indeed hurt by her husband, infi- by that one primal scene. Furthermore, Fugazi, one of the biggest names in Too," social paralysis gets major delity seems less repugnant than vio- the idea of Anne, already concerned with harDCore punk will appear at a treatment: "...We are consumed by lence. Furthermore, Anne's sexually her own vulnerability, becoming in- "Homeless/AIDS Benefit Concert" this society/ We are obsessed with variety/ repressed nature makes her seem com- volved with Graham would become tre- Saturday on the Drexel University We are all filled with anxiety/ That this placent in the destruction of her mar- mendously disturbing. Gone would be campus. The show is sponsored by ACT world will not survive." All the band riage. A parallel between the twocharac- the no-loose-ends, awardwinning struc- UP/Philadelphia, a lesbian/gay activist members are involved with the grassroots ters cannot compensate for the hole left ture of the movie. group specializing indirect lobbyingand Positive Force movement based in advocacy. Concert producer and ACT Wasington, DC. Positive Force describes itself as "trying to make a difference Key Lime Pie—is it a lemon ? through collective action" and endorses BY TRACY TROTTER Moon",and "Mao Reminisces About His "no political parties, leaders or Days In Southern China". Since then, philosophies." Rather, the group Having seen Camper Van Beethoven however, they have progressed to a much endorses the "idea of young people live last year, I expected more from their more sophisticated style of songwriting working together to makea better world." new album. without losing their sense of humor. Their This passion for social activism is Key Lime Pie is not by any means a bad sound, created by hard guitars and found throughout Fugazi's live shows, album; by most standards it would be rhythm juxtaposed with violins, banjos with band-member Guy (pronounced impressive. Although some of the songs and steel guitars is a unique one that they Geeee) Picciotto's frequent forays into on it are among the best ever produced became more comfortable with through guerrilla-style education. These quick by the group, for the most part, the album each album. Their lyrics became more drills on personal responsibility have seems to convey the feeling that Camper intellegently written and more subtly been alternately described as "inspiring Van Beethoven have lost interest in what clever. Camper Van Beethoven reached UP member Robert Rowland believes words" and "obsessive punk-rock they are doing. the height of their abilities with Our the show's emphasis on greater epigrams." Picciotto was formerly in Camper Van Beethoven is a Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, and acceptance of gays and lesbians within Rights of Spring. conglomerate of people from all over this latest album finds the band resting in the punk scene will be "one of the first of Fugazi bassist Joe Lally, along with California who met in the city of Santa a well-worn niche that is comfortable its kind on the east coast." drummer Brendan Canty (formerly in Cruz. Their first album, Telephone Free and easy. Part of this difference in quality Punk-rock "guru" and Fugazi-member Happy Go Licky) round out the hard- Landslide Victory, was released in 1985. between the two most recent albums may Ian MacKayehasa long history of human driving, energizing, gut-wrenching "Take The Skinheads Bowling", a single be due to the loss of a key member of the rights advocacy. A former member of music. from that album quickly became a college group, Jonathan Segel. Segel was the Minor Threat, (aka. Rock Champions of SCRAM! and 200 Stitches /both radio hit. Forming their own record group's violin and "anything you hear the World), MacKaye recently produced Philadelphia home-grown originals will label, Pitch-A-Tent Records, they went on this record that is not a guitar, banjo or State of the Union, a punk compilation also appear at the benefit. SCRAM!' s on to release II & III in 1986, Camper Van drum" player. He has been replaced by album whose proceeds benefit the "white-boy reggae, with a conscience" Beethoven in 1986, and the EP Vampire Morgan Fichter, who plays only the homeless. MacKaye has also been a has been consistently pulling in audiences Can Mating Oven in 1987. After the release violin. For additional instruments, the member of other well-known bands, such larger than its regular loyal following. of the EP, they were signed by Virgin band was forced to rely on session as the Teen Idles, Egg Hunt, Pail Head, 200 Stitches makes its debut appearance Records and Our Beloved Revolutionary musicians. This may also account for the and Embrace. Fugazi formed a' little at the Drexel show. Sweetheart was released in 1988. small number of instrumentals (two) on under two years ago and has already "Homeless/AIDS Benefit Concert," In the earliest days, Camper Van thisalbum. done a highly acclaimed U.S. and September 23rd at 4pm. All ages, 55. Top Beethoven was much more of a novelty Key LimePie is well worth the purchase European tour. level of Drexel Univeristy Parking Garage, band. Their first album features such price, but the money would be better Described as heavy-bass funk punk, 35th b Market St. (walking distance from song titles as "Where the Hell is Bill", spent buying Our Beloved Revolutionary Fugazi performs songs as varied as 30th St. Station). For more information, call "The Day That Lassie Went To The Sweetheart. "Suggestion," an anti-rape anthem and 545-2836. An evening, heavily sweet as my sugared expresso Another hard moming. This grey The College News has set this space Our conversation flows like gritty city is illegitimately the soft fall of your hair, bright, floodlit & frozen with guilt aside for poetry. Send submissions to pungent with cigarette smoke that its gutters are sparkling & themselves, railyard You study my eyes as one hand folded and tom, permanent Gia Hansbury, box C-1031. spins a coffee cup, litter, defiant on the riverbank. You tqalk of hopes for your writing and Far out on the platform makin that first move all I'm hearing is the clean descending of your words. the rails become only more (Like verbal condensation, architecture, evidence the surest way to get what you want is misting my skin with desire) of the futile impulse towards to You pause from speech greatness, towards glory. This ask for it and study your glass, is the end of the line: impressively crafted, but if what you want all symmetry unguarded rust remains is for somebody else to do the asking From my empty hands and the cupped curve rust. you're in a tight spot of youf jaw a thought comes —Julian Carter there's an obvious flaw in that system You are poetry enough for me —Jennifer Pittman Page 9 September 21,1989 The College News Wacky nuns dazzle with song and dance

nuns cannot be buried and must be kept dough out and it will rise on th third The second to last musical number, in a freezer until additional money is day"). This bantor between the Sisters is "Holier Than Thou," a Baptist choirpiece raised. The stars of the show, Sisters not only amusing but it portrays the with all the trimmings (foot stomping Mary Cardelia, Mary Hubert, Ralph lighthearted view the Sisters have of and hand clapping) just does not mesh Marie, Mary Amnesia, and Mary Leo, themselves and the lives they lead. with the rest of the show. It comesacross undertake the task of putting on a benefit One of the best aspects of Nunsense is as a bit offensive and not in touch with to raise the needed money and it is with the fantastic audience interactions that the portrayal of the nun that the Sisters fS&TER this prologue lhatNunsense begins. theSistersmaintain throughout theshow. excellently convey. Perhaps it is meant BYSHARINEIER Through well written musical From the moment they enter the theater to be a summation of the obvious and numbers, such as "Tackle that (which is from the back as opposed to a funny "Catholic bias" and the "proud to More than a few of us have been Temptation with a Time Step" and "I Just stage entrance) to the time they take their beanun" feeling that theshow establishes exposed to the analogy made between Want to Be a Star," the audience explores final bows, each audience member feels but, if so, it fails terrribly. BrynMawr College and a convent. Even the occupational possiblities each sister as if she is helping to shape the show. Nunsense isa fabulous musical comedy if not explicitly stated, various "subtle" considered before becoming a nun These Whether it be the personalgreetings in which is definitely worth seeing. It comments, such as "oh, isn't that a girl's range anywhere from from tightrope the beginning, answering questions opened at the Society Hill Playhouse in school?", denote such inferences. After walkingtocountrysinging. Nonetheless during the show, or just laughing along April of 1986 and is currently celebra ting all, in voluntarily selecting Bryn Mawr the overall consensus of the Sisters is that with them, the Sisters make the audience its fourth smash year. The Society Hill College we are choosing the absence of now "they wouldn't have it any other get to know them. And for those people Playhouse expects Nunsense to be at the men, are we not? We are also venturing way!" who are wary of audience participation? theater into 1990. For all ticket upon the road of serenity, solemnity,and In between the musical numbers the Don't worry—the Sisters are quick to information call the Society Hill studiousness. And, in truth, we cannot Sisters maintain a continous stream of pick up anxiety vibes and keep the Playhouse Box Office at 215-923-0210. deny that we take pride in upholding nun jokes (yes there is one about a spotlight off of you! The theater is easily accessible by public traditions, have a tendency toward penguin!) and nun humor ("leave the Unfortunately, there is one complaint. transportation. wearing black robes, and enjoy hanging out in the cloisters. The analogy, therefore, seems to be fair but not complete; for in addition to work, we have FUN! But wait—don't nuns have fun too? The musical comedyNuiisense says "of course!" From the opening line "nunsense is habit forming" to the end.Nunsense, through humor and song, successfully portrays both the spiritual and mundane sides of nuns and the lives they lead. Written and directed by Dan Goggin.Mn/sivise is set in Mt. Saint Helen'sSchool auditorium in the present day. The plot traces the dilemma that follows a culinary fiasco by the the chief cook of the Order of the Little Sisters of Hoboken, Sister Julia who is otherwise known as the Child of God. The result of this fiasco is the unfortunate dptfhs of fifty-two of the nuns living in tin ■ nvent. At this time Sister Cardelia,i Mother Superior, decides that the conveiit must have a VCR and so she uses part of the money that is supposed to be used toward the burial expense of the dead nuns for this purchase. Consequently, four of the liven nuns see the humor in church bingo.

Women plus math can equal sexism and hardship BY SARAH BELCASTRO classic in style? This woman came personal support or academic help. One This can be quite disconcerting, espe- If you are female and considering dressed in tapered black jeans, a black- of the major goals of the group is to get a cially if you are confused at the time. majoring in a science or math, I urge you and-white shirt, and little black boots. higher proportion of women in the math This is not to say that women don't do to go for it, especially if you are consider- Not a suit. Definitely not the classic look. and science majors. We've also talked this too. It's just that men do it more. ing math. Then, once you've declared I liked it. Besides that, of course, she was about encouraging more women to go Professors do their share too, and I your major, and decided you like math, really more than competent. So I im- on to grad school in these areas. At our think that in this community they mostly we'll tell you the truth. pressed my opinion upon the prpfs by latest meeting, we discussed getting do it without noticing. The same prof A- I am a math major, among other things. jumping up and down and telling them speakers for many different events and sor can be very affirming to one as an It's my favorite major. But as a female, I over and over that I liked her. the possibility of holding a study break individual and then ignore one in class in don't like it much. If as a female you Apparently everyone else concerned or social type of event. favor of a male student. Studies show don't want to major in math, because you liked her too because indeed, Eriko On a slightly different topic, here are that, in general, professors pay more feel unable to face the obstacles, I'll call Hironaka (not far from being Dr. Eriko some ideas of things a woman heading attention to men than women in class; you a wimp... but I '11 understand why. Hironaka) is teaching here!! She's the into math may face... Obviously, men this does not exclude math. In one in- Last semester was an interesting one, first female professor to be in the math may just openly consider one inferior. stance, a female student asked a ques- concerning women and math. Small department since I've been here [at It's kind of hard for them to get away tion, and the professor brushed it off, but anecdote. Last year we held a search to Haverford College]. with it these days, though, so most of the when a male asked the same question a find two visiting math professors be- Around the time that we were con- problems one encounters are a bit more few minutes later, it was accorded the cause we were losing one tenure-type ducting this search, some physics women subtle. For example, I was in a class attention of five minutes. professor and two others were taking were talking about issues pertaining to many years ago where the front row was It can also be a bit uncomfortable if one sabbaticals of a semester each. We had a women in the department. A month or filled with male students and one adult is the only female in a class, or one of a couple of candidates come in and give so and many more discussions later, woman, and the second row was domi- minority of females. Most of the time one lectures—and then, somestudentsasked Jenny Rees (HC '89) started a group for nated by females. Most of the females can't find a female role-model in math, gently, "Are we going to have any women female science and math majors. It be- were afraid to sit in front, and didn't and these are desperately needed. It gets candidates?" The reaction we got indi- came WIMS, standing for Women In really understand what was going on. even worse when one considers that in cated that it simply hadn't occurred to Math and Science. The first WIMS Later in the course, much after I started most leading grad schools there are no the profs to get female candidates. meeting consisted almost entirely of those sitting in the front row, my best friend in women math professors. This alarms Magically, two of them appeared a few present complaining to each other about the class told me that I was the first me. weeks later. Both women seemed quite the various sexisms in our departments. female he'd ever met who could hold her My father has a book called Smart competent to the students (one of the Then we got down to work. own in a math class. Some compliment Girls, Gifted Women, by Dr. Barabara A. men, on the other hand, was abysmal — Initially the group was formed so we — it was kind of like being told I was Kerr. It confirms that we women are not he was so sexist that he frustrated a prof could just support each other, but we "more than female". Another classic dreaming when we think the system is into putting his head down on his desk soon discoveredthat we had many more trick is for male students to be macho a nd against us. Different sources in this book mid-lecture), but oneof them really stood things todo, and many more functions to not ask questions. They let the women do assert that it is not socially acceptable to out to me. Here's why: you know how perform. We have talked about making the talking and let the women feel stu- like math, that male professors respond people being interviewed generally put a list of our names available to fresh- pid. Or they only ask questions when the to female students and professors with on suits, or nice sweaters, and try to look women so that they can call on us for questions are above the level of the class! put-downs and avoidance behavior, that continued on page 12 Page 10 The College News September 21,1989 PLANNED WOMEN'S SVBVRVKM CHOICE ELIZABETH ri I Ml p ©IRTH CONTROL, DLAGKVIELL PARENTHOOD VUfWIM pREkNANCf TE= STlNfr, BIPTH CONTROU COXJN^ELUNO, ABORTION SERVICES, vaOMENS HrAv-Tri- ISSUES HEALTH CENTER *0ORTloM feiETH cor*TR°L EARuY PREONANC/ TERMI/VJATIOINJ, PfcE&NAWC* TESTIN& AND 12.6 S. NINTH iTWSeT ( PREfcNAlOCW TESTING COUNSELUNO PHILADELPHIA TE^TlNC 1220 SAMSOrA STREET EAST PAOH MEt>\CA\_ PARK PHILADELPHIA U^-T WALrJUT STREET K40 R\)S5ELL ROAD, PAOL\ ZCo+'ZIoZ CHoTLlNO PHILADELPHIA 59&-4IIZ W-I34 T POLITICIANS SIS E. LANCASTER AVe, ViA^NE" SURROGATE

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Studentjsexually harassed on van ride to Swarthmore

This letter was submitted to the Department We drove in silence a bit, and then the agreed. ing the greenness. of Transportation at the end of last semester. radio changed from news to a talk show, He told me 1 missed his birthday. I There was a bend in the road, and we which 1 tried to focus on. It was some- asked him when his birthday was, and came upon a golf course, where there The following incident occurred last thing about ventilators. Charles kept he said last week, the seventh (or the wasa paved place off the road. Hepulled night, Thursday, May 11, 1989, on the smiling at me, sometimes trying to catch second?). 1 said happy birthday. I told off onto the shoulder and said, "I just 6:55 van run from Swarthmore to Bryn my eye. He asked me if I wanted to hear him it was just my friend's birthday (the love the.golf course. Haven't seen the Mawr. While some of the dialogue may some music. I said yes. He switched the one from Swarthmore) yesterday. He said view from here for a long time." I com- be repeated not quite in the correct se- station from 90 to 92, then told me to find he was Taurus, the bull. He said, I'm all mented that it was beautiful. He told me quence, all of the dialogue presented something. I said the station he had was bull. 1 have horns," and waved his fin- he liked me. I said he didn't know me. He actually occurred. just fine. I told him I liked it when he gers by his head to indicate horns. I said said he'd been watching, he'd seen me It started out pleasantly enough. I had played jazz on the Blue Bus. He tried to I'm Leo, the lion, ferocious. He said I on the bus, that he knew I was nice. enjoyed my afternoon at Swarthmore get me to find a station, then said, after I seemed more bashful than ferocious. I "Quiet, and nice." He asked me if what I and had gotten some work done. I was insisted that anything was fine, "You're said, "You don't know me." He repeated liked, and I said I really liked the trees, taking the 6:55 p.m. van back because the not hard to please, huh?" I nodded, I that I just seemed bashful. especially the slightly orange one in the next van wasn't until 9:55 p.m. and I guess. He said, "I'm not hard to please, After a while, he remarked that I'd scene. He appreciated the tree I pointed needed to get some work done at Bryn either." He told me he liked jazz and been silent. He asked me what I was out. He said he really liked my dress, Mawr before 10 p.m. other kinds of music too. thinking. We were stopped at a light, indicating my skirt again, that it was see- I recognized the driver. He sometimes He asked me where I was from, and I where there was an intersection (we were through and made me look sexy, that I had the 8:15 a.m. Blue F)us run to Haver- told him, and said I was going home on supposed to be turning left) and also a was sexy. He asked me if I had been ford Wednesdays and Fridays when I Saturday, which is my sister's birthday. very steep roadway on the left, which curious about him. He asked me if I was went to my Soc class. He always played I asked him if he was from the area, and appeared to be a driveway. I said I curious about his meat, indicating the the 90 jazz station on the radio and smiled he said he lived in Philly. He asked me if wondered where that road went, indi- area of his body between his legs. I a lot to everyone. Some of the other stu- I lived in Bryn Mawr, and I told him I was cating the driveway. He said there's a distinctly said, "No." He said, "It's all dents seemed to know him and like him. a student at Bryn Mawr, and I lived out in house up there, almost like on a moun- meat." Hecommented again that he liked I started to open the main door of the van, Brecon. tain. my blue eyes, that I was sexy. I said I had but had some trouble with it and decided He asked me when I had to be back by, He kept smiling and looking at me, to get back to the college. to sit in the passenger seat up front. The and I paused a moment and said, "7:30,1 trying to catch my eye. He told me that I He immediately pulled back onto the driver was really friendly. guess," which was about when the van had pretty blue eyes, that he liked my road, and nearly hitting a jogger, told me "Looks like it's just you and me," he was due back. There was silence for a eyes. He said he liked my dress, indicat- that he was really enjoying this drive. He said as 6:55 approached. He started up while. He said he liked my smile. He said ing my 'antique white' skirt. I thanked pointed out some nice houses, and some the van and said, "They call meCharles." I seemed bashful. He asked me what I him. Then he remarked, "It's see- big houses. We came toan intersection in Itoldhimmyname'sQuentin.Hesmiled was thinking. 1 told him mainly about through." I replied that I guessed it was, the middle of which was a large ever- and I smiled and we drove. The news my exam. I asked him what he was think- a little. I realized I wasn't wearing a slip, green. He asked me if I'd seen it at Christ- was on the radio. He said something that ing. He touched me on the shoulder, and made a mental note that I should mas. I said no, and he said it was all 1 didn't catch, and I said, "I was trying to laughed a little and said he didn't think wear a slip with it, then thought, "I should covered with lights, with big floodlights find out what's going on in the world. he should say. He asked me what I liked. feel safe no matter what I wear!" too. He said thecommunity did that, that It's e.isv to get behind, especially with I remarked that I loved the spring, with There was some more silence, and I the community mulched the tree in the exams and all." He asked me about mv .ill the green, the bright green. He agreed, very carefully avoided looking his direc- summer and neighborhood kids kept it exams, and I told him I only had one and pointed to some trees and said, "Just tion, looking out the windows at the up. more, and that mainly I'd had papers, a few days ago those trees weren't green." beautiful green and blossoming trees. Asweneared Haverford, he asked me which I preferred cause I could take more I nodded and he repeated himself. He Me asked me why I was so quiet, and I if some houses were owned bv Haver- time on them. said he liked the spring, and the fall. I replied, I was looking at the trees, enjoy- ford. I said I thought so. He said "They continued on page t\ September 21,1989 The College News Page 11 March for Housing Now! BY ELAINE ROTH be so large, there will be many feeder marches, linking up with the central On Saturday, October 7,1989, Housing group at various points. The AFL-CIO, Now!, a coalition group of homeless ac- for instance, which has been a crucial tivists, will hold a.march in Washington organizing force, will originate at a dif- D.C. The action will begin at the Penta- ferent location, and join the larger dem- gon and move to the Washington Monu- onstration. ment or the Capitol. The march organiz- The Thursday and Friday before the ers are hoping to generate 1,000,000 pro- march, October 5 and 6, will be lobby Is Bryn Mawr really safe testers, which would make this march days. Citizens who have come to D.C. for Dixon—continued from page 10 the largest ever in D.C. As of now, over the action will be briefed on issues of say it was all a golf course. If s shaped nor. He asked where he could drop me 100,000 marchers are confirmed. housing and homelessness, and will then likea golf course." He pointed out where off. "Here is just fine," I said, so he stopped Housing Now! is the brainchild of Mitch lobby their representatives. Housing Now! the land appeared to be landscaped like by Radnor and as I got out he said, "I Snyder, long-time hornless activist and is also running a media campaign focus- a golf course. We passed Haverford and really enjoyed this ride, Quentin." founder of the Center for Creative Non- ing on the grade school curriculum, and in pointing out how the duck pond looks The whole time, I felt so powerless. I violence (CCNV). The coalition group is encouraging children to write their like a golf course, he nearly missed the felt in physical danger. I was alone has been working out of the CCNV's congresspeople. The grade schooler's turn to Bryn Mawr. he remarked again woman in the van and as he stopped the building on Capitol Hill. letters will be delivered by the children that I was "a pretty thing" and said he van, then didn't stopat Haverford, it was The October 7 demonstration will be a themselves, in red wagons, to a member was really enjoying the drive. clear who had the power. I felt like noth- culmination of weeks of activity. On of Congress, possibily Tom Foley. He pointed out some more large ing I could say or do would make him September 20, homeless people will begin A rally is to follow the march as the houses, remarking that they were man- understand how objectionable I found marching from different locations across final Housing Now! event. So far, more sions, and asking if students lived there. being treated as an object. I was so taken the country to D.C. There will be two celebrities have been confirmed for this As we turned in at Merion, I pointed to it aback, too, having had a good impres- large groups, one from New York and action than any other march in history, and explained that most students lived sion of him and not wanting to see him as one from the South, as well as others. so it ought to be entertaining. in dorms but that a few lived in some of a harasser that I didn't know what to say. They will be sheltered in local communi- Drama and political activism, all for a the houses. He paused where students And when he had stopped the van, I was ties along the way, in an attempt to raise good cause - who could ask for more?! were waiting for the Blue Bus and rolled so scared that I was in danger of assault community awareness about homeless- Bryn Mawr will be sending busses to the down his window, saying hello and or rape, especially if 1 tried to tell him that ness. These groups will feed into the October 7 march, so look for a sign-up asking them if they were waiting for the I didn't go for men or 1 had a steady main body of marchers on the 7th. Be- sheet in the Campus Center and turnout bus. he said, "Oh, here it is," and drove boyfriend or something strong or obnox- cause the demonstration is expected to for Housing Now! down to the lower parking lot by Rad- ious to try to get him to stop. Because I was the only student in the van, I felt that saying something strong might only provoke him- But I felt that regardless of my external appearance or sexual orien- V' £S»1 tation, I should not be put to that type of ■ abuse, nor should any woman feel in

**? 1££. ■ ta» danger. JUNE 30, 1980 m Harris ...^. 5 I didn't get any work done that night. £McRae. the Coun sajd ^ ("JJ Immediately afterward, I felt awful, weak .Government and individual states and dirty. 1 feltsooutraged.and 1 wished lare under no constitutional obligation I could make myself ugly to men, so they Wto pay for even medically necessary r, It unmistakably signifies that the Su'-'i would run from me, rather than try to 1 abortions sought by women receivin~ \premc Court is now a "Reaganj r Court fo make "advances"; but, I realized, that's / welfare. The vote was 5 to 4. • /•, " r the next generation in ad-J - ,J,dressing criminal justice, social not what I really want. I really want men f - TO" •»: < h ciYil„rights issues. to see me as a person, I want to be able to have a friendly conversation with the 'The Webster decision addressed van driver without him thinking of me [several restrictive provisions in a The Republican Party had a strong [Missouri abortion statute. It upheld a antiabortion plank in its 1988 platform sexually, without asserting his male privi- requirement that fetuses of 20 or BUS beC mea u? lege. Failing that, as it has, I want them to Irjioce weeks be tested for their viabil- CShrT ^- ° ***** m run. But that only helps me, that only ity outside the womb before an abor- keeps it from happening to me again. 1 tion could be performed. It let stand a prohibition on the use of public em- m Pro-life rorces want ., wondered what some of my friends Ajfc convince them that abortion is more would have done in a similar situation. I ployees or facilities to assist abor- ,ike tions that are unnecessary to save the • .'^3J' murder—one of those acts that think about some frosh I know who mother's life. And it sustained a ban &:* £1: ■cannot be sanctioned as a choice .T" *"* probably haven't dealt with this type of ■ Purpose situation before. I worry that he could do counseling a y _ ^i**George Bush is this to others, and do worse to others. His notIk '. "kely to be able to make some court ap- continuing presence in this community \V /'jwintmentsofhisown.'/^ ^ointments c /SCAft , is a threat to all women, a threat of rape. I 'm leaving campus soon, so I won't have to deal with him again. Other Sandra Day,' tV™ N™ CaSCS Witt Ptit ***** Court women will. I refuse to let this happen to '^o&^X^S^^L VnJ Coition Course With Roe v. Wade anyone else. It's got to end now, before it no i escalates. He's got to be made to under- .. stand that his behavior was entirely %\< V\/ \%i unacceptable. He's got to be made to KSBK^rS&E■*i V The new cases all involve state laws r&± that have the effect of creating obsta-, ' understand that his behavior was en- <1 cles to access to abortions in the first . tirely unacceptable. He's got to be The Websier ruling also means that anti- 1- Iinmester^ ^^ stopped before he rapes someone. I ask choice lobbyists and legislators are focus- k H ing renewed energy on eliminating «»i*»W*J that this man be fired from his job; public funding for abortions. The few re- ?"** Two of ** new cases deal with the I maining rights of low-income women are BHPngh,s of 'een-agers to obtain abortions | Sincerely, in danger of vanishing in a matter of |at any stage of pregnancy without in- Laurie (Quentin) Dixon .months.^^''*:. U fa ~ fvolving their parents. The third con- Icerns the constitutionality of costly 1 Editor's Note: This incident occurred last licensing requirements for clinics that | semester, and that the driver in question tcra I'perform a~bortions in the first trimes-' is no longer employed by Bryn Mawr Iter., r '.F. ' College (although it is unclear whether A ban on abortion would almost cer > ,W or not his dismissal resulted from this tainly result in a further increase inntheal- the al- '.A it -, ready high of jjleeiiirnate births- R2 } \ complaint). We encourage women to speak up regarding harassment, and we would like to remind all readers that The V* Ft _ ^ a return to back-alley abor-^ with coat hangers," A 5. College News is a forum for sharing these issues with the rest of the community.

Dear Luscious, Hope you're having fun in bed. Know you are being thought about. Wish you were here. ans Love, Dave. P.S. Ursula and Toni say hi.

■vMn&- Becky Grecko— Thanks for the coffee. —your collective wife. Page 12 The College News September 21,1989

SAVE OUR DEAR BRYN MAWR Heath made (to the tune of The Marine's Hymn) Reflections of a jaded senior new director BY ARIEL KERNIS Let's thank God for the Cambridge BY LAURA ENGEL of Security Report, ten out there. This summer I worked at Which tells us we must expand. It's Thursday night, and I'm a senior. I BY CHERYL LEE KIM Laura Ashley. Need I say more? Now we're overcrowded everywhere. have 700 pages of reading to do and I'm And admissions says it's grand! sitting in a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, writing So I won't take the GRE's and I won't On September 12, President McPher- this article. do my reading. I could still have a social son announced at a news meeting that chorus: We've only been here for two weeks life, but no! 1 don't know anybody. At the Stephen Heath will be joining the Bryn and I have developed an interesting case opening barbequeat the Ford, my roomie Ma wr community as the new Director of The staff is working oh so hard; What about their benefits? of senioritis. I never thought this would and I (we have a senior suite) sat Security. happen to me. I thought I was prepared. together...a lone. We watched the fresh- Heath is currently employed at the Our money has to buy more food. We can't pay those who serve it. First off, I hate the word orientation. I men. They knew more people than we University of Pennsylvania Police De- can't hear it without getting utterly did. Whatever happened to my custom's partment as a Police Lieutenant. He has nauseous...and it's everywhere. group? Why did I do so much work last worked there since April 1979, and has chorus: From the staircases in Merion, There are just a few meetings I should year? been promoted through various posi- attend in order to be oriented, a little one As a consolation, I get to go up the tions. To the new rooms in Pern. East, We must spend to have the halls about career development (I hate the word senior steps, and I received a lovely sen- His experience includes serving as an career) and a little one about my "senior ior song book in my mail box (that's how officer in the Sensitive Crimes Unit where enlarged. We can't pay the faculty. project". That's THESIS, folks, not proj- they always know the songs so well...). I he investigated all reported crimes of a ect. Project makes it sound like we are only have two gyms left. I have a great sensitive nature and provided victim We are getting used to Freshman going to have juice and cookies after play- room and I get to act jaded (that's impor- support services. Heath also assisted the ing with legos. And I'm receiving a lot of tant for a Bryn Mawr senior). I even sit in Rape Prosecution Unit of the Philadel- quads And the lines in dining halls, memos, telling me to work on my resume the Haffner smoker (sometimes) and I phia District Attorney's Office and the a little every week...who are they kid- remember free doughnuts. Sex Crimes Unit of the Philadelphia Police But when every class is filled in June, Why return to school at all? ding? I can barely bring myself to do my Now I feel better for sharing and I'm Department in preparing crime victims laundry. going to Lloyd...Where I can stand and police personnel for courtroom testi- chorus: It sounds like I'm complaining... I'm not. around, not knowing anyone, not be mony. motivated to meet anyone, and say to my More students incur gn ater costs I'm venting. 1 leath was educated at the New Eng- ! '.'ilked into a friend's room and she suite-mate..."Who cares anyway? We're land Institute of Law Enforcement Man- Economic fact this is. If the revenue can't cover them had theGRE book out. I glared al her She SENIORS!" agement, the Philadelphia Police Acad Il sounds like I'm complaining.. I'm Someone save our dear college' remarked, "Oh I'm just going to wing it." emy, and at the Community College of visions of Princeton Rev iev race through not. i m venting. Philadelphia He will begin working on nr mind ..I'm not going to discus'- how I walked into a friend's room and she a part time basis on October 3rd, full- many hours I spent learning about Joe had the GRE book out...l glared at her. time on October 21st. Ms Mcl'herson Wanna place a Classified Ad in Bloggs. They had to put me in a special She remarked, "Oh I'm just going to wing commented,' It's a good match. We're the College News? class for "slow math learners". How did I it." visions of Princeton Review race excited about him coming here.' Call the Rock Office at 526-7340 get in her anyway? through mv mind...I'm not going to dis- or write at Box C-1716 Then there are alot of people who want cuss how many hours I spent learning $1.50 for the first 15 words to get jobs. I don't say that word, I just about Joe Bloggs. They had to put me in Do you like a mere 5 cents a word thereafter spell out the letter...Jay-oh-be. They've a special class for "slow math learners". to swim? had internships-real life experience-got- How did I get in here? bike? run? Entries are If you can find a Macintosh still being in mis room,we might put one accepted inyowsffiea for the team triathalon Deadline: Friday,September 22. However, these late en- trants will not receive a t-shirt. Also, some volunteers will be needed to act as route monitors. If you have any questions, please call Keri Williams, AA President, at 526-7807. Women and Math Belcastro—continued from page 9\ Man fncfNi~6 most gifted women do not truly bejlieve that they are intelligent, and, in fact, that In what will surely be the easiest test of your intellect this term, Apple invites you most women "deny entirely any ability to try winning a free .Apple* Macintosh" Plus personal computer merely by finding it in in math and avoid courses that might this drawing. prove or disprove this belief in their WO even give you a hint: It's not the table, the lamp, or the chair. inability (p.139)." Don't let this mislead Now you're on your own. anyone—Dr. Kerr also asserts that gifted To register, look for contest details where Macintosh computers are sold on your girls and women are perfectly healthy, campus. Oh, all right, we'll give you a hint for that, tcx>: Lx>k at the bottom of this ad. that it is society which trains women to But do it really, really last. Because only one Macintosh is being given away on ihis have these attitudes. campus, and it's going to happen soon. Soon, as in right away. Pronto Quick like. Each woman begins by thinking that But hev; vou can take a hint. she is the only one having feelings of stupidity and insecurity in math. The opposite is true, however—most women do have weird feelings about math, even Somebody's going to win a free Macintosh. if it's only wondering why they aren't Enter September 25th-Octoher 9th learning any theorems named after women!! Remember, then, if you are Bryn Mawr College-Computer Center, 526-5002 interested fn math, that you are not alone, Mat. Pri. 9-5 and have faith in yourself and your abili- ties.

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