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For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE NEWS VOLUME XII NUMBER 9 FOUNDED BRYN MAWR COLLEGE APRIL 4, 1991 Mission to Mississippi: Fact and Fiction in the Delta By Judith Porter nity, you have limited access to the white community. The Mississippi Delta is an underre- Holmes County, Mississippi, is the ported and little known area of the coun- fourth poorest county in the nation. It is try which has a legacy of racism and located on the fringe of the Delta, which extreme poverty. David Karen and I and is the NW corner of the state of Missis- six students spent spring break in Holmes sippi formed by the confluence of the County, Ms., working for the Rural Yazoo and the Mississippi rivers. It has Organizing and Cultural Center (ROCC), some of the most fertile agricultural land a community based organization rooted in the U.S., and its economy is still based in Holmes County's black community. on plantation agriculture, primarily cot- Although this is a rural region, one of the ton and now increasingly on catfish farm- poorest counties in the poorest state in ing. The county is 71% black. 46% of the the U.S., Holmes County has implica- population is below the federal poverty tions for our understanding of poverty in level, and of the poor, 92% are black. In a panel discussion on Sunday, March 24, the Sociology Department reported the rest of the country. This trip pre- There are few poor whites. As of the 1980 on their trip to Mississippi. A second panel will be held by bi-college staff sented us with the opportunity to see census, approximately 25% of the people members who grew up in the South on April 4 at 8 pm in the CCC. poverty form the bottom up, not from over age 25 completed high school and the top down — and in the process to the median household income in 1988 It's not easy to live in Holmes County in the town of Pickens, Ms,. (90% black challenge some stereotypes the media (including white households) is $9900. A if you are black and poor. ROCC was population with a white mayor and city present about the poor. mother with three children on welfare formed in 1979 as a grassroots, African- council), unloading a 33,000 pound trailer The South in which we worked is not gets $1728 per year. There are very few American community based organiza- of donated goods, doing other kinds of the "new South" or the urban South, but industries in the county and those that tion to combat some of the problems in physical labor, and attending commu- rather the rural South in a particular exist employ only a small number of Holmes County. It has deep roots in the nity meetings. We also, through my region. The Mississippi Delta has histori- workers and pay minimum wage. The community, and almost all of the staff contacts, had exposure to what ROCC is cally had the most firmly entrenched official unemployment rate is 26% of are native Holmes Countians who come facing — the white plantations, the cat- tradition of racial oppression in thecoun- blacks, 6% of whites, and over 60% of the from the black community itself. ROCC fish factories, and the mayor of Lexing- try. An area based on plantation agricul- unemployed get no unemployment has brought and won gerrymandering ton. ture, it was the most feared area for civil benefits. There is no common ground suits in the justice department against The community gave us not only a lot rights workers in the60's. It is still an area between blacks and whites. Thechurches attempts to keep blacks out of politics; of information about rural poverty and where the races are almost completely and schools are completely segregated, fought for prisoner rights and won the racism but also a whole lot of love and separate; thus, we observed primarily and although at the county level the board right to legal counsel for prisoners; support. There are a number of memo- the African-American experience in the of supervisors has a black majority, at the mobilized the population to protest ries I have of this trip: Sarah Birch falling Delta. If you are part of the black commu- city level the cities are white controlled. against water bills which are half of the out of a moving van, bruising herself, income people get on welfare, with their and getting right back in to help unload Feminism in Islam: emphasis should water shut off if they don't pay; and done the cargo; Louis Bonilla teaching five service advocacy and education in liter- year old Kim Meeks, who had never be on socio-political contexts acy and in black culture. Mind Stayed on been to school because she didn't have a Freedom, a literacy project where kids birth certificate, how to write her name; By Jennifer Almquist world. interviewed their elders about the civil Andy Cohen, Alicia Distler, and Eric In the contemporary world, pinning rights movement, has just been published Falkenstein knocking on doors of shacks Shahnaz Rouse, a sociology professor down the socio-political contexts for by Westview Press. But what ROCC on dusty country roads explaining to from Sarah Lawrence College, focused women and accounting for diverseexpe- cannot do is change the economic situ- people how to register to vote; and Ni- primarily on socio-political aspects of rience and development among differ- ation in Holmes County or the deeply ambi Robinson, whose family has south- the struggle for women's rights in South ent Islamic areas proves difficult. Al- entrenched racism that drives it. ern origins, being accepted by the com- Asia and the Middle East in her lecture though the Qu'ran mentions nothing We each lived with a very poor family munity as one of their children. My par- entitled "Feminism and Islam." Ms. in Holmes County. I lived with 76 year- ticular personal memory is taking the 76 Rouse's talk, sponsored by South Asian old Ms. Murphy Gwin. We worked for year old woman I lived with, who had Women on March 28at Bryn Mawr, urged ROCC, helping to do voter registration continued on page 4 that feminists should not combat funda- mentalist ways of thinking with an Islam For women seeking an education, that is alternative to the fundamentalist version of what it means to be a Muslim, tuition hikes are nothing new but rather with the recognition that Is- By Katie Kerr illegible. lam is complex and diverse. By examin- ing the varied natureof Islam as it stands, It's spring at Bryn Mawr. The days get Rouse argued, social and historical analy- longer, the seniors are well into their WHAT IT COSTS A GIRL TO CO ses and investigations can guide feminist countdown to graduation, and the board THROUGH COLLEGE action, proving that "women's subjuga- of trustees approves the tuition increase tion doesn't happen in a vacuum." for next year. In honor of this, one of Bryn Advent of Millionaire's Daughter Raises Rouse explicated several ways in which Mawr's greatest traditions, I thought I the Standard of Expenditures. women's struggles have necessarily been would share with the community an narrowed toconfrontations of fundamen- article I found as student researcher at It costs nearly three times as much to talist Islam. Feminist women "must situ- Shanhaz Rouse spoke on Islam and the Ohio Historical Society. send a girl through college today as it did ate themselves in the realm of the socio- feminism on March 28 at BMC. The article is from the September 3, twenty years ago. political" instead of arguing with the 1905 edition of the "Ohio State Journal," There has been a steady and uniform fundamentalist vision of "true Islam," about the process of clitoridectomy, the which was a Columbus, Ohio newspa- increase in rates at all women's colleges. she said. Scholars have mistakenly tended practice has been fully incorporated into per. It providesa perspective on the Seven Vassar declared this year the increase of to think of Islam only in terms of what the Islam of North Africa. By the same Sisters colleges at the turn of the century. $100 in its yearly rate. Wellesley, like- has gone on since the time of Muham- token, portions of the caste system have I hope you find it interesting. wise, for the fourth time since its founda- med. By selectively drawing on occur- been adopted in South Asia's practices of I have retyped the article verbatim, tion in 1875 advanced its price for board rences and situations post-7th century, Islam. Rouse said that "varied social prac- with all of its misspellings and idiomatic and tuition. Bryn Mawr, Smith, Radcliffe, there has been a failure to account for the tices find their way readily into the Is- expressions of the times. A break in the and Cornell have all within the last five continuity of women's issues from the lamic fold" and to focus only on the text (" . .") means that the paper was years added from $50 to $100 to the earlier social setting of the pre-Islamic continued on page 5 damaged and some word or words were continued on page 5 OMMUNITY RESPONSES TO HARASSMENT Students gather together for support msee centerspread, pages 8 & 9 Page 2 The College News April 4,1991 Ad Hoc Committee on Persian Gulf Crisis responds to accusations of "partisan views" To the Editor the U.S. government (as they did during the Middle East. This is a red herring. As As members of the Ad Hoc Committee the Vietnam war). The media-watch a group, we are all trained academics of Faculty on the Persian Gulf crisis, we group Fairness and Accuracy in Report- and competent to deal with issues that find the criticism of us by Professor Alain ing monitored ABC, CBS, and NBC are at once historical, political, and eco- Silvera (Letter, March 7) inaccurate and nightly war reports over the period Janu- nomic in their roots and implications; we unfair. We are particularly disturbed by ary 17-30,1991 and found that only one are specialists in European and Ameri- the attack on our motives—that we seek leader of an anti-war group was inter- can history, Western economic and cul- to promote "partisan views and preju- viewed and quoted—0.1 percent of total tural expansion into other areas of the dices" and resort to "polemics" to achieve network sources. By contrast, the net- world, the nature and exercise of power, these ends. works sought the views of seven Super conflict resolution, and U.S. foreign pol- Professor Silvera charges that the Janu- Bowl players on the war. Is it illegitimate icy. It is revealing that nowhere in his ary 21 teach-in and subsequent panels for us to provide an alternative for the letter does Professor Silvera refer to the we sponsored were one-sided. Whilethis Bryn Mawr community unless we ac- role of the United States in the Gulf con- may be technically correct for the teach- cord equal time to this mass-produced flict, as though it were a marginal issue. in, it is grossly misleading. 'In war," and diffused version of recent history? Furthermore, our main objective was Professor Silvera may have heard, "truth We have a hard time knowing what to to create a forum where all members of is the first casualty." The "teach-in," makeof Professor Silvera's assertion that the community could raise questions, which was born in March 1965, is a re- the Ad Hoc Committee consisted of "a provide points of view, and offer frame- sponse: it has proved to be one direct self-appointed coterie of engagi histori- works for analysis, with, we hoped, a way to counteract the enormous advan- ans and other like minded social scien- special emphasis on questions which had tages of those who hold state power and tists ... dedicated to the proposition that received far too little attention in the use it to carry out operations like Desert the Gulf war ... is susceptible to social media. This is why we invited scholars Storm and to obscure their policy objec- science theories of conflict resolution." who had done research on Islam, people tives by disseminating disinformation. At one level this is nothing more than who had lived in the Middle East for In this context. Professor Silvera's com- name calling. If Professor Silvera is ac- extended periods (one invited guest is a plaint that we failed to give equal time to cusing us of havingtaken some initiative faculty member at a Middle Eastern what he calls "dissenting views" borders to organize a campus wide discussion of university), veterans of earlier wars, and on the grotesque. It is a fact—practically the war, we must plead guilty. If he is others whose professional work has been a national joke—that one of the Bush ad- suggesting that there was some ideologi- devoted to military and colonial history ministration's aims has been to prevent cal or methodological test which we and the sources of international conflict. the media from obtaining any informa- obliged participants in the sessions to Among the participants wereanthropolo- tion about the U.S. military buildup, the pass, we would like to know how Profes- gists, historians, political scientists, soci- war, and proceedings in the United sor Silvera, who participated in the teach- ologists, humanists, and physical scien- Nations except what is dished out by its in himself, could have passed it. Further- tists. Our view is that while having lived own spokespeople. more, while most of us were (unlike or studied in the Middle East is one way This news management strategy grew ProfessorSilvera) not persuaded in Janu- in which someone could be qualified to out of the conviction that a "subversive" ary that war was the only way to deal speak on the Gulf war, making sense of press was largely responsible for the U.S. with the crisis, there were significant the situation required other perspectives defeat in Vietnam. Journalists were first differences among us in terms of our as well. barred from close coverage of a U.S. mili- analyses of what had occurred, what was For us, it seemed essential to hold the tary operation in Grenada in 1983. Con- likely to follow, and prospects for par- teach-in the first day of the semester (the trols were expanded during the invasion ticular outcomes. We found that some of fifth day of the war) as students were of Panama in 1989 and virtually per- the most useful exchanges involved is- returning tocampus. We may have failed fected during the U.S. expedition in the sues where the speakers disagreed or to bring the number of certified "Middle Persian Gulf in 1990-91. The mainstream offered alternative perspectives. East experts" Professor Silvera wanted media have protested, but not forcefully. The other principal charge in Profes- to see — as if those experts however On issues of policy and procedure they sor Silvera's letter is that the teach-in and defined are of one mind about events in that we do not take these commitments have overwhelmingly served to support the panels were a failure because they the Gulf and would have resolved all seriously and instead are generating and explain the politically correct line of did not involve anyone with expertise in matters to the satisfaction of Professor "polemics" for the purpose of self-pro- Silvera or anyone else. But on four days' motion. If he wishes to play a construc- notice and no budget we did what was tive part in discussing issues of current possible. Most important to us was to concern to members of this community, THE COLLEGE NEWS mobilize those people available locally he might employ his own talents not in BRYN MAWR + COLLEGE VOLUME X1LNO. 9 APR 4,1991 who could discuss some of the critical questioning our motives but in probing Editors Annick Barker C-525 X7526 issues. From responses we have received the motives of George Bush, Saddam Jessica Booth from students and others, it is clear that Hussein, and other major actors in this C-544 x7525 many of them feel that these goals have crisis. He might also compare our analy- Thea Gray been met. sis of facts and events with that of the C-628 x7543 Professor Silvera calls for "civic edu- Bush administration. cation of the community" based on ef- Layout Editors Mya Anderson, Ellis Avery, forts to provide accurate facts and infor- Michael Allen (Political Science) Jessica Nussbaum mation. That is precisely our aim. To this Jane Caplan (History) end we have been offering our analytical Richard Du Boff (Economics) Arts Editors Amy Efron ability, our professional integrity, and Robin Kilson (History) ourcredibility. ProfessorSilvera suggests Marc Ross (Political Science) Sports Editor Kitty Turner Editorial Board Basheera Abdus-Sabur, Mya Renovation of Rock could lead to loss Anderson, Ellis Avery, Nadya Chistymujahid, Tanya Dean, of valuable architectural details Kelly Farrelly, Kaia Huseby, Viktoria Maxon, Jessica To all concerned members of the com- Having spent my sophomore year in Nussbaum, Sara Rubin, munity: * Rockefeller, I was able to enjoy these Natasha Seaman, Beth Stroud, architectural luxuries day to day — and Rachel Winston Rumors have been circulating about loved it. I will not be reserved and un- the upcoming renovation of the dorm emotional about the future destruction Photography Lena Kopelow Rockefeller. A letter of concern has been of Rock. The craftsmanship of this build- Graphics Jen Carey, Lee Fortmiller, Kaia sent to the architectural firm in charge of ing cannot be appraised, as are the unfor- Huseby the scheduled renovation, and the Presi- gettable times experienced in its halls. dent of the college. I am not sure if many This is a very urgent issue. It is not the Business Manager Jennifer Cameron women at this college have heard about war in the Middle East, or the salvation this renovation, scheduled for summer of the homeless, or world hunger. It is, Our pal Patti Savoie 1991. however, something that we as a com- The deadline for the April 18 issue of The College News is Friday, April 12 The wooden carved stairways, the munity can band together and accom- at 6 p.m. Submit articles to the box outsiae the College News office unique doors and their light transoms, plish. If enough people protest and show (Denbigh 203, above the Language Lab) in Microsoft Word 3.0 on a Mac the wooden moldings and surrounds, concern, the administration will have to disk if possible; disks will be returned. Come to the Thursday night meetings at 9:30 p.m. in the Denbigh office, or call one of the editors if you and even the wonderful window seats comply. Please, I urge you to sign the are interested in contributing to the News. may disappear in renovation under the petitions and write letters to save the name of fire safety. You may have heard architectural details of Rock. Because if STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The College News is a feminist that the wooden architectural details are we do not, these architectural details newsjournal which serves as a source of information and which have antique, personal, sentimen- self-expression for the Bryn Mawr community. Recognizing that a fire hazard; and that their removal is feminism is a collective process, we attempt to explore issues of necessitated by fire safety codes. This is tal, historical and monetary value will be interest to all women, both as members of this college and of the not true. Bryn Mawr College could save gone forever. larger world community. Through this continuing dialogue, we these details. With specific instructions seek to promote communication and understanding and to foster to the architectural firm, fire safety codes Sincerely, self-confidence and independence in expression. could be met while retaining the price- Nicole Norwitz '92 less architectural detail. This is fact. April 4, 1991 The College News Page: Students fight to maintain academic integrity of Anthropology program To the Bryn Mawr College students, lishing is more important than teaching; faculty, and administration: that students do not matter, only research does. This type of large university men- In light of the recent denial of Anthro- tality is not acceptable at any small, lib- pology Department tenure track posi- eral arts college, especially at Bryn Mawr! tion to Professor Jean DeBernardi, the We pay $20,000 a year for the personal- department has had to reassess its core ized, involved teaching this small col- foundation and curriculum. As a result lege advertises when recruiting us. We of the loss of our linguist, in addition to refuse to have the administration adopt the lack of a search committee recom- this large university attitude and to have mendation for a replacement, the search it manifested in their allocating of re- will be widened next year to include sources and hiring practices, while still non-linguistically-trained anthropolo- charging us such obscene amounts of gists. This means that the department money. We can go to large state schools will lose one of the four vital elements and pay $15,000 less per year if we want (physical, cultural, linguistic, and ar- that kind of treatment. chaeological) of the founding Boasian Bryn Mawr's Anthropology Depart- four-field approach to anthropology. ment historically has been renowned for In a meeting with Anthropology ma- producing extremely competent and jors and interested students, the Depart- well-rounded students. But we are in ment's faculty presented itsnewcurricu- danger of losing our credibility in the lar/major and staffing proposals in re- academic world with the loss of the four sponse to these recent events. field approach, simply because the cur- Achieving diversity requires "time, First, the faculty proposed to keep the ricular requirements cannot be met by a ten course requirement for the major. restricted faculty. This is not acceptable thought and patience" However, because of a lack of adequate to us, the students. staffing, students will no longer be re- Signed, To the students, faculty, and administra- tion of a diversity requirement would be quired to take classes in each of anthro- Jaffa Cameron Jones '91 tion of Bryn Mawr College: premature at best, and misguided at pology's subfields. Five core classes will Dan Filene '91 (HQ worst. The simple fact is that, at present, still be required, but instead of mandat- Anastasia Hopkins '91 Recently a committee of students got the Bryn Mawr faculty is not equipped to ing a broad-based education including Kerry Donegan '91 together and drafted a possible diversity offer the kinds of comparative course training in archaeology, linguistics, and ArushaHollister'91(HC) requirement for Bryn Mawr College, in- suggested for the requirement. "Re-edu- cultural anthropology, the department Laurie Quentin Dixon '91 spired by Ronald Takaki's exhortation to cating" the faculty to enable professors must now let students take any "anthro- Jennifer Harley '93 "Do your homework," made at a lecture to teach courses that compare three dif- pology" classes they want in order to Sarah Herr'91 he gave in February. The ensuing debate ferent areas—a feature suggested by the graduate because the faculty simply Cassy Neyenesch '92 over the specifics of the requirement led requirement — is unrealistic for several cannot staff the linguistics classes. Fur- Linda Ahelieh '91 into such issues as the distinction be- reasons: someone would need to do the ther, they stated that they will encourage Domonique Behague '91 tween race and ethnicity and the prob- re-educating; it would take away from students to look to Junior Year Abroad, Jackie Rabb '91 (HO lem of how to fit in varying focuses on already scarce teaching time; many pro- the University of Pennsylvania, TaraMace'91(HQ class, sexuality, religion, and gender. fessors might not feel qualified to teach Swarthmore, and Haverford for curricu- Sarah Martin '91 While I think that it is essential for outside of their specialization. lar diversity because they haven't enough Nellie E. Herman '91 Bryn Mawr students to be educated in a One striking example of the lack of faculty to staff the classes they have Ferrell Motl '92 (HC) pluralistic way, I believe that the institu- diversity in our faculty is the fact that previously offered. Remember, the De- JerryA.Elach'92(HQ there is no specialist in Native American partment was founded with a staff of five Cathy Smotherman Special Student studies, in any department. The recent full-time professors in mind, although it Abigail Hornstein '94 Peace Studies Mission, which visited has just barely managed to get by with Gideon Berstein '93 (HC) Indian reservations in Wisconsin and four, or usually fewer, professors in the Erika L. Bohme '94 Arizona, had no faculty area specialists recent past. Both of these factors will Susan H. Williams '94 to help prepare for or lead the trip. Ironi- greatly undermine the structure within Suzanne Anderson '94 cally, on the eight-person interview the major. This lackof structureand focus Michelle S.Chang'94 committee, there was not a single mem- will seriously threaten the strong reputa- Beth Coleman '94 ber of the anthropology department, tion of Bryn Mawr's undergraduate Meredith Keep'94 which would seem to be the most appro- program in anthropology. Katherine McCanless '94 priate field for Native American area Second, the department announced Kathryn Moore '94 Melissa Murphy '94 (HQ studies. There isn't even an anthropol- its staffing proposal for next year, al- Wendy Breyer '94 Talya Sheinkman '94 ogy faculty member who comes close to though after that it is up for grabs. Janet Matissa Hallisti '94 Kim Rguyen '94 specializing in anything pertaining to Monge, from the University of Pennsyl- David S. Williams '93 (HQ GiUian Bunker '93 Native Americans. In addition, the al- vania, will be teaching three courses while Benjamin O. Levy '93 (HC) Julie Demeo '92 ready small department is facing the loss Katherine McBride visiting professor Vipra Ghimire '94 Siyon Kim '93 of a valued professor and a dilution of its Carol MacCormack will be teaching a Tracy Hoffman '91 Jana M. Iverson '91 once diversity requirements. full-time course load instead of just one Anthony Ortiz (HQ Latha Prasad '92 It is with this specific example of the semester. We appreciate the fact that next Maya Coleman '92 Susan E. Choi '92 general context of a faculty lacking suffi- year will be accounted for, but we are Amanda J. Weidman '92 S.Courtney Gray'92 cient diversity that I say the institution of concerned about the years following and Alis Marks'93 Heather Coyne '94 a diversity requirement would be inap- the future of the department. Kirsten Erin Anderson '91 Elizabeth Kelley Gray '92 propriate and futile. Were the require- Originally we were prepared to be Rebecca Matiss '91 Elizabeth P. Burroughs '94 ment to be instituted, many students without a linguist next year as Professor Tamera Din Tess Powers '94 would end up taking a few token "diver- DeBernardi was planning to be on Sab- Jennifer Pittman '92 Angie Corcetti '94 sity" courses because of the slim offer- batical. However, we are not willing to Anne R. Poole '93 Eden Wider '93 ings. Without sufficient diversity among be without a linguist for more than that Amy Forster '94 Alisa Conner '93 the faculty, it would be impossible to — to sacrifice the quality of our depart- LisabethKing'92 Sarah Aird '94 offer adequately diverse courses; the ment because a linguist with "acceptable Maralisa Donadio '91 Susan Bush '94 requirement would lose its significance scholarship" could not be found in the Emily S.Gavin'93 Sadaf Ahmad '94 and become a parody of itself. course of the search. Professor DeBer- Basheera Abdus-Sabur '93 Madhu Mittal '94 Diversification is not a quick, easy nardi has proven her scholarship and GwenFrishkoff'93 Isabel Scarborough '93 process. It takes time, thought, and pa- leadership in the classroom with her Amy A. Kaleta '94 Julie Aibo Mujashiro '92 tience; ideally, it should not be encapsu- students, as well as with the other an- Martha Gonzalez '94 Wendy Sensel'93 lated in a requirement that can be fin- thropology faculty. Her work in the past Marica V. Valdez '94 Hannah Kim '93 ished in a semester or two. It requires few years has been outstanding, as rated Jennifer J.Kohler'94 Emily Cotlier'93 hiring, over the years, diverse faculty by her students and colleagues. Her Sirjit Lerkhachonsuk '93 Karen Eliot '91 members in all fields, especially the so- commitment to Bryn Mawr and the an- Kirsten M. Hagstram '94 Sara Rubin '92 cial sciences; it requires founding new thropology department has been dem- Christina H. Rodriguez '92 Elin T. Gabriel '93 (HQ departments and concentrations. Bryn onstrated in her term as major advisor, Lisa Ziemer '94 Susan Keener '94 Mawr does not need to in&kitute a re- and in fact the original major plan owes Erin Mielke '93 Sarah Shelgat '94 quirement which is so complicated thtt a great deal of its final form to Professor Heather Eaton '94 Arjahi Saim '92 it will be forever incomplete and flawed; DeBemardi's efforts. She often super- Beth Singer '94 Neelan Fodi what it needs is to bombard its students vises work beyond her normal teaching Matthew Abraham '94 (HQ Kim Da Silva '91 with diverse course offerings from a load, is always accessible, and has un- Laura Phipps '94 Catherine Payne '91 highly diverse faculty. Maybe if Bryn usual depth and breadth of knowledge Kathleen Love '91 Chau B. Phan '93 Mawr succeeds in doing t h is, it will tempt, in many fields. James Weinrod '90 (HC) Sarah Q. Staab '93 rather than force, its students into study- It has been said that perhaps Professor Thad Levine '94 (HO ElleanorChin'93 ing the many things this world has to DeBemardi's "scholarship" wasn't ac- Joshua Gohz '94 (HQ Annick Barker '92 offer. ceptable because she did not publish Kim Cutler '94 Jessica Booth '92 frequently enough. This is paramount to Jen Koch '94 Thea Gray '92 Signed, stating that at Bryn Mawr College, pub- Ellis A very '93 (111 signatures) Amanda Weidman '92 Page 4 The College News April 4,1991 Mississippi: is this America? continued from page 1 tion towns before large scale mechaniza- spent a lifetime chopping cotton and was tion. Plantations were the major source still working five days a week as a do- of employment for African-Americans, mestic, to see her birthplace. It was only and mechanization has left entire towns 20 miles away but she hadn't been there without a source of employment. It has in sixty years. also further driven down wages in the Each one of us concentrated on a dif- region. ferent issue. Alicia Distler, Eric Falken- Because the economy has always re- stein, and Sarah Birch focused on the lied on agriculture, it has not diversified. nature of the problem: Alicia studied There are a minimum number of jobs for economic issues, Eric investigated the low skilled workers outside of agricul- political system and welfare, and Sarah ture. Service sector jobs, which in urban studied education. Niambi Robinson and areas serve as an option for low skilled Andy Cohen focused on how people cope workers, do not exist in Holmes County. with these conditions: Niambi concen- Further complicating this situation are trating on religion and Andy on the national economic trends. In the past, family. Louis Bonilla investigated the men in the Delta emigrated to Chicago to differences between urban poverty and find work. But the economy in Chicago is the rural poverty we observed in Holmes no longer growing and cannot provide County. job opportunities. These three develop- One of the segments of the first series ments, the mechanization of the planta- Participants on the trip to Holmes County, Mississippi are pictured here with the of EYES ON THE PRIZE, the TV docu- tions, theundiversifiedeconomyand the mayor of Lexington, Mississippi. During their visit to City Hall, the group was mentary on the civil rights movement, economic decline in urban areas like made privy to the mayor's personal assessment of local socio- economic and was entitled "Mississippi: Is This Amer- Chicago contribute to the dismal em- political conditions. Photo by Judy Porter. ica?" As you read the findings of each ployment for people living in the Delta. participant on the trip, ask yourselves The jobs that remain for men in the ladder, they will put up with the condi- bathroom per week. They are given two that question. Delta are in a small, local, lumber indus- tions because they have no choice, they ten minute breaks throughout the day try and independent farming. But this have to feed their children." The women and have one hour, unpaid, for lunch. The Economic Situation in Holmes small scale employment cannot provide process the catfish by cutting off their There is no safety equipment for the County enough jobs for the large number of heads, pulling out the guts, removing women to wear. They are required to Alicia Distler '91 unemployed men. The industry that is the bones and cutting the fish into fillets. wear hair nets, aprons and gloves for growing in the Delta is the catfish indus- The fish are then frozen and sent out to be health requirements. However, they are The current economic situation in try. sold. not given goggles to protect their eyes Holmes County and the entire Missis- The catfish factories are actually co- We visited FISHCO, a small factory from spraying water and fish, nor do sippi Delta can be understood histori- ops formed by catfish farmers who raise which is considered the most modern they wear wire gloves to protect their cally. The Delta economy has always the fish in ponds. These ponds are lo- factory in which to work. The tempera- hands from being cut. If an employee is relied heavily on agriculture. Plantations cated on catfish plantations and the ture in the processing area was around injured there is no form of workers grow cotton as well as milo, soybeans owners of the plantation send their cat- fifty degrees. The floor was wet and slip- compensation. A common injury that and rice. Whites own the plantations and fish to the co-op factory with which they pery, with parts of fish lying on the floor. the women suffer from is Carpal Tunnel blacks have always, until recently, are affiliated for processing. These own- The largest factory in the Delta is called Syndrome, a form of tendonitis which chopped the cotton. These plantations, ers are, as a rule, white men. The people Delta Pride and employs many people develops after repeating the same move- which can be several miles long and who work in the factories are for the most from Holmes County. It, along with the ment. Women who suffer from this lose encompass tens of thousands of acres part black women. There are some black majority of the plants, pays $3.85 per full use of their hands because their fin- each, are often owned by single indi- men working in the factories. They per- hour. Delta Pride is an hour away from gers are so damaged from, for example, viduals. Now, due to the mechanization form manual jobs like packing boxes with Lexington. Women who need transpor- pulling the guts out of a fish or using a of agriculture in the region, plantations ice for the frozen fish. When I asked why tation to the factory are picked up by a knife in a repeated motion. which once employed hundreds, can be the catfish factories employed so many van which costs $21 per week or about The employees in the factory do not operated by a few dozen people. There women, one person replied, "Women 15% of their total income. This van picks have health insurance, but can, after were often one-company or one-planta- are at the bottom of the employment them up around 4:30 a.m. and brings having worked at the factory for a period them home sometime after 7:00 p.m., of time, pay for it. The women receive depending on the number of fish that one vacation day for each six month require processing that day. The women period that they work. They are permit- do not get paid for all of this time. The ted three unpaid, sick days before they factory operates in shifts which are stag- are fired. Despite the fact that the major- gered, so the women who ride the van ity of the employees are young women, must wait for their shift to start and the the factory does not provide any child other shifts to end. The number of hours care. The women must rely on friends or that the people at the factory work de- family to care for their children while pends on the amount of fish. If there is a they work. There is a Head Start pro- low supply of fish, they might work and gram in Lexington, but it requires that be paid for only two hours, but they must the children are picked up by 5:00 p.m., wait around all day until it is determined which is impossible if a woman is work- that all of the fish have been processed. ing at the factory. This indicates the Comparing feminisms On the other hand, during busy periods, importance of the support of friends and By Vicky Maxon on" to meaning. the workers are required to work up family. The last presentation, also a very pithy until 11:00 p.m. and on Saturdays. As previously stated, the wages are Though I must confess I slept through one, was different in the sense that it held The factories are organized around the $3.85 per hour and increase ten cents the morning program, unfortunately almost too many exciting ideas for me to different parts of the fish processing with every six months that one works. So missing Barbara Harlow's talk on "De- be able to takedown. Ann Rosalind Jones, procedure. In each area the black women a woman working at the factory, given colonizing the University," I did make a professor of Comparative Literature at are arranged around long tables. They all of the adverse conditions, is still re- February 23's Comparative Literature Smith College, this semester a visiting stand around these tables, repeating the ceiving a wage that places her below the Colloquium in time for the crescent rolls professor at Harvard University, gave a same cutting motion with their hands federal poverty line. There have been and the last two speakers. paper entitled "Polemical Lexicons: throughout the day. Not only is this efforts to improve the situation through Where to begin? Mary Ann Caws, Feminist Dictionaries and the Franco- monotonous, but it is also dangerous. unionization. But unionization does not herself a former Bryn Mawr student, American Connection," which was just The women are using very sharp knives improve things a great deal. The factory began by giving us her very personal as specific a topic as Caws' "Poetry of to fillet hundreds of fish or pushing fish which we visited was unionized, but the definition/experience of Comparative Art," yet which held my interest and through saws to cut offtheir heads.They conditions were still abominable. There Literature, as a dialogue or discussion excitement all the way through to the run a very high risk of cutting or losing are few other options for black women in between the artist, her text, the viewer, question/answer period. their fingers. Holmes County. Chicken factories, which and the world. In this way Caws ex- She began by describing the similari- The black women are monitored by are similar to catfish factories, are lo- plained what a "collective venture" the tiesanddifferencesof French and Ameri- white supervisors, who stand or sit at the cated two hours from Lexington and pay discipline must be, depending on some- can feminist theory, and how each treats ends of the tables. The supervisors ob- slightly higher wages. The school system times intense moral criticism for its exis- the subject of language. It was interest- serve the rate at which the women are, also provides employment for some tence. ing to hear the terminology used in France for example, cutting the bones out of the women to work in the cafeteria or as She further described this "conversa- which sees language "organized around fish. The women are expected to cut the custodians. But the jobs in the school tional discipline" by studying in detail a phallus" and is therefore one of the fins off of one fish every four seconds or system are largely distributed through two artists whose glaring differences and Patriarchy's primary means of oppres- fillet four fish per minute. The supervi- internal contacts. similarities served to further at least her sion. Americans, on the other hand, speak sors also keep track of the weight of the The economic situation for both men understanding of art and life. Cornell's of language as a tool that can be used for fish before and after it is cut to insure that and women in the Delta is bleak. The few and Motherwell's works were interest- clear expression by women, who should the women are not leaving too much jobs that are available are very low pay- ing and her anecdotes entertaining, but I on ly be a ware of t he d i fferences of speech meat on the bone. If the women do not ing, have no room for mobility and in- began to lose a sense of the whole as patterns and the power differential be- keep up with these requirements they volve poor work conditions. These eco- Caws relentlessly filled in details about tween men and women. are issued warnings. If they receive more nomic concerns are at the root of the birthing, weeping, and "travail." I re- This discussion led to a history of the than three warnings they can be fired. problems of blacks in the Delta. Simply gained interest and a frame of reference, Western dictionary, in Jones' opinion The supervisorsalsodistribute bathroom put, if there are no jobs, there can be no however, when shespokeof "misremem- another example of the perpetuation of passes to the women. The women are prospect for substantial change in the bering" and its importance in "holding continued on page 13 permitted six five minute trips to the continued on page 7 I April 4, 1991 The College News Page 5 Rouse suggests alternatives to feminist interpretation of Islam continued from page 1 one-half the inheritance of men, and as As Islamic nations emerged in modern fundamentalist view of "true Islam" unworthy of equal credence when testi- times (Pakistan is an example) often the discounts large historical contributions fying in courts of law? first "feminists" were men; that is, politi- and developments. Nonetheless, reinterpretation of the cal liberal thought in general inspired In addition, the texts of Islam, and the Qu'ran can assist women in securing some sort of evaluation of women's roles Qu'ran first and foremost, take on what rights, especially insofar as examining in society. Mohammed Ali Jinan in India Rouse called an "aura of truth" even the texts also helps to confront social is one such example. Still, none of these though they were codified about twenty codes, which stem in part from the na- people acknowledged women in their years after Muhammed's life. It is there- ture of the Islamic state. In order to main- roles as workers in the field or as arti- fore impossible, as with any canoniza- tain its hegemony, Rouse asserted, po- sans, but were rather concerned with tion, to determine which positions are litical powers have tended to utilize "true women simply as contributors to the derived from which sources, and which Islam" to encourage a unified identity. wealth of the nation. ideas accord with Muhammed's own Emphasizing commonality reinforces Rouse maintained that this capitalist treatment of women. Primacy and cen- coalescence around shared features of context, although it helped bourgeois trality is given to texts by fundamental- membership in the Islamic community. women become more visible in the pub- ists, often leaving ambiguity regarding Often, these central shared principles lic realm, did not call for criticism of the women's roles in society. involve anti-imperialist sentiment as well very economic institutions which op- One way of reclaiming Islamic texts to as a sense of egalitarianism, which de- pressed women, and left most of the further women's goals is to argue that nies that women need to change their population untouched by change. The women are actually accorded equality in social status. Reexamining the texts with- insertion of the Middle East and South the theological domain. Linguistic analy- out regard to social and political devel- Asia into the capitalist international sys- sis of Qu'ranic Arabic may assess Adam opments thus "reinforces woman as a tem effected massive changes in internal and "his mate" as a gender-neutral issue. natural category rather than a social class structure as well, heightening the The "fall from grace" in the Qu'ran per- construct." Rouse argued that, because dichotomy of East and West. tains to both sexes, and does not levy social situations in our times differ from Moreover, as women (mostly of fairly blame against Eve, as compared to Ju- those of the time of Muhammed or of privileged backgrounds) participated in deo-Christian tradition. Still, how can codification, the texts' treatment of religiously based political struggles and these arguments deal with the Qu'ran's women may be deemed invalid and in- were involved in the rhetoric of East treatment of women as entitled to only consistent with the present world. versus West, "(they) were drawn in and implicated in their own subjugation, but always as part of a broader struggle." On Millionaires' daughters bring temptation to Bryn Mawr the one hand, women during Islamic national emergence were getting their foot in the door by living a more public continued from page 1 in the dormitories, which do a thriving colleges are more expensive and the co- life. Nonetheless, these struggles did not charges for board, room and tuition. business. educational institutions cheaper than the address women's contributions in other Then, also, the daughter of the million- Many of the girls have brought their old standard trio, Vassar, Smith and areas or women's rights explicitly but aire, like the son, has invaded the college own riding and driving horses and their Wellesley. One element of democracy in rather consisted of male led movements domain and with her trunks full of pretty fine dogs, for which they find board in the latter college is the uniform charge with hierarchical leadership. In fact. clothes, her extravagant tastes and her the vicinity of the college. The shopping for all rooms irrespective of their loca- Rouse said that discussion of imperial- loads of spending money has created a excursion of a freshman is quite as likely tion in the college dormitories. ists by Islamic leaders during this period dissatisfaction with the simple life that to include a "runabout" as an ink bottle. Until the recent raise at Vassar the often relied on terms such as "rape" and borders on revolution. The... of a personal maid, however,... price for board and room was alike, $200 "penetration." Eighteen or twenty years ago the at- denied the girls living in the... dormito- for the three colleges, and the charge for Feminists have at times seen attempts tendance at women's colleges was made ries, and in this sense... atmosphere is tuition $100. At Bryn Mawr, Radchffe, at economic survival and women's rights up largely of women possessed of an democratic. and Barnard, however, the rate of tuition movements as mutually exclusive. If, in abnormal desire for "learning" or of those is now $200 and the charge for room and the contemporary world, feminist agen- compelled to earn their living by teach- Little Tragedies. board varying according to the size and das would incorporate difference and ing. In either case, they were usually girls location of the rooms, is from $300 to "work for elimination of oppression in of small means and glad to exchange in ... lavish expenditure of the wealthy $600 a year. A considerably lower rate many sites," theinterrelatednessof these part payment for their tuition a certain girl at college inevitably has disastrous obtains at Cornell, which may be taken struggles would be seen, breaking down amount of domestic labor done in the effect upon some girls of meager means, as representative of the cost of all co-edu- the fundamentalist emphasis on shared college halls. although the little... of strained accounts cational universities East and West, as equality in religion. Rouse believes are not known generally, either to col- well of such co-educational colleges as "women must confront directly the fun- Domestic Duties Dropped. lege ... or to classmates. Oberlin and Swarthmore. Rooms at Sage damentalist view of Islam." She also One proud little freshman, who . . . college, the dormitory hall of women at asserted that things do change, and With the coming of the girl of wealth, bursting with life and the small town Cornell, range in price from $40 to $150 depending on one's background, future desirous of having all her intellectual where she was adored as a genius, eager per term and board is $4 per week. generations can be "the beneficiaries of pursuits untainted by odors of the only to make a "record" at college and to Adding to this the charge of $100 for choices by other women who came be- kitchen, the domestic duties have been prove that she was born for great work in tuition, a girl may live here even with the fore us." dropped one by one. New colleges have the world, is overwhelmed for the first more expensive rooms, more cheaply sprung up with a new order of magnifi- time by the manifold elegancies of life. than at any of the women's colleges with cence in their equipment to meet the new Her dream of sacrificing herself on learn- the possible exception of Mt. Holyoke. demands, and my lady Minerva no longer ing's altar pales perceptibly. Before long employs her spare hours in cleaning she finds herself foregoing the price of a Means of Self-Support. lamps and washing windows, but in Latin grammar to buy a silk petticoat, or riding, driving, golfing, playing tennis stealing precious hours from "math" to To the girl who expects to be self-sup- and running an automobile. Her rooms fashion paper lamp shades or sofa cush- porting at college, there is presented a are elegantly furnished — no longer the ions for her room. If her four years' course larger number of opportunities for self bare little chamber with a worn carpet, a has been planned with a narrow margin, help than existed fifteen years ago. But deal chair and an iron bedstead — but a the accomplishment of that longed-for this does no4 mean that she can eam "suite" crammed with pictures, statu- degree is seriously endangered. more money than she could then by doing ary, rich rugs, couches and artistic drap- This falling a victim to extravagance is domestic labor or by teaching. Her field eries. rather the fate of the girl of moderate of labor is still restricted to the tasks The college menage, too, has under- means than of her with very limited re- essentially feminine. gone transformation at her request. The sources. For the girl who comes to col- At Bryn Mawra partiality forthe purely simple diet of roast beef and baked pota- lege well aware that she must economize intellectual forms of work prevails. Un- toes, beans and cabbage, with a baker's strictly or with the determination to work less one has secured a scholarship, of paste of roasted peanuts for dessert has her way through usually has the strength which there is a limited supply for the disappeared under the torrent of her of mind to stick to her purpose, undis- clever, one tutors or assists in the college scorn; game and fresh vegetables, fruit, turbed by theoutsidecircumstances. And library or scientific laboratories. Tutor- entrees and ice cream have found their her victory is won through no cost of ing is the most popular vocation. way slowly but surely into the college friends or a good time; for a girl stands At Vassar and Smith more varied forms bill of fare. above all things at college for what she is. of industry flourish. From the appear- Six years ago a college girl was content Whether she evinces the strength of a ance of the bulletin boards, gay with to appear anywhere in a shirt waist and leader, the brilliancy of a scholar or the manifold posters proclaiming sales of skirt; a fresh blouse being considered charm of a friend, she is prized for that handiwork and offers of doing domestic sufficient adornment for the most elabo- trait, irrespective of the size of her tea service, and outsider would imagine that rate social function. Now, however, the table or the price of her hat. Neverthe- every girl in college was engaged in some agents of fashionable tailors visit the less, there is real danger of the impres- financial enterprise. colleges regularly in fall and spring to sionable girl being led asrray by false The profits from these desultory ac- take orders for afternoon and evening standards. complishments are meagre,but sure. 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Still others solve the finan- cliffe acts as a go-between for the stu- cial difficulty by acting as agents for large dents desiring positions and the outside staff members on programs already in progress. business firms at a distance and make faculty or city public. The bureau of sales sales of stationery, sweetmeats, jewelry, at Vassar, and the students' exchange at neckwear, etc. on commission. At Welle- Smith find markets for the varied talent Please contact Judy Porter or David Karen of the sley the opportunities for reducing ex- and ingenuity of those colleges, and Sociology Department at Bryn Mawr for further penses partake rather of the spirit of the similar work is done at other colleges by old system of domestic labor, two dormi- committees from the college Christian information tory halls being still reserved for the association. benefit of those students who desire to With each succeeding year the oppor- earn a yearly discount of $100 by assist- tunities for the self-supporting college For African-Americans in the Delta, ing in the housework. woman are broadening, the price paid for her services rising and her own preju- opportunities are limited Many Scholarships. dice against certain forms of labor van- continued from page 4 had the opportunity. Despite her hon- ishing. The ad vent of the wealthy girl has future. esty, she was clearly mistaken about some If the financial field of action for the indeed produced luxury and increased of her figures. Her assertion that 100% of college girl is limited, the paternal atti- expenses, but it has added comforts; it Poverty and Politics aid recipients receive their benefits (on tude of the college in some measures has added, too, an element of gayety — Eric Falkenstein '91 time) was consistently contradicted by makes up for the handicap. A generous even frivolousness — which has served recipients with whom I spoke. She said fund for scholarships and a more or less happily to lift some of the gloom of ultra- I would like to reiterate statistics which that the seventeen case workers (who generous spirit in dispensing it, is the seriousness that formerly hung over the Professor Porter has referred to. In have 400 cases each) "simply have to get rule. Smith college is especially kind to college life for women. Holmes County, 46% of all citizens are it done, so they do." On a scale from 1 to poor girls in this respect. Scholarships poor; 92% of the poor are African Ameri- 10 she rated the efficiency of the office a can. 9. Throughout the Delta poverty is pro- With respect to politics, I would like to found; welfare policies are inadequate; pose a question. Why, in electorates of welfare practices are disgraceful. Missis- African American majority, are political sippi's welfare benefits are the lowest in positions largely controlled by whites? the nation. 60% of the unemployed re- Pickens, where we worked on voter ceive no unemployment benefits. Gen- registration, is 90% African American. eral Assistance does not exist; if you The mayor is white as is control of the have no children, you receive no mone- city council. While the county council tary support. You are entitled to food has a 3 to 2 African American majority, stamps only if you own less than $2,000 Lexington's city council has a 2 to 3 in assets (excluding home but including minority. Lexington's mayor is white. the value of a car above $4,500). If your The African American community has assets are greater than this figure, you strong political views. An extraordinar- receive no benefits whatsoever. In addi- ily precocious and bright 15 year old tion, a household of two is ineligible for with whom Louis and I stayed, Kenneth too entrenched to be altered. One result, was a pre-election absentee voter drive. benefits if the individuals earn above Sallis, spoke of the war in the Gulf as a of course, is a low registration rate. The mayor approached and persuaded $913 per month. Elderly individuals national disgrace. He said that there was Disillusionment is not the only reason several dozen reluctant African-Ameri- with high medical bills are supposed be a consensus among his friends that the for low registration rates, however. can individuals to cast absentee votes, made aware of the fact that they may United States was forsaking its own Physical and structural barriers also some of which were rumored to have receive extra food stamps; few have been people to destroy another. There is a abound. Until another recent court case, been previously filled out. On election the recipients of these benefits. Those sense that Bush, in continuing many there was no elevator access to the place day, itself, the mayor stood on the steps with more than $150 in assets are ineli- Reagan policies, wastes money on mili- of registration in the city courthouse in of the polling place and accosted voters gible for expedited food stamps. Those tary and is stingy on domestic social Lexington. Theelderly and disabled were with a sibling who owned the only gro- who are eligible are supposed to receive needs. not able to reach the office which lies cery store which of fers credit to the town's expedited stamps within 5 days. I spoke But the African American community several flights up. Presently, there is an poor. The mayor won by the margin of with people who, after sixty days, had is politically alienated, with little money access key to the elevator which seems to the absentee ballots. not received anything. or power to effect fundamental change appear at curious times. One man in The mayor perceives the problems of Alicia and I visited the welfare of ficein and, perhaps, with even less confidence Pickens was falsely told that in order to Lexington as three-fold: water, roads, Lexington. We were told by one supervi- that change is coming soon. Alienation is register he would have to travel to Jackson and sewers. One of the solutions which sor that official statements are only is- understandably high; political power — an hour away by car. the mayor espouses isthe construction of sued in Jackson, and that in her office we brokers and their industrial cronies are Issues of ideology and faith are also a large outdoor cesspool to be located on could only ask for individual opinions; almost universally white. Government central factors in the political situation. the lowlands adjacent to a large African she had no comment. We received a stan- block grants meant for the poorest areas The working poor sometimes see wel- American neighborhood. The mayor told dard packet of information from the of- have somehow been funnelled off to- fare recipients as defective or improvi- us that "the jobs are out there" —a direct fice — primarily pamphlets on nutri- ward white business areas. Those Afri- dent in some way. As hard-working contradiction to what welfare officials tious eating. We managed to meet with can Americans who do make political individuals, some place blame on the report. The mayor refers to a motivation another supervisor, a middle-aged Afri- office are appointed by whites; they are recipients, the very victims of the sys- problem, among the "poor" (codeword can American woman who was sympa- co-opted or, if overly progressive, tem. Perhaps most importantly, there is a for black). We were told that people "need thetic to the problems of the community strangled by the white politicians upon Bible Belt effect. The conservative, reli- to get a rake" and take some initiative. and obviously very grateful for the job whom they are dependent. Meanwhile, gious preachings of various officials and The mayor drove us through the African she had secured. She methodically an- gerrymandering has been so costly to the figures serve to draw the support of sig- American middle class neighborhood — swered our questions about (the lack of) African American community that the nificant numbers of African American primarily inhabited by retired school services, and repeatedly affirmed that Rural Organizing and Cultural Center fundamentalists. For example, the cur- teachers from Chicago. Here the mayor "there just aren't any jobs." She attrib- (successfully) took one case to the De- rent white mayor of Lexington has a pointed enthusiastically at the middle uted blame to the mayor and the lack of partment of Justice. Nevertheless, there religious talk show on the local radio class homes and eloquently summed up local industry. She acknowledged that exists a belief that voting accomplishes station. These factors slow the pace of the feelings of the power structure in people want to and would work if they little, that white political dominance is progressive change. Lexington. Proudly, the mayor said, "This Political corruption is rampant in is how you live when you get a job." Holmes County. Perhaps the most dy- namic and progressive politician in the Note: This is the first part of a three part series area was an African American named on the Sociology Department'strip to Holmes Eddie Cart han. As mayor of Lexington's County, Mississippi. Please note that the neighbor, Tchula, Carthan was highly Department is stillrunning its bookdrivefor successful in, for instance, securing fed- ROCC's new library. Please consider con- eral monies for the town's poor. These tributing any and all books on African funds caused upward pressure in the American topics . Donations to a fund for wage rate which infuriated the white eyeglasses for members of the community power/industrial structure. Mayor served by ROCC are also being Carthan was framed for murder, served accepted. time in jail and, needless to say, was ruined as a political figure. Meanwhile, in Lexington, the mayor, a white woman, won on the (de)merits of several political stunts. One such stunt Page 8 The College News April 4,1991 TURNING ANGER INTO STRENGT1 Face Our Anger A Letter from Patrice Gammon I want to break a taboo. Yes I'm shocked and To the harasser: hurt and disappointed at this harassment, I think you ought to know (but this is but these words have no meaning to you. Not actually a peripheral point) that many people that I think anything I say will affect your would physically assault you on sight if they actions, but I have to say something. So, fine, knew who you were. I mean they would I violate a taboo. literally beat you up. I mean there are people I want you to realize just how completely walking around on this campus saying "fuck invested women and men on these two non-violence." Part of this impulse isn't re- campuses are in destroying what you stand lated to the particular incidents you're re- for .We may never be able to draw your blood, sponsible for. I think people want to hurt you but what exactly do you think we are going to to get rid of some of the frustration they feel do instead with all that energy? due to four years of crime (anonymous har- You're not very clever are you? You have a assment is a violation of the law remember) problem: you hate lesbians. Your solution: going unpunished. Not to mention years of You infuriate hundreds (hundreds on this "low-level" LesBiGay harassment. Not to campus alone you idiot) of lesbians and bi- mention people like myself who are outside sexuals with the ability to make your life Staying safe: a ■ the LesBiGay Community but willing to see miserable. You elicit the anger of a brilliant a guilty party pay for the terrorism of others and defiant mass and its supporters. Now, like herself. When caught, you'll be reaping everywhere you go you are reminded that A Letter from COPS the harvest of actions that might not have there are a hell of a lot of the kind of people Dear members of the bi-college community, anything to do with you. A real pity, that. around that you hate. In response to recent events on both cam- My particular fantasy involves coming up You, my peer (and there is no reason why puse^the^ommitteeof Public Safety (COPS), behind you, sinking my fingers into your eye you aren't a Bryn Mawr student), are going to has comeUp with some basic tips to decrease sockets them whipping the back of your head lose this fight. You may be smart, you may personal vulnerability. While these guide- against concrete steps. I keep thinking of the never be caught, you may leave here and lines are neither complete nor guaranteed to kind of concrete that was used to pave ele- become a powerful and influential person, insure personal safety, if followed, both mentary school yards where I played dodge but people like you will never "win." Oh you campuses will hopefully become safer places ball as a kid. When 1 used to sit down on the may actually succeed in scaring people, of to live. pavement, resting my weight on my hands forcing them to alter their routines, of silenc- 1. PLEASE DO NOT WALK ALONE. If at behind me, I later could see the imprint of all ing some. But you will never be able to live in all possible, find the roughness of that concrete in my palms. I the world as you want it. There will never be a friend to accompany you about campus. If keep imagining the skull of this faceless per- a time when you can completely shut out this is not possible, there are other options, son — you of course — shattering on that people who want to revel in and celebrate depending on which campus you are on. At kind of concrete. who they are. You want a world where people Haverford, simply call security at 896-1000 But I'm not a violent person. No joke, I are al ways acquiescent. There is no such thing. and a student escort will take you in a golf could never bring myself to do this. I think I know people like you think lesbians and cart (what style!) to wherever you want to go. I'm writing this because it is taboo for a bisexuals, not to mention other "complain- Haverford also offers Safewalk, a volunteer women to seriously consider retaliatory vio- ers", will be put in "their places" in the "real student escort program which is based in the lence as a problem solving technique. I guess continued on page 13 lobby of McGill library. At Bryn Mawr, the options are slim but in the making. A recent shuttle service runs regularly around the circumference of the campus, stopping at Responses a great improvement over last time Brecon, Perry House, Glenmede, Batten House, the library, Pern arch, and the campus A Letter from Gwen Bonebrake not show enough appreciation. sors who attended, you gained a great deal of center. (Check posted schedule for times.) If When I learned that there were more notes, The Thursday march could so very easily credibility, loyalty and love by attending. It you have any complaints or additions that more homophobic harassment, I was hit less have turned into an "administration bash- was noted, it was helpful (in the case of my you would like to see made on the schedule, by anger than by weariness. Haven't we been ing". The administration was undoubtedly a major advisor, it was surprising!), thank you. please contact Public Safety at 526-7300. On through all this before? Far, far too many little tense, expecting that it would. My being Everyone, all one hundred and fifty to two the other hand, if you should you need a ride times before? so amazed by the right things being done is a hundred of you, who came to that march, to or from the train station, Public Safety will Eventually one gets inured to horrors. The reflection of this. With the two above in- your presence was appreciated, your strength take you by car. However, you should call at murders on TV become bland. Rape happens stances of homophobic and racist harass- needed. least twenty minutes before you need to ar- to someone else. Cops beat the shit out of yet ment I mentioned above, it is hard to come up I truly felt that this time, the monster had rive at the station. Bryn Mawr is also working another person (the only difference is some- with ways they could have reacted worse. I really done it. This time, the lesbians and bi's on an escort program which will be in effect one video-taped it, it isn't unusual, it hap- guess they could have sent out a letter ap- are not left out on a limb alone, this time, the within the next two weeks or so. pens practically everywhere and to every proving the bigots, but by harassing the vic- community is coming together. This time, The basic idea of Bryn Mawr's escort pro- minority group). The war becomes bother- tims themselves they didn't necessarily have the stupid people who think that oppression gram was developed around two problems: some. So when I heard Becky was getting to. (This doesn't apply to Mr. Heath, he was against one group is not inextricably tied 1) lack of money, and 2) the small likelihood rape and genital mutilation threats (what not here at this time. Thank goodness he is with oppressionof all other groupsand there- of a sufficient number of volunteers. "Buddy else would "bloody pussy/ bloody pussy" here now.) Part of my being amazed is inter- fore we need to get together to fight them all Boards" will be hung in the main lobbies be?), I was not as horrified as I was when the nalized oppression. When people aren't cannot help but learn it. The mere fact that within each dorm and the major buildings on women in Rhoads were being harassed. I was homophobic, when they don't inch away af- lesbians, heterosexuals, Jews, Hispanics, cam pus. Here's how the peg boards will look: not as angry as I was when the hispanic ter I've come out to them, when they still hire witches, and many more in instances kept freshwoman was harassed. I was pissed, but me to babysit their kids, I'm amazed. It is secret, have all been threatened on this cam- I was fatigued. pretty sad to have a community so extremely pus, during the span of just four years, could Something different happened this time happy because their deans, their president, not help but show this. I truly felt that this though. This time there was action. With the and their Safety Head did what they were time, the idiot has formed the catalyst that exception of one dean (who really botched supposed to do. But we are. will bring about the combination of all of us it), everyone who counted did the right thing. Thank you very much. Two years ago, and create an explosion! (Clearly this means that those who didn't, there were a series of meetings, horrible yucky I was wrong, as I usually am when I get that don't really count: a message to those who meetings, between advocates of sexual mi- optimistic. Was there really a coalition of the would represent the student body and yet norities on campus and the administration. many oppressed groups on campus to ex- didn't.) A lezzy-bi community that had faded We the advocates called ourselves SMAC, press outrage at these threats? What is going to near non-existence suddenly blazed fire Sexual Minorities Advocacy Committee (we on in the diversity requirement meetings? and passion. The terrific Dean Tidmarsh kept didn't feel we could claim to be representa- Hopefully there will be letters from some of the woman well informed of what was being tive). The meetings came about because, be- these other groups in this paper and I can go done, and made this issue a priority, not a lieve it or not, "the" administration asked for back to silly optimism again. bothersome annoyance that should be hushed them. They felt we didn't trust them. We all Meanwhile, there is the usual cry of "your up so that it will go away as soon as got a big foul laugh out of that one. Why on affirming yourselves is oppressing me!". It possible. We appreciate Tidmarsh being the earth would we? What had they done to irritates me that the conservatives on campus Head Dean. The president of the college and deserve it and what hadn't they done to only seem to feel they are being silenced the dean's office saw the need to put out a destroy it? By responding so well, again, with when the minority groups on campus re- condemning letter immediately, students one exception, to this crisis, you have gone a spond to actual oppression. If you feel you didn't have to go to them and educate on the very long way in restoring that trust. By are being silenced then you need to work for need to have authority making a stand par- wearing that pink triangle on your arm, Pat, the end of silencing. I find it much more On Thursday, March 21, around 200 membi ticularly in cases of bigotry because bigots so you have amazed, astonished, and pleased a destructive to have someone ripping up, show support for the LesBiGay community.' often are authoritarian. Stephen Heath was Mawr campus, continued into a Speakout, | / great many people. We never will forget it, it tearing off, and stealing LBSG, BGALA and and is being so fabulous that my words can- is going down in college lore. For the profes- continued on page 12 April 4,1991 The College News Page 9 RESPONSES TO HARASSMENT

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

Thursday, March 7 and Friday, March 8 — Tidmarsh. before break: 50-60 lesbian, bisexual, and supportive First two harassing notes slipped under stu- straight students meet Monday evening to dent's door. strategize.

Monday after break, March 18: Tuesday, March 19: Third harassing note slipped under door. Fourth harassing note, this one sent through Letter informing community of harassment campus mail. sent to campus mailboxes, signed by Pat Posters go up with copies of the harassing McPherson, Joyce Miller, and Karen notes and a statement written by lesbian and bisexual students. Pink triangles put up in dorm windows by individual students. Guerrilla theater in Bryn Mawr dining halls during dinner. few tips to help you help yourself At night, a group of students paint pink triangles in water soluble paint on sidewalks all over Bryn Mawr. They identify them- across the top will be your present location; direction, whatever you spray into the face of selves to Public Safety. down the left side will be possible destina- an attacker will eventually come to you. Use tions. Along the bottom time slots will be itonceortwice—and then run. Rape whistles Wednesday, March 20 spaced every fifteen minutes from 7 pm until are questionable devices because many Triangles painted in front of Taylor washed 2 am. You will simply take one of the pegs people would not recognize the sound as a off. Students who painted them find that the provided and insert it in the slot which corre- sign of urgency. Haverford issues them to Dean's office had ordered the removal of the sponds to the approximate time you wish to students but Bryn Mawr has not yet come to triangles. They immediately ask that House- depart and your destination. Then, at the a decision on this issue. If you have one, keeping and Physical Plant stop doing extra time selected you will meet others who have however, it is your upmost responsibility workandofferto wash off the triangles them- chosen the same time and destination. We never to cry wolf. Finally, have your keys selves. When the students ask Dean Tidmarsh hope to issue buttons to each student so that ready — before you leave. A good way to why the triangles must be removed, she said they can identify each other as participants in hold keys is in your fist, with one or two keys she had no idea that they were done in tem- the program, but until this happens, ID's will protruding through your index and middle pera paint and that they can stay. have to suffice. By asking for identification, fingers, as they can make a handy tool of Posters go up advertising the March/Speak- you can prevent walking off with someone defense(dotheOedipusthingand go straight Out. who could potentially harm and /or rob you. for theeyes!). Contrary to the American Lung Letters from students advertising the March / 2. If you absolutely must walk alone, do so Association, cigarettes can be beneficial to Speak-Out and including in them the text of wisely. Before leaving, PLEASE think about your health, if you use them to burn your the actual harassing notes put in faculty boxes. where you are going — choose a well-lit attacker. Wednesday evening the harassment time- route that is frequently travelled by others. 4. Your dorm is your home — take care of continued on page 10 Avoid bushes or low branches, as they are it! Please lock your good hiding places. Alert a friend or room- wi ndows and doors—don't prop them open mate of your leaving and phone when you with garbage cans or cinder blocks (hint hint, Acknowledging complicity provides arrive — ask that s/he do the same. Steer residents of Gummere and Rhoads). Take clear of parked cars or individuals who look your keys with you — even to the bathroom impetus for change suspicious. If a driver stops to ask you a — don't jeopardize the lives of others with question, do not get close to the car — if your absent mind. Pull your shades. (Resi- A Letter from Cheryl M. Lee Kim ment. And I know that there have been many possible, keep walking. Backpacks are a dents of Erdman will remember various frus- I am nauseated, hurt, and outraged at the other unreported incidents of harassment. good idea (especially if worn over one shoul- trated individuals outside their windows). the anonymous homophobic harassment of Each incident of harassment is a manifesta- der) because they free up one's arms—purse Report broken locks or doors which do not Becky Greco. Such harassment is a brutal tion of the desire to make difference to disap- straps are potentially harmful if grabbed. close completely directly to your Public Safety psychic violation. It cannot be met with si- pear — an attempt at erasure and silence. Running is often your best defense — wear Dorm Reps (BMC) or Security (HC). lence and inaction for these imply tacit accep- It is easy for us to distance harassment as appropriate shoes. And finally—look confi- 5. If you become the victim of verbal or tance. somethingthatisbizarreandabnormal. Most dent A head hung low, droopy shoulders written harassment, contact Public Safety/ I commend Stephen Heath and the Depart- of us would never harass someone. But all of and weary feet will only make you look vul- Security immediately. If you receive crank ment of Public Safety for their excellent han- us have elided difference—escaped from it, nerable. calls, hang up—don't play detective or try to dling of this situation. I am also encouraged ran from it. 3. Defend yourself realistically. Unless outwit the harasser. Continued conversation by the quick administrative response. There are some differences that we feel you are an expert in the field of martial arts, only encourages such behavior. If absolutely Thursday, March 21st, there was a march superficially comfortable with; we accept that etc., please do not carry a knife. It is quite necessary, have your number changed. To and rally to protest the homophobic harass- as long as we are not blatantly and actively possible that a potential attacker will have prevent such harassment and to protect ment of Becky Greco. The outpouring of oppressing someone, that weare "okay." But more experience with such weapons than others, don't hand out finding lists to just support and solidarity was beautiful. Ap- this is not enough. you do. Don't be over-confident about your anyone. proximately two hundred members of this The process of accepting, understand- ability to defend yourself. If you carry mace, 6. Should you sight suspicious individuals community once again reaffirmed that such ing, and feeling comfortable with difference consider that, if the wind is blowing in your or activity, report it to Public Safety/Secu- acts are vile and intolerable. is one of the slowest and most painful of rity immediately. DO confront people who But where were the other one thousand processes for it involves touching that knot of you do not recognize—don't be afraid to ask members of the student community? And fear deep down, the nameless thing we pre- what they are doing here, or to tell them to what happens to us in between times of cri- fer not to touch. But to the extent that we axe leave. Please—if someone you do not recog- sis? unwilling to acknowledge that fear, we will nize asks you for the room number of another I am wondering why I continue to be so go on oppressing others. student, send them to security—don't place incredibly shocked and surprised each time There is much in our culture and institu- someone else at risk. Security will then de- an incident of harassment occurs because we tions which is oppressive. The wheels of liver a message to the student, telling her/ live in a culture/environment which deeply oppression are greased by ignorance and him pertinent information. Do not let strang- embeds within us a fear and hatred of differ- apathy. Ignorance grows and flourishes when ers into your dorm. ence. During my time at Bryn Mawr (I'm a we allow ourselves to be dominated by our 7. Although we are strongly concerned senior), I've seen that fear and hatred ex- fears. about issues of sexual offense, we do not feel pressed through homophobic harassment, Apathy has roots in two sources: compla- comfortable merely guiding you solely to racist harassment, and anti-Semitic harass- continued on page 12 either Public Safety/Security or to Rape Awareness. We, the Committee of Public Safety, confess that we do not yet have suffi- The centerspread in the next issue will be cient information or training on this issue. Please submit any and all comments or sug- about the CURRICULUM gestions to COPS at Bryn Mawr, c/o Anita Dalton C-578. We will understand if you If you have anything to say, please bring prefer to submit these writings anonymously. Thank you for your cooperation in these your submissions to the Denbigh office of the bi-college community gathered to matters. We will all be safer because of it. (on top of the language lab —just follow the signs) ■he rally started with a march through Bryn id ended with a Kiss-in. — Anita Dalton and Robin Hadley by April 12, 6 pm — Photo by Guilia Cox COPS Page 10 The College News April 4,1991 Harassment Timeline continued from page 9 chosen Truth. line completed. Our present goals to re-empower this Late evening students post erotic/ ro- campus are as follows: mantic lesbian poetry across campus. 1. A campus display outlining the details BUSTER KEATON'S TRIP Public Safety posts bulletin about the of all known incidents of campus harass- kidnapping and possible sexual assault ment and violence. of a Bryn Mawr student. 2. A Security Representative campaign by Federico Garcia Lorca to reduce phone harassment by install- Thursday, March 21: ing an effective intra-campus telephone April 5,6,7 and 11,12,13 at 7:30 PM Banners protesting harassment in sup- system; heightening campus awareness port of womens' and lesbian solidarity of thepreventative safety measures avail- Goodhart Theater,Bryn Mawr College hung from Pern Arch and Campus Cen- able to students is also a priority. Tickets $5 Each, Free for Students ter balcony. 3 .Con ti nui ng the meetings sponsored by Reservations: 526 5211 March and Speak-Out held; about 200 yourdorm presidents todiscuss the safety and harassment issues facing this cam- attend. // pus. THINK FAST, ACT SLOW. // Sunday, March 24, at SC,A: The SGA Assembly as a body chal- Steve Heath announces that there are lenges itself and its members to respond Buster Keaton three suspects, that he's serious about to these incidents and issues through catching someone, and that the harasser statement and action in the short and ought to confess. long term, as this is not an isolated inci- SGA forms the "Ad-hoc Committe on dent. We are your representatives, and it Harassment of the Self-Government is our responsibility to promote commu- Laura X works to broaden Association." nity discussion and action. We urge you It becomes clear at the meeting that more to challenge your representatives to do classification of rape BMC administrators than SGA members so. attended Thursday's march. By Rose Corrigan spread and hidden threat. Typical atti- Sunday, March 31: tudes regarding acquaintance rape in- Tuesday, March 26: In Erdman, above one of the March 19th Many people feel that, because women clude, "She asked for it," "She enjoyed Students repaint pink triangles in tem- posters, an anti-lesbian piece sign is are now often permitted freedoms which it," "She led me on." Again, these are pera paint around the Bryn Mawr cam- posted; it includes pornographic pictures, men have always enjoyed, the "women's rationalizations for rape which allow pus. slurs, and rape threats. movement" is over, and has served its rapists to excuse what they have done. At SGA, it is pointed out that the Ad-hoc purpose. Unfortunately, this is not true. Society allows this attitude to persist Thursday, March 28: Committee's letter did not include the Issues of rape, especially acquaintance through the refusal to prosecute "diffi- Ad-hoc Committee stuffs student mail- words lesbian, homophobia, or racism and marital rape, are still largely ignored cult" rape cases, the treatment of rape as boxes with the following letter: anywhere. The committee claims that and misunderstood in our society. a joke, as an inevitable and biological fact We, the SGA assembly, in light of the through these omissions they could Laura X is the Director and founder of of life, or as some trivial occurrence which recurring events of violence and harass- address the larger issue of harassment in the National Clearinghouse on Marital women must "put up with" because we ment plaguing our cam pus, feel the need general. The committee is informed that and Date Rape, located in Berkeley, Cali- insist on "getting ourselves" into "dan- to make a statement and take action. We they contribute in this way to attempts to fornia. She adopted the name Laura X to gerous situations." Too often, the reality find anonymous harassment, and all silence lesbians. SGA asks for volunteers symbolize the anonymity of women of what has happened to the victim/ violations of personal liberty at Bryn to join the work of the Ad-hoc Commit- throughout history, and the legal owner- survivor is obscured beneath society's Mawr College, to be appalling and unac- tee. ship of women by their fathers and hus- hasty justifications and moral censure of ceptable. We condemn these acts of in- bands — a doctrine which, for centuries, the survivor. tolerance and disrespect, as they serve This timeline was compiled from a variety of has allowed women to be raped. She has When Laura X began her work in 1975, only to divide and disempower our sources: first and foremost, Patrice Gam- worked for over fifteen years to make marital rape was not considered a crime, campus. Although individuals have been mon's timeline printed in the March 1991 marital and acquaintance rape a crime, and acquaintance rape was virtually victimized personally, the community issue of Prism; second, a collaborative meet- an effort which has been highly success- unheard of. Today, thanks in large part has suffered as a whole. Together we ing between Thea Gray, Becky Greco, Joanna ful. On Thursday, April 4, the tri-college to her efforts, marital and acquaintance must unite in Veritatem Dilexi: We have Ho, and Ellis Avery. community is invited to join with the rape are receiving more attention than BMC Rape Awareness Project, the Coali- ever before. Even so, the depth of the tion for Reproductive Rights, the Self effect which rape has on society is often A low budget, high stamina hobby Government Association of Bryn Mawr not understood. Laura's presentation College, the BMC Women's Center, and introduces the issue in an historical con- for determined collectors the BMC Class of 1992 in welcoming text which makes clearer the impact of Laura X to Bryn Mawr. She will be speak- date and marital rape. A video clip of a By Kelly Farrelly books does not necessarily involve a lot ing on the social, legal, political, psycho- debate between Laura X and a lawyer of money. There have been many notable logical, historical, and economic mean- concerning marital rape legislation will The Library has been sponsoring the collect ions that were comprised by people ing of date and marital rape. be shown, and the audience is invited to Seymour Adelman Book Collector's with limited resources. All true collec- Marital rape is often viewed simply as share questions, concerns, and experi- award for the last six to seven years. Mr. tors have "definite purpose in their col- a man exercising his conjugal "rights" on ences. A response panel will be available Adelman, an avid bibliophile, wanted to lecting" (Adelman, The Moving Pageant his spouse (who is, in essence, his "prop- to help answer questions which specifi- encourage young collectors by awarding 1977, p. 2). This is the secret which makes erty"). This ignores the fundamental cally relate to BMC. prize money to each year's winner. He one private collection a mere assortment violation of the women, regardless of her The program will take place in Tho- wanted to impress upon young people of books and another collection an im- relationship with the rapist. A marriage mas Great Hall at Bryn Mawr, at 7:00 pm, that informed collecting could become a portant resource. agreement is not a contract to rape. on April 4. Admission is free. For addi- real joy. One famous Mawrtyr had a definite Acquaintance rape, as many students tional information, please contact Rose Mr. Adelman had a passion for books. purpose in her notable collection. Kath- know firsthand, is an incredibly wide- Corrigan (526-5965, BMC Box C—965). He left no stone unturned when he was erine McBride had several thousand searching for a particular volume. About volumes on South East Asia. She spent one elusive pamphlet he wrote: her life time collecting all kinds of books It was published in London, in related to the subject. When she made a very small edition, in 1913, and I have trips to speak with alumnae groups, she sought a copy for nearly fifty years. I would hunt for books in her spare time. need it desperately, to fill an aching gap Her collection included manuscripts, in my collection, and on several occa- books of letters, and atlases. Many of sions I almost had a copy in my clutches. these books are in the library stacks to- But, every time, my frantic order arrived day, or in the Rare Book room. For the too late. 1 have spent a fortune, during most part, the collection has been kept this life-long chase, on cablegrams, tele- together. grams and telephone calls. And yet, if I Many students may have the start of ever do catch up with that slippery an interesting collection without even little rascal of a book, instead of hurling realizing it. Students may have been it to the floor, as I have every right to do, acquiring books over some time which I will order an expensive morocco case are interesting to them, but never consid- for it. We private collectors are a forgiv- ered them to be related in any way. The ing tribe.(Adelman, The Moving Pageant Judges of the contest encourage students 1977, p. 2) to think about their books and apply for contest: right away. Students who are Mr. Adelman says that there is noth- interested in competing should submit a ing easier than becoming a book collec- one-page statement to Mr. James Tanis, tor. To be a book collector, all one needs Director of the Libraries, Maria m Coffin is the "wish and the will" (Adelman, The Canaday Library by Monday, April 8, Moving Pageant 1977, p. 2). Collecting 1991. April 4,1991 The College News Pace!£ 11 Peace Studies Mission seeks understanding of the Nations Within By Vera Palmer ing assault, since it is an attempt to erase the distinctiveness of Indian people. Yet Vera Palmer, a McBride scholar, co-led despite dissolution of traditional family this year's Peace Studies fact finding mis- structures, high rates of alcoholism and sionwith Susan Dean, Associate Prof, of economic deprivation, American Indian English. The group, which consisted of three cultures are surviving and are beginning undergraduate students, one graduate stu- to experience a revitalization. The Peace Studies Mission held a panel discussion on Thursday, March 28 to dent,and the two leaders, journeyed to Chip- Every Friday night in Chippewa coun- discuss its findings from its trip to Indian Reservations in Arizona and Wisconsin. pewa, Navajo and Hopi reservations in try the sound of thedrum can be heard at — Photo by Lena Kopelow Wisconsin and Arizona to study disputes the pow-wow. The elders are there and between Indians and non-Indians, and be- so are their children. Every summer, the tween tribes. The following piece was the Navajo Sundance with their tribal broth- final statement at an information session ers of the Plains. Every spring in Hopi Please watch for an announcement of a candlelight vigil in support of the held Thursday, March 28 in the Bryn Mawr country the katchinas quietly descend Chippewa spearfishers which will be held at the duck pond on Haverford's Campus Center. There will be a similar ses- from the sacred San Francisco peaks as campus. Thedate and time will be announced shortly after April 15th. Please sion held this Thursday, April 4, at 4:30 in they have since the beginning of time to join in a public statement of solidarity and witness-from-afar of the Chip- Haverford's Chase Hall, Room 104. Look for help the people through another year. pewa's struggle to carry on their tradition guaranteed by treaty. future articles in the College News about the What Indians ask is that their lands group's findings. and rights protected by treaties with an often fickle federal government be re- As we sat with a group of Indian and spected. They ask that their unique ex- non-Indian spiritual leaders in Medford, pressions of spiritual selfhood and unity Africana Minor Wisconsin, Hazel George Pete of the with this earth be respected. Potowatami Nation related to us a proph- Very soon— in a few weeks— some of ecy passed along to her from her grand- our new Chippewa friends will risk their well supported by students mother. It goes like this: lives as they do each spring at the boat- landings. They will face the virulence of By Tanya Dean pleased at the large turnout for the tea The time will come when a different Indian hate groups simply because they and felt it was a good sign for the future people will come to you and you m ust be will exercise their treaty rights to hunt, When I first entered the Africana Stud- success of the program. There were about good to them. They will want your chil- fish, and gather off the reservation. ies tea I did what I always do at every tea thirty-five interested students at the tea dren. They will want your way, and it is The Navajo and the Hopi continue — I headed for the food. After filling my and most signed the list which was passed your job to teach them. their struggle to settle inter-tribal land plate with goodies (both the usual cheese around to see who might be interested in disputes within a context of legislation and crackers as well as some African declaring Africana Studies as a minor or Today we witness a heightened inter- that is alien to traditional Indian values pineapple-filled pastries), I finally took concentration. All the professors seemed est in Native American cultures. Some and intervention from outside groups notice of the room. I was amazed. The very excited about the program and the cynics might call this merely an atavistic that have rallied around the cause of one room was filled with people! Professor courses they were offering — always a curiosity. But to Hazel George Pete and tribe to the exclusion of the other. Mean- Ossirim was there, smiling and chatting good sign that their courses will be inter- to other Native American leaders who while energy companies eagerly move in away at the speed of light. There were esting. After all, if the professor is en- respond to the many non-Indian requests to seek advantage. also a number of people from my sociol- thused about her/his subject instead of for Indian teachings, the interest repre- The Nations within want for them- ogy class there. I was surprised (and bored, most likely you will be excited sents a yearning within the human spirit selves what we all want for ourselves — happy) that so many people had shown about it too. For those interested in the to re-bond with the natural world. our physical boundaries acknowledged up for a minor's tea. I had come partly minor there are several recommended One would expect that with all the and respected and our unique spirits from curiosity and interest and partly be- intro-level courses and one required core religious and cultural positivism that celebrated. This is the elusive stuff of a cause of Professor Ossirim's subtle hint- seminar. The intro courses are: Anthro/ established this country and the stun- peaceful yet robust society. The Indian ing ("Your grade won't suffer if you don't Soc. 211 (BMC) African-American Cul- ning technological advances that have nations remind us that there are still come, of course, but don't ever come ture and Community; History 141-142 distinguished it in the world commu- frontiers in this land that only a few have back to class or your life will be miser- (BMC) Introduction to African and Afri- nity, there would be no quandary within had the courage to approach. There is a able."). I made my way to the couches at can-American Civilization (the title of the American psyche that could not be bi-cultural conversation to be conducted the other end of the room, bopping along this course may change as Bryn Mawr is answered by resourcesdeveloped within on these frontiers that requires less expe- to the reggae music coming from under getting a new history prof, next year); its own paradigm. Yet this does not seem dience and more patience and commit- one table. I sat down, began munching Political Science 236b (HC) African Poli- to be the case. ment to understanding. To conduct this on my goodies, and after a bit the music tics. Thecore seminar is titled Emancipa- One would also expect that with all the conversation is not a matter of political was turned down and Professor Ossirim tion, Decolonization, and Social Recon- U.S. government's policy attempts, first correctness. It is an opportunity for began to speak. struction: Africa and the Americas in the at genocide of Indian people and later at mutual discovery and affirmation of The bi-college Africana Studies mi- Modern Era. The minor requirements at forced assimilation, that Native Ameri- diverse strengths and a reciprocal com- nor/concentration is a program of study Bryn Mawr are that a student must take can cultures would by now be extinct, or passion for one another's needs. A thor- focusing on African and African de- six semester courses from the approved a mere anthropological caricature of oughly human enterprise. scended societies, cultures, histories, and list, as well as one-semester interdiscipli- themselves. Forced assimilation of Na- As Chief Seattle said of us, "We may be people. It is an inter-departmental minor continued on page 13 tive Americans is an especially damag- brothers after all." so that a very wide selection of courses are offered, everything from Jazz and the Politics of Culture to African Philosophy. Many of the professors who form the Bi- Vos Savant vs. the Establishment: Collegc Faculty Committee on Africana Studies attended the tea and spoke a little about the courses they would be Experiment proves her right (again) teaching next year. The faculty were very By Rachel Winston winning, whereas, if she stays with her to think of another person picking door CORRECTIONS original choice, she has only a 1 /3 chance #2. If the person who picked door #1 first Correction: 77K Howl would like Last issue, I wrote an article detailing of winning. improves winning chances by changing, to apologize to the author for a the "controversy" surrounding a logic Since writing my last article, in which the same would be true of the second misprint in the Classifieds of problem proposed by advice columnist I agreed with vos Savant (and I still do), person who picked door #2. This is obvi- the magazine. The copy ought Marilyn vos Savant (aka "the woman I have received several pieces of mail ously ridiculous." to have read: with the 'Highest IQ"' — according to from people who disagree. They insist The problem with this logic is that this Wanted: A woman worth the "Guinness Book of World Records that vos Savant is wrong — that the person is changing the conditions of the cutting my nails for. Hall of Fame"). chance of choosing the winning door problem by introducing a third person. Thank you. The problem reads: "Suppose you're becomes 50% after the host opens a los- How could the host always avoid both on a game show, and you're given a ing door. Once again, let me explain why choosing a winning door and a door Correction: The poem starting choice of three doors. Behind one door is vos Savant is, indeed, correct. already chosen by a contestant? Clearly, "Dear Mom and Dad,..." in the a car; behind the others, goats. You pick First of all, I think the wording of the this would not always be possible. Vos last issue of the College News a door — say, No.l — and the host, who problem may be causing some confu- Savant's reasoning is based on there being should have been attributed to knows what's behind the doors, opens sion. It is important to keep in mind, as only one contestant and one host. Heather McGinnis. another door—say, No.3 — which has a vos Savant reminds her readers, "...that The easiest way to illustrate that the goat. He then says to you, "Do you want the original answer defines certain con- odds of winning are 2/3, if the contestant Correction: The article entitled to pick door No.2?' Is it to your advan- ditions —the most significant of which is switches doors, is to set up an experi- "Students Unite to Hammer tage to switch your choice?" that the host will always open a losing door ment using dice. Out Diversity Requirement" Vos Savant argues that it is better for on purpose. (There's no way he can al- Vos Savant suggests, "One student was written by Sara Rubin only, the contestant to switch to door No.2 — ways open a losing door by chance!) plays the contestant, another plays the not both Sara Rubin and Tracy that by doing so, the contestant's chances Anything else is a different question." host. Label three paper cups No.l, No.2, Hoffman. of winning the car are greater. By switch- Oneresponselreceived suggested that, and No.3. While the contestant looks ing, the contestant has a 2/3 chance of "The way to think about [the problem] is continued on page 12 Page 12 The College News April 4,1991 When reality clashes with THE PHILADELPHIA LESBIAN intuition... MATH AND GAY TASK FORCE continued from page 11 to "win" was to roll the same number as IS LOOKING TO FILL away, the host randomly hides a penny the game show host — the chances of under a cup by throwing a die until a 1, which are 1/3. In the case of "always THE FOLLOWING THREE 2, or 3 comes up. Next, the contestant switching," the only way NOT to "win" randomly points to a cup by throwing a was to roll the same number as the game POSITIONS: die the same way. Then the host pur- show host—giving the contestant a 2/3 posely lifts up a losing cup from the two chance of winning. Anti-Discrimination and Violence Hotline Coordinator. not chosen. Last, the contestant "stays" By performing the experiment, my Responsible for administration and management of Hotline which in- and lifts up his original cup to see if it friend and I suddenly found the answer cludes: Documentation, Statistical, and Narrative Reports; Case Advo- covers the penny. Play "not switching" to the problem quite simple. My brother cacy; and Project Evaluation. 200 times and keep track of how often the even went as far as to write a computer contestant wins. program simulating the experiment, Development Director. "Then test the other strategy. Play the using a random number generator. After Reports to Executive Director and is primarily responsible for admini- game the same way until the last instruc- one thousand "trials" for both "switch- stration, management and implementation of development activities tion, at which point the contestant in- ing" and "not switching," his results were including: membership and annual giving campaigns; major gift solici- stead "switches" and lifts up the cup not extremely close to theexpected results— tation; and volunteer recruitment and training. chosen by anyone to see if it covers the there is a 2/3 chance of winning if you penny. Play "switching" 200 times also." adopt the strategy of always switching. Education Director. I tried this experiment with a friend. It Vos Savant explains some of the con- Reports to Executive Director and is primarily responsible for the ad- wasn't long before we both realized the fusion surrounding the problem, "When ministration, planning, and management of the Education Equity Pro- thattheoddsof winning MUST be 2/3— reality clashes so violently with intui- gram which includes: public policy research; development and advo- 1/3 for "switching" and "not switch- tion, people are shaken." cacy; grant writing to support curriculum development projects; and ing," respectively. What we saw, by But, as vos Savant wrote in her col- community organizing. performing the experiment, was that in umn, "...understanding is strength." So, the case of "not switching," the only way give the experiment a try!

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continued from page 9 "I don't think I paid enough for these cency and feelings of disempowerment. glasses to be gold," I replied. If you're complacent about the oppres- The ludicrous argument behind this An initial report on the sion of "others," and you are a woman, I ludicrous conversation was that I had no promise you that there will be a time right to boycott grapes because my eyes Seven Sisters Conference when you'll face that complacency were tainted by South Africa. (An amus- yourself. You are not safe as long as this ing aftemote: my glasses broke five By Sara Rubin spoke on Lesbian and Gay civil rights, society oppresses on the basis of differ- minutes later — proving, on cue, that health issues and legislation, and the is- ence. they were wire.) The theme of this year's Women's sue of Lesbian/Gay legitimacy versus If you are a woman of Color and/or a We are all complicitous, to varying Conference was Politics of Identity: liberation. The second speaker, Drucilla straight woman or feel for whatever degrees, in an oppressive system that Autonomy and Coalition Building. The Cornell, Professor of LawatCardozo Law reason that homophobic harassment does commodities human lives. Unfortu- weekend-long conference, which was School of Yeshiva University, spoke on not concern you, think again. No matter nately, it's much easier to drown in a held at Bryn Ma wr this year, is tradition- equivalent legal rights with respect to which oppressions we experience as pool of guilt than it is to lessen our com- ally held at one of the Seven Sisters gender/sex, and the questioning of "primary," we cannot afford to dismiss plicity by acting to change the system. Colleges each year to "create a space for postmodernism in feminism. The third others as not being "our" concern. The We can't afford to let our own thoughts women to discuss feminist issues and speaker, Barbara Smith, Executive Direc- putative "center" plays off "minorities" or others make us feel as if what we can support each other in taking action tor of Jobs with Peace, spoke about the against each other. Our only hope of do is worth diddly-squat. What we do towards social change... (as well as to necessary building of bridges between societal revolution and change lies in can make a difference. But we can't serve] as a link between the traditional race, class, and gender in the Peace Move- recognizing the ineffable i n t errelated n ess simply react to horrible events like Becky's Seven Sisters Colleges" (from the Con- ment. And the last speaker, Miriam Jef- of "various" oppressions and working harassment. We have to continue chal- ference Constitution). ferson, of the National Coalition Building with each other. lenging ourselves, our ideas, and each The conference was composed of a Institute, spoke on coalition building and Those of us who do understand this other on an ongoing basis. weekend packed with speakers, small then led the day-long workshop. must fight a different kind of apathy. It's And remember to love your self. I don't group discussion sessions, and a day- After listening to each of the speakers hard not to let a "period of calm" (i.e. say this to be "crunchy granola-y." It's long coalition skills building workshop the delegates broke off into their smaller when something horrendous isn't going important politically. People who com- at the end of the weekend. The speakers groups to discuss the presented topics, as on) lull us into complacency. We are also pletely hate themselves won't fight and the workshop were open to the well as other related issues. The dele- up against tremendous odds and change against oppression. campus while the discussion sessions gates also went to workshops on admis- tends to occur slowly. It's hard not to There is so much in mainstream U.S. were open only to the Conference dele- sions policies, curriculum development, become burnt out or feel as if nothing we culture that encourages self-hatred; a gates (seven from each college). faculty recruitment and retainment, and do makes a difference. puritanical perfectionism pervades so- The four speakers represented a well- student organizing. A group of sociology students visited cietal attitudes. Media images constantly rounded representation of the politics of Holmes County, Mississippi (the fourth tell those of us who are "different" in any identity: from ideological and philo- poorest county in the United States) over way that we're not worth jack shit. By sophical considerations to grassroots This is an initial report of this year's Seven spring break, and gave a report of their loving, of course, I don't mean a stupid organizational aspects. The first speaker, Sisters Conference. A series of more in-depth experiences. They shared statistics about egotism. I mean a kind of self-acceptance Urvashi Vaid, Executive Director of the reports will be given in the next issue by each extreme poverty, described the contin- (faults and all) and a feeling of kindness National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, of the delegates. ued educational and social segregation and genuine affection for oneself. and the feudaLpolihcal system. At the end of their presentation, a student People who love themselves can chal- Lesbian community asked, "What's the point? What can we lenge themselves. do?" People who love themselves can take finds new momentum Making someone feel disempowered criticism. is the first way to immobilize them. People People who love themselves don't continued from page 8 to incidents of harassment. There is coor- who feel helpless don't fight back. It's oppress others as much. AIDS activism signs than some people dination, there is adherence to policy. important not to take on the People who love themselves can give a feeling like they can't use offensive slurs There is also a lesbian community again. mentality,"Unless the entire problem (or lot more. against marginalized groups or say dis- People were feeling safe enough that the every problem) is solved, my efforts are respectful oppressive things which felt need for one had gone do wn but you fruitless." I say this not as someone who has spread their hatrixl. Clearly, not all people have given new momentum to it. So, Recently, I was in a meeting. We took overcome all self-hating tendencies nor who consider themselves conservative while the news isn't all good, you still a food break. One of us (someone whom as someone who is free of all complicity. wish to do this, but I don't see anything really screwed up. I love and respect) pulled out a bunch of I'm saying it as someone who realizes else you could ari^ue you are being si- grapes. I passed on the grapes, explain- that her stupidest and most hurtful/ lenced about. Do you find it unusual that Gwen Bonebrake '91 ing about the boycott which has been in oppressive mistakes have risen from fear you feel silenced when so many of usnrc? But I was glad to see the letter from SG A. et feet for the past few years. A white man and self-hatred. But someopti mism is still there. To the It looked very good Although it had to the room asked,"Do you know where Becky's harassment is horrible but, stupid, stupid and cowardly fool who be prompted, it sends a clear message. It of all the gold in the world comes tragically, it only mirrors larger oppres- has such pn with her (him?) self also establishes a cl r precedent for a 'in?" (Huh? I wondered. What the hell sive forces and hatreds existent in our that she senr. reatstoa member firm response from ■<. \ the next time • this have to do with anything?) society. This is not an Isolated, one-time ofthecommumt; , a pushed our tigru appens, and here will ithAfrica," I ma militaristic event I hope this incident serves as a further. Th ou and the assholes doubtedly be a nexl ikatyo -'-os. They've got springboard to continuing thought and before you ere ow good res p< ■ nse les-bi-an, lez-bi-an on them." action. April 4, 1991 The College News Page 13 Minor provides framework for confronting racism

continued from page 11 Amer/Eurocentric way of thinking. Along with our signs and forums and nary core seminar, and must write a loud statements about condemning ra- senior thesis or seminar-length essay in cism we can now educate ourselves. some area of Africana Studies. If your White people a nd non- African descended major already requires a thesis, you can people of color can learn about Africa, write one thesis for both if your major is the African-American community, poli- Celebrating Womanhood within one of the departments partici- tics in the Caribbean, and so on. Africans pating in the Africana Studies coopera- and African Americans have a pretty tion. That is to say if you are a Sociology rare opportunity to learn about their own through Language major, a combined thesis will work, but if heritage and community from the col- you are a Physics major, probably not. lege-academic perspective. All in all, the continued from page 4 ized and uncanonized women writers, The tea went on for just about two Africana Studies minor is an exciting one group has attempted to avoid the hours, by the end of which I was very new program with great gifts to offer the the "superiority" of man and the exclu- traditional practice of ranking words and excited about Africana Studies. One of community—the more student support sion of women from the male hierarchy. subjecting women to Patriarchal power my own personal concerns over the past it gets the better. For more information or She cited a man named Cheeks, I believe hidden in language. They use several year is confronting my own racism. As to sign up for the minor contact Mary of the 18th century, who published so- strategies of "linguistic activism" to form part of that ongoing (and I do mean Osirim, coordinator of the program for cially acceptable harangues about the a particularly self-conscious version of a ongoing ! ) process I have been and am Bryn Mawr and Haverford for the '91 -'92 "pollution and corruption" of the Eng- lexicon. In a challenge to the genre, they still working to educate myself both about academic year as Haverford's coordina- lish language at the hands of those who record debates, take no final positions on racism and about the cultures and histo- tor Paul Jefferson will be on leave. As for succumb to a "chaotic dialect of hetero- redefinitions of standard terms, include ries of different people of color. The me, I left the tea, happily munching away geneous phrases," "hastily begot" and slang, and invent words for concepts Africana Studies program provides a on the last of my pineapple pastry and "smacking of female diction." He, like needed now (for example, a positive term perfect opportunity for all students to trying to figure out how many Africana many of his contemporaries and others, for single women with children, or educate themselves and break out of the courses I could cram into my Senior year. used female personification to describe women childless by choice). language as a "bashful virgin," whose Another subject that concerns one fe- virtue must be protected. male lexicographer in particular is that Others like Cheeks made it their pur- of d ivisions between women, political or We are the Real World pose to "cleanse the language" by found- otherwise. In her "Draft of a Dictionary ing societies, such as the American Phi- for Women Lovers," Monique Wittig uses lological Society that preached linguistic largely contemporary sources to con- conservativism (good language=good struct a post-modern paradise, a kind of continued from page 8 world is turning on you. Your real world morals), or critiqued and controlled lan- Utopia, to creatively reactivate words to world." "Dykes will get theirs when they has labeled you a criminal. guage by writing dictionaries which transform them and to empower women. leave Bryn Mawr. Those minorities will All I want you to know is that this fight featured the words of the linguistic elite, She seeks to "recast the lost history of wish they were back at Bryn Mawr when is larger than Bryn Mawr. We who are carefully destructured and out of con- women," from that of our mothers to the they get a taste of the real world. They opposing you at this time, on this cam- text, to perpetuate the "King's English" lore of the more ancient Amazons. won't be able to take over everything in pus, draw our strength from accomplish- and to root out that of "the fishwives." I agree with Jones when she points out the real world." ments that have been made throughout Jones went on to explain other meas- that describing a Utopia with no critique I think not. All the people who won't this country over the course of decades. ures femini' ■*» taken against this is wrong, but that is better than present- get the chance to beat the shit out of you We draw our strength from the knowl- "social repio. iousness." ing a critique with no Utopia, with no are instead going to inundate and trans- edge that we are brave enough to try and Operating under the... rds of femi- positive vision of what the future might form the real world. Is Congress real understand, even love, what is not like nist criticism, which go several steps hold. This particular dictionary and its world enough for you? The Senate voted us. Wedrawour strength from each other. farther than traditional Patriarchal cri- contemporaries may not find mass ap- 92 to 4, and the House 368 to 47, to pass You — who can't or won't understand tiques (instead of the positive self/ nega- peal in our largely paternalistic society, the Federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act. that there is something enriching in dif- tive other, feminists desire to understand but without the possibility of a better You know, the one requiring the U.S. De- ference, who strikeout stupidly in fear— both sides of any argument or problem), time ahead, the women of today might partment of Justice to "acquire data about have only your cowardice to sustain you. several women have published theirown have no hope for a more genial now. certain crimes which manifest evidence It's not going to be enough. versions of dictionaries, from a feminist Womanhood is not a condition to be of prejudice based on race, religion, sex- viewpoint. overcome, but an event to celebrate, and ual orientation, or ethnicity" (Newslet- Patrice M. Gammon '91 With sources as diverse as graffiti, the work of sociolinguistic feminists ter of the National Gay and Lesbian Task communications from friends, and terms shows us just that. Force, Winter/Spring 1990). Your real c-1301 from works in progress by both canon- *»£• LMYiORacle W<* Romance and the Aquarius Mawrtyr: sympathetic and soothing manner, can eyes. When they'rethinkingabout some- edy. help you face life in a much calmer frame one they love, their eyes literally sparkle Of all the signs of the Zod iac no sign is The Aquarius Mawrtyr is original in of mind than you would otherwise. with feeling. If they love at all, they love quicker at turning on the lachrymal tap her approach to everything. Romance is Unless she herself is having one of her deeply. Many of them are dreamy, ro- (= bursting into tears) than Pisces. At the no exception. She'll take you along with rare and important "mini-nervousbreak- mantic, gentle, humourous, and ex- same time no other sign is more under- her on plenty of emotional roller-coaster downs." Aquarius is reputed to be the tremely idealistic. What is even better is standing of another person's tears, chang- rides, but your hands will be clasped sign of genius so it's only fair that Aq- that most of them aren't in the least bit ing moods and emotions. Many people firmly throughout (metaphorically uarians should be allowed to have these ashamed of being mushy, slushy, cutesy can't deal with partners who moan, speaking). She is a lot of fun to be with, "breakdowns" occasionally. The best way etc. and etc. When a Pisces Mawrtyr loves groan, and are tragically depressed mainly because she is as much of a friend to deal with these is to give back to them someone she usually has no hang-ups eighty-eight percent of the time. The as a partner. If you get bored while dat- some of the love and sympathy that they about loving them totally, completely, Pisces Mawrtyr doesn't care how tragi- ing an Aquarius Mawrtyr you can be have given to you. But you needn't and faithfully. She isn't self-conscious cally you behave as long as you have a certain of the fact that the gods are ex- smother them. Let me rephrase that. On about it; she doesn't care if the whole good reason for your depression. It is tremely displeased with the match — no account should you smother them. world thinks she's soppy and old-fash- only when you begin to treat her unnec- which is a polite way of saying that you Keep in mind that Aquarius is a free- ioned. If her partner is happy, she's essarily cruelly that she even begins to aren't compatible and should probably dom-loving airsign. Aquarius Mawrtyrs happy, and everyone else can go and contemplate walking out on you. She is end it. However, most Aquarians tend to get edgy and snappish if you aren't care- munch on Twix for all she cares. strong enough to accompany you to hell, remain friendly towards their ex-part- ful while invading their personal psy- The problem is that even the more through hell, and bring you back from ners long after the passion has been chological space. practical and realistic types of Pisceans hell. But you can't consciously pack your shoved into the refrigerator. Unless one Once she recovers from these "crises" have a major problem facing the fact that insecurities into trunks, move into hell, of their ex-partners was a Scorpio. You you can resume those wonderful emo- most of the time the world is a harsh, and expect her to move in too. Though it do not shove passion into the refrigerator tional roller coaster rides. Don't let her cold, mean, and tough place, and has a may not always seem so there is a limit to if you are involved with one of those. occasional spells of detachment and/or lot of misguided, harsh, cold, mean, and the Pisces Mawrtyr's "masochism." She They won't let you. absent-mindedness bother you. Accept tough people. Pisces Mawrtyrs hate see- does not find hell an amusing place. Anyway, apart from being original, the fact that she occasionally needs to ing people fight. They hate having to Whereas it may take a solid dozen red amusing, and a trifle unconventional, escape to her private dreamland. If you handle violent situations, even though roses to kindle just a tiny spark of ro- Aquarius Mawrtyrs are very tolerant. are as tolerant as she is she will return to some of them handle them remarkably mance in some of the other Zodiac signs, This doesn't mean that they put up with you. And maybe even take you with her well. And life turns into living hell for the romantic spirit of a Pisces Mawrtyr sadism, filthy habits, or cruelty. I said the next time she goes... them if they are unfortunate enough to can be stirred simply by the mention of they were tolerant — 1 did not say they Romance and the Pisces Mawrtyr: fall in love with harsh, cold, and mean roses. Carnations. Seashells. Teapots. were masochists. If you give her half a partners. What is even more unfortunate She's very responsive... chance, the Aquarius Mawrtyr, with her Most Pisces Mawrtyrs have beautiful is that many of them are attracted to trag- —Nadya Qamar Chishtymujahid Page 14 The College News April 4,1991 KTvS -kKv Two Feminists and a Marxist = Third Wheel

THIRD WHEEL: THE BIOGRAPHY Sandy has worked with the International Wages for Housework Campaign in Third Wheel, a feminist folk trio, has London. Michael is perhaps the last liv- been performing in New York City for ing marxist, but while he waits for the almost a year. The band consists of Lucia revolution he likes to fancy himself an Russett (Bryn Mawr '88), Sandy Opatow independent cultural critic. THIRD (Bryn Mawr, NYU '88), and Michael Roth- WHEEL has performed to angry crowds berg (Swarthmore '88). The band dates of punks and drunks at the Lower East their origin to the moment when Michael Side Music Festival in Tompkins Square THIRD WHEEL — COMING TO BRYN MAWR ON THE 13TH OF APRIL! added a three note guitar solo to one of Park, and to more sympathetic types at TOP L: Lucia Russett Lucia's songs. Since then they have gone The Spiral, and at Tom Weiss's infamous BOTTOM, L to R: Sandy Opatow, Michael Rothberg on to combine voices, guitars, and re- Up Front Muse, the vanguard of the home corder in original compositions and the cabaret movement. occasional cover tune. Lucia and Sandy The Unexpurgated Roseanne Barr are both also performers of early music (Whetheryou'repunk, drunk, or sympa- (we're talking 17th century), specializ- thetic, you too can see THIRD WHEEL By Natasha Seaman material for her future comedy acts, ing in voice and lute, respectively. Lucia on April 13 at 9 pm in the Campus Cen- which she began as a quick-comeback works with Soviet Jewish refugees, and ter.) Imagine growing up smart in a pro- cocktail waitress at Bennigan's. vincial midwestern town. Imagine that Somewhere in the years as a house- on top of being smart, you were Jewish. wife, Roseanne discovered feminism in Imagine that town to be Salt Lake City, the basement of a women's bookstore in Women and Aging Utah. Imagine what that could do to Denver. The influence of this indoctrina- your mind. Luckily for Roseanne Barr tion can be seen throughout the book: and the rest of the world, it didn't break she uses the word "patriarchy" almost as in Willa Cather's her down, it made her funny. Roseanne's often as a voracious College News writer autobiography, My Life an a Woman, shows might. Roseanne maintains she has re- us that, again and again. Roseanne is jected feminism in its present form: more than a TV star, more than a tabloid "feminism [has] gone populist, [has) been works queen. She's been through a conversion manipulated and perverted to mean By Vicky Maxon "free ourselves from the bonds of age, to Mormonism — and back; had a seri- becoming part of a world where women's gender, and fear of public reprisals" ous head injury—and survived; was in- voices are absent—becausethey [sound] The connection between Willa Cather toward our life choices. In her words, we stitutionalized — and can make jokes just like men's voices". However, she and feminism was the subject of a talk can "usurp Cather's life, and offer it to about it. Plus, she is hell bent on breaking notes that feminism is not dead, it is given by Carolyn Heilbrun, renowned women now. We can and must make of out of every stereotype of American merely waiting for a new form, one that feminist literary critic and author, and it what we will, because she allows for Womanhood that Norman Rockwell ever she hopes will be more personal and this semester's Roberta Holder Gellert such interpretation." put on canvas. accessible to all women. Lecturer. Entitled "Journey to Redcloud: But the aging Cather's increasing reac- My Life as a Woman is not your typical Also included in the book are several Willa Cather and the Fables of Aging," tionary criticism and detestation of the recipes, a guide to losing weight (and her talk of March 23 made use of Cather young is something women of today must then gaining it all back), a log she kept of as emblem and antithesis of what women avoid, said Heilbrun. We do not have to the contradictory messages found in must and can accomplish in the coming see women writers as taking the place of those "horrid, grotesque 'women's years. males, as she did, but instead use her magazines'" like Cosmo and Vogue, etc., Beginning with Cather's revelation example, as Cather did her mentor Sarah that "pour out mind-numbing bullshit early in her college career that women Orne Jewett's, to form our own concept month after hideous month." Septem- can't be men, Heilbrun took the audience of gender. "Oh wow, lam now a Movie Star" sort of ber, for example, featured "Don't com- through "William" Cather's confusion As the idea of woman is increasingly book. There are no lengthy passages like, promise your principles, listen to other and "rebellion": from her criticism of her "up for grabs," women should take the "So then Johnny [Carson] sat down next people's advice" in Family Circle, and "If female contemporaries as "second rate" lead in "slipping the noose of gender" to me and said, Your timing is divine'." you can't beat 'em, join 'em" in Cosmo. (saying she "took no chances" and al- from around their necks. We must create It isn't ghost written, so it is 226 pages of Interspersed in the text are several poems ways chose a male author for pleasure new fables that speak of female heroes pure and uncensored Roseanne. It is a of great purity and depth as well. reading), to taking her eventual position instead of having to live with those cre- story of growing up female, it is a guide Roseanne does not shy away from as a "secretive, anxious member of the ated by men, equating women with pleas- book to rebellion for America's house- anything in her autobiography. She uses male literary world." Heilbrun did not ure only (as in the myth of Psyche and wives, and it is a source of innumerable a great deal of profanity and is open blame Cather for "retreating into se- Eros). Though Cather retreated into se- quoteable quips. about sexuality in her writing and her crecy," for Cather appropriated and made crecy, a trait Heilbrun says is "essential Luckily for Roseanne, her life provides comedy, and it is exactly this openness her own male tradition, creating gentle to the woman under forty to build a self," her ample material for her book. After that just doesn't fit with the American male characters. she did so just at the time when women her childhood in Salt Lake City, she conception of womanhood. Remember Heilbrun also did not bemoan the lack should be "moving with confidence into moved on to Denver, Colorado where when she sang the national anthem and of "hard evidence" of Cather's lesbian- a new life, where we can be judged by she discovered sex and drugs, as well as grabbed her crotch on national TV before ism. On the contrary, she said, this lack, what we do and say, not by our looks or her future husband. She got married, a baseball game? She was making a Ridi- along with what we do know from what we wear." and fell into the existence of the Ameri- cule of the Rag, the National Anthem, Cather's own correspondence and pub- The acceptance of the "first stage of can housewife. This experience ulti- God and the American Way of Life, vitu- lished works, can let us use her life to continued on page IS mately provided her with most of the continued on page 15 3?j&tf/U yVt^r iXtA^Jn^ ©

Dear Ms. Hank, imagine you striding across campus, hairless like a new-bom gerbil? That "Fuck Death to the Patriarchy, I've made it my life's ambition eyes turned inward and feet purpose- You" attitude can be deceiving. Ms. Hank during my stay at this college to be cool, ful, leaving in your oblivious wake As far as consolation goes, my advice to but now, looking around me, I'm begin- dozens of shy women who think that you is to put yourself in a context in which Dear Ms. Hank, ning to fear that there are some eschelons they are Cream of Wheat and you are you will be assured of your coolness. Try To set the scene: of cool I'll just never attain. My carriage black coffee, no sugar. Appearances are this: go to the Acme, buy a box of lime I am possessed of a dear friend who is is Almost Tough, my clothing style is deceiving, non? Jello and some pineapple rings. Come at present wasting away for the love of a Apologetic Punk. How am I to console In the same vein, don't assume the home, make yourself a glorious Jellosalad, boy. All day she sits in her room, brush- myself? What can I do? Mask of Coolness is an easy or comfort- and then throw a tupperware party. In- ing her long silky hair, and sighing his able one to wear. As with any persona, it vite only people who you are marginally name over and over, a soft incantation. — Bologna in Leather can all too easily become a boundary, a friendly with. Then suggest a trip to the As the hours wear on, the cadence rises, thick, graffiti-covered concrete wall King of Prussia Mall (the 70's wing), and singing hope, and bitterness, and for- Dear Bologna, boxing you in; if you put your ear to it, spend an entire evening picking out new giveness. When evening falls, she takes First, get out of that heirarchical mind- you can hear people gathered outside, matching bathtowels. Always bedissatis- herself to the window, to pine under the set — coolness cannot be ranked. Sec- reading thegraffiti, reading you. I know fied. One petty argument about the rela- stony gaze of the moon and the stars and ond, don't be so sure you don't already you've read someone else's walls—can tive merits of this and such is required. the shadows that see her as she is — possess That Aura — Ms. Hank can you imagine them inside, shivering and Now, don't you feel better? continued on page 16 April 4, 1991 The College News Page 15 EZ.UTE.KTA \HMBH T Dates Desperate Women Make

Wednesday, April 3 Sunday, April 7 SAPHE is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Cutler, Ph.d, on "Hormones and Your The movie Misplaced will play at 6:00 and 8:00 at The International House Academic Performance." at 8pm in the Campus Center. Tuesday, April 9 The movie Misplaced will play at 7:30 at Visions of Home Competition Screening 7:30 at The International House The International House,3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Wednesday, April 10 Thursday, April 4 The movie Winter Ade will play at 7:30 at The International House. Amanda Udis-Kessler speaking on "Creating a Bisexual Identity" Also playing April 12 at 8:45 and April 14 at 6:00 and 8:00. 4pm in Campus Center Rm 105. "People Living With HIV/AIDS"—SAPHE and ASAPsponsored paneldiscus- "Nations Within:Ties Between Sovereignty and Survival". sion in the Campus Center. Time TBA. The 1991 Peace Studies Mission report on trip to Native American Reservations in Wisconsin and Arizona. The Chamber Music Society at Bryn Mawr presents a student/faculty recital in Chase Hall 104, Haverfbrd at 4:30. the Goodhart Music Room at 8:00. For more information, 526-5210.

Laura X speaks on Date/Marital Rape in Thomas Great Hall at 7pm. Thursday, April 11 Sponsored by RAP The movie Camp de Thiaroye will play at 7:00 at The International House

"Recollections of Crowing up in the South: die Bi-college Staff Speaks" Friday, April 12 presented by the BMC Department of Sociology The movie Camp de Thiaroye will play at 6:00 8:00 Campus Center Main Lounge. Saturday, April 13 The movie Misplaced will play at 7:30 at The International House Bryn Mawrand Haverford Chorale and Women's Ensemble Concert in Marshall at 8:00. April 5-7,11-13 BMC/HC Theater Program presents Garcia Lorca's Buster Keaton's Trip Folklife Concert: Lo Jai at 8:00 at The International House 7:30 in Goodhart Hall. Admission is $4. For more information, call 526-5211 Feminist Folk Trio Third Wheel performs in Campus Center at 9pm. Friday April 5 Amanda Udis-Kessler speaking on "Bisexuality and Lesbian and Gay Sunday, April 14 Communities". Dorothy Vernon Room in Haffner from 4-6 pm. The Chamber Music Society at Bryn Mawr presents guest artist Orianain in a program of early chamber music in the Goodhart Music Room at 7:30. SCRAWL performs in Campus Center at 9pm. Thursday, April 18 through Saturday, April 27 Saturday April 6 In celebration of a decade of the Wellness program, the Physical Education International Spring Festival: food, crafts, dance, and shared cultural Department presents a series of events. traditions. 10:30 am to 4:30pm at the International House. GP $5, Stud.$4 For more information, call 526-7349. — compiled by Jessica Nussbaum Adrienne Rich challenges to inspire creation By Amy Ef ron "An Atlas of a Difficult World." Poetry readings can give the listener an idea of There was a full house to hear Adri- how the poem sounds in the mind of the enne Rich on Monday, March 18 in poet. Hers was no exception. Haverford's Marshall Auditorium. Win- In the 1976 book Of Woman Born, Ms. ner of the National Book Award and the Rich wrote: "I believe increasingly that Common Wealth Award for Achieve- only the willingness to share private and ment in Literature, Adrienne Rich is sometimes painful experience can en- considered one of America's foremost able women to create a collective de- poets today. Her writing is political and scription of the world which will be truly feminist, while also intensely personal. ours." In her poetry and prose Ms. Rich In her polished, almost melodic voice, continually affirms this exploration. Her Ms. Rich read some earlier poems — work is necessary: challenging and an- "Poetry I, II, III," "In the Wake of Home," gry in the way that can make a person "One Life," "Divisions of Labors," and creative. 'Turning." From her upcoming book, Atlas of a Difficult World, due out in the A BIG thank you to Vicky Maxon for fall, Ms. Rich read "She," "Bolivia," and letting me refer to her notes of the reading. Barr revises Feminism continued from page 14 persuasion may find the book offensive perated the media and politicians. Actu- in that way. Adrienne Rich signing books at Haverford, March 18,1991. ally, what Roseanne did is expose Amer- Thanks to Harper and Row, all of this — photo by Lena Kopelow ica for the sham it is—a pseudo-democ- and more can be found innocuously racy with pretensions to puritanical packaged in typical grocery check-out- morality — and an addiction to Pent- line-style book cover, complete with inch- Aging women house. Madonna did essentially the same high shiny lettering and a blurb on the thing with her recently censored video back that doesn't even mention sex or should reach out to share intimacy which featured her kissing a woman. feminism (though it does devote a whole That Madonna has made a killing from lineto Roseanne's "horrifying near-death continued from page 14 of passage" to celebrate how wonderful this video only attests to the nation's experience as a teenager"). The book invisibility from the male gaze" that aging is, "especially if the kids have left. hunger for sexuality. cover is appealing to the housewives of older women experience (to forget how The older we get, the more radical we Despite my thus far glowing review of the world, and it is likely to be a shock for it feels be seen, and to start to learn to become — we must get out of prison! — My Life as a Woman, there are some prob- those who were expecting something see and be heard more), is the first step we simply must change a system that lems with Roseanne's book. It is not ter- more innocuous. Roseanne provides an to expose the oppression and exploita- abhors the idea of women of past ages ribly well organized, and certain sec- intriguing alternative to current stan- tion of women of all kinds, and must using corsets yet wants us to do the same tions of it seem completely disjointed. dards of femininity, and she is directing come from within. We must be willing thing to our bodies." The cute photos from when Roseanne her book towards an audience who has to realize that invisibility to men is not According to Carolyn Heilbrun, it is the was little more than make up for this, perhaps never been exposed to these such a bad thing. (Heilbrun is convinced challenge of older women to extend their however. Also, even though Roseanne concepts. You might want to read it, too. that a band of fifty-year-olds could get intimacy and bonding rituals to younger advocates sisterhood of woman, shedoes away with millions of dollars, simply women. As in Cather's own My Antonia, not extend her invitation to Mormon (I have donated my copy of My Life as a because male bank guards wouldn't older women must be the ones to pass on women, and she spares Utah no insult. Woman to the Women's Center, where it notice them.) their knowledge to the younger genera- Folks from those parts or of Mormon can circulate.) Women need a new initiation, a "right tion. Page 16 The College News April 4, 1991

*-*% Yo Rugby Fans \Vsjr. UtA^vxA^ @ It's finally here, the event you've continued from page 15 match making instinct is certainly satu- alone. When I am with her, no other rated with good intention, this situation all been waiting for... words but praise of him fall from her lips, is begging you to stay put outside the like pearls, like hallelujahs. door, inside the closet (or not...), under The FIRST ANNUAL 7 SISTERS Yet he is shy, and will not respond to the bed. What you call an agonizing her coaxing — the lightest caress of her cycle of courtly love is at worst a tempo- RUGBY TOURNAMENT eyes, the most anguished trumpeting of rary impasse on a potentially fruitful her heart are all as tears wept for the stroll down lover's lane, and at best an Saturday, April 13,9am to 5pm wind. already full blown cosmic affair not yet How can I help break this agonizing suited for terrestrial expression. Or at Haverf ord cycle of courtly love and throw them into maybe it is neither. "Nobody but nobody looks sexier a frenzied,orgiastic relationshiptogether? Ms. Hank suspects that your friend is suffering from a severe attack of blissful in the mud!" . — Losing Patience melancholy. Furthermore, her symptoms suggest that at this point, she has trav- eled far beyond your firmly planted Dearest Losing Patience, reach. But not to worry! These bugs are First of all, you are to be commended short-lived and she is most likely hap- for the depth of your perceptiveness re- pier than she has been in weeks. My Toads take holistic garding your friend's emotional state. advice to you, Losing Patience, is to turn Ms. Hank almost wonders if you've been yourattention to other friends. And while situating yourself strategically outside you're at it, you might ask yourself from approach to rugby said friend's door, in said friend's closet, whence comes that soft sigh you've been under said friend's bed. Or maybe she hearing lately? And why has your neigh- shares each and every detail of her day bor's hair seemed especially well with you. Why should Ms. Hank be con- groomed in recent days? And what are By Vicky Maxon played by both sides, with the Horned cerned with your methods of observa- all these oysters and hymnals doing in As I write this, Virge Carstens just Toads in the lead for the majority. In the tion, you may ask, in a slightly irate tone. your lap anyway? happens to be drafting a comparison of second half the levelof playof both teams Why can't she just get to the point? My Long live Mother Earth, football nerds and rugby studs. "Rugby descended, and this match also ended in answer to that query is that while your Ms. Hank is not just a- European version of foot- a very close score, 14-16, unfortunately ball!" she writes, and in fact, the game also a Bi-Co loss. Next week the team Americans so erroneously label by rob- travels to play an annual tournament in bing soccer of its true name is actually an Virginia, and the following week we will adaptation of rugby, with all the good host the first annual Seven Sisters parts taken out. But enough about that. Womens' Rugby Championships. PerSonals personAls persoNals pErsonals The subject here is rugby, the game those An anonymous rugger sums it up guys in pads love to hate. nicely: "Despite our dishearteningly To many players, rugby is not only a close losses to Penn and F&M, I have a lot of confidence in the Horned Toads this Could the person who has my autographed copies of Susie Sexpert's sport, it is a philosophy. We relieve stress season, in our abilities and our team spirit. Lesbian Sex World and Herotica by Susie Bright please return them? on the pitch and after the match (come Blood makes the grass grow — kill kill They have great sentimental value. Thanks- Kalyani Broderick, Den- sing with us!), experience team unity bigh 301, x5600 that is almost familial, and sometimes kill!" develop a few good-looking and hard- stranger: you've been sleeping in my dreams again- say you'll break earned bruises—in short, rugby is more through the starry web and walk with me under the bright sunlight. than a sport, it's a way of life. If you haven't talked with any ruggers by now, Starved soccer Madame T-bag: the distance is vast and so iz my silencio. I'm not too you've missed an opportunity to spend worried, though — your entourage stares at me now in black and time with quite a human being. players white... I've reminded them to check your pockets daily (the pea pile But talking is not enough. The Bryn grows higher daily- let me know when you run out). See you sooner Mawr/Haverford Women's Rugby team, than you think. known to insiders as the BMC/HC defy seasonal WRFC, is a perfect medium for adven- To my KPACHAJA GOLOBA FRIEND B MOCKVE: Tbl ZBONULA turous (female) Mawrters and Fords to MNE... or were my ears pulling a bISTRO one on me again? Much, test their physical and mental skills, to constraints much love and well wishes from nous to tu, lovergirl. become one with the earth, to make the grass grow. This spring, women from both campuses have taken advantage of By Elizabeth Hogan MISSING: one banner made out of a bedsheet; it says FULL MOON. their fortunate situation and joined the Last fall at the official end of the sea- It was a May Day gift. Please contact me, Ellis Avery, box 919, x5596. Homed Toads, swelling our ranks to an son, the members of the Bryn Mawr soccer team were morose. The prospect of going ISHMAEL: HEY, who said the womb has the final word on who gets ever-increasing 25. These 25 have been for an entire year without playing The seniority in the end? That girlish wisdom stuns me to no end— mind practicing on the Haverford College Game seemed too horrifying to contem- if i stand back and watch for a while. Your partner, GOOFY. rugby pitch for four weeks, and more indoors, toreadythemselvesforaseason plate, so they decided to create a'spring comprised of five matches^ind two tour- season for themselves. Guided by re- Hey Hot Stuff... I know you're only seeing me for my glamourous sourceful Physics Professor Neal Abra- tech ie bod - the sweet smell of dirt mixed with sweat and eau de sange naments. The first of these matches took place ham, they now meet twice a week to mentrual. But that's alright - I'm only seeing you for your forearms reacquaint themselves with the funda- and dentition. Love an wet kisses, your guitar widow. Saturday, March 23, and was played against UPenn, our friendly rivals. We mentals, i.e. the shape of the ball, (it's had never lost to them, but that Saturday been a really long time) and to play pick- To the Girl from Ipanema - someone told me to tell ya that that she'll in the freezing rain proved to be the up games. Scrimmages with local club give you a full body massage with oil at the drop of a hat. I have a exception, with the final score 6-4 in and varsity teams are being planned, lovely black velvet one you can borrow... wit luv from your upstairs and a contest with the Haverford men's neighbor. Penn's favor. The match began with a score by our captain, Carla Tohtz, imme- intramural team is coming up in the next diately following the kick-off. The week. My blond bird-watching beauty: see you in the movies? weather and the excitement and confu- Varsity tri-captain Debbie Murphy sion of the first match then slowly took pointed out that the number of partici- So. I thought you weregoingtowiskmeoffmy wheeled feet. If you'd pants in the Bryn Mawr soccer program prefer that I swept you off your dainty toes I will. (I might even be able over, and both halves were scoreless until the last two minutes of the second, when has grown significantly over the past few to muster a couple of breathy utterances for your aural canals) How years. A particular benefit of the new does Thai food and sex sound? Or Thai food and jazz? Or just Thai a flubbed penalty play by the Horned Toads, ten meters from UPenn's try zone, spring season is that non-varsity squad food? Or just sex? Your call dearheart. was capitalized on by by a UPenn player, members who don't get much playing Hey my long - dinner - talking - white -wine -drinking friend: i'd who broke from the pack and kicked the time in the fall are able to increase their like to try a repeat sometime soon, before you journey off to the west ball the entire length of the pitch to Bryn game experience. In addition, the laid- in search of melody and little bodies. How about that hole in the wall Mawr's try zone. back practices are geared to give every- italian restaurant you spoke so fondly of? (not to mention that i'm Saturday, March 30, a morning on one a chance to increase her skill level. dying of curiosity concerning the fate of your relationship with the which this rugger unfortunately over- The group meets Tuesdays and Fri- stars and other karmic entities.) slept and missed the bus, Bryn Mawr/ days from 4:00-5:30 at the Brecon Field Haverford traveled to Franklin and and welcomes anyone who would like to Marshall. The first half was brilliantly participate.