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T H E C 0 L L \1 B I A C 0 L L E G E HRONICLE VOLUME 25 NUMBER 21 TH£ EYES AND EARS OF COLUMBIA APRIL 13, 1992 Panel takes fresh look at feminism ·By Charles Edwards stop saying, 'What's wrong with me."' S!Rtf Writer That brought applause from teachers and female students, many of whom ''NOW is the time for a change," is the were wearing Carol Moseley Braun slogan of the National Organization for buttons. Illinois NOW was the first Women. women's group to endorse Braun's Students and faculty members primary campaign for the U.S. Senate. · gathered in the Hokin Center last week Bruhn was joined by Paula Kamen, to participate in a panel discussion with author of "Feminist Fatale." Kamen said members of NOW. The issue at hand that her parents taught her, "that it's not was redefining feminism. all about women's issues anymore. If Gaye Bruhn, president of the Illinois you speak out on them you might scare chapter of NOW, opened the panel: ''Women need to stop blaming themsel­ Lisa Adds Staff Ph.oWgrapher See FEMINISM I Redefining Feminism panel members (from left to right): Gaye Bruhn, Julie ves, they need to go out and find, 'What Page 7 is wrong with the situation I'm in' and I Thome, Danlelle Bastian, Olga Melly, Sheila Baldwin, and Paula Kamen. Juggling dish pans and the classroom By Caprice Walters there just are not enough hours Her son is older now and the but I am not from a literary "1 want to broaden my life," SUl{f Writer in the day. Or for that matter, load is a little bit lighter, but background," she said. "I Bartot said. Having a degree enough days in the week. They Sims remembers when things didn't know if I could really be will increase her pay scale and Before many of Barbara Sims' shoulde·r the added respon­ were not always that way. a good writer. So I came to "open up doors for future classmates awaken to see the sibility of one of life's most "There were times when I Columbia to find out." promotions," she added. sun set on the horizon, she has treasured gifts while struggling would have to miss class," she Her motherly responsibilities Bartot works a part-time job started her engines, geared for to achieve their goals. said. "There were times when extended her planned gradua­ and carries 15 credit hours. another stressful day ahead. They are women who must the weight of my personal and tion date by four years. But "My job is really flexible," she After most of Amy Bartot's juggle children, jobs and private life overtook every­ come May 29, her expected said. "They let me work weird colleagues are finished wind­ school. thing." graduation date, she's sure it hours. They even let me bring ing up an eight-hour work day, Like that infamous bunny, She was unable to devote as will all be worth it. my daughter to work when I she continues to roll on, await­ they just keep going, and going much time to her writing as she Her message for younger need to. ing yet another stressful and going. would have liked. Her personal women traveling sirn,ilar paths: "I receive a lot of support encounter, a class. "It was extremely difficult," life had to take precedence over "Do it all now. Life does not get from my friends who are also And long after Susette Ross' said Sims, a graduate student in her educational goals. any easier. Young people don't mothers. Especially my friend family has surrendered the day the creative writing program But Sims said her burning seem to know that. Ufe gets a Kim, who is babysitting for me to complete darkness, her light who enrolled in 1986, when her curiosity to know if she would helluva lot harder." right now. I'd better get hom~ continues to bum, hoping to son was 11 years old. She actually be a good writer was That's a lesson that comes as before she gets mad," Bartot finish some of that undone worked an "all the time job," the driving force to continue no surprise to Bartot, an un­ homework. she joked, that allowed her the on. declared junior, who is the See CHILDREN For these Columbia women, · flexibility of classes. "I always wanted to write, mother of a 6-year-old. Page 2 Elevators give students the shaft listed started the moment the By Melissa Slotwinsk i Staff Writer elevator button was pushed and tell how long it took to get The lobby is mobbed with from the bottom to the top and people who glance in an up­ vice-versa. At the Michigan ward direction. Avenue building which has 15 Wrists are being checked, fl oors and five elevators, the then bodies begin pacing. longest trips took 2:05 to reach However, "what goes up the top floor and 1:32 to ride m ust come down" doesn' t down. On one timing the fourth necessarily apply at Columbia elevator (counting east to west) College. stopped on the ninth floor and After what seems like eter­ did not move for approximate­ ni ty, the elevator arrives. ly 6 minutes. The four main buildings of The Torco building' s Columbia, Michigan A venue, elevators, or the Torco build­ the Torco building, Wabash ing, which has 14 floors and A venue, and the 11th Street four elevators, the lengthiest campus, have all been known timing was 1:55 to the top floor to have elevator problems. Yet, and 1:50 down again. some buildings are worse than At the Wabash building, . others. Is of the essence. U sa Adds StaffPhOiographer The Chronicle timed all four See ELEVA TORS A view of the Torco building's elevators which are Columbia's speediest of four campus bu buildings' elevators. Times Page 2 News Features Opinion AIDS and the black community Museum brings forest to city ID shows more than pretty face Antonio Sharp's analysis. Page 2. • PAGE 2 CHRONICLE APRIL13, 1992 Ashe, Magic, tragedies open closed minds By Antonio Sharp the topic of AIDS is intro­ Men's Health Project in San Correspcmdent duced. Now, they have to add Francisco, said that black gay With all th e: tal k abo ut the co ngressional check bounc­ blood transfusions to the li st. and bisexual men make up ing scandal, l thought you might be in terested in hearing "Brothers gonna work it out.. ." the largest percentage of Awareness at Columbia abou t a biggc:r rip off. This, too, has something to do -Public Enewv AIDS victims in the black with Congress, o ur esteem ed leade rs and elected officials. Among Columbia College stu­ community. Would you be shocked if I told you that we would November 7, 1991 and April dents, black males too are seeing "Our project focuses on have to pay something li ke$ 50 billio n to m ake up for 8, 1992 could turn out to be the light, realizing that AIDS is educating black gay and th is mishap? Would you even have the slightest important days in African­ ultimately everyone's concern. bisexual men about safe sex kno wledge (lf what half a trill io n dollars is? American history. In a informal survey of practices and AIDS facts," Think of it this way: A year is 365 d ays. If you lived to November 7 was a day the black male attitudes toward he said. "Many black men, be 100, tha t would only be 36,500 days. media, mostly sportswriters, AIDS, half admitted they whether gay or straight", he A d olla r a day and you' re still in the hole. By a lot. will never forget- the day knew the facts, but did not adds, "are unaware of the Or think of it this way: If yo u saved $10 a day fo r the battle against AIDS practice safe sex prior to d ifference between HIV and full-blown AIDS." every day of your life and you li ved to be 75, you would received a significant boost johnson's announceme nt. only have $273,750. You couldn' t e ven buy a reall y ove r­ due to Earvin " Magic" "We (the black com ­ Homo phobia, historically p ri ced ho use fo r tha t nowadays. Johnson's announcement, munity) probably needed a present in the black com­ that through he terosexual famous black person like munity, continues to raise its Or this, as lo ng as we're o n money: If you ripped off contact, he had contracted Johnson to come fo rward so ugly head, but johnson' s every bank cJst of the Mi ssissippi, yo u still wouldn' t the Huma n Immunodeficien­ we would wake up abo ut revela tion has begun to have enoug h money to cover the "mista ke" m ad e by Con­ cy Virus (HIV), the this," said Robert eliminate closem inded ig­ g ressionalleil ders in the 1980 s.