VOL.58 NO.6 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10,1976 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK »• «• y-'s" 1 *O» oH .-•;' ?M1 i. u'lV;;:,' .r-w »'JIC5/ ^va - •. •» A CRITICAL GUIDE TO APPRECIATION V.'-r ., i r. OF SUBJECT MATTER, BACKGROUND, AND SIGNIFICANCE: •' »;•' -•*' . ' DETA/LEDSUMMAR/ES COMPLETE BACKGROUND '." i" CR/TfCALANALYS/S •»/• SURVEY OF CRITICISM Page 2 Wednesday, March 10,1976 The flam Chaney Studies Women's Lib by Maria Basile and fascinating," she knew it was a "dead they have the chance to learn Spanish. enough so that the women are in a If you asked Peruvian proletarian women end." She commented, "A woman on Often they form liaisons with men but no permanent ''sub-universe," as she terms it, about their feelings on women's rights, what Capitol Hill needed something extra that a family can afford to keep her if she has unless.there is a structural change in the would you expect them to say? . man didn't." children. She must buy food for the child on society. Associate Professor Elsa Chaney of the She remembered that McCarthy's en- her own. Chaney said this study, shows that nations Political Science department's Latin Ameri- thusiasm after attending a First World The women are willing to do anything in a need to change their approach to develop can Studies Program was surprised to hear Meeting of the Christian Democrats in Chile society hard-pressed to provide them jobs. ment. Rather than perceiving growth in them answer, "La mujer es igual. iPorque inspired her to learn more about South Women who have had two or three years of national economic terms, they need to see no? (The woman is equal. Why not?]" America. The ninth woman to receive a primary schooling are able to support how growth involves people. We should be ' Somehow, "by osmosis, it's in the air"; Ph.D. in political science at the University of themselves by street vending, often selling a asking, "Is the quality of life growing? Is ideas on women's rights and equal oppor- Wisconsin, she studied women's participa- few razor blades or pencils. Their children , income being distributed fairly or is a certain tunities have filtered down to their level, tion in politics in Peru in 1967 but soon are raised on the streets. The mothers' elite continuing to hold a disproportionate mused Chaney, whereas five of six years decided she wanted to find out more about ambition is to send them to school. share?" .'' ' ''. ' 'l \ ago she doubts she would have found such the women who were not educated. It is rare, she said, for the ambulante, who • According to Chaney, .social legislation in I unanimity. Beginning in December 1974, and with works in precarious ideations arid keeps Peru, which gives women, two months Chaney worked with a research team of the sponsorship of several grants, the four moving, to progress to the point of working maternity leave, affects only the 9 percent of I four, including Dr. Ximena Bunster, a women began by hiring Elian Young, a out a fixed market. Peruvian women who are factory workers,! Chilean anthropologist, who teaches a professional photographer, to capture thou- Factory workers absorb mostly women whereas 25 percent are domestic servants! course at Fordham's downtown campus; sands of scenes of the women in their daily who are raised in the cities and-who are* She said such laws influence employers to| Gabriela de Urrutia, social psychologist; and work-roles and family situations and their socialized into city ways. Their jobs are not favor men for the best jobs in industry. Hilda Mercado, sociologist, in the first political-civic participation. Using a new as precarious in that it is not a life pattern." "This was a;study of the strategy tol documented study of the effects of Peruvian research methodology, the women would In their study, the team found that survive,"shesmiled'asshe explained. "With! working mothers on their families and their display the scenes, questioning the prole- modernization and technology do not affect traditional patterns' of kinship and the! true roles in the home and on the job. tarian mothers on their feelings. women. Traditionally, Chaney explained,' extended'family they, have, adopted, they! Chaney traces origins of the project back Chaney specialized in interviewing do- economists, have labeled them "transitloh- '. have outwitted us, all:"; Without" money- to the days when, with a bachelor's degree mestic servants, those women who come als" who, with exposure to education and saving people,' a capitalist society cannot I in journalism from Fordham, she worked as down from the Sierra, and who are pure language skills, would in time move exist, and yet, she noted, they continue toj a press assistant to Senators Eugene Indian, speaking the Quechua or Aymara smoothly out of their primitive stations. live with veryjittle money. McCarthy and William Proxmire in the dialect. Having no opportunity in the rural Chaney realized, however,- that the Chaney, whos"e own nationality is Swed-I 1960s. Although her work was "interesting areas, such women travel to the city- where modern sector has .not created jobs fast ish", plans to teach' the political science! department's "Sex and Class in Cross-Cull tural Perspective" course next semester. The 1 'The Life-Exploring Course: course will survey women worldwide. Afterl by Patrick Martin In a sense the philosophy of the program of human drama, but also ended up bringing a report ispublished on the project, the team| "You realize of course, I'm quite incapable was that there are two general parts of life: solutions closer to maniy of. its ;"u.nanswer-, plans to publish a book. ' 1 of imagining anything," he said from across the clear, easily definable part which can be able" questions. •' • '.•'.; ; • ', ' By studying* women, she said, political the table. "It's just that way—I can't." measured, translated, weighed, and mathe- ' scientists are not forgetting about men. "Well," I said, "It looks like the course will matically probed; and the dark, mucky half The varied and extraordinary curriculum Instead they are "correcting an imbalance" prove you right or wrong. The way Stone in which nothing is unequivocally certain. and the vivid,, life-exploring approach taken by "adding theoretically to the understand- and Davis make it sound, we'll have to do a The first part is explored by. the large by the instructors served to bring solid ing of a human person by correcting a j lot more than read plays and memorize majority of programs in high schools and education to the IS student's doorstep.. distortion." ' • authors." universities. The second half deserves the "That's just it though," he replied, "I'm same attention, but rarely receives it. not so sure I can get any more involved in Students should be able to understand Mary the whole Shakespeare-Strindberg bit. I've Tyrone's drug addiction as well as the been through all that in high school, you Pythagorean theorem. Ideally, the program know what 1 mean?" would help us achieve such an understand- It was four o' clock in the afternoon on the ing. by Charles Kelly emphasized the resolution is concerned only first day of the semester and I was with a The Faculty Senate, by a 13-0*21 vote, with "confidentiality." classmate whom 1 had just met in IS23. In determining whether the course was passed a special resolution last Thursday However, the Senate president did 1 For the next three months, my friend, successful in its attempts to meet its goals, or calling on all faculty to maintain the "strictest acknowledge that the Schroth tenure case myself, and 26 other freshmen listened to, whether we were just wasting our time, it is confidentiality" In all matters concerning "could lead to the Faculty Senate," in I partook in, and generally experienced the important to examine the two criteria by faculty reappointment and tenure. accordance with.university statutes. "Artists in Revolt" section of the Freshman which all classroom situations should be In a controversial vote, the Faculty Senate I judged: the course curriculum and the input Reacting to The Ram editorial"Schroth- defeated a motion that would have given all Interdisciplinary Program. The purpose of Tenure," in which the newspaper reported the course, and that of the other Interdis- of the instructor. persons applying to teach at Fordham 1 the Communications Department recom- University the option to waive previous ciplinary sections, was to acquaint Fordham The curriculum of each of the interdis- mended granting tenure to Rev. Donald teaching experience when being considered J freshmen with phases of life other than those ciplinary classes can be divided into two Matthews, the resolution stated the editorial for tenure. ordinarily examined in the college class- sections: material read and discussed in cast "a serious cloud" over the professional . The Senate also defeated by a 1-18 vote a I room. class, and activities. The material of the IS23 and moral reputations of the members of the proposed amendment to the university section included works (with corresponding The FIP had three interdisciplinary classes communications tenure committee. statutes that would have given a teacher a | films) ranging from Sophocles' Oedipus the in its first year this year. In addition to the seven-year probationary period before ten King and Strindberg's Miss Julie to O'Neill's The resolution also claimed tr 2 editorial "Artists in Revolt," courses called "Coming ure, notwithstanding previous experience Long Day's Journey Into Night and Albee's created the impression "that some person or of Age" and "Outcasts and Exiles" were 'persons were engaged in an undefined A special subcommittee investigating i"1 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Course offered.