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boggling statistics on broken homes,
women heads-of-households, and
other descriptions of what has hap¬
pened to the typical American family
during the past two or three decades
we can hardly blame the ERA. The
American family can certainly do no
worse with the ERA than it has done
without it.
Proponents of the. amendment
express strong concern about equal
opportunity and women's earnings.
The U.S. Department of uabor reports
that women earn about 59 cents for
every one dollar earned by men.
In the middle 1950s women earned
64 cents. Of all poor families, 49 per¬
cent were headed by women in 1970—
up from 35 percent ten years earlier.
Frequently the woman's Income
added to that of her husband keeps
the family out of poverty.
Despite the employment figures,
big business is believed to have con¬
tributed money to ERA opposition
groups Why? Some people estimate
the price tag attached to 'equal pay
for equal work* will be more than
$300 billion pet" year. If big business
does in fact contribute to ERA opposi¬
tion, the 'no need' argument be¬
comes moot
Crisp
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people.
*l feel I've made a real difference
within the Republican party in Ari¬
zona,* Crisp said. *l influenced
others. I was part of choosing a
candidate.'
"If you're not involved, everybody
makes the decisions for you.* If you.
don't know politics you can't change
anything."
Crisp said she thinks the role of
women in politics will become even
more important. "I think American
women can make history. Women are
agents of change. They are the pillars
of change." But she added, 'Women
are not politically sophisticated, it's
Some suggest women want an iron¬
clad guarantee that their constitution¬
al rights will be upheld. While this
opinion may be widely held, many
others think they will merely get
direction toward that goal with the
ERA.    '
As historian June Sochen put It, *...
the presence of a favorable law does
not insure its usage. 'Yale Law School
Professor Thomas I. Emerson, on the
other hand, believes the ERA will
improve opportunities for working
women.
ERA proponents aren't asking just
for legal change, but for accompany¬
ing social change as well. They also
want to illuminate areas where men
an concurrently stifled and victimiz¬
ed by sexism.
They an questioning how our legal
and cultural systems can ask women
to be Rosle Riveter one day and Betty
Crocker the next. Alan Alda of
•MASH" fame says, "The ERA would
simply be a sex-blind leveler of laws
which discriminate against or favor
either women or men.'
This country has approximately 400
days left to have the ERA pass in
three states.
This country has approximately 400
days left to argue the issues.
This country has approximately 400
days left to answer an important ques¬
tion that was first asked in a legal
fashion back in 1923: Are men and
women legal equals—or are they not?
taking time."
Crisp said women have the poten¬
tial for political clout since they com¬
prise 53 percent of the population.
But more women are needed in poll-;
tics she said, because women only
hold 10.2 percent of all elected
offices.
She called Ronald Reagan's annou¬
ncement that he would considered
appointing a woman to the Supreme
Court 'Political crassness, an effort
to politicize the court.*
"He will learn in November that
you cannot supress the 27th amend¬
ment with the power of the 19th,* she
said.
Crisp said her career in politics
would have taken a different turn had
her personal life been different. *l
Vincent
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be viewed favorably by the American
people."
He said Ronald Reagan offers
"frightening prospects. Imagine
Ronald Reagan sitting across from
Leonid Brezhnev."*
question. "Not voting for the presi¬
dent Is voting for Reagan," he said,
as if the question were settled. "I
can't think of an Anderson supporter
who could sleep nights with Reagan
as president."
Vincent is confident that Carter
will carry California.
"Our theory is that if we get the
Democrats to the polls, we'll win."
Hatfield sat through most of the
interview, a sheet of paper with
Vincent's agenda for the day on it
in front of him. During the course
of the day, Vincent had visited
the Fresno media. Now he had
another appointment to make.
Looking at the list of the media,
I realized a fundamental change
in campaigning that had taken place
over the years.
Campaigning used to be aimed
directly at the people, those fickle
masses of voters. It was done in
backyards over barbecues and in
town squares.
The stump speech existed. The can-
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was a classical middle aged, middle
class woman. Politics Was second,*
she said.
'I would have run for political office
but it wasn't compatible with my life
at that point.'
In 1976 at the age of S3, Crisp
became a single woman.
"I wondered what I would do,' she
said. 'Do I go back to school?'
'What do I do', I wondered. I was
ready to be the typical re-entry
woman. It was a turning point,* she
said 'All those years of volunteer
work preoared me for that January."
(That January she became the co-
chairman).
From her vantage point she sees
'the youth vote challenged. If stu¬
dents turn out for John Anderson it
could be an exciting time. Young
people are so wise. I think what young
people are is a beautiful combination
of idealism and realism. That's what
all Americans should have."
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didate had direct contact with the peo¬
ple and was thus less of a product
and more of a person.
Campaigning now Is done through
the media, that all-important conduit
to the voter.
Time was up. They hadn't sold
me completely on Carter, but they
hadn't alienated me either. Most of
their campaign rhetoric went in one
year and out the other.
Who would I vote for, they asked.
I said I didn't know.
Farenthold
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'business of not being taken serious¬
ly'
'Where I came from women didn't
run for office.* (She is from Corpus
Christ, Texas.*) 'It was Impossible.
There was the ridicule and women
didn't aspire to it. It Just wasn't
done."
"At first I tried to ignore that .
Finally I had to accept there was a
characteristic that set me apart. That
was my sender."
She said when she first started in
politics women were accepted as
"pets.' "It was surface gallantry, a
politeness. In a way it was better than
not having anything.'
She was able to get elected saying,
"You just go and decide what you are
going to do and overlook it.*
'The first hurdle you have to over¬
come is silence, then just being ignor¬
ed, then being ridiculed or trivialized.
If you go through those stages, you
then get a grudging respect,' she
said. _
'I was elected before they realized
it,'she said.
She said now more women are be¬
ing accepted in politics but that the
change is 'glacier like.'
'Slowly I've seen some changes.
When I started there was no women's
movement. Once you have some num¬
bers you can do some things you can't
do alone.*
She explained there is now a
women's political caucus in the Texas
legislature. When she was in the state
legislature this was impossible be¬
cause she was the only woman in the
legislature.
Asked why she thought she had
succeeded she said, "I've been told I
have a rock for a head.'
Married for thirty years with four
children. Farenthold said her hus¬
band was supportive of her interest in
politics. 'He understands it. I don't
think he is a typical American hus¬
band.*
She said for a time she had a very
protected life. Then she entered poll-
tics. 'In the Texas legislature I read
about the 19th century women's
movement. I sat there and wondered
how we (women) got the vote. There
was nothing in my education. The
Texas legislature made a radical out
of a liberal.*
She said it was important for
women to go into politics.
'You change the law by changing
the lawmakers,* she said.
As to her political future, she said
'who knows?* That's a paradox,*
she said, adding that she has always
encouraged younger women to go into
politics.
She urged involvement in politics.
"The public aspect of life is very
important. It's not an era for that.
People try to insulate themselves.
.You can't.*
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Callfomlfl State University, Fresno
Parker asks
Senate
for funds
ByLorriOben
CSUF Head Librarian Lillie Parker
made a formal request for $29,066
for library flooring from the Associated
Student senators Tuesday.
The request is now being considered
by the finance and budget committee
of the A.S.
Parker sent a letter to the A.S. in
September asking them to consider
donating the money, but she made her
formal presentation to the senators at
this week's meeting.
Parker said the money will be used to
replace the vinyl tile floor of the main -
entrywav and heavy traffic areas of the
'   old library buidling with quarry tile and
carpet.
If not replaced, Parker said, the tile
would 'not be very exciting or attrac¬
tive, and it wouldn't carry out the
theme,* of the new library.
State funding for remodeling the old
library   building   is    'very    modest,' ■
Parker said.
In her letter to the A.S., Parker said
the vinyl tile floor is in a heavy traffic
area of the library and would start
deteriorating, thus requiring patching.
Patches are always-evident and un¬
sightly, she said, and eventually the
appearance of the building would start
to deteriorate.
The finance and budget committee
will give their recommendation about the
donation at the A.S. meeting on Nov. 11.
In other A.S. action, the senators
voted to adopt a resolution opposing the
CSUF Athletic department's hostess
program 'in any form, or shape which
includes alternating the currently pro¬
posed program and any and all hostess
program* in the future.
The resolution denounced the "Red
and Blue Crew* hostess program as
having 'elements that support dis¬
criminatory actions, such as selections
on the basis of sex, age and physical
attributes.*
It also said the hostesses would re¬
ceive compensation "in the form of
scholarships not based on academic
achievement or athletic performance,
which conflicts with traditional univer¬
sity policv.*
The resolution added that the opinion
of the student body as a whole 'is unfav¬
orable toward such a program,* and that
the inclusion of males in the program
'would nor curtail to the discriminatory
effect.*
It passed with a vote of six to four,
with one abstension.
THURSDAY. October SO, 19SO
by John Bled
LILLIE PARKER LEADS SENATE ON LIBRARY TOUR
She Is asking tho sonata for $29,066 for now flooring
Europe site of CSUF program
By Denise Tucker
You are sitting in your history class.
The lecture started out okay, but now all
you can; about is getting out of that
room.
The bottom of the chair is hard and the
clock seems to be moving much too slow¬
ly. The last fifteen minutes seem like an
eternity. The teacher is rambling on
about something.. .probably about Rome
or someplace. You look out the window
and stare at another building.
Learning can not always be as exciting
as we may want it to be. Or can it?
Or. Joseph Satin, dean of humanities
and professor of English at CSUF has
devised a new program called Europe as
Campus. e>
The program will involve 100 students
from CSUF or the surrounding area and
five Fresno instructors. The students will
take various courses from the teachers
while in Rome and London.
The program will begin May 27 and
end August 22. All of the courses will be
taught in either Rome or London, a
chance for the student to really, 'get
acquai nted with the city. *
Or. Satin, who originally thought of
the idea for CSUF said the program is
unique because, 'instead of trying to
spend 30 days to see 27 cities, we stay in
these places and really get to know the
culture.*
The professors involved in the pro¬
gram will be Satin; Peter J. Klassen,
professor of history; Lyman Heine, pro¬
fessor of political science; Howard L.
Latimer, professor of biology; and Roger
Bolomey. professor of art.
Satin said the professors will ail-teach
- in both cities. He said they are all very
knowledgeable in their fields and know
the countries well. All of the instructors
are from the CSUF staff.
The classes that will be taught during
the trip will include subjects dealing with
the Renaissance, world politics, human¬
ities, ecology, and history. All of the
classes are taken from the regulation
CSUF catalog of courses, and all units
will be transferable.
Satin said the group of students will be
in learning situations five days a week,
and on the weekends will have the
opportunity to see what they want.
Satin feels the program is a good one
because, 'instead of sitting In a class¬
room talking about some place, we can
actually go there and look at it and dis¬
cuss it,* he said.
Ail students in good academic stand¬
ing in an American college are eligible to
Join the program. High school seniors
who have the permission to enroll in
college classes may also enroll in this
program. Craduate students may enroll
See Europe page 8
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