1975_11 The Daily Collegian November 1975

              Women's 'Anortymous' finally on sale'
byD. C.Mount
A literary magazine for women,  written  and  published by a
group of CSUF women students,
Entitled 'Anonymous,* the
magazine deals with themes and
subjects of Interest to women.
•The title comes from Virginia
Woolf's book 'A Room of One's
Own',* explained Associate Professor of English Dr. Judith
Rosenthal,  who Is editor of the
•It was her theory that women
poets In  the past  signed  their
Rosenthal said.
The Spring 1975 edition of the
magazine Is dedicated to Adrienne
Rich, a New York poet, who contributed a poem by mall, "Family
Romance.* gbe became Interested
In the magazine last year when
she spoxe at CSUF, Rosenthal
said.
MOST FAMOUS
. "Adrienne Rich Is probably the
most famous woman poet In
'America now,* Rosenthal added.
■She recently won the National
Book Award for her poetry.*
The magazine contains three
short stories, nlne.poems, four
essays (two on Adrienne Rich)'
and eight pictures ofworksofart.
•Anonymous* was initiated In
September 1973, Rosenthal said,
•to help get local women.writers
and  artists  Into print, because
ary magazine).*
A two-unit course called English 190, Women In Publications,
was set up to handle the editing,
layout, printing and sales. Rosenthal teaches the class, which
meets once a week for two hours.
The magazine Is funded by the
Women's Studies Program and
various sponsors In the community.
MAILED LETTERS
•The Fresno Free College
Foundation allowed as to use
their name and mailing list,'
Rosenthal explained. "We mailed
letters to everybody on the list
telling them about the magazine
and asking for donations.
It's hard to get a magazine
published. Anyone  who does  It
will see how hard It Is to do
Especially if you don't want tt
have advertising.*
They had to weather an almost
unbelievable series of freak accidents with the company hired
to set the magazine In print.
"We took the manuscript to a
printer who said he would do It
pretty cheap,* explained poetry
editor Chris Bahr. 'But he got a
lot of Christmas orders so he
set It aside and we missed our
deadline.
LOST MANUSCRIPT
•Then    they   (the   printers)
moved  their office and lost the
manuscript. We had to call up the
contributors   and   ask   them  to
resubmit their work. By the time
we got the manuscripts In again
we missed another deadline.
•Then they fired their typesetter, and had to get another
one. After they hired the new
typesetter, she had five pages
to go when she went borne and
murdered her husband and they
put her in Jail. The printer kept
putting as off all the time.*
Despite the problems, 1,000
copies were finally printed at a
cost of $1,600. The magazine
sells for $2. Beside* the Kennel
Bookstore, "Anonymous" Is on
sale at Pickwick Bookstore at
Fashion Fair.
The Spring 1975 edition of
Anonymous Is the second edition
of the magazine. The first edition
appeared In Spring 1974.
THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
CALIFORNIA  STATE   UNIVERSITY,   FRESNO
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1973
A MEMBER of a Philippine dance troupe performs among a cross-
work maze of bamboo poles in the College Union Friday afternoon.
Named the Philippine Rolling Exposition '75, the troupe appeared
on campus Thursday night and Friday. They arrived late for their
scheduled Thursday afternoon performance, so stayed for the Friday
■i. (Photo by Jim Denman)
AS positions available
A total of 23 student government positions remain open,
according to Richard Carrlllo,
chairman of the Associated Students personnel committee.
The only qualification to apply
for the positions Is that students
be enrolled at CSUF.
Positions are open for AS
Senate standing committees and
faculty- 'adent committees.
Two positions are open on each
of the following AS Senate com
mittees: Public Affairs, Student
Affairs, Experimental College,
Honors, Registration and'Affirmative Action.
One position is open each on
Automatic Data Processing,
Teachers' Education and General
Education.
Three positions each are open
on Legal and Legislative and
Public Affairs faculty-student
committees.
The faculty-student Public Af-
i two openings.
Gays battle stereotyping
Rose Collier Is feminine, friendly, talks with her
hands a lot. Kris Kovlck Is aggressive, laughing,
witty. Both are articulate. And, both are gay.
Collier, a Junior majoring in music, told a
psychology of sexuality class (Psych 132) that human relationships should be evaluated on the basis
of love and meeting people's needs, not on sex.
•I happen to he a lesbian,* she said, "and I happen to think that whatever you're comfortable with
In society is okay. Society needs to give people
more sexual choices."
After all, she said, our society has done Utile
to help us — homosexual and heterosexual alike —
feel good about our sexuality.
Kovlck, a graduate philosophy student, agrees.
•I think sexuality comes in three genders: male,
female and transexual," she said.
STEREOTYPES
•Part of the stereotype with lesbians is that
there have to l>e both hutches and femmes," she
explained. 1 don't want to be male-ldentlfled or
female-identified. They are actually models borrowed from the 'super-culture' of heterosexuals.*
•Gays want to be part of society,* said Collier.
•But, we don't want to relate In the same patterns
we were taught in the straight society. For me,
homosexuality   Is   a way  of love,  not a way of
There are exceptions to the sexual rules, she
said.  1 feel differently and that's not bad.*
Both agreed that gays shouldn't 'come out" until
they're ready. Collier said her family's Initial
negative reaction was based on ignorance and fear.
•But my family loved me,* she said. 'They came
through for me. Our relationship was based on
love, not 'what will the neighbors think?' "
DIFFERENT RESPONSE
Kovick's family responded differently. "My family thought they could 'fix' me,' she said. "They
wanted to give me hormones and make me'well.' '
Lots of homosexuals have problems, said Kovlck,
and so do hetereosexuals. The fallacy Is to connect
homosexuality   with   alcohol   or drugs or other
"Homosexuals can be neurotic," added Collier,
"but so can heterosexuals if they are rejected by
family, friends or the church."
Vet rip-off holes being plugged
by David Garrison
For years there has been a
foolproof way to rip off the
Veterans Administration for a
lot of money, but the holes in
that system are being plugged up,
according to Vern Matheson, coordinator of Veterans and Handicapped Services at CSUF.
Before, Matheson said, all the
vet had to do was sign up for 12
units, apply for educational benefits, not attend class, and drop
from school near the end of the
semester. Without ever attending
school, the vet could make over
According to a recent article
in the San Francisco Chronicle,
1650,000 in educational benefits
was ripped off In this way last
year by veteran students at City
College of San Francisco.
Matheson says that recent
changes In the controls governing
academic progress of vets should
change the vulnerability of the
system.     r-,
Beginning ■. this semester, any
veteran student who fails or withdraws from all courses will not
be considered to be making satis
factory progress. The veteran sentatives, the acting director
then, according to Matheson, will of Veterans and HandicappedStu-
be terminated with the Veterans /dent Services, the coordinator of
Administration until suchtimear Veterans Services, and one stu-
he or she completes one seme's- dent veteran,
ter without VA* assistance. There are other changes In the
Any vet who was forced to controls governing academic
drop, or failed because of exten- progress, and the CSUF veteran,
uatlng circumstances will be according to Matheson, can ex-
allowed to submit bis or her pe« a newsletter by the end of
case to a committee for evalua- November listing those changes.
tion, Matheson added. The com- Through these changes, the VA
mlttee will be made up of the hopes to control the problem of
two on-campus Veteran Repre- benefit rip-offs, he said.
Law helps dorm students
A new law protecting students living In state-owned, on-campus'
residence halls from Illegal searches and seizures will probably
have little effect here, a campus bousing official said.
The new law requires university officials to get a warrant to
search a student's room, except for health, safety, or maintenance
Inspections.
John Rauch, Associate Director of Resident Life at CSUF, said he
doesn't expect the bill to have much Impact here. In a year and a half
at CSUF he can recall only making one search, and that was with the
person's permission, Rauch said.
•At this institute I doubt whether the Impact will be too great,'
Rauch said. But be added It waa difficult to respond without seeing
the actual wording of the law.