1971_12 The Daily Collegian December 1971

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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Tuesday. December 14, 1971
Women in music confined to last stand, inside chair'
By Dr. PhyUls Irwin
(Editor's note: Dr. Irwin, a
Fresno State College music professor. Is this year filling the
part-time position of assistant
academic vice president.)
To persons not connected with
music, the title of this short
article may be puzzling. It was
chosen not because of Its enlg-
>, but fl
it it describes the sltua-
of   music.   -Last  !
chair* refers to the i
position for a musician ln an orchestra or a band.
Today there are thousands of
women active In music. There
are women who are professional
performers, those who are composers,   many
Inside      Ing m
highly competent performers.
A look at the personnel roster
of any of our major orchestras
Indicates that again women are In
the minority. Of course, even the
fact that there are women ln
these orchestras at all Is an Improvement. But, we stlU look far
to find women hired as principals
ln such organizations as the New
York Philharmonic or the Boston
Symphony Orchestra.
Women composers a
are not encouraged generally to
go Into composition since their
•creativity* Is supposed to lie ln
other areas. The University of
California at San Diego may be
unique among leading InstltuUons
of higher  education  because
there ascomposer-in-resldence.
vlolable man's domain
capable   of   performl
area. There are two
ut they ai
it widely recognized.  Woi
Fresno State
to   Playboy-:
chestral conductors. Orchestral
psychology
style sexual
sic educa
Ion to pursue aprofes-
ime in secondary music
education
but  they  are excep-
ot the rule.
s a realm ln which there
talented women. It Is up
of us Interested in the
Women's
Movement to make ev-
ery   effo
t  possible to see that
eventually equal oppor-
for sopranos and altos and women
In eleme
tary music education.
major voices opposition
'dehumanization'
emale sexual appeal to ln-
the purchase of products Is
f our Constl-
itlonal right to equal protection
ider the 14th Amendment.'
Further.   'This   petition   re-
For information and reservations contact:
Susan Snyder
J. H. Sanders
920 West Shaw
Clovis, California 93612
(209) 291-2581
John Marcelli
Friendly Ford
2425 North Blackstone
Fresno, California 93703
(209) 222-6541
RENT-A-CAR
For students and faculty 21 and over.
They met the legend: Anals
Nln. She has written about »Our
Experience* for over 30 years
in her novels and diaries.
Anals Nln Is the 68-year-old
soft-spoken heroine of mam-
young feminists. She does not
totally agree with all of the feminist political Issues, but she
feels and writes about women's
Her writing probes and discovers the essence of fully living
each moment: the ecstasy of
living through love. Her diaries
are a guide for women seeking
Joy.   Her writing captures living
■Keeping a diary all my life,"
she wrote, "helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
Of these most Important is naturalness and spontaneity. In the
Diary I only wrote of what lnter-
 ..... s diaries, along with
the wrlUngs of Sylvia I
the newly discovered p
novels of many other women, have
had a most profound Influence on
women of this decade.
Anals's published works include *D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional study*, "House of
Incest'. 'Winter of Artifice*,
•Under a Glass Bell', "Ladders
to Fire*. 'Children of the Albatross-. "The Four Chambered
Heart*. 'A Spy in the House of
Love", "Seduction of the Minotaur'. -Collages', 'The Novel of
the Future', and four volumes of
her 'Diaries' covering theyears
1931-1951. t
The women at the -Celebration" In Berkeley said over and
over - "Yes, Yes, Yes'asAnals
read from her diaries.
Through the years of her own
struggle for literary recognition
Anals helped and supported many
of her artist friends: Henry
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Fresno women learn auto mechanics
to protect against garage rip-offs
December 14, 1971    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
through
s auto mechanics
The purpose of the class Is to
familiarize women with their
cars so that they will not be so
easily taken by rip-off garages.
Some of the activities undertaken by the class thus far are:
learlng the theory behind the internal combustion engine,
changed tires, changed oil, minor
tuneups, pulled the engine out of a
Volkswagen bus, brake adjustments, repaired heaters and replaced an automatic choke with
a manual choke. The class Is
currently ln the process of rebuilding two Volkswagen engines.
Saturday or Sunday mornings.
Site of the class Is a friend's
garage, but operations are handicapped by a lack of tools and
week  on  either
Donations
of the following: jack stands or
blocks, hydraulic floor jack, tool
boxes, creeper, lube gun,
bars (pipes), dropllghts, extension cords, any box wrenches
(particularly  metric), rags, old
Wire brush, diagonals, troque
wrench, ring compressor, welding   equipment,  compression
guage, ohm meter
automotive tools.
To   donate  equipment  or  for
further   Information concerning
the class, contact C
Peterson, 299-2083.
Course in women's liberation
continues in Experimental College
X
. I\
The Women's Studies course,
"The Second Sex: On Women's
Liberation," Introduced last year
by Ingrid Wendt Salisbury, Is being offered again this year In the
Experimental College. This year
It is being taught by graduate
student Mlki Glllman with the
assistance of Linda MacKenzle.
Dr. Lillian Faderman Is the Faculty Sponsor.
The course Is designed to explore the nature of the historical
and current roles of women In
America and to compare such
roles, where appropriate, with
those of woman In other cultures.
It Is Interdisciplinary, Involving
examination of such fields as biology, history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics,
reUgion, the arts, and literature
Jn'sLlber-
ful,' edited by Robin Morgan.
Class discussion includes consciousness-raising sessions
which help us subjectively relate
what we learn to ourselves as
men and women, tobecoi
of the extent to which
Inltlons others have Imposed upon
us and the definitions we continue
to Impose on ourselves.
Questions raised and discussed
an   introduction for subsequent
deeper Involvement In Women's
The reading list includes 'The
Feminine Mystique" by Betty
Frledan, 'Century of Struggle*
by Eleanor Flexner — an excellent history of women ln America
through the granting of Woman
Suffrage, and two anthologies:
•Masculine/Feminine,' edited by
Betty Roszak and Theodore Roe-
zak, and 'Sisterhood la Power-
types of the 'eternal feminine,"
of 'feminine essence,* and of
■woman's role'? How have these
Images of woman been created
and perpetuated? How do these
Images relate to verifiable biological differences between men
and women? What conceptions do
women have of themselves? Are
these conceptions a result of
false consciousness? If so, who
Is responsible?
'Celebration'
ex roles? How? Do these roles
I mil the potentials of either men
ir women? What are flfe benefits
md costs to both men and women
if maintaining present patterns
if sex-oriented relationships?
Vhat are the benefits and costs
if changing these patterns? How,
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Miller, LawrenceDurrell,Marxist revolutionary Gonzallo, and
more recently the three feminist
poets Deena Metzec. LynnSnler
lck, and Rochelle Holt who loi
Ingly participated In Anals'sce
ebratlon ln Berkeley. Critic:
Sharon Spencer and Evelyn Hlnz,
whose "The Mirror and the Garden" Is the first complete study
of all published works of Anals
Nln, also came to Berkeley
f their  friendship with
artists and writers, but she also
feels that every woman has the
potential to live life to the fullest: be an artist tn life, of life.
•We can never be free unless
all of us are free simultaneously,* she believes. "From teachings, examples and patterns that
we were taught, "
anew. But we will never be free
and always be at war If we continue to think as soma atlU do
that to be free we must extennl-
I AM THE OTHER FACE OF YOU
THIS IS THE BOOK YOU WROTE
AND YOU ARE THE WOMAN
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