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Fisher angers men
in women’s lib talk
Dr. Mauguerite Fisher answered questions and fended off jibes Wednesday night at
|iier speech on women’s lib for Great Issues. (Photo by Joe Matthews)
By SUE DAVIS
News Editor
A verbal battle over women’s
lib developed Wednesday night
during the question and answer
session following Dr. Marguerite
Fisher’s speech in the Memorial
Student Center.
The questions, coming from
taunting males, had both Fisher
and the students angry with each
other by the end of the speech.
Dr. Fisher, a political science
professor at Syracuse University,
was featured in a Great Issues
presentation. Speaking to a near
capacity audience in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom, she em
phasized the activities of the Na
tional Organization of Women
(NOW).
The women’s liberation move
ment originated in the 1840s and
’50s, Dr. Fisher said, when young
country girls moved to the cities
to work in factories. They were
out on their own for the first
time, she commented, and began
to realize that they had a place
in the world.
The most important cause of
the drive for liberation was the
anti-slavery movement, Dr. Fish
er said.
“This would never have gotten
off the ground if not for women,”
she emphasized. “For the next
50 years, the leaders of the wom
en’s liberation came from those
who had experience in the anti
slavery society.”
Women at that time drew up
a declaration of rights, Dr. Fisher
noted. It included the right of
University Police says
Still more cars than spaces
% DEBI BLACKMON
Staff Writer
The University Traffic Commit-
■ee doesn’t foresee any solution
jn the near future to the parking
problem that affects over 2,300
tudents and faculty members
low wrestling for campus park-
n f? spaces every weekday.
Current parking problems stem
rom the fact that there are not
!n °ugh parking spaces for the
lu ge amount of permits. There
' v «re 8,035 student permits and
-.663 staff permits issued as of
Sept. 10.
^ er e are 3,494 parking spaces
^ ^signaled for day students, civil-
an dorm students, and Corps
members. Staff make do with
5,198 parking spaces, most hav-
n g individual reservations. Also
included in the campus plan are
some 1,711 spaces for miscellane-
°us parking.
‘In the past, the department’s
policy has held that more parking
Permits than parking spaces
eould legally be issued,” Morris
Maddox, assistant chief of the
niversity Police said, “since all
foe students are not on the cam-
P us at any one given time.”
This year greater numbers of
ormitory students have brought
heir cars on campus,” Maddox
continued.
Today the campus parking fa-
cilities are being taxed. There
ar e 10,698 cars trying to park in
Sotne 8,403 available spaces.
Cars involved in the surplus
are s bll paying the required $15
an nual parking fee, necessary for
an y vehicle to be on campus pi*op-
erty.
The only long range plans for
uture parking lots to relieve the
Present pressure will be planned
'-'lots to be built across the rail
road tracks from Kyle Field, and
Jarious extensions to the present
°rps parking lot 24, and the new
ormitory, scheduled for comple-
t'on fall semester 1972.
At the beginning of Septem-
er we worked around the clock
0 keep students from blocking
riveways and parking in the
staff lots,” Maddox added.
Traffic - parking regulations
state all cars in parking lots 48
and 3i next to Kyle Field, 49
aiong Wellborn Road, and 9, the
ay student lot by the drill field,
j| mus t be cleared before 10 a.m.
on football game days. This
creates even greater congestion
on weekends at football games.
“Parking problems still present
a problem,” said O. L. Luther,
Chief of the University Police
Department, Wednesday after
noon at the last meeting of the
Traffic Committee.
To combat the ever-worsening
situation, the University Police
have attempted to zone all of
the parking spaces on campus.
A special Traffic-Parking Reg
ulations handbook is printed by
the University Police to notify
all drivers of the special restric
tions he will find on campus.
The Traffic Regulations state
that student vehicles are not to
be taken from their assigned
parking areas for the purpose of
attending classes or for making
other campus stops during busi
ness hours.
The University, in turn, also
reserves the right to move or
impound any vehicle operated or
parked in violation of University
Regulations. The owner of the
vehicle will be required to pay
the cost of moving, impounding
and storing of such vehicles. This
includes bicycles and motorcycles,
both which are vulnerable to tick
eting.
Regulations posted on signs and
curbs around campus apply at
all times including holidays and
intermission periods, along with
business hours from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Parking in certain staff lots
and streets is assigned on a pri
ority basis by the Zone Admin
istrators. A car with an overlay
number cannot be parked in the
random area near the lot unless
the lot is full. Staff cars with
regular permits must park in
random areas on streets or lots
that are not reserved.
Employees, staff, faculty, and
students are prohibited from
parking in visitor places, but may
park in the 30-minute spaces on
the streets for short stops.
Students receiving over six or
more tickets will have his permit
revoked and will be prohibited
from driving on the campus the
remainder of the semester.
A penalty of $5.00 is added if
the fee is not paid within 72
hours from the date of notice.
This charge is additional to the
original charge for the traffic
violations. The penalty for viola
tions are $2 for the first one, $4
for the second, $8 for the third,
$16 for the fourth and $32 for
the fifth.
A total of $36,971 was paid in
the school year 1969-70 for an
assortment of nonmoving and
moving violations, along with oth
er penalties. In the year of 1970-
71, $27,713 was collected for vio
lations. So far this year, $8,064
has been collected in September
alone, accounting for over 2,178
various traffic tickets.
This month’s total amount of
tickets paid are almost double
those collected in September of
1970 when the University Police
collected $3928 for over 1,788
traffic violations.
Students do have a say con
cerning the tickets they receive.
Upon receiving a ticket, a driv
er who believes the notice is un
warranted, may report to the
University Police office where
an appeal may be filed and his
appearance before the Traffic Ap
peals Panel scheduled. The appeal
must be made within 72 hours
from the date of notice.
Any violator that does not make
satisfactory disposition of his
privilege within 72 hours will be
prohibited from driving on the
campus and his permit will be
removed for the semester.
Moratorium Day
with rallies and
is quiet
teach-ins
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Antiwar groups sought to turn
out a wide cross-section of the
American population today with
another round of rallies, teach-
ins, vigils and marches on Mora
torium Day to protest the war in
Indochina.
Opponents of the war planned
a “peace fair” in Kansas City,
a war tax resistance rally at the
wage-price control office in Phil
adelphia and a boycott of classes
at the University of Missouri.
At Ft. Bliss, near El Paso,
Tex., plans for a boycott of the
noon meal at the big military
base were met with the rare an-
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
nouncement that steak would be
served for lunch.
The Army also announced it
would not allow soldiers at Ft.
Bliss to use a base cemetery for
a memorial service.
Among other observances
planned was a teach-in at Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy in Cambridge. Scheduled to
conduct it was Daniel Ellsberg,
who said he gave the Pentagon
papers to the press.
In the Bronx, John Kerry of
the Vietnam Veterans Against
the War was to lead a teach-in at
the Horace Mann school.
Mayor John V. Lindsay was
scheduled to speak at a rally in
Manhattan’s garment district.
Demonstrations were also plan
ned in New York City’s other
women to vote and advocated the
removal of legal injustices, she
said. She gave examples of wom
en having to give up their right
to property and to their earnings
when they marry. They were not
allowed to make out wills or sign
contracts, she added.
“Women were classified with
idiots, felons and the insane,” Dr.
Fisher commented.
A period of militancy lasted
until after the Civil War, she
said. It subsided until the years
before World War I, when women
again began actively seeking and
finally won the right to vote in
America, she noted.
From 1920 until recently, the
women’s lib movement subsided
due to what Dr. Fisher referred
to as the “sinister” influence of
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
She admitted that perhaps the
blame should be placed on Freud’s
American translators.
According to these translators,
Dr. Fisher said, “the biology of
women predestined them to jobs
of reproduction, sex and cooking.”
About five years ago, “a new
phase of militancy” began, she
said. Some of the reasons she
gave were the decline in Freudian
thought and the new population
trends. She added that inflation
has forced more women to get
out of their homes and work. ,She
estimated that half of the women
between 16 and 60 are working.
The civil rights movement made
many women realize that they
needed a movement for them
selves, Dr. Fisher said.
Two books also played a large
part in starting the new phase
of women’s lib, she added. They
were “The Second Sex” by a
French author and “The Feminine
Mystique” by Betty Friedan, she
noted.
Women’s lib organizations soon
began to appear, Dr. Fisher said.
“The” main group is NOW, she
emphasized.
“We have had a very bad time
with the press,” Dr. Fisher said,
because they exaggerate the “lu
natic fringe” in the organizations.
“But do not judge a major
movement in history by the lu
natic fringe,” she added.
NOW is promoting more wom
en in public offices, Dr. Fisher
commented. They also worked for
the equal rights amendment that
passed the House of Representa
tives Tuesday, she said.
Obstacle course being built
for Army ROTC training
Construction of a special train
ing facility for the Corps of
Cadets is under way just south
of the main A&M campus.
An obstacle confidence course
consisting of 12 obstacles of vary
ing difficulty will be located on
a triangular plot between the
Aggie rodeo arena and railroad
bordering the west campus boun
dary.
Col. Thomas R. Parsons, com
mandant, noted the Rudder’s
Rangers, a special membership
corps organization, is building
the course.
One part of the plot, made
available by Gen. A. R. Luedecke
when he was acting president and
first approval was sought, is set
up for administration of the
Army Physical Combat Profi
ciency Test (PCPT). The north
end will contain the 300-yard long
obstacle course laid out in a “V”
shape.
Capt. Charles H. Briscoe, Rud
der’s Rangers company advisor,
said the layout should be com
pleted by Thanksgiving. Ranger
company members under Steve
Swanner have worked two week
ends on it.
Parsons indicated the project
has U. S. Army approval and
support including funds and
heavy building materials. The
Texas Highway Department dis
trict office provided concrete cul
vert, A&M’s Grounds Mainten
ance Department, tools and ma
chinery, and the 420th Engineer
Brigade, commanded by Brig.
Gen. Joe G. Hanover, technical
assistance to ensure the obstacles
are structurally sound.
Child care centers for working
mothers are another goal of
NOW, Dr. Fisher noted, as well
as courses on women’s studies
offered at all schools.
“You should look at women's
liberation as a long struggle for
democracy in the Wester Hemis
phere,” Dr. Fisher concluded.
The floor was then opened to
questions from the audience of
enthusiastic women and antago
nistic men.
One male student asked Dr.
Fisher why women should be paid
as much as men when men have
a family to support.
A girl in the audience com
mented that she saw no reason
not to pay a woman as much
when she helped support a family,
too.
Dr. Fisher added that many
men die too soon from over
work and that is a good reason
for a wife to work.
Another male student asked if
the female menstrual cycle and
the risk of pregnancy kept wom
en from acquiring executive jobs.
“You have one of the great
minds—of the twelfth century,”
Dr. Fisher answered.
Dr. Fisher’s speech was inter
rupted several times by applause,
hissing and whooping. Most of
the questions asked of her by
men were rude and derogatory in
nature.
Sophs decide
sweetheart to
be A&M coed
The Sophomore Class Council
decided Wednesday night to select
the sophomore sweetheart from
A&M coeds only.
They are the first group to do
so.
The proposal was made by
Mark Blakemore, the final vote
was 27 for and 18 against.
The council also followed the
precedent of the Student Senate
in donating $50 to the Yell Lead
er Committee to help pay for the
sound system used at Midnight
Yell Practice.
Band
blow
of Viet Cong sappers
up 5 U. S. helicopters
boroughs, including the reading
of the names in Brooklyn of the
nation’s 45,000 Vietnam war dead.
In the nation’s capital, Wash
ington Labor for Peace and Fed
eral Employes for Peace called on
“Americans of all persuasions” to
participate. They planned a three-
hour rally across from the White
House. Another rally, sponsored
by the People’s Coalition for
Peace and Justice, was planned
for the steps of the Capitol.
Many of the activities centered
on college campuses. A noon
peace march was expected on the
University of Minnesota campus.
In New York City, rallies were
set for several college campuses,
including Columbia, New York
University, Manhattan College
and Queens College.
SAIGON (A 1 ) — Under cover of
darkness, a small band of Viet
Cong sappers slipped into an al
lied base near Saigon Wednesday
and blew up five U.S. helicopters
worth $1.4 million.
The sappers, trained to slip
into bases and blow up equipment,
got away. Two of them were
sighted as they fled but there
was no exchange of fire, the
U.S. Command reported.
The sapper attack was the
first such assault on an Ameri
can unit in the capital’s environs
since January 1970, although
there have been terrorist bomb
ings against U.S. billets and
other installations in Saigon it
self.
The sappers slipped undetected
into the base camp at Di An,
eight miles northeast of Saigon,
and blew up the five helicopters
with explosive charges. The U.S.
Command reported two of the
helicopters destroyed and major
damage to the other three.
The base at Di An is a South
Vietnamese installation but it is
used by U.S. helicopters which
are currently providing support
for government troops in the
Cambodian border fighting.
Internal security on the base
is provided by American troops
while the outside security is as
signed to South Vietnamese.
The attack apparently was part
of a recently launched sapper
campaign by the Viet Cong in the
3rd Military Region, an area that
encompasses Saigon and 11 sur
rounding provinces. Less than
a month ago, a sapper team blew
up 300 tons of ammunition at a
South Vietnamese depot on the
outskirts of Saigon.
The last sapper attack against
a U.S. helicopter installation
took place at Lai Khe, 30 miles
north of Saigon, July 27. In that
attack, sappers blew up five U.S.
helicopters.
The U.S. Command also re
ported that an unarmed U.S. re
connaissance plane and its two
fighter-bomber escorts were fired
upon Tuesday while on a picture
taking mission over North Viet
nam.
Two surface-to-air (SAM) mis
siles were fired at the American
planes, while they were about 85
miles northwest of the demili
tarized zone, the command said.
The planes were not hit, the
command added, and they did not
fire back — a departure from the
usual “protective reaction” strikes
by U.S. planes when fired upon
or threatened over North Viet
nam.
It was the first time since July
10 that SAM missiles were used
against U.S. reconnaissance
planes over North Vietnam.
The U.S. Command said the
American fliers did not “visually
observe” the missiles, indicating
that they apparently tracked the
36-foot long “flying telephone
poles” on their radar screens.
The command also reported the
loss of a sixth American helicop
ter, a rocket-firing Cobra gun-
ship shot down a half mile from
U.S. Fire Base Pace near the
Cambodian border where fighting
has been under way for 2 1 /£
weeks.
Two crewmen were wounded
in the downing of the Cobra, a
heavily armed and speedy heli
copter.
Its loss raised to 7,979 the total
of U.S. aircraft of all types lost
in Indochina in the war.
Applications are being taken
for seats on Student Senate
Applications are being taken
for the seven Student Senate seats
created by the recently passed
constitutional amendment.
Offices open are: Pre-vet, one
at large; Engineering, one at
large, and one from each class
excepting freshmen and Science,
two at large.
The last date for applications
Banking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust.
is Friday at 5 p.m. They may
be turned in at the Student Sen
ate office in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Those applying must have the
same qualifications as regular
senators have.
The applications will be
screened by the Senate Executive
Committee, chosen by John Sharp,
Student Senate president, and
approved by the Senate.
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