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Page 8 THE BATTALION THURSDAY. MARCH 6, 1980 Steinem WE BELIEVE IN PEOPLE HOURS, NOT BANKERS HOURS LOBBY HOURS Weekdays, 9 am to 5 pm Saturdays, 9 am to 3 pm DRIVE-THRU WINDOW Monday thru Saturday, 7 am to 7 pm College Station Bcink National Association MEMBER FDIC 1501 S. Texas Avenue College Station, Texas 693-1422 or 693-1441 Feminist is older, 'more radical" United Press International NEW YORK — Gloria Steinem doesn’t fidget. She can sit quietly through a fusil lade of sharply pointed questions (as well as some well-intentioned but somewhat chauvinistic ones) and re spond with unnerving calmness. Steinem, 45 now, has experienced nearly every inquiry as a leader of the feminist movement for 20 years. But, she hasn’t “mellowed out” nor subdued. That’s not the way femin ism operates. “The women’s movement works the other way around from other political, social movements — you get more radical as you get older,” Steinem said recently in an inter view in New York. Steinem was making the rounds publicizing Ms. magazine’s new book, “The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the Seventies in Words and Pictures,” published by Putnam and Paragon. A chronology of the women’s movement, the book contains a long introduction by Steinem, the editor and founder of Ms. magazine. She looks like a young fine arts teacher at a Seven Sister school - theatrically thin, wearing brown fur ry boots, black corduroy slacks, and a black turtleneck sweater and has large even white teeth and long blonde hair. Have her obvious good looks helped her become the most recog nized feminist of the decade? “No. My physical appearance hasn’t helped me in the movement, Steinem said. “The problem all women have is we are judged by our skins — the way we look. I look forward to being old. Then I’ll be taken seriously. I know that’s crazy — to wish away your life,” she said. Steinem said there are two alter natives worse than Carter’s plan to register men and women for the armed services. “One would be to draft only men. That would be preparing for war and perpetuating discrimination. The second would be to ask a draft for both men and women,” she said. “The idea we would have a draft without ERA (Equal Rights Amend ment) is really offensive. It assures that the policy of no women in deci- sion-maldng positions in the military will continue,” she said. Steinem responded to the much- publicized blast from the Times of London which has decided to ban the title Ms. in its newspaper. “It’s comforting to have a critic that’s wrong about everything. The English gave us Ms. The unabridged Oxford English Dictionary lists Ms. as far back as the 17th century. I thought the Times of London people would know that,” she said. Then she stopped talking for a mo ment. “Progress lies in the direction we haven’t been,” she said. 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