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/ TLJIDrV A Kl Kl l\f EDO A D V 1 I 1m 1^1 1^1 I If mm* 11 vlf^m WlL 1 CELEBRATION & SALES! Make Out Like A Bandit Get The Kick Of Your Life! Savings In All 116 Stores Wild West Gunfighter Shows Fri. & Sat. - 11:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 Beautiful Trick Roper Shows Saturday - 12:30, 2:30, 4:30 Have Your Picture Made On Tex Saturday - 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. Western Displays On The Mai So Much More For You! 116 Stores The Gourmet Food Court Texas 6 Bypass at Hwy. 30 Open Mon.-Sat. 10:00 a.m, --9:00 p.m. i PDSTOAKMAU, ALEXIS ARGUELLO May r Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, February 21, 1985 Women in predicame history professor says By KAREN ATTAWAY Reporter Women’s Week at Texas A&M is forcing some women to recognize a predicament they have been in for years. Are women seen as human beings or merely as females? Women are now finding answers to this dilemma, an assistant history professor said Wednesday. Dr. Sarah Alpern, who teaches a class on the history of American women, was the guest at a reception in Rudder Exhibit Hall sponsored by the Aggie Women’s Association and Women in Communications, Inc. Alpern said women have been misunderstood in the past. The orig inal women’s movement, was started only to abolish slavery. As ci result, women were criticized for speaking out in public. Later, women decided to fight back. Women in p<jlhics have a/* ways been stereotyped. To get the gender issue out of politics, you have to get the gender issue into po/i- tics. — Dr. Sarah Alpern r teacher of womens his tory Alpern said women decided they wanted the right to vote, and in 1920 they got it. However, the voter turn out in the 1920 election was low, and it was assumed that the women were apathetic. “But, assumptions become dis torted history,” Alpern said. She said stereotypes began to be put on women involved in politics. Women didn’t have I own and they lacked the® for politics. As a result of these at; women’s self-images nett, mined. Alpern said women kc handicapped becauseoftlfti This produced a dosix* women because they seen as human beings,kj ized they could only gar!xj fiuence by using then k 1 women’s voter bloc. “In order to get (begs;; out of politics, you haveisi j gender issue into politia i\ In conclusion, Alperndi women to ask themselvesf I seen as women first, oraslj mgs. Alpern said she sees hop future for women's mow females group togetheracii their skills as women. History today Today’s Highlight in History: On February 21st, 1965, Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was shot to death as he was about to speak to a rally of several hundred followers in New York City. In 1919. after World War One, the allied nations recognized the P6l- * BILLY MARTIN EVERYTHING YOU A1WAYS WANTED ish government. One year ago: The Uif stationed in Beirut beganiit back to ships off the Lebaus JL* i|( qqssBlQE) m l iTtpovu—nSySI [TKS G jurv the i tmr e «£ AtCf ARJ c c ujt «r THSMSAM L# SKAflOM mm THEATRE •cruirMtMti 775-2463 WTCNUG (R) Mby SI«n TinUC 1R2 (PG-U) HEAVEN HELP US (1) MISCHIEF (*) Tsmxranmr —g) - - ST ARMAN (PC) 823 FALCON ANDTHE m SNOWMAN (!) isr MRS. SOFTEL (PC U) rot MICKI * MAUDE (PG-Ui PREPARE fOi OA EDUCATE CENTtf TEST PWEPWR/OXlN SPKUUStS* Call Days. EvesAW^ There’s still TlmeToP« Call 696-3196 for information 707 Texas Ave. 301-C In Dallas: 11617 N. Central Exp*) >X<CAMI PRESENIJ The BALLI GltEGORlOCl February 21, |( RUMORS 1 ADMISSION^