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Tuesday, April 15, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
Feminist influence changes English
“One of the chief areas of sexism is in the language.
Much of it is unintended, as when men use terms like
‘man’and ‘he’ to refer to human beings. ”
— Dr. Garland Cannon, Texas A&M English and lin
guistics professor.
By Dora Vite
Reporter
The feminist influence on the En
glish language is causing drastic
changes to occur at an unprece
dented rate and providing a whole
new set of sex-neutral words, says a
Texas A&M English and linguistics
professor.
Dr. Garland Cannon has been
monitoring recent changes in the
English language and has found that
feminist influence plays a major role
in neutralizing sexist language.
“One of the chief areas of sexism
is in the language,” Cannon said.
“Much of it is unintended, as when
men use terms like ‘man’ and ‘he’ to
refer to human beings.”
Cannon, who received his doctor
ate degree in English linguistics
from the University of Texas in
1954, said research has shown that
many women interpret the use of
these words as excluding females.
Sex neutral words are therefore
being added to our language at a
rapid pace, he said.
Not only are sex-neutral words
being created. Cannon said, but they
also are being recognized as legiti
mate. Some publishers who are in
cluding them in their latest editions
and supplements of dictionaries, he
says.
Cannon said word entries in dic
tionaries depend on how many times
a word appears in print or in peri
odicals. Dictionary editors identify
new words and old words used in
new ways. They also look for differ
ent spellings and new ways to divide
old words.
Cannon noted many of the new
entries were changed to “person” or
to a different word to avoid refer
ence to sex.
Some examples are mailcarrier
for mailman, chairperson for chair
man and flight attendant for stew
ardess.
“These words are flowing into the
language at a speed unparalleled in
the history of the English language,”
he said. “They’re also now being
used by the general public.
“These sex-neutral words that
feminists have created are not de
stroying the language, they are just
providing an alternative.”
Cannon also noted new words
that foster a negative image for
women. New entries included “ali
mony drone,” a woman who marries
and then divorces soon just to re
ceive alimony. And “pit lizard,” a fe
male fan or groupie of automobile
racing drivers.
Cannon said he will be publishing
a book analyzing the changes of the
English language. The book, Histor
ical Change and English Word For
mation, is the first of its kind and will
be published in December.
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GOP candidates
for governor blast
White in debate
HOUSTON (AP) — They crit
icized Texas Gov. Mark White,
talked of decreased spending and
shunned tax increases, and .when it
was over all claimed to be the victor
of Monday night’s Republican gu
bernatorial debate.
But Bill Clements, Tom Loeffler
and Kent Hance all took a few politi
cal shots at each other in each candi
date’s attempt to win support for the
upcoming GOP primary.
The hour-long debate was spon
sored by the Texas League of
Women Voters and KHOU-TV in
Houston and was telecast on many
Texas stations. Candidates were
asked questions by a panel of three
journalists.
Loeffler, 39, opened the debate
asking Hance ana Clements to stop
“quibbling” with each other because
their remarks only served to make
White smile.
“And it’s Mark White’s smile we
want to take away,” the Hunt con
gressman said.
All three candidates talked about
Texas’ financial woes triggered by
ailing oil prices, and they agreed on
the need to diversify the economy.
“This is the most important gu
bernatorial race since World War
II,” said Clements, who added that
Texans’ “quality of life is at stake.”
Hance, who switched parties in
1985, emphasized the need to create
more jobs, outlining economic devel
opment proposals for Texas.
When questioned how he would
raise the price of crude oil, Loeffler’s
suggestions included an oil import
fee and abolishment of the windfall
profits tax.
Hance, 43, of Lubbock, also came
out in support of those two propo
sals, and he also advocated setting
aside the severance tax for the first
three years of oil drilling.
Clements, 69, of Dallas, said he
would reinstate a resource advisory
commission to help form national
policy for the energy department.
Clements lost to White in the last gu
bernatorial election.
All three candidates said they did
not support a tax increase to help
ease the state’s financial problems.
Hance said he would look at a tax in
crease, but only after close scrutiny
of all other possible avenues.
“Let’s wait until January and see
what the price of oil is, and then we
can go from there,” Hance said.
Loeffler said there would never
be a state income tax while he was
governor, and would only consider
some other type of tax increase as a
last resort. Clements said the state’s
problem is with spending not reve
nues.
After the debate, each claimed to
have won the contest.
“I think I was a real gentleman to
night,” said Hance, who added he
thought his opponents sort of
“pucked” on him because they know
he is gaining strength in his bid for
the GOP’s nomination.
Leoffler claimed he “always wins,”
and Monday night’s debate was no
exception.
In claiming his own victory, Clem
ents added that he thought nothing
was discussed during the debate that
has not already been brought out in
past discussions involving the three
gubernatorial candidates.
In Advance
Soviet dissident to discuss
repression of human rights
By Jeanne Isenberg
Staff Writer
A former Soviet dissident who
spent nine years serving three
separate terms in Soviet prisons
and labor camps will discuss the
repression of human rights in the
Soviet Union Wednesday at 8
p.m. in Rudder Auditorium.
Alexander Ginzburg, born in
Moscow in 1936, has been ar
rested three separate times for his
human rights activities in the So
viet Union, said program director
Andy Dastur of MSC Great Is
sues.
After his first arrest, Ginzburg
was forbidden to continue his ed
ucation at Moscow University. Af
ter the second, he was forbidden
to live in Moscow.
Ginzburg’s third trial in 1977
was his most famous, Dastur said,
and vigorous protests were
launched by the Alexander Ginz
burg Defense Committee, whose
distinguished members included
playwright Arthur Miller and au
thor Kurt Vonnegut.
Nobel Peace Prize winner An
drei Sakharov also intervened on
Ginzburg’s behalf, Dastur said.
But despite these attempts to
help, Dastur said Ginzburg re
ceived the harshest possible sen
tence — eight years in the worst
labor camp in the Soviet Union.
In 1979, Ginzburg was
stripped of his Soviet, citizenship
and, along with four other men,
traded to the West for two con
victed Soviet spies.
He has spent six years lec
turing around the world on the
struggle for human rights in the
Soviet Union and is currently a
field representative in Europe for
the human rights division of the
AFL-CIO.
Admission to the program is
New student body president
to head senate's 1st meeting
Newly-elected Student Body
President Mike Sims will preside
Wednesday over the first meeting
of the new Student Senate.
No legislation is on the senate
agenda, but Sims is expected to
outline legislative goals and de
fine the procedure for selecting
the Senate speaker, speaker pro
tempore and chairman of rules
and regulations.
Laurie Johnson, 1985-86 Sen
ate speaker, said the new officers
will be chosen at the April 30
meeting.
At that meeting, she said, nom
ination speeches will be heard
and candidates will address the
Senate before the it makes the se
lections by secret ballot.
Miles Bradshaw served as
speaker pro tempore this year
and Clay Baker was chairman of
the rules committee. Both were
re-elected to the Senate in the
April 2 elections. Johnson grad
uates in May.
The Senate will meet at 7:30
p.m. in 204 Harrington Class
room Building.
Women's studies minor to get new structure
By Amy Couvillon
Reporter
A new, more structured minor in women’s
studies soon may be available to students, says
Dr. Harriette Andreadis, coordinator of the new
Women’s Studies Program Office.
A committee composed of faculty from wom
en’s studies and appointed by Dr. Daniel Fallon,
dean of the liberal arts college, is planning to re
quire students in the minor to take an organized
curriculum of courses.
Students currently can minor in women’s stud
ies by taking four of any of the six women’s stud
ies courses now available: Hist. 461, The History
of American Women; Hist 489, Modern Ameri
can Women; Psyc. 300, Psychology of Women;
Engl. 374, Women Writers; Soci. 424, Women
and Work in Society, and Soci. 489, Sex Roles in
Society.
The proposed minor would require students
to take a certain 12-hour core of courses in wom
en’s studies, rather than letting the student
choose just any of the classes, Andreadis says.
She says the plan might eventually include a
sophomore-level “Introduction to Women’s
Studies” course which would lead to more ad
vanced courses.
Andreadis says the proposed curriculum is in
tended to show that although women’s studies is
a broad area that touches all fields, it’s worth
studying as a separate subject.
“Students need to understand that women’s
studies is a discipline in itself,” she says. “It’s got
an integrity, but it feeds other studies.”
A seventh women’s studies course, Political
Science 317, Women in Politics, in the process of
being approved. If approved, it will be offered in
Spring 1987.
The course will include the historical role of
women in politics, women’s status in constitu
tional law and in domestic law, the history of the
women’s movement, the increasing role of
women as political leaders and current policy is
sues of major concern to women.
Dr. Bonnie Browne, an assistant professor of
political science, says, “This is a body of knowl
edge that is not covered by our present curric
ulum.”
Browne made the application for the course to
the Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee.
The course outline and application are on the
agenda for the May meeting of the liberal arts
committee, the first of many steps in the chain of
approvals the course needs to become official.
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