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Tuesday • March 26,1
NOW encourages women to 'Take Back the Night
By Amy Protas
The Battalion
W omen’s Week is a time to
celebrate the accom
plishments and strides
women have made throughout
the years. The Texas A&M chap
ter of the National Organization
of Women hopes to help in the
celebration by raising awareness
of women’s issues.
NOW will sponsor Take Back
the Night tonight at 9. On Thurs
day, it will hold a pro-choice
march and rally beginning at the
H2O Fountain in front of the
Chemistry Building at 12:25 p.m.
Kathryn Gunn, president of
NOW and a senior political sci
ence major, said the purpose of
Take Back the Night is to send
the message that women should
be able to be out at night without
being afraid.
“Take Back the Night is an in
ternational event, and the nation
al chapter of NOW wants all its
chapters to do it,” Gunn said. “The
march is so that all people can get
together and stand up against vio
lence. It’s for women to stand up
and say we shouldn’t have to be
accompanied at night.”
NOW members will also read
personal and anonymous ac
counts of violence committed
against women.
The pro-choice rally will in
clude a march and abortion liter
ature, and free condoms will be
given out in front of the Academ
ic Building.
Kim Ngo, treasurer of NOW
and a freshman bioengineering
major, said in addition
to keeping the
streets safe, she
wants to let
students
know there is
a pro-choice
movement at
A&M.
“I want to
raise the
awareness
and conscious
ness of all Ag
gies,” Ngo said.
“We want people
to know there is a
pro-choice faction
on campus.”
NOW received its charter
at A&M in 1984. The essential
goal behind the organization is to
seek equality for all women.
Gunn said the A&M chapter in
corporates the national goals with
its own goals.
“Our main premise for exis
tence is equality for all women,”
Gunn said. ‘We address women’s
issues on campus like date rape
and safety. It’s an organization for
anyone, not just women.”
Another major goal of NOW is
to get an equal rights amend
ment passed. The ERA would
make women and men equal un
der the law, especially in eco
nomic matters.
Susan Schulz, NOW secretary
and a freshman international
studies major, said there are ob
jectives she wants to see accom
plished before she graduates.
“Women have only been on
campus for 24 years,” Schulz
said. “The strides
they have
made have
been
a m a z -
ing, but
there
are still
things
that
need to
b e
done.”
A 1 -
though
the issues
NOW ad
dresses
deal
mainly
with
women,
Tuesday » Marc
everyone is in
vited to join.
Jeff Miller,
a member of
NOW and a
k sophomore
I manage-
ment ma
jor, said
he joined
because
the work NOW does affects every
one, not just women.
“There are a lot of things I be
lieve about a bunch of issues, but
NOW is tangible,” Miller said. “I
think a lot of the things we do in
NOW will have results that will
be tangible to me personally.”
Miller said he feels extremely
comfortable at the meetings and
encourages more males to attend.
“I think folks see NOW as be
ing this militant leftist and Ik
bian organization,” Miller said, 1 ]
was almost surprising to go to
meeting and everyone waslai
back. I felt really comfortal
since there was no male-
It’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m the man
the meeting.’”
Besides having the repul
of being an all-women organia
tion, NOW has other stigmas
misconceptions attached to it,
Gunn said NOW has devek
a radical reputation over
years, but the myth of militar
needs to be dispelled.
“NOW, in general, hasanin
age as being very radical am
anti-male,” Gunn said, “fit
might have been true in it
founding, but it’s not true
think many traditional, conserc
ative people see women’s rights
as a threat to how society is run
With the improvement
rights for any group, you’re
ing to improve society.”
Schulz said she hopes eveiyom
will participate in Women’s
and women at A&M will r
they all have a feminist sideii
one way or another.
“By making the decision to j
to college, they are making a
nist decision,” she said. “But
of women have to think for a
time before labeling oneself a feu
inist. There is such a stigma tha
goes along with it.
“I want more women to
ate their views and not jus
look for a husband in college
They need to concentrated!
getting an education.”
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Gibson, Thompson win honors at Academy Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Braveheart, the epic about a
13th-century Scottish patriot,
won five Oscars Monday
night, including best picture
and best director for its star
Mel Gibson.
Like Gibson, Emma
Thompson also won an Oscar
in another area of her craft,
adapting the Jane Austen
novel Sense and Sensibility
for the screen.
Susan Sarandon, who
played a nun trying to re
deem a condemned killer
in Dead Man Walking,
took best actress honors,
and Nicolas Cage was
named best actor for his
role as a suicidal alco
holic in Leaving Las Vegas.
Gibson, a plaid vest
flashing from between the
lapels of his tuxedo,
thanked writer Randall
Wallace and producer Alan
Ladd Jr. for bringing the
script of the early Scottish
epic to a “fiscal imbecile.”
“Like most directors,
what I really want to do is
act,” said Gibson. He granted
his own wish, casting himself
as the wild-haired warrior
who drove the English
from Scotland.
Braveheart was Gib
son’s second outing as a
director, the first being
The Man Without a
Face in 1993. He fol
lows a line of
actors-turned
director who
have won Os
cars: Robert
Redford, War
ren Beatty,
Woody Allen,
Kevin Costner.
Thompson,
who won the
best actress
award for
Howard’s End in 1992, collected
her second Oscar.
The English actress told of
visiting author Austen’s grave
at Winchester Cathedral “to
pay my respects and tell her
about the grosses,”
She concluded by dedicating
her award to Ang Lee, who direct
Gibson
ed the film but was overlooked fa
an Oscar nomination though tk
film was up for best picture.
Kevin Spacey, the verbal
man in The Usual Suspects,
Mira Sorvino, who played a ho
in Mighty Aphrodite, mnk
Academy Awards for supporting
actor and actress.
Spacey thanked his mother fe
driving him to acting classes wlies
he was 16: “I told you it would par
off, and here’s the pudding.”
Sorvino thanked her fatter as
the veteran actor openly soW
in the audience.
“When you give me this
you honor my father, PaufSorvin'
who taught me everything Ite
about acting,” she said.
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