Page 8 University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1982
Upcoming Schlafly speech receives criticism
By JIM LEHNER Staff Reporter
The planned Student Union Activities Forum speech by Philly Schlaffy on April 20 has sparked some criticism in the U.S. SUA Forma directors, said yesterday.
Schlaffy, nationally known spokesman for the anti-ERA campaign against the passage of the amendment in the states that have yet to ratify it.
DuPree said that since he announced in March that she was coming, his office had received at least five phone calls a week about the speech, and there had also been three letters to the Kansai that had been opposed to her rape.
letter to the editor praised Schlafly's lecture.
He said he had received a few favorable phone calls, and at least one
THE NIGHT he proposed the Schlafly speech last month, he received telephone calls from two women who wrote to him about the forthcoming lecture.
He said the women were polite to him, wanting to know why she was coming and why SUA hadn't provided a pro-ERA speaker as well.
"I told the women that Phyllis Schlafly was considered because we felt that she would be an interesting speaker and that she was the first one to my knowledge of anti-ERA sentiment who has spoken here," he said.
He said the Forums had presented Bella Abzug, an ERA supporter, who spoke on campus in the past. He also said that Warren Farrell, the men's
"Warren Farrell was the first of our two-part series on sex roles in society," he said, "so we felt that we should invite someone with an opposite opinion to express themselves. So, we invited Schlafly."
Coalition advocate who spoke last week, was a supporter of ERA.
HE SAID THAT when he proposed that she speak, he wasn't concerned
"I was concerned with her credentials as a speaker," he said.
"Many people don't realize it, but Warren Farrell is a staunch supporter for equal rights," DuPree said. "He served on the board of directors for the National Organization for Women for several years."
then, and isn't now, that people would be upset with SUA.
"She's been the national chairman for the Stop ERA movement, is the national president of Eagle Forum, an anti-ERA group, and has written nine books, so I felt she was well-qualified for speaking."
One person who was adamantly opposed to Schlafy's speaking was Peter Gray, graduate student from Wichita. He wrote a letter to the editor of the Kansan, saying Schlafy's speech should be protested.
Gray, who said that he would attend
the speech, said he was upset that SUA would bring such a person as Schlaffv.
"I just think that the SUA was wrong in bringing her," he said. "I advocated a protest of the speech in my letter to the editor, but I haven't organized any protest. But I sure would like to see some of the women's groups protest. They have a much larger backing than I could ever assemble."
BARBARA BALLARD, adviser for the Commission on the Status of Women, said she did not know whether her group was going to protest.
"We almost plan on giving her as little fanfare as possible," she said.
"My office doesn't always know what the other members are planning. Who has been done before. They might decide to protest on the night of the speech."
DuPree said he didn't mind any protest as long as it didn't interfere with the speech.
"A protest is perfectly okay. It's a part of free speech," he said. "However, it should be done in the proper context—either before Schlafly speaks or after. If they protested during her lecture, it would be bastardizing a good form of free speech, being that of Schlafly's."
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