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Thursday, September 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Feminists warn of Jewish jokes
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Jewish American Princess jokes are fueling an increasingly vicious form of bigotry, especially on college campuses, by portraying Jewish women as self-centered and materialistic, feminists said at a conference yesterday.
Susan Weidman Schneider, editor-in-chief of Lilith, a Jewish-feminist magazine, said the situation had degenerated since a T-shirt appeared about 10 years ago featuring the word "Princess," with a Star of David dotting the "i."
Today, she said, shirts, greeting cards, graffiti and jokes perpetuate stereotypes of Jewish women as materialistic, sometimes dishonest."
"I think the late-night television jokes have entered a new reality," Schneider said at the conference at
the American Jewish Committee headquarters.
In its fall edition, Lilith described several reports gathered this year at college campuses:
Congratulations at American University in Washington, D.C., two Jewish male disc jockeys sponsored a "Biggest JAP on Campus" contest. Students wore T-shirts that read, "Slap a JAP."
- Desks and walls at Syracuse University's Bird Library were covered with "anti-JAP graffiti," some containing obscenities. Students, both Jewish and non-Jewish, wore "JAP-Buster" T-shirts. Cheering sections chanted "JAP JAP!" whenever a stylishly dressed woman got up from her seat at a sporting event.
- At the University of Pennsylvania,
  "JAP-Buster" T-shirts were
worn predominantly by Jewish men, according to June graduate Judy Siegel.
Siegel.
"There has been relatively little notice taken in the organized Jewish community of the fact that Jewish women have been maligned in these ways," Schneider said. "It has always seemed to us that it was because it was 'only' women who were the victims of the current wave of stereotyping."
of stereotyping.
Schneider said jokes about Jewish women had given rise to "classic anti-Semitic graffiti", jokes, comments and other kinds of verbal abuse."
adobe.
"Jennie Klagsbrun, editor of
*Free to Be ... You and Me*" and author of "Married People: Staying Together in an Age of Divorce," said many people used the term "JAP" without realizing its damaging
effect.
But, she said, "There's nothing funny about a put-down of Jewish women that has become a generic term for materialism, self-indulgence, loudness and so on."
The problem is that tolerance of the term has been strong, she said
Klagsbrun told of a female acquaintance who explained that the term "shows how good Jewish men are to their women. . . Everybody wants to be a JAP."
Klagsbrun said it was no coincidence that "at a time when Jewish women have finally begun to carve a place for themselves," serving as rabbis and cantors, the term 'JAP' is being used more than ever before.
"The new-found achievements of women threaten and disturb many men," she said.
New drug affects memory loss in rats
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - A substance that stimulates brain cells has partly reversed a memory deficit in aged rats, suggesting that similar drugs might help treat Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, researchers reported.
Infusions of a "nerve growth factor" into the rats' brains also partly reversed age-related shriveling of some brain cells, researchers said.
The effect on age-related deficits suggests such substances may one day help treat such disorders as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's diseases, said Anders Bjorklund of the University of Lund
in Sweden.
In a telephone interview, Bjorklund cautioned that the test-rats did not have Alzheimer's disease and that the link was "only by analogy."
Bjorklund, professor of neurobiology in the university's department of medical cell research, reported the results in yesterday's issue of the British Journal Nature with Swedish colleagues and scientists at the University of California at San Diego.
Nerve growth factor stimulates growth of nerve cells and helps them survive after injury. It appears to be one of a family of similar substances produced in the body, Bjorklund said. Some shriveling in brain cells with
age may be related to reduced production of such substances or lessened response to them, but the evidence is unclear, Bjorklund said.
For the new study, scientists focused on cells in the rat forebrain that communicate by using a substance called acetycholine.
other brain abnormalities, the
Bjorklund and colleagues reported
The amount of atrophy seen among those cells is related to the rat's degree of impairment in learning and memory. Borklund said. A similar relationship has been observed for acetylcholine-use cells and performance disease, among other patients also have other brain abnormalities, he said.
on work with 24 rats that had an age-related impairment in learning and memory. A tube was implanted in the brains of 11 rats and connected to a pump that gave a continuous supply of nerve growth factor for four weeks.
Some of the remaining rats were infused instead with an inert substance. All the rats went through two sessions of a test in which they search for a platform submerged in opaque liquid.
In the first test sessions, which began about a week after infusion started, the rats getting the growth factor performed no better than the other impaired rats.
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