Women's liberation meetings continue
The discussion series on women's liberation sponsored by the KU-Y and the Associated Women Students continued Wednesday night with two meetings.
The first discussion was held in Corbin Hall at 7 p.m. Barbara Alter, working for the Women's Liberation Movement, showed slides picturing woman in today's society. The slides showed women in fancy clothes and glittering jewelry subject to admiration by men, in contrast with people starving and striking.
After the slide show, the discussion group divided in two. The male group leader was Mark Alter, also working for the Women's Liberation Movement.
The female group discussion was led by Barbara Alter and Roxanne Dunbar, working for the Southern Female Rights Union.
One coed said she did not realize how serious the situation was until she tried to get into the Graduate School in social work. She said she was told that her admission was dependent on whether or not the school needed female students, as they were interested in getting male students mainly.
Another coed said she was "shocked" when she came to the University as a freshman and found that "most coeds are here to find a husband." She said an unmarried woman was much worse off than an unmarried man.
"Guys say they think it's
fine that women are getting a college education," she went on, "so they can become educated housewives."
Mrs. Alter and Mrs. Dunbar stressed the importance for women to learn to defend themselves. They suggested that women be trained in karate, "so that in a few years, women will no longer be attacked on the streets."
Mrs. Alter said most men did not take the issue of women's liberation seriously.
"Men want to be able to cry and care for children, but they still won't give up their privileges," she said.
Mrs. Dunbar said the war in Vietnam had awakened people's consciousness.
"The Vietnamese are defeating what is supposed to be the greatest nation in the world," she said.
The second discussion meeting was held in Canterbury House, 1116 Louisiana, at 10 p.m. The topic debated was that of the movement's strategy.
Mrs. Dunbar said the most important task now was to unite all the small groups of women throughout the nation who were fighting for the same goals. She said it was essential that women got together to discuss the various aspects of the oppression they were subjected to.
One of the goals of the liberation movement is to establish childcare homes, so that women can go out and work, she explained. She suggested that the homes be operated by
public schools, the programs of which should include childcare.
Mrs. Dunbar said the liberation movement had a lot to learn from the Black Student Union, the actions of which had been "very effective."
Mrs. Dunbar distributed copies of the Southern Female Rights Union program. The demands set forth by the union were the following.
"Women's dependence upon male company for protection at night must be overcome," she said.
- Free, non - compulsory, public childcare. All meals, medical and dental care, clothing and equipment must be available to children in schools, the staff of which are to consist of an equal number of males and females.
- An adequate guaranteed annual income, (minimum $2400) for every individual. Each person must be guaranteed an adequate income, regardless of whether he can find work or not.
- Sexual and racial discrimination must be put to an end.
- Public schools must offer free self-defense instruction for women in all ages.
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Women fight oppression
Barbara Alter (left), and Roxanne Dunbar were leaders of a discussion of womens liberation Wednesday night in Corbin Hall. Mrs. Alter is working for the Women's Liberation Movement, and Mrs. Dunbar is affiliated with the Southern Female Rights Union.
The present hormonal birth control pill must be with-drawn from the market as deadly. The harm done to women who have used the pill must be compensated.
The mass media must establish a new code of ethics, eliminating all discriminatory allusions to females.
The union said these reforms were to be provided by "taxing the rich." It said women were prepared for a "long, hard fight," since no one in power
would give them their human rights.
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French submarine sinks
TOULON, France (UPI)—The French deep sea combat submarine Eurydice with 57 men aboard sank in the storm-tossed Mediterranean Wednesday after a mysterious explosion while it was making an 1,800-foot training dive.
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The French navy declared the ship and its crew lost, the second disappearance of a French submarine in the area in the past 26 months.
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Naval officials said seismographs in France had recorded an unexplained explosion shortly after the Eurydice began its dive about 66 miles southeast of the port city of Marseilles in about 5,000 feet of water. Search vessels reported sighting an oil slick and debris that included what appeared to be bedding from the submarine.
The sit of the Eurydice's loss, south of this naval port, was near the spot where its sister ship, the Minerve, diappeared in January 1968. At time, then President Charles de Gaulle boarded the Eurydice and made his first submarine dive as a gesture of homage to the 52 men lost on the Minerve and of faith in the sea-worthiness of the 1,040-ton Daphnie Class submarines, designed for deep-sea combat against nuclear submarines.
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last radio transmission, reporting that it was beginning its dive, the Mediterranean was lashed by 60-mile winds that disrupted shipping schedules all along France's Mediterranean coast.
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The French navy ordered its Mediterranean fleet from maneuvers off the Algerian coast to join other naval vessels, planes and helicopters in the search for the Eurydice.
Naval officials said the oil slick and debris were sighted at 1 p.m. (6 a.m. CST), six hours after the last radio contact with the Eury-dice and three hours after it was scheduled to surface.
The Eurydice had sailed at daybreak from St. Tropaz on the French Riviera.
Similar weather conditions prevailed Jan. 27, 1968, when the Minerve disappeared in a training dive. No trace of that ship or its crew was ever found.
The loss of the Eurydice was the fourth such disaster involving French submarines since World War II. The United States has lost two submarines in the Atlantic, the nuclear-powered Thresher in 1633 and the Scorpion in 1968. An Israeli submarine, the Dakar, disappeared in 1968 in the Mediterranean.
At the time of the submarine's
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