Group to honor anniversary of women's rights protest
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Staff writer
Fifteen years ago today a group of women called the February Sisters locked themselves in a University of Kansas building, demanding rights and services for women.
"It really struck a raw nerve with the administration," said Claude Emanuel. "It was one of the highlights."
Ericson is one of a group of students organizing a potluck supper to commemorate the 1972 action. The event will be on May 16, m. today in the Smith Hall basement.
Full Circle, an all-women band,
will play as a supper, which Eric
Graydon prepares.
... to honor the spirit behind the women."
The February Sisters were organized after Robin Morgan, a feminist writer, visited the University of Chicago's book, "Sisterhood is Powerful."
A week later, more than 20 women locked themselves in the East Asian building, 1332 Louisiana St., which has since been torn down.
At 6 p.m., on Friday, Feb. 4, the women demanded that the University:
- form an affirmative action plan for women.
- provide day care on campus.
- provide a women's health clinic
- create an autonomous women's health clinic
- appoint a woman administrator.
- improve employment practices.
During the night, the University Senate Executive Committee met to discuss the situation and the women's demands.
Thirteen hours after the women occupied the building and made their demands, they voluntarily left the building.
The February Sisters remained anonymous throughout the occupation.
Susan Noakes, director of the department of women's studies, said the department had maintained anonymity for the women because their actions had not been strictly legal.
One of the February Sisters was quoted in the Lawrence Daily Journal World on the day after the group achieved one of six goals.
The group would endorse a woman
chosen by the University to lead a University affirmative action program, she said.
But today, all of the women's demands still have not been met.
Nokes said that tonight's dinner would bring faculty, students and members of the community together to talk about the past, present and future of women's rights and services.
Ericson said, "By no means are the discussions over."
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 4, 1987
Women now hold administrative offices at the University, and Ericson said health care for women was better than it was 15 years ago.
"But there are still a lot of problems," she said.
She said Hilltop Child Development Center, 1314 Jayhawk Blvd, helped many parents. But Hilltop is not the free center that the February Sisters requested, although it is subsidized by the University. Hilltop handles a limited number of children.
"It's great that it's here, but Hilltop pretty much booked up."
Ericson said women who took place in the event would attend tonight's supper.
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