Sisterhood Wednesday is International Women's Day. Today The Ubyssey issues its second special edition on women in conjunction with women's week on campus. Inside: • schedule of women's week, page 2. • working conditions on campus, page 3. • Canadian laws and women, page 6. • ways of educating children, page 9. • women and sports, page 11-12. Vol. LUI, No. 58 VANCOUVER, B.C., TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1972 228-2301 1 want a wife' By JUDY SYFERS I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am A Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother. Not too long ago a male friend of mine appeared on the scene fresh from a recent divorce. He had one child, who is, of course, with ex-wife. He is obviously looking for another wife. As I thought about him while I was ironing one evening, it suddenly occurred to me that I, too, would like to have a wife. Why do I want a wife? I would like to go back to school so that I can become economically independent, support myself, and, if need be, support those dependent upon me. I want a wife who will work and send me to school. And while I am going to school I want a wife to take care of my children. I want a wife to keep track of the children's doctor and dentist appointments. And to keep track of mine, too. I want a wife to make sure" my children eat properly and are kept clean. I want a wife who will wash the children's clothes and keep them mended. I want a wife who is a good nurturant attendant to my children, who arranges for their schooling, makes sure that they have an adequate social life with their peers, takes them to the park, the zoo, etc. I want a wife who takes care of the children when they are sick, a wife who arranges to be around when the children need special care, because, of course, I cannot miss classes at school. My wife must arrange to lose time at work and not lose the job. It may mean a small cut in my wife's income from time to time, but I guess I can tolerate that. Needless to say, my wife will arrange and pay for the care of the children while my wife is working. I want a wife who will take care of my physical needs. I want a wife who will keep my house clean. A wife who will pick up after me. I want a wife who will keep my clothes clean, ironed, mended, replaced when need be, and who will see to it that my personal things are kept in their proper place so that I can find what I need the minute I need it. I want a wife who cooks the meals, a wife who is a good cook. I want a wife who will plan the menus, do the necessary grocery shopping, prepare the meals, serve them pleasantly, and then do the cleaning up while I do my studying. I want a wife who will care for me when I am sick and sympathize with my pain and loss of time from school. I want a wife to go along when our family takes a vacation so that someone can continue to care for me and my children when I need a rest and change of scene. I want a wife who will not bother me with rambling complaints about a wife's duties. But I want a wife who will listen to me when I feel the need to explain a rather difficult point I have come across in my course of studies. And I want a wife who will type my papers for me when I have written them. I want a wife who will take care of the details of my social life. When my wife and I are invited out by my friends, I want a wife who will take care of the babysitting arrangements. When I meet people at school that I like and want to entertain, I want a wife who will have the house clean, will prepare a special meal, serve it to me and my friends, and not interrupt when I talk about the things that interest me and my friends. I want a wife who will have arranged that the children are fed and ready for bed before my guests arrive so that the children do not bother us. And I want a wife who knows that sometimes I need a night out with the boys. I want a wife who is sensitive to my sexual needs, a wife who makes love passionately and eagerly when I feel like it, a wife who makes sure that I am satisfied. And, of course, I want a wife who will not demand sexual attention when I am not in the mood for it. I want a wife who assumes the complete responsibility for birth control, because I do not want more children. I want a wife who will remain sexually faithful to me so that I do not have to clutter up my intellectual life with jealousies. And I want a wife who understands that my sexual needs may entail more than strict adherance to monogamy. I must, after all, be able to relate to people as fully as possible. If, by chance, I find another person more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have, I want the liberty to replace my present wife with another one. Naturally, I will expect a fresh, new life; my wife will take the children and be solely responsible for them so that I am left free. When I am through with school and have a job, I want my wife to quit working and remain at home so that my wife can more fully and completely take care of a wife's duties. My God, who wouldn't want a wife? Reprinted from The Rag (Liberation News Service). Illustration by Wendy Frost. Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, March 7, 1972 Women's Week program Tuesday: Women and social change Women in China: Slides and discussion by Joyce Marvin, a recent visitor to China and Ann Harley, China specialist at UBC in the SUB ballroom at 12:30 p.m. Women & socialist theory: An open seminar with NDP-Waffler Hilda Thomas, sociology professor Dorothy Smith and others at UBC in the SUB art gallery at 2:30 p.m. The women's liberation movement in Canada: A discussion by Sandra Foster, eastern Canada and Maggie Benston, western Canada at The Canadian Woman: Our Story, UBC, the SUB ballroom at 7 p.m. Wednesday: Women and work Women & unions: A talk "by Madeleine Parent, Quebec labor' organizer involved in the recent Tex-Pak strike in Brantford, Ont. at UBC in the SUB ballroom at 12:30 p.m. To join or not to join: current UBC union drive at ballroom. A staff debate on the 5:15 p.m. in the SUB Teach-in across campus: Students and faculty in all departments are invited to devote their class time today to discussion of the status of women in Canada. Resource people will be available. Call 228-2082. Babysitting Free all week in SUB 205, 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m, -J Thursday: Women and the arts Women in concert: Everyone is invited to two hours of readings, dance and song performed by women artists: actress Jackie Crossland, novelist Alice Munro, poet Judith Copithorne and others at UBC in the SUB ballroom from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided by alternate food service for 35c per person at 12:30 p.m. Experimental workshop: Women through history by Crista Preus- Part I, 10:30- 12:30; Part II, 2:30 - 3:30 at UBC in the SUB art gallery. Interested participants should phone 228-2082. Paintings, sculpture: Paintings, sculpture and Friday: Sexuality Information table: Birth control, abortion and sex information available at UBC in the SUB concourse at 11:30 a.am. Female sexuality: A discussion by Arts I instructor Shelagh Day and law student Diana Moore at UBC in the SUB ballroom at 12:30 p.m. pottery of women artists will be on display in the SUB art gallery at UBC all week. Meet and talk: Women artists are invited to meet and talk all day in the SUB art gallery. Bring your own work. Vancouver Art Gallery: The work of women artists will be shown all week in the upstairs gallery plus these special events: Wednesday: Video and film night, 7 p.m. Friday: Experimental Workshop: Women Through History by Crista Preus at 10:30 a.m. Interested participants should call the gallery. Three short stories: Written by Jane Rule, read by Helen Sonthoff and Shelagh Day at UBC in the blue room of the Arts 1 building at 2:30 p.m. Liberated graffiti: Photographs of graffiti from campus washrooms in SUB art gallery all day. Teach-in Students and faculty in all departments are asked to devote their time in class to the discussion of the status of women in Canada. Some questions that could be asked are: Is there material in your courses presented in a way as to imply that women are inferior to men, or are restricted to certain roles in society? Are women discriminated against in the university? Do you believe that your faculty has a quota on women students? Is it more difficult for women than men students in your field to get summer employment? More general questions dealing with the position of women in society include: What character traits does our society consider "feminine"? How do these restrictions affect a woman's development as an individual? 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By SARA GUNNARD GIRLS! are you looking for a fulfilling job, a job with a future, guaranteed to eliminate your self respect, distort your value, reduce you to a mindless, servile, lowly blob or a simpering sweet dolly? Then become a secretary! And if you want a job that eliminates any fear that you might actually be a human being, then become a secretary in a university department! Perhaps you thought that lowly freshmen held the bottom rung of the university status ladder — wrong, even lower than the freshmen are the clerical staff: the paper typers, the messengers, the coffee makers, the file keepers of the world. Let's drink to the hardworking people, to the salt of the earth. .. how fmstrated I get when so many students and professors — some of them freaks and supposedly so hip to the troubled state of the world - run around the department I work in and look through me, oblivious to the fact that I am more than just an extension of my typewriter, or a producer of letters and other academic bullshit, who recognize my existence only and tokenly when they have some minor clerical problem that falls within my limited range of ability. Charity begins at home. Secretaries are supposed to be pleasant, smiling, attractive, amenable, passive. You are not supposed to be bad-tempered, or ugly, or smell. You are either treated like a retard or a child and have every word spelled out to you with microscopically detailed instructions, or you are expected to be a mind reader and to know what you're supposed to do by telepathy. There is only a stock approach to secretaries, a standard method of relating to the girl behind the typewriter - nobody acknowledges the fact that you're different or an individual, nobody relates to you as you are, you are only approached by the standard secretary approach method. We mustn't let our bosses down, we must play out the role. You start off compromising and playing the obliging, simpering secretary role because you want to keep your job and your pay cheque, and before too long, you really believe in keeping them happy and earning that rewarding little pat on the head from time to time. At home their wives wait on them — and in the office, their secretaries do. And how many secretaries really believe in it and lovingly regard their bosses as some sort of surrogate husband/father/lover figure? We love our masters, we crave their approval, we sell ourselves out to oblige, because we have so well assimilated the values that keep us in our lowly position with our negative expectations. Happy, happy niggers. Willingly we rush out to get him his coffee and cigarettes, obligingly, we sit in gaggles over coffee break and giggle and act cute and simple, discussing our ailments, husband and/or boyfriends, recipes and other trivia, so that the brilliant scholars can talk academia and feel so clever and superior. Nothing like a secretary to lift a jaded male ego. My eyes have seen: the professor who complains that he could do a better job on keeping files, or the professor who can also type who sneers because he can do my job in his stride, I have no special or secret talents, I am just a greater convenience, and besides, he had more demanding things to do, and of course it's not work an intelligent person would like to do anyway. But it's my job, it's what I'm given to do, to fill one-third of my day, five days a week. Or the secretary that works overtime, unrewarded for it, because it's expected of her, she's supposed to be dedicated. Or meeting Professor Schmuckatella at a movie downtown, who's all smiles and hallos and leering looks in the office in the Why should I even expect that at all? Am I not just the typist? I am not part of the creative process, I am just part of the replication process. Why are typists rarely, if ever, mentioned in the acknowledgements of a paper, regardless of what they've put into that paper, in terms of time and labor and care, in producing a perfectly neat copy, reading illegible handwriting, correcting spelling and grammar mistakes, etc? And what of all the sad little delusions the typist might have about her own importance, about putting her best into her work, about having pride in doing a job well? The small lower-case initials she types qualifications: high school graduation plus business training, ability to type 60 w.p.m., and to take and transcribe shorthand at 110 w.p.m. Four years experience at the University or its equivalent - salary: $401-495. A CLEANER (NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE) IN THE B.C. GOVERNMENT SERVICE IS PAID $490-533 A MONTH." What can be done, short of eliminating the secretarial role altogether? A secretary with the ability should be given greater responsibility and independence and respect - and remuneration — as is the case with other capable intelligent workers in business. daytime, but who doesn't see or acknowledge my existence out of the office context. Of the first name business, where right from the first day on the job, I'm addressed by my first name, not out of friendship or familiarity or even by my consent, but because of my position in the hierarchy. You can work for someone for 50 years but he will still be Mr. Smith or Dr. Jones. There is no room for satisfaction or pride in our work, or any feeling of achievement whatsoever, no fruits to our labor. I tediously type and type, only to have what I've done returned to me for retyping when I'm finished because the professor made a mistake or changes his mind and wants to substitute 'nevertheless' for 'but'. Not a thought that it might discourage you to see your work returned on a whimsical change of mind. There is no concept in his mind that this is my handicraft, my product. after her boss's upper-case initials at the end of a letter stand as a silent, tiny plea for recognition of her individuality as the typist. Who cares anyway? Dare anybody seek satisfaction in the things they do for a wage, or are we all supposed to accept our alienation and estrangement from our labor as part of the whole picture, as a necessary drawback to being a wage-earner in society? Some of us actually don't want a man to support us, we want to be self-sufficient. And then there are the working conditions. A woman can work for years and years in her job — but she will gain only years, no promotion, no official recognition, no increased remuneration other than her annual $ 10 raise. Quoted from the Office and Technical Employees Union, in comparing the grades of secretaries, taken from the UBC scales: "Secretary II, Stenographer II, Department secretary — preferred —maureen gans photo Secretaries need not be supervised like children or have their wrists slapped because they are a few minutes late or because they did not follow office procedures to the letter. Moreover, it would surely help if they were treated as separate individual human beings, with different natures, abilities, personalities, etc. Of course secretaries themselves need to develop a better attitude towards their profession, and towards themselves — they should not feel so subservient, they need to be less compromising and pliable, less satisfied with what they have at present, they should be more assertive, more sure of themselves, more demanding and have more respect. They should organize together, not just for better conditions and wages, but also to help develop a stronger, more affirmative attitude towards themselves as workers and women. Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, March 7, 1972 rmiiBYsstr MARCH 7, 1972 Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the writer and not of the AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary and review. The Ubyssey's editorial offices are located in room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301, 228-2307; Page Friday, Sports, 223-2305; advertising, 228-3977. Editor: Leslie Plommer Sandi Shreve womaned the barricades screaming we want Plommer. Kathy Dunn replied by throwing a molotov cocktail at the male chauvinist pig Berton Woodward. At that point Lesley Krueger said, "this is serious" causing Sandy Kass to laugh as she scaled the barricade dumping Mike Sasges into the lovely arms of Mike Gidora. Kini McDonald and Jan O'Brien set up the Sterlings taking care not to disturb Gord Gibson and Kent Spencer as they made tea and brownies for the hungry Sara Gunnard and Sandra MacDonald. Paul Knox and Dick Betts faithfully kept the home fires burning. L The right to vote Whenever a woman enters the political arena she sacrifices that charm of womanhood, delicacy of manner, which can not be kept pure under the coarser contaminating influences, observes the Des Moines (la.) Register. We do not assert that politics is in every degree degrading to woman, but we do think it not elevating; neither do we think women wield the purifying influence at the polls suffrage advocates claim. We have not observed a case in years of observation where the voice of woman is felt in the primaries, the conventions or as representatives, either municipal or executive, though a single female delegate to a county convention may be an exception. The better class of women care little for the ballot or political honors, feeling that "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," that the mother that gives to her State half a dozen manly votes accomplishes more for her country's good than the woman who neglects her home, children and duties to voice the sentiments of women who never knew nor can know the meaning of motherhood, love or home. Women as a mass do not pine for the ballot, and were it left to the ladies of Wyoming to decide, woman suffrage would be lost by a large majority. While its influence is not degrading to the lords of creation, yet we can not learn that they are particularly purified by meeting mother, wife and sister at the polls; and there are but few men, while they might not dare to openly express it, but privately feel a disgust at the thought of those they have always held up as emblems of purity becoming contaminated with politics. Woman, as an official candidate, will pander to the low and degrading to secure votes just as men do. Is this elevating or purifying? The condition of woman is no better, nor is life made easier, nor labor lighter, where she has a right to vote. The woman who performs her natural labors — be they in the home or outside as a toiler — if she at the same time keeps herself informed in all that interests her as a duty socially and politically, must accomplish more than the strong man, and by harder work. Man has accorded to woman equal rights superior to those of the ballot; she may walk side by side with him in the battle of life; she may even outstrip him, as there is no avenue not now open to the woman who wishes to enter the professional arena against her male compositors. The true woman who would make the most of every God-given attribute asks not for the ballot, but for love and home, where the carols of babyhood are sung to the sweetest of babies, where the home is heaven, and where the weary husband may find rest and aching hearts sympathy. The preceding editorial appeared Feb. 28, 1891 in the Victoria Times during the height of suffragist agitation in B. C. Tuesday, March 7, 1972 THE UBYSSEY Page 5 Jons Mitchell and us By LESLIE PLOMMER Canadian nouveau-folk singer Joni Mitchell began her rise to fame several years back — in the mid-60s — and like most upper and middle-class kids, I was soon a confirmed devotee. And so I have remained — except that I harbor very mixed feelings about Joni, and her music and the society that has shaped the two. At her worst, she's an out-and-out hack, committing to music the worst sort of rhymey sentimental tripe that anyone ever had the nerve to pass off as lyrics. (Joni and the people who write promotion stuff about her say she "loves words." Big deal.) At her best, she's the most creative of the young songwriter-singers who have held sway over the North American "folk" scene in the past few years: There are moments when her poetry matches and outdoes the most classic lines by Dylan or anyone else you can name; there are moments when her music and arrangements surpass anything else in the field of folk. .T»nd if the lyrics and subjects of her songs are often highly conventional, smacking too much of "the rather tarnished hippie dream" as The Financial Times remarked in 1970 after she played in London, her innovative music more than compensates. Like most of her contemporaries in the nouveau-folk scene, Joni Mitchell won't win any prizes for perfection in the area of musical technique. She's a rotten pianist — heavy-handed and unpolished. She's a strong and effective, but not excellent, guitarist. Her voice is good, but not great. The sum total of her skills, however, is frequently overwhelming. It's this mixture of personal and musical qualities that makes Joni Plus the fact that most of us seem to relate to her and her work pretty well. Why? The answer is, I think, that most of us share a common history with Joni Mitchell: Growing up in Canada, the imperialized American backyard; being part of the U.S. folk i revival; living in a land where Nature is a major influence (Canadian artists and writers from the earliest times are notorious for their preoccupation with Nature and The Elements); being products of the middle class. And some of us share with her the fact of being women. Joni was born in Fort Macleod, Alta. in 1944. When she was fairly young, she moved to Saskatoon where her mother taught school and her father worked for a chain of grocery stores. After high school she moved to Calgary to attend art school. She had taught herself to pay the ukulele and she soon progressed to the guitar (the self-taught guitar phenomenon being another thing many of us share with her). In Calgary and Toronto - where she moved in 1964 - she apparently came to see playing and singing and songwriting as the things she most wanted to do. One or two decades before this, it would have been highly uncommon for a young woman with little musical training to head off for the Toronto music scene. (The 'scene', of course, would have been much different too.) But the time was right and Joni was part and product of it. She worked in Toronto, did some song writing, got married in whirlwind fashion to U.S. musician Chuck Mitchell, went to Detroit and sang with Mitchell around Michigan. I hey separated. She says it partly had to do with the fact that she was beginning to make more money than him - familiar story. She went to New York, got a couple of managers, went on tour and made her first record in 1968. Since then, she has made three more records, gone on many more tours and become part of the wealthy, hip, counter-culture jet set, one branch of which lives (when not jetting) in southern California. Its members write pretty here-today, gone-tomorrow music, play backup on each other's albums and indulge in groovy here-today, gone-tomorrow love affairs with each other. It's all too lyrical and tragic and romantic and meaningful for words. And this too is part of Joni's and our history, give or take a few dollars. Much of it is there in the music, which is dominated by themes like: Time, Life, Childhood, Age, Home, Friends, Lost Love, Found Love, Prospective Love, Fun Love, Bittersweet Love, Jealous Love etc., etc. Many of these songs are beautiful, there's no doubt about it. I wish I'd written all of them and I think I'll be listening to them as long as my records hold out. For the most part, though, there's a disturbing and conspicuous absence of any consciousness about society, about the incredible events of the past seven years in North America, about the world. Joni Mitchell's world is a personal and individualistic one. There are, however, some encouraging signs from time to time in her music. *m couple of pretty good ecology songs, a few others incorporating some critical recognition of the U.S. and the directionless hip-music scene, still others displaying a consciousness of Joni's own privileged and moneyed condition and what it means. And, of course, the song about Woodstock — which I really believe comes pretty close to satiric songwriting genius. At least these songs give some indication that Joni Mitchell knows a bit about what's going on in the real world. There is no suggestion here that all she should write is "political protest songs"; rather, my argument is that a better balance of the individual and the social would render her music more real. The thing is, of course, that like us Joni is a product of the middle class, a bourgeois individualist; she and her music incorporate the worst and best of this. Which is probably why we like her. She is Canadian, she is part of the imperialist arts-and-brain drain, she is a woman who has 'made it' and who shows few indications of embracing sisterhood. Her history is, for the most part, our history. I hope we all change a lot. But I also hope we'll know what parts of this history to keep. M ** ' - *,* *•!■_. Nearly 3,000 jobs in Europe.. Nearly 3,000 jobs are open to post-secondary Canadian students under the International Student Summer Employment Exchange Programme. Offered through the Department of Manpower and Immigration, these "working summers" are in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Low-cost travel arrangements may also be available. Students must agree to work for periods ranging from six weeks to three months, beginning mid-May or early June. Although a working know ledge of the language of the host country would be helpful, a basic ability to communicate will often be sufficient. If in doubt, inquire further. APPLY NOW! As final selection will be made by the host country, earlier applications will receive preferential consideration. Inquire at your nearest Canada Manpower Centre, or at your University Canada Manpower Centre. I* Canada Manpower Centre Manpower and Immigration Bryce Mackasey, Minister Centre de Main-d'oeuvre du Canada Main-d'oeuvre et Immigration Bryce Mackasey, Ministre Page 6 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, March 7, 1972 Sculpt. Paint. 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ONTARIO 9 9 9 Working women: not much change since the 1860s assistants an average in of By JAN O'BRIEN Women generally work in a few occupations labelled "female", ' earn less money than men and rarely reach the top. This situation has existed for so long that society takes it for granted, said The Royal ■ Commission on the Status of ' Women report. An article about working women in the Toronto Globe and Mail of Oct. 28, 1868 lists the principal occupations of the 5,000 women workers as house servants, tailoresses, milliners, shoemakers, dressmakers, school teachers and : tobacco workers. The women on the average earned about $1.50 to $4 and forewomen $5 per week. Men's wages at this time averaged about $4 to $8 per week. The Globe article said there were two classes of women workers — those who work at establishments and those who work at home. Describing work in the home the article said, "The work thus done, ostensibly by the head of the house but as frequently, by all the members jointly, runs up in the busy season to bills of $30 and $35 a week, of which the female members earn no small share. "There is another class of female laborers, whose earthly prospects, though as industriously aided by their own efforts, are not so bright; these are the widows and orphans left by unscrutable providence to eke out a livelihood at the will of employers." Most of these women worked for merchant tailors and wholesale clothing stores. However, they were left at the mercy of their employers who "do not scruple to extract the last farthing's worth of bodily energy from the dependents of their will" At this time employers charged rent on the machinery and electricity used by workers cutting the subsistence wages even lower. When women in Toronto tried to unionize against this practice the employer announced all involved in the union drive would have to pay twice as much for electricity used. The status of women report points out that things haven't changed much for women workers. Women's wages for the same work as men are generally lower. Work done by women in the home or in a family business is generally unpaid and included under the head of household's earning capacity. Union activity initiated by women meets with the same results, witness the recent daycare union drive. The provincial government wants the Victoria Family and Children's Services to turn its day care centres over to non-profit groups or private operators. Agency workers believe the move is a poorly disguised attempt to wreck the newly formed Social Service Employees Union before workers in other centres, who are earning the minimum wage, form locals. Daycare assistants working for ECS earn $350 starting salary per month whereas Vancouver earn $250 per month. Currently, the Vancouver Working Women's Association is supporting waitresses of The Medieval Inn in Gastown in their attempt to unionize. On Jan. 24 John Jones, owner of the Medieval Inn fired the manager and told the waitresses that the Inn would be closed for a few days for renovations. While the Inn was closed the waitresses joined the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union. When they returned to work 20 new waitresses had been hired and Robin Hughes, co-owner of the Inn, was brought in as the new manager. The new waitresses were hired at $2 an hour without tips. The other waitresses had been earning $4 an hour with tips for serving banquets where people get roaring drunk, pinch and grab the "wenches" who run around in low cut dresses, barefoot, carrying heavy trays piled high with food which they are supposed to throw at the customers for effect said a spokeswoman for WWA. The application for certification was denied by the Labor Relations Board which has taken the side of the owners saying that the waitresses were dismissed before the cards were signed. The association will be picketing the Medieval Inn every Friday night between 6 and 8 p.m. Only about 17 per cent of all women workers are unionized in Canada. However, most unions have not adequately taken up the struggle for day care and maternity leave. Also many predominantly female unions have male executives. But union organization is necessary as the beginning of collective action in an area where women could have collective strength - work. Lav, By SANDI SHRE\ The Canadian Bill of Rights away in the back pages of the code, alleges human rights and fun exist without discrimination by rea But the laws in the criminal over this bill of rights in our i society. And many of those law blatantly contradict the equality-de: In one form or another wome against — laws in the criminal c women are incapable of providinj which is often true simply discrimination bars them from er provincial ordinances which legisla they confine women to a moral required of men. The idea that employment is and merely a stopgap between sc for women is preserved by Canada' Everyone is under a legal dut provide necessaries of life for his w In other words, even legally expected to remain in the home, degraded housekeeping and child r; By LESLEY KRUEGER Daycare at present works like a double-edged spear that injures women with both ends. Women wishing their children placed in daycare centres must pay fees too high for their often poverty-level budgets. And women working in these centres must accept wages below the minimum $1.50 per hour scale. Work is going on at both ends of the metaphorical spear to dull its bite — to alleviate the situation facing both the mothers and the workers. Daycare organizer and mother Sandra Foster of Toronto spoke here Monday about one solution being explored by about 100 students at the University of Toronto. They — herself included — have formed a daycare collective. The collective is a loosely-knit confederation whose basic units are day care houses with about 18 children staying there each day. The time in each house is structured or free, depending on the decisions made by the parents of the children going there. How to dull the don However, they are all similar in that they are parent — rather than business or government — controlled, and that the workers hired to care for the children are chosen, as Foster said, on the basis of "good vibes" rather than government-decided qualifications. The only problems facing this collective, and any other one wishing to follow the example here is that it is illegal in both Ontario and British Columbia. The collective is not licenced, and cannot be until it hires "qualified" supervisors for the children and makes improvements in the house so they fit government standards. And until licenced, it is ineligible for municipal grants. To be considered qualified, the potential supervisor must take a one year "Mother-craft" course in Ontario and a similar two-year course in B.C. "The name of the course gives a good indication of the contents. It is sexist-oriented," Foster said. She said her house alone w $20,000 in renovations to meet tf standards. So, technically it is illegal, b been operating since 1969. For however they have been fightin second court case was finished h decision is yet to be handed down If the collective wins the case precedent which Foster said she 1 the way for other day care collect Women are also finding a sc care problems by turning tow; centres set up by the corporation; centres are efficiently run and rr Foster said, they are built to bene rather than the women workers. Day care centres free wome. force, and women draw lower wa working for the corporation, the Where's your HAIR at? CAMPUS STYLING AND BARBER SHOP Can Get it Together 2244636 - 9 a.m.-5;30 Mon.-Fri. SUB Lower Floor - riq CO-OPERATIVE INSURANCE SERVICES LTD. C.I.S. Insurance, a Leader in the field of Insurance innovations, has career opportunities in the marketing of the Insurance product (Estate Planning — Annuities — Pensions — and all aspects of Life Insurance; also advising their clients on General Insurance, i.e. Auto Home — and Business). 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No such thing as a father's allowance •sex ideas exists. discriminated This is further indicative of the attitude that either assume women are not expected to provide for themselves themselves — even when widowed, divorced or separated. Men, it is cause sexual assumed, will continue to work and get a housekeeper yment despite to care for children in his custody. Interestingly, no ainst this — or provision qualifying a woman for mother's allowance ; not lawfully refers to whether or not she can obtain employment — but there is a provision that she must areer for men have tried all possible methods, for two years, to and marriage acquire alimony or support of some kind from her s. ex-husband should the case be that she is divorced or a husband, to separated. This law assumes many women are unable to find jobs, which is quite true. The trouble is this >men are still law accepts that fact. the thankless, Another blatant example of discrimination by ; chores which reason of sex in the B.C. provincial ordinances is the separate legislation for men's and women's minimum wages. If no such discrimination exists, as our Bill of Rights assures us doesn't, then there would be one common legislation for all people. The fact that provinces provide married women's property acts, allowing them the right to own and control property separate from that of their husbands, implies women automatically lose their identity as individuals when they marry - except when otherwise legislated. The provincial change of name acts are further proof of this tacit type of discrimination against women: If a married woman, she is not, during the life of her husband, entitled to change her surname unless she has the written permission of her husband to do so. A married man can change his surname. He can also change his wife's surname, if he has her written consent to do so. Should the husband and wife divorce, the woman is only allowed to change her surname if there is no child from that marriage under her custody younger than 21 years. >le-edged shaft i have to make ther government he collective has : last two years gal battles. The )ctober, but the :y will have set a es will help clear ion to their day . the prototype ;y work for. The nal in cost, but, the corporations i enter the labor then men. Once Tien are likely to stay there, because if they move on they would lose their baby-sitter. They also tend not to join unions because a strike would again stop the day care service. So, by building day care centres the corporations get workers who will likely remain there a longer time and work for less than those who don't have children to consider. Women finding both these situations un-workable are often forced to take their children to a licenced day-care centre. This is where the spear strikes most sharply. Working women are among the lowest paid minorities in the labor force. Statistics show a woman earns about $5,000 on a yearly average, or about $415 per month. A Ubyssey survey showed day care centres- in Vancouver charge an average of $75 per month per child, or $ 150 for two children. So paying for two children, full-time attendance —kini mcdonald photo at a day-care centre would take more than half a working woman's salary. Woman on welfare have one other alternative. If they wish to submit to a "Means Test" where their budget is examined by Children's Aid or other affiliated organizations and they pass their children might be placed in day-care centre and the fee paid by the government. Working women are not eligible for this subsidy. For them there are only the 22 licenced day care centres in the Lower Mainland area. It is the workers, mainly women, in these centres who feel the other edge of the spear's blade. An average day care worker earns $308 per month while the directors of day care centres earn more than $400 per month, day care worker Larissa Tarwick told The Ubyssey. Their attempt to dull this blade, and raise themselves above the poverty line lies in unionization. About 40 day care workers in Vancouver are planning to join the Social Services Employees Union in an effort to begin negotiations with the centres' directors. The union was established one year ago in Victoria and organizers are hopeful that it will help better the women's working conditions. The husband, however, should he change his surname, can also change the child's surname if that child is older than 12 years and provides written consent. Thus the implication that minors must bear their father's name, not their mother's. Should a husband and wife separate or divorce, both are allowed to possess their accumulated belongings. But as UBC law student Lynn Smith so aptly put it to a Women's Studies meeting last December, the wife "has usually accumulated nothing and that is what she gets." The alimony, said Smith, is just a form of charity or blood money to compensate for the time she has served. Canada's 'public morality control' laws reinforce the social standards of proper conduct through restricting women's freedom of action. If a man rapes a woman he cannot be convicted of an offence if he proves that she is regularly indecent or of unchaste character. Everyone who knowingly permits a female person under the age of 18 to resort to or to be in or upon the premises for the purpose of having illicit sexual intercourse with a particular male person or with male persons in general is guilty of an indictable offence. These laws do not punish the woman in question for her actions but attempt to prohibit her from such conduct through punishing anyone who allows her to do so. No similar provisions exist for men. There are laws against rape — but as the first point indicates, men can rape 'unchaste' women simply because it is automatically assumed before the law that such women always consent to the act and are undeserving of the protection available to 'chaste' women. These laws regard women as less than intelligent — they enslave women to a moral code which is nonexistent for men. The laws are women's 'guardian angels', protecting them from an assumed inherent female immorality which may otherwise get the better of them. Prostitution is similarly illegitimate — for women. No mention is ever made in law of male prostitutes. Although it is illegal for anyone to reside in or to operate a common bawdy-house, women are usually indirectly convicted for prostitution under the vagrancy act: Everyone commits vagrancy who being a common prostitute or nightwalker is found in a public place and does not, when required, give a good account of herself. This law not only assumes only women are prostitutes but provides an easy way of convicting them and the means of continual police harrassment once a woman has been convicted. The 'once a prostitute always a prostitute' belief still prevails even in laws supposedly designed to 'rehabilitate' offenders. Laws against prostitution should not exist because, aside from the blatant discrimination against women, prostitution is a social, not a criminal concern. And laws ignore the fact that 99.9 per cent of women who prostitute do so because it is the only means available to them for earning money. Abortion laws need hardly be discussed to any great length here. The arguments for and against abortion on demand are common knowledge. Suffice it to say the current abortion laws make it a crime for any woman to obtain an abortion unless she has permission from an appointed medical committee — usually all male. Laws still coerce women into the role of motherhood whether or not they want it. 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Open Every Day From Friday 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. 4:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. 5732 University Blvd. Phone 224-61: Page 8 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, March 7, 1972 Women's Place: for times of crisis and relaxation By KATHY DUNN In the early fall, a group of about 50 women got together with the idea of starting a house, or "women's place", to be used as a centre or gathering place for women in Vancouver. The original idea was of the house as a modified retreat, on a short term basis, for women who had nowhere else to go to relax or stay in time of crisis. This- is still one of the main priorities of the group, but since then we have embarked on several other projects that will be associated with the house. These include health care, day and emergency child care, and library and resource centre projects, which will be taking place in the house itself and will all be part of the "Women's Place". We do not have a house yet. If anyone knows of one available or about to become available, please let us know about it at 731-9619. But most of the projects have already started even without a permanent place. The original concept for the house is now embodied in the project called women in transition. Part of the house will be a retreat centre with facilities for emergency child care, but we are aware that this service cannot be too expensive. Therefore, we are hoping to compile a list of homes where women can stay temporarily. The health group has been involved in setting up weekly open self-educationals (for any interested women) dealing with health problems that are specifically female. In addition to talking, we are also starting to learn practical skills for finding out more about our bodies and our health. We are now in the process of writing a questionnaire on doctor's attitudes to female health Selling your home? Ph. 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We are also starting to build equipment which will eventually be incorporated into our day care centre. Although the library, book-store and resource centre project has not yet started, this will definitely be a major part of the house. The work done has been funded by money received from the UBC Graduate Student Association, Local Initiatives Program and the Company of Young Canadians. We are also asking for $2,000 from the UBC grad class gift fund to be used for general house costs, mainly rent. We hope to get more permanent funding in the future. The projects already initiated are only the beginning. Working collectively to solve specific problems is an exciting and expanding process and we hope that more women will become involved and more projects will be started. Currently, we are trying to figure out how we can involve men in this process as well. 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A 4*i *\ * j*oS Tuesday, March 7, 1972 THE UBYSSEY Page 9 By SANDRA MacDONALD and DICK BETTS ^^hildren are a forgotten people. We tend to focus on children as things, as half-people to be shaped, moulded and conditioned into full adult life. Children have no minds of their own and to attain an adult mind their growth as children, and ultimately human beings, must be curtailed and redirected. Not only is this view authoritarian it is false. The true content of the life of a child is lost. This content involves the totality of freedom and play. Freedom involves the right of the child to full equality with the adult. Respect of this right means that the adult cannot enforce his or her views upon the mind and body of the child. "In a disciplined home the child has no rights. In a spoilt home they have all the rights. The proper home is one in which children and adults have equal rights." A. S. Neill, Summerhill The aspect of play is the recognition that children, as equal people should be allowed to do what they want. When an adult represses this right it can only be seen as jealousy of the child's own freedom. This is understandable given the fact that our society is founded upon unfreedom and the repression of the biological and. social needs of people. However the attitude that children must "get wise to fact" early makes little sense. If a child is conditioned to unfreedom from an early age then he or she may go on in life to accept oppression as a matter of course. In an atmosphere of freedom and its enjoyment the child develops all the critical faculties he or she will need in order to cope with an unfree world. The point here is the child is a thinking, feeling being and all too often we lose sight of that fact. They can make up their own minds. "The function of the child is'to live his own life not the life that his anxious parents think he should live, not a life according to the purpose of the educator who thinks he knows what is best. All this interference and guidlines on the part of adults only produces a generation of robots." — Neill. The main mechanism for the transfer of "authority and beliefs is, of course, the nuclear family. Mother, father and Some Little Red Books for kids immediate children comprise the still only socially acceptable family unit. Single mothers are still discriminated against, barred in many instances from pre-natal instruction or put in "single mother'' groups to remind them of their social position. Single mothers are on welfare in most instances and as such have little recognized rights with regard to their children. They are the property of the state and must be tended by state clinics and agencies. Children of poor women are thus doubly oppressed. The nuclear family clamps severe restriction on the child's growth due to its inward looking character. The child's world becomes the world of the family. The play of the child is quickly channeled into social roles, boys play with cars and trucks and girls play house. Virginia Axline states in Play Therapy that "play is the child's natural medium of self-expression". Enforced play, teaching boys to play with guns, etc., becomes authoritarian role-enforcement. After the nuclear family influence comes education and all it entails: fragmenting children's heads into grades 1, 2, 3 etc., giving them marks for achievement, reinforcing sex roles, totally controlling what will be learned and how and preparing them to be meek citizens of advanced capitalism. Children's books and literature reflect this bullshit. The books for children which break free of the ideology of the present society with regards to sexual roles, male dominance, racial superiority and class views you could count on one hand. Social reality for children becomes a mish-mash of obscurity, and social problems which are obvious are played down so as not to reach children's awareness even though they are capable of of understanding their own reality. A group of people in town are presently trying to write and publish children's books which tell the truth about things like poverty and pollution simply and to the point, without a ready-made hand me down analysis. An interesting aside: the federal government did not consider the education of children a worthwhile problem and so refused the group's application for an LIP grant. Despite economic hardship the group publication of The Little Red Books is trying to happen. The aim of the project is to give children something to read which does challenge their thinking but does not stop it by handing down a ready-made analysis. One example is a book called Bubbles. The story is about whales and what it is like to be a whale in the bottom of the ocean. The whale, Bubbles, tells his story of the hardships of living in a polluted world and how there is no escape unless we up here stop spilling oil and dumping garbage. He also tells us the noise of the ships keep whales from singing to each other, which is their way of communication. The Little Red Books is a concrete step in the redirection of children's books towards a more meaningful learning process for children. It recognizes the ability of children to learn basic social facts on their own and respects their own development. For more information on The Little Red Books call Sandra or Evert at 731-8503. Children: Who pushes the doll buggy? By SANDY KASS Children don't have a chance to learn how to be people — they spend too many years being taught to be male or female. While the major part of sex-role differentiation occurs through the public school media, the schools only reinforce what is established in early childhood. Pre-kindergarten-aged children are not only exposed to differentiation in the family, but view the same kind of role imagery in cartoons. Cartoon characters such as George of the Jungle, Popeye, Mickey Mouse and others spend most of their time supposedly "rescuing" their female counterparts from sinister situations. Thus the role of reliance on men is exposed and little boys come to realize they are expected to defend their female counterparts, just like their cartoon heros. Fathers, too, expect their sons to participate in "man's work" while daughters are left to "help their mothers". And take comic strips, which most children, even before the kindergarten stage, read to some extent. Blondie, Family Circus, Dennis the Menace, Archie and many others portray the home situation with the harried mothers standing over a hot stove while fathers come and go from work. Margaret in Dennis the Menace is the classic example of what little girls should be in relation to little boys who are always getting into mischief. From that first day in kindergarten when girls start out to school in freshly ironed dresses, sit at the front of the room and begin to set the example for being neat and clean, they are categorized by their sex alone. Who pushes the doll buggy around the room and who assumes the role of bread winner in the playhouse in the corner? But this is just the start and perhaps a carry over from five years at home observing mother and being generally unable to see father's occupational activities. However, by first grade a more obvious pattern begins to take shape as six-year-olds confront their first formal reader. Of 31 stories in Off to School, none show mother wearing anything but a dress. She is always the homemaker and her role is limited to sewing, cooking and cleaning. Father, however, is the provider and entertainer, taking the children sleigh-riding, skating, horseback-riding; and on only one occasion is mother invited along — on a shopping trip. This sex-role differentiation is expounded upon gradually in elementary school as children become more able to understand more complex situations. By secondary school, it seems only natural for girls to have elective courses such as sewing and cooking while boys are channelled into subjects such as metal work and electronics. The schools perpetuate a myth — a myth that is only slowly now being questioned as not being a fact. But the myth of "I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad" is breaking down as people begin to show the desire and feel the need to control their own lives. Not as males and females, but as people. I— FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE" THE DUCHESS OF MALFI by vbhn Webster MARCH 10-20—8:00 p.m. Direted by JOHN BROCKINGTON Setting & Lighting Designed by RICHARD KENT Wl LCOX Costumes Designed by KURT WILHELM SPECIAL STUDENT PERFORMANCE-Thursday, March 16-12:30 Noon Student Ticket Price: $1.00 BOX OFFICE • FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE • ROOM 207 Qi.ppr.rt Your Campus Theatre-J Page 10 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, March 7, 1972 ,si!&< Hot flashes Children Park threat protest sought More than 300 people attended a showing of slides on the West Coast Trail Friday afternoon in the SUB auditorium. The slides, presented by the Sierra Club, showed the recreational potential of the park on the Vancouver Island coast and detailed the threat to the park posed by logging operations. People wishing to support the campaign for the enlargement and protection of the park should write to forests minister Ray Williston and recreation minister Ken Kiernan in Victoria, and northern affairs minister Jean Chretien in Ottawa. Letters could also be sent to the Council of Forest Industries, 1055 W. Hastings, Vancouver. Weltansthauung Get this already: July 1914 - Historiography and Weltanschauung. It's the topic of a lecture to be given at noon today in Buchanan 102 by John Moses — senior lecturer in history at the University of Queensland. Energy David Rose of MIT (also a UBC grad, gang) will speak today at noon in Education 204 on Energy Policy. At 3:30 today he will speak in Education 209 on New So c i o-technological Institutions. 'Tween classes TODAY NEWMAN CLUB General meeting, noon, St. Mark's music room. SPECIAL EVENTS Poet Dennis Lee reads at noon in Buch 100. CANOE CLUB Slides on south Nahanni, noon, SUB 125. EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE Did the world go pregnant with mankind? noon, SUB 111. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Testimony meeting, noon, SUB 224. YOUNG SOCIALISTS SUB 210, noon. WEDNESDAY IL CAFFE IH stage, noon. VOC General meeting for elections, noon, Angus 104. 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DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA Applications are invited from .Science and Mathematics students for graduate scholarships tenable in the Department for candidates planning to work towards M.Sc. or Ph.D. degrees Three types of awards are available. (l)Killam Memorial Scholarships, with values in the range $4200 to J4500 per annum. (2)Texaco Canada Ltd. Fellowship in Oceanography (restricted to Canadian citizens) valued at $3700 per annum. (3)University awards, which range in value from $2800 to $3600 per annum, and for which some teaching duties are required. Fees (approximately $700) have to be paid from these awards. Holders of Killam Scholarships and the Texaco Canada Fellowship may supplement their awards by demonstrating in laboratories if they wish. Although the department and staff associated with it cover most specialisations in Earth Sciences, particular emphasis is placed on a wide spectrum of research relating to Marine Geology and Marine Geophysics. There is excellent cooperation between members of the departmnt, the Department of Oceanography and Bedford Institute. A booklet with further details can be obtained from the Chairman. ARE TOU INTERESTED IN A meaningful group experience. Leader is M.A. Psychologist with 20 years experience. Call Joyce 224-4662. FILM EXPERIENCE? COULD BE worth $1,000. Phone 684-4887 after 5 p.m. Travel Opportunities 16 CAMPING TRIPS RUSSIA Europe, India. Information meeting Friday 12:30. Bu. 3223. Rosa- lyn Peering 922-0644. LEARN HOW TO TRAVEL OVERSEAS ON A LIMITED BUDGET A meeting will be held at 7:45 p.m. on Monday, March 20th in the auditorium of Eric Hamber School. 5025 Willow, Vancouver 33rd & Oak) to help all those travelling abroad on a limited budget. Bring along your ques tions and learn how to travel on a shoestring. A panel of experts, including a qualified agent, who have travelled to all parts of the world will be on hand to talk to you and answer all your questions on foreign travel. Free checklist will be handed out. Xo admission charge — so bring your friends who are interested in travel and learn how to save hundreds of dollars! Canadian Youth Hostels Association, 1406 West Broadway, Vancouver 9. B.C., Telephone: 738- 3128. HONG KONG RETURN FROM $r>50 up. Special homeland flights for Chinese students, families. Phone 684-863S. Wanted—Information 17 Wanted—Miscellaneous 18 AUTOMOTIVE Autos For Sale 21 1968 NOVA-AUTOMATIC — BEST offer. Phone 263-7259 after 5:00 p.m. & weekend. FOR SALE OR. TRADE 64 VW Window Van. Will accept 65 BUG or better. Phone 874-3729. 1965 SUNBEAM $225 Good running condition. Very economical ideal for students. 684- 5763 evenings. 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Work Wanted 52 INSTRUCTION 8c SCHOOLS Special Classes 62 POT AT POTTER'S CENTRE! 12 week Spring session starts April 3 register early. Limited enrollment. G. Alfred 261-4764. Tutoring Service 63 WORRIED ABOUT EXAMS? THE UBC Tutoring Center has tutors in nearly every course. Register in SUB 228 12:00-2:00 weekdays. Tutors—Wanted 64 MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE 71 PIONEER 3-MAN TRAIL PACK tent $50. Black's Icelandic Special (large) down si bag $30 As new Ph. 526-0105 after 6. RENTALS & REAL ESTATE Rooms •1 ROOM, KITCHEN. $60/MO. ON campus 5745 Agronomy Road, 224- 9549. Live on campus, exams are coming. Room & Board 82 IT'S NEW—STAY AT THE D.K.E. House. Large spacious rooms, semi - private washrooms, full laundry facilities, color T.V., and excellent food. 5765 Agronomy Rd. 224-9691. Furnished Apts. 83 APT. (5 RMS.) W LARGE SUN- deck, near Locarno Beach, $145 p.m. to sublet May-August friendly cat inch Ph.: 224-6440 or 228-5181 PRIVATE SEMI-FURNISHED suite for one non-smoker available now. 263-8441. Near univ. Quiet, washer/dryer, sep. ent. ROOMATE WANTED TO SHARE 2 bedroom furnished apartment in Kits for May-Sept, with gay male. $90/mo.. Box 6572, Station "G'' Vancouver 8. Unf. Apts. 84 Halls For Rent 85 Houses—Furn. & Unfurn. 86 Use Ubyssey Classified TO SELL - BUY - INFORM The U.B.C. Campus MARKET PLACE Tuesday, March 7, 1972 THE UBYSSEY Page 11 Thunderettes bring home first CIAU basketball championship The Thunderettes basketball team captured the first Canadian Intercollegiate women's basketball championship on the weekend with a 74-69- win over the University of New Brunswick Red Bloomers. The western conference champions opened in their usual strong manner and by the half way mark held a 40-17 lead. However, the Atlantic Association champions played a strong second half to close the gap to seven points by the end of the game. Karen Lee led all scorers with 23 points for New Brunswick, UBC's leaders were Bev Barnes with 20, Debbie Phelan with 13 and Joanne Sargent with 12. The victory finished off an almost perfect collegiate season for the UBC women, whose win record was marred only by one loss to the University of Victoria in regular season play. The victory also gave UBC a clean sweep of the National Collegiate men's and women's basketball titles. The Thunderettes end their play for the season this Friday, Saturday and Sunday when they compete in the Canadian women's basketball championships. The games to be played in the War Memorial Gym start Friday at 10 a.m. The participating teams will be the Saint John, N.B. Alpines, London, Ont. Grads, Edmonton K.G.s, the University of Victoria, and UBC. Badminton Competing in Winnipeg, the women's badminton team finished second to the University of Calgary by one-half a point. Individually, Sue Kolb turned in the best UBC performance, winning three out of four singles matches. Beautiful clothes.. for beautiful people LE CHATEAU "a step ahead" 776 Granville 687-2701 SPAGHETTI SUPPER 50" meet and eat with campus charismatics Discussion, Music and Song * If you are coming Phone BERNICE GERARD 263-8219 MABEL CORDER 536-7391 or tell HEMLATA CHATURVED (SUB) LUTHERAN CENTER THUR. 5:30 P.M. MAR. 9 TERRI McGOVERN leads the Thunderettes to victory nearly everytime she takes to the court. Women win field hockey UBC women's field hockey teams continued their winning ways on the weekend as all the teams posted victories. The varsity team, Vancouver first division league champions in regular season play, defeated SFU 7-0 in an exhibition match. Joan Larson get three goals for UBC while Sue Rich with two, and Carolyn Muir and Kathy Hannela with one apiece were the other scorers. The junior varsity team defeated Kitsilano in their final league game of the season. The Totems defeated the Ookpiks 5-0 in their final league game to move into second place in the league third division. Semi final games will be played on Saturday at Trafalgar Park. ATTENTION! Faculty,Staff and Students A limited number of seats are available on a LOW FARE RETURN FLIGHT TO LONDON, ENGLAND JUNE 30 — AUGUST 29, 1972 COST: Between $280.00 and $290.00 Any further reduction in fare will be returned to the customer. To join flight and for information please contact: Education Extension Programs Centre for Continuing Education University of British Columbia Vancouver 8, B.C. Telephone 228-2181, local 220 World Wide International Travel Ltd. OR 5700 University Boulevard Vancouver 8, B.C. Telephone 224-4391 MEN'S INTRAMURALS AWARDS BANQUET MONDAY, MARCH 13th 5:00 p.m. SUB BALLROOM MC.'s FRANK GNUP" & 'RAY HERBERT' * :■ - . .* •' ' _/" Skiers win at Crystal Mtn. place well at Lake Placid The women's ski team finished off their collegiate circuit on the weekend at Crystal Mtn., Washington. Competing without their three top skiers due to their attendance at the World Student Games, the UBC women, nevertheless, made an impressive showing. Karen Williams placed second in slalom, third in giant slalom and showed well on a rain soaked cross-country course to be named winner of the women's Ski-Meister award. Other UBC team members — Lee Ellis, Kathy Snowball, Ellen McDonell, Pat Linton and Debbie Sigalet placed consistently among the top 10 in every event. Over 50 of the top women collegiate racers from the Northwest USA and Canada competed. On a team basis UBC took the northern division title as well as the entire NCSC conference championships. In addition, Joy Ward of UBC was named the conference's outstanding female skier for the season. The following UBC skiers were named to the conference all-star team: Joy Ward, Pam Aiken, Lisa Richardson and Karen Williams to the Alpine team, and Joy Ward, Pat Linton, and Karen Williams to the Nordic team. In World Student games skiing, Joy Ward of UBC led all Canadians with an 18th place finish in the women's giant slalom at Lake Placid, N.Y. with a time of 1:38.8. UBC's Pam Aiken was 19th while University of Montreal's Kathleen Butler did not finish, and downhill gold medalist Lisa Richardson of UBC was disqualified. Women's intramurals An important managers meeting will be held on Friday at noon in War Memorial Gym, room 211. Please attend and bring next year's manager for your organization. This is your last week to complete your attendance books. Banquet is on Monday, March 20. EDELWEISS HAUS "SPORTS SPECIALISTS" WEEKDAYS TILL 9 EDELWEISS HAUS 1230 N. State (Next to Shakey's) Bellingham, Wash. - 733-3271 MONEY AT PAR A ' ' • •**•*• Page 12 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, March 7, 1972 Sports and the woman By MIKE GIDORA Athletic competition has long, been regarded as the private sanctuary of the male ego. And any female who dared to enter into this private world was and is looked upon with particular scorn, not from the male athletes themselves, but more from the 'armchair quarterbacks' and non-competing women outside of the sport. I wonder how many times girls have been told not to climb trees, or that it isn't lady-like to do this or to do that. And,, it isn't lady-like to take part in sports. So, women, true to the passive attitude they have adopted, don't take part in sports if they wish to be accepted by the male dominated society. But, there are some exceptions to this otherwise general rule. Some sports are acceptable to male society. Figure skating is graceful and ladylike. It is allowable on that basis. So is synchronized swimming. And floor gymnastics. But basketball isn't. It's rough and unfeminine. So is swimming and track and field. In short, you can compete in sports if you remain lady-like; but don't sweat. Men don't want to accept women who sweat, or women who are strong, or in effect women who they see as potentially in a position to challenge the male egp. The irony of the situation is that until recently women have accepted this basic premise. Women are so used to being cut off from opportunities in one field or another that there have been no real objections raised against being excluded from participation in sports. In fact most women would be inclined to agree that sports aren't compatible with 'ladylike' behavior. And non-ladylike behavior isn't compatible with men, or with being glamorous and getting married and so on. In truth, non-ladylike behavior isn't compatible with anything in the male concept of society. So what happens when women decide that they would like to become involved in this particular area of society? The same as in every field. They are slighted and ignored, maybe in the hope that they'll give up and go away, return to the proper behavior and have a baby or something. When the Olympics were first held in ancient Rome, women were not only forbidden to compete in them, but were barred, by penalty of death, from watching. And, in true Olympic tradition it wasn't until the 1928 Olympics that women were allowed to take an active part in the Games. Women's tennis was included in the program that year... it was considered a ladylike activity. and is sluffed off with a comment or two about how sports like hockey and football use up so much money. And what women's teams there are, in sports such as Softball and basketball, are generally regarded as a joke by so-called sports enthusiasts. Witness the annual Tea Cup game. Even when the university sees fit to allocate some money for a team in a sport, they choose to give it a name such as "Thunderettes" or "Huskiettes" or some NO CHALLENGE to the male ego, these girls perform their dance routines not to cheer-lead, but to satisfy the male-dominated spectators. Gradually women's sports were included in the program until they now constitute approximately one-third of the Olympic events. But still, that is simply tokenism. UBC levies an athletic fee of five dollars against each person (with no discrimination as to sex). But interestingly enough $4.20 of that fee goes to men's athletics, the rest to womens. UBC isn't alone in doing this. It is common procedure with all universities other feminization of the name of the men's team goes by. Even in this way, admittedly a minor way, there is emphasis on the woman athlete as a lesser figure to the male athlete. Of course, it is not only universities that have tried to push women involved in sports down and out of the way. Last year a women reporter was barred from the press box in Madison Square Garden during a hockey game. And remember the outraged cries when the first Lake Placid worth the effort Lisa Richardson's gold-medal winning downhill run at the recently concluded World Student Games held at Lake Placid, N. Y., was perhaps the biggest upset of the games, and certainly the most stunning Canadian performance. While Canada's hockey players, skaters, and skiiers were being beaten every time out, in what amounted to a dismal Canadian showing, Richardson captured the woman's downhill in a time of 2:01.84. Starting from the unlikely position of No. 29, in a field of 29, she raced through the sloppy conditions three one-hundredths of second faster than her closest rival, Caroline Rebattu of France. In the following interview, she told Ubyssey reporter Kent Spencer about the games, and also commented on women's athletics at UBC. Ubyssey: How did it feel to become famous overnight? Richardson: Nothing like that had ever happened to me before. I felt really funny. When all the interviews and the publicity came, 1 just sort of stood around, speechless. Questions like, where I was born, when I started skiing, and so on, were easy to answer, but I couldn't answer questions like, why did you win the race, do you talk to yourself when you ski down the course and so on. The press seemed to think that because I was a psychology major I could talk to myself during the race and psych myself or something. It was all sort of dumb. Ubyssey: Just how nervous were you at the starting gate? Richardson: I guess I was pretty nervous. I wanted to win a lot. But I couldn't see any reason why I couldn't go as fast as anyone else. Since the course was steep near the top, you had to maintain your speed at the top and carry it on to the flat section. I felt that I did it better than in the practice runs, and that I had a chance to win. But when I finished, I didn't think that I had gone fast enough. Ubyssey: One of the biggest parts of the trip, perhaps the biggest, had to be meeting the other students from around the world. How much did you get to know them? Richardson: The first people we met were the Russians. We met them in Montreal, on an overnight stopover on our way to the games. They're really weird. When we first got there, they weren't being terribly friendly. We said hello, and smiled a lot, but they wouldn't say anything. They appeared not to know any English, although we found out later that they did. After awhile, three or four of them would come over and talk a bit, but never when they were around the coaches. Ubyssey: Why do you think they were unfriendly? Richardson: Maybe it was the way they were brought up. I'm not sure. I don't think they thought we were 'capitalist pigs', though. Ubyssey: How do you feel about the position of women athletes at UBC, and in particular, women in the ski program? Richardson: In our program, it's pretty equal. Both the girls and the guys go to all the same races, and get the same opportunities to train. I'm not exactly sure what the figures are, but I know we get less than the men. Some aspects are pointless. For instance, the women have to have a chaperon along, and travel on a public bus. This is wasted money, because we could all go down in cars and get paid for the gas, instead of renting a van. Another complaint is that the girls get only $1.25 for meals - I think the guys get $1.75. Maybe they eat more, or something. Ubyssey: From what you've said, the ski program at UBC seems to treat both women and men equally. What do you think of some of the other programs, such as the women's basketball program? Richardson: I don't see why the Thunderettes shouldn't get as much money. They're just as good as the men. The trouble is, if you try to complain, nothing will happen. I think it would be really terrific if we did have equal funds. But I don't think that it is going to change. female jockeys appeared. (And worse than being women, these girls were winning). And then there was the girl who played on a little league team. She was kicked out of the league, not by her teammates, or by her parents, but by a group of men who coached the other teams. A group of men who had been assured the full backing of Little League Incorporated, a multi-million dollar corporation that is dedicated to "the promotion of baseball for pleasure and sport among children." She was barred from baseball because a group of men, and a multi-million dollar corporation saw her as a threat to their superiority in a particular field. This happened in 1971 - an enlightened year. Men have done their damndest to keep women out of sports that they have classified as unladylike. That means keeping them out of sports like track and field. But that becomes a little embarrassing when one realizes that all of Canada's top international athletes are women. But, of course the press is always quick to point out that these women are 'ladylike' or 'glamorous' or have some other face-saving quality. So, to conform to the proper male image of the female athlete, a woman like high-jumper Debbie Van Kiekebelt becomes "glamorous Debbie Van Kiekebelt, a former fashion model" in the press and so on. It must not be known that she might sweat. Or that she is capable of pressing close to 400 pounds with her legs. Men don't want to hear these type of things about woman athletes. It makes them uneasy to think that maybe women aren't the docile little creatures they want them to be. Or maybe it is a little bit of guilt they feel. But whatever the reason, it makes men feel very uneasy to know that women are the top athletes in Canada today. Instead of remaining in the kitchen where they belong, women are coming out and taking part in sports, and doing the work necessary to do well in sports. Soon, women will no longer take a back seat to men when it comes to sport. In fact they are no longer willing to do so now. Many of Canada's top female athletes such as Debbie Brill and Abbie Hoffman of Toronto are now stepping forward and saying what is wrong with Canadian sport and the attitude most officials have towards women. They are making public what have long been quiet complaints to coaches and team-managers. Things like, why women teams only get $1.25 per meal when travelling while men'steams get $1.75. They are asking why Canadian teams travelling overseas always contain more men than women. These women athletes are making the public more aware of the conditions women in athletics face. But to do so, they had to become the best in the world. Quite a price to pay for decent treatment. But men are waking up to the fact that women want to become involved in sports. They've found the ideal spot for them. They'll make them cheerleaders. That'll be perfect. There, women can play an important role, in fact an integral role, say the men. They can still be beautiful while cheerleading, as there will be no need to sweat and ruin their make-up, say the men. And they can cheer for the male athlete of their choice. After all, a little hero worship does every women some good, say the men. Especially when the hero being worshipped is a man. And that's what women's sport should be all about . . . say the men.