Central Florida Future, Vol. 03 No. 13, January 22, 1971

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Women comprise 53 per cent of the
American population,    yet there is
only one woman in the U.S. Sen -
ate^one on the Supreme Court, and
few on the     board of directors of
most banks, industrial companies.and
other aggregates. And with such a
majority, a woman may soon seriously
contend for the U.S. presidency.
With these statements, Betty
Friedan, former president of the
National Organization for 'Women,
pointed out Tuesday to a
standing-room only audience at
FTU the goals of the women's
liberation movement.
Mrs. Friedan also said that the
liberation of women could not
happen without the liberation of
men from the stereotype of the
strong, crew-cut, brute strength
image that she says has typified the
male role for years. In fact,
according to her, men and women
must work to free themselves from
We Live in the Present,
By the Past, but
for the. . .
the binds in society which have
caused resentment and the "battle
between the sexes."
Mr-s. Freidan explained that the
women's liberation movement was
not opposed to love, sex and
motherhood, as some of the more
radical elements of the movement
have proclaimed. But she said the
binding sociological stereotypes of
what men and women should be
have caused so much resentment
that genuine love between men and
women is almost impossible.
The movement is necessary, she
said, not because she or any other
woman has started it, but because
of such things as the longer life of
humans, the ecological and
population crisis, and the evolution
of society.
Motherhood, for those women
who choose to be mothers — and
she says it should be a choice — will
By BETH WEILENMAN
only take up a minor portion of a
woman's life, even if it is the best
portion of it.
A woman should have the right
to govern her own body, Mrs.
Friedan said, and with the air and
water pollution, the environment
soon may not be fit for raising
children.
Society has limited the housewife
to the home, where, with the
husband at the office, she is left
with the whirring of the appliances
and the blaring of the television,
and the only humans she may speak
with are under three feet tall. Yet
women make up the majority
population, and can be valuable
energy force politically and
economically.
Unlike the reputation the
movement has received, the goal is
not to defeat men, since men are
not  the   enemy.   Instead, she sees
Jax Will Never Be The Same
men as fellow victims of the society
which binds them into torment and
destruction    of   life    and    creates-
resentment    which    results    in
violence.
Television has helped suppress
women, Mrs. Friedan said.
Commercials have convinced
women to spend money to become
attractive to achieve the goal of
catching a man, and portray
housewives as wanting only to clean
their husbands' shirt-collars. In the
family programs, "Mamma outwits
Papa, and Mamma is a boob. Which
means Papa is worse." Mrs. Friedan
said this promotes resentment
between the sexes.
Television is not the only
entertainment culprit. She said,
"The moment a comedian stands
up and says, 'My wife...' the
audience is expected to laugh."
And, she said, wives will smile the
plastic smiles they have learned to
wear.
A beautiful and exciting art
"happening" took place last
weekend in Jacksonville.
It featured the entire FTU art
department in a 48-hour marathon
exhibit entitled the "Fermentation
of OM".
According to one FTU staff
member who attended the
happening, it was the "most
exciting thing I've ever witnessed."
For two, uninterrupted days and
nights, the art faculty did its
collective and individual thing,
sculpturing, painting, making,
photographing and generally
creating as an enthralled audience
and assembled press watched.
Johann Eyfells created two huge
cast sculptures in an area behind
the Jacksonville Art Museum, scene
of the "fermentation." Eyfells was
forced to make two because the
first one broke apart as he and
some of his assistants were
attempting to load it on a flat car
for the short trip inside the
museum.
Eyfells didn't give up. He worked
all Saturday night and Sunday
morning, preparing another one
which he succeeded in placing
inside the gallery.
Art Dept. Chairman Steve Lotz
created three of his unique
paintings, all at least 20 feet high,
on paper supplied the artists by the
St. Regis Paper Co.
Hanns Krenn produced several of
his colorful paintings, also in
mammoth proportions, for
placement in the gallery.
Walter Gaudnek created some
large triangular paintings which
were mounted in moveable baby
carriages. He also designed and
painted some "uniforms" for all the
artists to wear during the showing.
Gary Downing featured a number
of photographs he took and
developed at the museum. The
photos were of creations Downing
himself made.
The press and television coverage
was extensive and the crowds that
stayed throughout the entire
marathon were good.
The showing took place on
Sunday as champagne and good
fellowship flowed in equal measure.
"This was a unique experience,"
an excited Professor Gaudnek said
after the show. "Not only did it
show that art can be created right
in the museum where it is to be
exhibited, but it. revealed that art
does not always have to be a
labored thing, if the spirit is there.
"It was most exciting because of
the closeness of all the artists. We
all came away more devoted to
each other," Gaudnek said. "If we
hadn't, we might have ended up
killing each other."
Mrs. Friedan sees the vote as
American women's greatest weapon
for liberation. Although she does
not recommend a separate political
party for women, she said women
should form a caucus within the
current political parties, and unite
toward promoting the passage of
the equal rights amendment,
encouraging day care centers, and.
reforming abortion and birth
control legislation.
Instead of setting women against
men, men and women will work
together, honestly, and women will
not have to wear plastic smiles, and
men will not have to feel they must
fulfill the brute-force stereotype.
And according to her, "Make love,
not war" will be a greater truth
than most young people realize.
(More of Betty on Page 3).
Stringer Hot Roped
By State Senators
FTU Student Government President Jim Stringer withstood the barbs
of some angry state senators this week who were pressing Stringer and
other SG presidents concerning campus drugs and off-campus speakers.
Some verbal pushing and shoving occurred during the meeting between
the    legislators    and    Florida's
university    presidents   held    on
campus here.
At one point Stringer was asked
if he felt there was a need for a
regulation prohibiting the
appearance on campus of a speaker
who advocated the violent
overthrow of the U.S. Government.
When the SG president replied
emphatically "no", there were
some noticable groans and glowers
from the lawmakers.
"I had a chance to state later,"
Stringer told the FuTUre, "that I
believe on campus we have a
working relationship with the
administration on speakers matters,
and that there should be
responsible interaction between SG,
students and the administration.
The president on this and other
campuses is given the veto power."
"Stringer went on to state he felt
that such a regulation would be a
"repression of the First
Amendment", and thought that the
senators were trying to put too
much    blame    on    the    university
presidents for the actions of a few
students.
Stringer was also asked about
drug use at FTU. He said he had
not made a survey and would have
no accurate means of judging the
use of drugs.
When pressed for a guesstimate,
the student president said he would
say that perhaps 50 per cent of the
students in the university system
had tried drugs at one time or
another, but that only about 12 per
cent could be considered "regular
users."
Stringer said it was his own
opinion that the senators were
more interested in projecting an,
image of concern about campuses
to the press than to try and get an
objective overview of the attitudes
and problems on university
campuses.
He said he hoped more would
come from the next round of
legislative meetings at FTU (a
February confab of the House
Committee on Education).
Gaudnek said he hoped that the
marathon art happening could be
repeated on campus at a later date.
A video tape film made of the
experience may be shown later on
Orlando's Channel 24, the ETV
station.
Tuition, Housing
To Be Raised?
The Board of Regents will meet
in the Regents Board Room on the
third floor of the Administration
Building February 1 at 9:30 am.
The meeting will be open to the
public.
Topics to be discussed will be a
12 percent raise in the costs of
food and housing at FTU and the
possibility of a raise in tuition for
all state university students. There
are indications that the raise may
be as much as $50.
If passed, these resolutions will
raise the expense of a resident
student at FTU to a range of
approximately $313-$388 from a
present range of $280-$347. The
Board members who researched the
necessity of the hikes said that the
alternatives to raising tuition are
phasing out whole programs and
general austerity throughout the
university system.
Last Wednesday night the new power cables running alongside FTU
Boulevard contracted in the cold snap to the extent that they ripped
off the top of the telephone pole joining them to the lines running
parallel to Alafaya Trail. High-tension wires, normally carrying 7,200
volts, sagged over Alafaya Trail at windshield level and the lack of
tension in the lines affected the stature of poles for one-half mile down
FTU Blvd. The break, occuring at approximately 11 pm, blacked out
the University Hylands Apartments but did not affect FTU or any
other major area. Florida Power and Light repairmen, who were on the
scene within an hour, said that new safety features on the lines cut off
the power in the immediate area so that there was no danger of
electrocution. (Photo by Jim Lehman)