Millett: voice of the feminists
Kate Millett. . . Arch-nemesis of male chauvinists
everywhere speaks 3:30 Tuesday in the Centennial
Room of the Nebraska Union.
What can you say about a
37-year-old woman
liberationist? That she is
brilliant and witty. That she is
a radical feminist? That she
wrote Sexual Politics.
What can you say about
Kate Millett? Mademoiselle
magazine calls her "a
remarkable women-sort of a
sage Janis Joplin of academe."
The women's liberation
movement claims her as one of
their national spokeswomen.
Irving Howe, of the City
University of New York,
writing in Harpers says Millett
"shows very little warmth
toward women and very little
awareness of their experience.
There are times one feels the
book was written by a female
impersonator."
Whatever you say about
Kate Millett, you will have a
chance to hear her at 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday in the Nebraska Union
Centennial Room and at 8 p.m.
at an informal rap session at
Centennial College.
Born in St. Paul, Minn., and
graduated from the University
of Minnesota magna cum
laude, Millett was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa and took first
class honors at Oxford.
When she returned to New
York and made the rounds of
employment agencies, they
asked how fast she typed.
GOING ON to pursue her
PH.D. in English from
Columbia, Millett became
interested in the feminist
movement. The result was her
thesis, Sexual Politics,
published in July, 1970, by
Doubleday and long on the
best-seller lists.
Upon publication her
picture appeared on the cover
of Time and her book has been
the subjectof numerous reviews
and articles in many major
magazines and newspapers.
Sexual Politics delineates
the struggle between men and
women through civilized time
and shows how men have
wielded power over women.
SHOWING THAT
patriarchal bias has influenced
social and economic history
from Adam to Rojack, the
author examines the work of
culture heroes including D. H.
Lawrence, Henry Miller,
Norman Mailer and Erik
Erik son.
Sigmund Freud, John
Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, George
Meredith and Alfred Tennyson
are all shown as believers in the
subjugation of women. One
chapter is devoted to Jean
Genet's homosexual analysis of
sexual politics.
Millett has taught at the
University of North Carolina
and Barnard College, where she
was in c harge of an
experimental college. She is
currently teaching at Bryn
Mawr and lives in New York
City with her sculptor
husband, Fumio Yoshimura.
Millett's visit is being
sponsored by the Nebraska
Union Talks and Topics ,
Committee, University
Women's Action Group,
Centennial College, Women's
Resident Hall and the Nebraska
Free University.
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TUESDAY. MARCH 2, 1971
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL.94NO.72
Legislature
by JIM PEDERSEN
Staff Writer .
The Board of Regents and the State College
Board of Trustees Monday submitted a proposal to
the Legislature's Education Committee calling for
the creation of a single governing board for all
Nebraska institutions of higher education.
The proposal was an apparent effort to stave
off the advancement of two bills pending before
the committee to create advisory commissions on
higher education. The committee took no action
on either bill.
LB 643, sponsored by Sens. Jerome Warner,
Richard Marvel and Wayne Ziebarth would create
a special legislative committee to serve as a
coordinating body for higher education. LB 866,
sponsored by Sens. Duke Snyder, Ziebarth, and
Marvel, calls for a commission on higher education
-consisting of nine members all appointed by the
governor with the consent of the Legislature.
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Israeli consul: peace is nearer
Both bills would leave intact the existing
structures for governing higher education, and
would give the coordinating committees chiefly
advisory powers.
The most stringent of the two bills is LB 866
which requires the Board of Regents and State
Board to submit budget proposals to the
coordinating commission and gives the commission
special hearings before the Budget Committee. The
bill also forbids the Legislature from acting on
capital construction for higher education unless it
is first reviewed by the commission.
LB 643 provides for similar review by the
coordinating committee in many areas of higher
education.
BOTH BILLS would have substantial impact on
the functions and practical power of the existing
boards.
Regent Robert Raun of Minden, nevertheless,
spoke in favor of some sort of coordination in
higher education. He suggested, however, a super
board of regents consisting of 15 members and
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governing all three University campuses, the four
state colleges and vocational technical schools at
Milford and Sidney.
The primary contention between the testifying
Regents and University administrates and the
sponsoring senators was not over coordination but
over who should do the coordinating.
University officials said they favored scrapping
the existing system and replacing it with a board
of layman elected by the people. The senators said
they preferred a committee of legislators or
appointees reporting to the Legislature.
MARVEL SAID the Legislature already tried to
create a single body by combining the Regents and
state college board, but the institutions saw that it
was defeated in a referendum.
"Regardless of which bill or proposal you
accept, we will have to create a fiscal staff,"
Marvel told the committee. "Why should we create
another board with a staff when the Legislature
can get the staff and do the iob themselves?"
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The Israeli Counsul General from Chicago
says peace in the Middle East is nearer
because the Arab nations have shown a
willingness to negotiate semantically if not
yet tactically.
Saul Ramati, speaking Monday afternoon
at Centennial College noted that it has been
difficult to achieve a settlement because the
Arab and Israeli views have been driven so
far apart by the conflict but the USSR "has
begun to wonder if to continue the turmoil
is in the best interest."
lie mentioned that Russia is reappraising
its policies with the realization that Israel
will defend herself. Another factor in
determining Russian policy is the
ever-present possibility that the United
States will join the Israeli forces if a war
should break out.
RAMATI, WHO immigrated to Israel in
1948 to join the Israeli army, stressed that
the national attachment to Israel "goes buck
further than that of any other people to any
other land.
"The society is unified in time of crisis.
Military service is universal, every boy and
every girl serves. Every wounded soldier
knows that he will be looked after."
These factors combine with Arab military
weaknesses to provide Israeli military
success. The Arabs, Ramati said, face the
problems of "tloating hostility" in their
military forces. The officers look down on
the men and the soldiers have no trust in
their comrades.
IN ANSWER to a student's question
concerning the Jewish Defense League
(JDLK a militant organization in the United
States, Ramati explained, "Basically we
don't believe in violence, we believe in
defending ourselves."
Noting that JDL is an internal American
matter Ramati added, "When it comes to
using terror tactics. ..we disapprove of it."
For example, Russian Jews may suffer if the
USSR chooses to repressive response to the
JDL actions in the US.
In response to a question concerning
Israeli racism directed toward Arabs in Israel
Ramati said "We are human, we have all the
human failing. But as a society we oppose
racism and prejudice."
He pointed out that the only areas where
Arabs do not share equally with Israelis are
that they do not have to serve in the army
and, due to the security risk involved, do not
serve on the cabinet.
Ramati reiterated that a number of
factors are bringing the Middle East nearer a
negotiated peace.
"We know the price of war. We pay it
with the loss of our youth and our homes
and the Arabs pay it as well. If anyone wants
peace it is us."
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Israeli Counsul General..."If anyone wants peace it is us.'
