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1 w r . 4' y 'irt;1 i dai u friday, december 1, 1972 iincoln, nebraska vol. 96, no. 49 Friedan urges human liberation, warns against potential backlash by Debby Fairley Feminist Betty Friedan spoke Thursday to more than 700 persons in the Nebraska Union without once denouncing "male chauvinist pigs." in tact, sne made it clear that she thought women who labeled all men chauvinistic pigs were on the wrong track. "We're not talking about man as the oppressor, man as the enemy," she said. "If the women's movement is taken in the direction of sex class warfare, it will fail-it will create a backlash not only from men but an enormous backlash from women disillusioned with the movement." Friedan's 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, proved a brginning for the modern women's liberation movement. But the issue no longer is women's liberation, she said, but human liberation. "The women's movement is only stage one, or the conscious stage, of something much bigger-a sex role revolution, a human revolution." Hostility between tne sexes has not been caused by the women's movement, she said, but by outdated sex roles. "The anti-man feeling on the fringes of the women's movement is only a symptom of the problem, made virtually inevitable by sex roles," she emphasized. What's happening today, Friedan said, is not a war between men and women but a movement of both sexes against stereotyped ideas of what men and women should be. As the women's liberation movement picked up steam, she said, men also began rebelling against their roles. "Young men began wearing their hair long and saying 'I don't have to be crew cut and tight-lipped and big-muscled when there are no bears to kill.' 'These men are not brutal and sadistic; they can be tender. They don't have to be dominant or superior. They can admit they're afraid sometimes and even cry." When a man thinks that way, she said, "that young man is not going to die 10 years before his wife. He is not part of the suppressed generations." Many husbands and wives are now working out alternate ways to share the responsibilities of home and children, she said. "And that doesn't mean the man makes the French dressing while the woman scrubs out the toilet bowl." The "battle of the sexes" won't accomplish anything, she warned, because men and women need each other. "The sexual and human need of men and women for each other changes everything... it's not a worker-to-boss situation." When the women's movement began, she said, it caused a mass identity crisis for women. No matter how much a woman wanted to be a mother, she had to force herself to be a person too, said Friedan. "Here there were millions of us and each one thought she was a freak if she wasn't having orgasms while waxing the kitchen floor. "She had a terrible auilt if she thought there should be more to life than peanut butter sandwiches with the kids, or working, but rushing home and feeling guilty." The identity crisis forced women to see themselves as humans, she said,. and now their movement is helping men do fhe same. J I 09 . . k V p. r 'if- Campbell lobbies for University budget by Steve Arvanette Anne Campbell, University director of public affairs, says she is expecting that quite a few state senators will be asking why the University is headed for a $1.4 million deficit this year. Describing her job as a "combination of public relations and liaison work with legislators and other agencies of government," Campbell says she'll have "legitimate justification" when questioned by senators as to the reasons for the deficit. Her prime concern in working with the Unicameral will be the proposed University budaet. "We hope to get as much of that budget adopted as possible," Campbell said. She noted that she knows most of Nebraska's tato senators already as a result of working for the Lincoln Public Schools in a similar position. Much of her time since coming to the University last July has been spent getting acquainted with "the total operation of the University" and the people involved with it. Understanding the budget procedure from conception to implementation is "not a small task," Campbell explained. "Its a very comprehensive and complex document," she said. According to Campbell, her job was created as a result of recommendations made by the Cresap report on University management. Basically she is f ) fj- --;. S.. S --.. &i ww.ww umnmaww' Mnmtmag j . g j, J t, ..... I? '-- .v. J ' "! Campbell. . . understanding the budget is "not a small task." responsible for representing the University in the Legislature. A graduate initially from the University of Northern Colorado in physical education, Campbell received her doctorate from UNL in educational administration. Since she will be a registered lobbyist, Campbell says she must be in close reach of senators when they desire information about the University. Concerning the University's deficit, Campbell said one of the biggest causes was passage of LB408, which changed the state residency requirements for students. Senators may be asked to clarify the steps a student. would take in getting Nebraska residency for tuition purposes. A secondary cause of the deficit-decreased student classloas will necessitate re-examining of the proposed University budget at the next Board of Regents meeting, she said. Senators also will be asked to create a College of Environmental Design at UNL, Campbell said. If senators agree to the change, the present College of Engineering and Architecture would be renamed the College of Engineering and Technology. According to Campbell, the change would "broaden the field of architecture." Campbell said University administrators have visited with Lincoln senators, and one topic of conversation has been a replacement for Sen. Fern Orme of the powerful Budget committee. Orme was defeated in the November election. Lincoln senators appear interested in placing another Lincoln senator on the committee. According to Campbell, some Lincoln senators would like to see Sen. Harold Simpson take tho 'position. . "If Simpson is interested, he would be the likely (choice," she added, noting the UNL city campus falls in his district. "We'd be extremely satisfied with Harold Simpson" serving on the Budget Committee, Campbell said. Regardless of who is placed on the committee, she said, she is looking forward to working with Lincoln 3nators. "We also hope for a close working relationship with the Omaha delegation and outstate senators," Campbell added quickly. Viewing the coming legislative session, Campbell citizens will support the University. J 'A t ' ' vv . . . ;
