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page four Option to Rescind Votes Complicates ERA This is part one of a two part series on the Equal Rights Amendment. The article will deal with the status of the ERA on the national level. Next week prospects for the ERA in North Carolina. On July 9, an estimated 90,000 women and men from every state in the union gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. With speakers such as U.S. Representatives Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY), Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.); former congresswoman Bella Abzug; feminist celebrities Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem; and actresses Mario Thomas and Jean Stapleton, the demonstration was the biggest ever for equal rights for women. Despite this strong show of support, the ERA remains three states short of ratification. While 38 states are necessary for ratification, 35 have ratified the amendment. Three of those states, Idaho, Nebraska and Tennessee, have voted to rescind their approval of the amendment. The House, however, has since voted against an amendment that would give states the right to rescind approval of the amend ment once they had voted for it. The House also voted, 233 to 189, to extend for 39 months the time states have to ratify the ERA. This bill must be approved by the Senate before the extension will go into effect. The seven year dead line now set for ratification expires next March 22. Both the extension of the ratification period and the right of the states to rescind approval are issues hotly debated by pro- and anti- ERA forces. Extension is seen by AF 1 Returns with Food for Thought By AMY FRIBUSH and ARLENE FURMAN At the nearby Janus Theatres, a collection of the current top foreign films is being shown. We were only so fortunate (we thought) to be present at an exclusive preview of Fraco Brusati's Bread and Chocolate. Other films to be featured in this series are Dona Flor and supporters as the only possibility for having the ERA ratified, but opponents have contested the right of Congress to make such an extension. Legal scholars testifying before the House Civil and Consitu tional Rights Subcommittee last year held that Congress does have the power to extend the deadline, despite arguments by anti-ERA leaders that extension would be "changing the rules in the middle of the game." The more difficult legal question is whether an exten sion should allow ratifying states to rescind their earlier votes. ERA opponents argue that the fact that three states have voted to rescind their approval indicates that people do not support ratification of the amendment. Opponents believe that their rights are not being respected. ERA supporters respond by saying that "if states were allowed to withdraw their votes, the process of ratifying amend ments would be severely damaged. States would not have to take ratification seriously because they could rescind next year." Although recission has been voted down by Congress, anti-ERA forces continue to fight what they see as inconsistent interpretation of the Constitu tion. Arguments surrounding the Equal Rights Amendment are highly emotional. Both sides claim to be morally right, to have a majority of the nation behind them, and to be confi dent of victory. Anti-ERA forces say the amendment will destroy the family; that men won't have to support their wives and children, or provide alimony or child support after divorce; and that mothers will be forced to find jobs and leave their children in the care of others. They also maintain that labor Her Two Husbands from Brazil, Claude Lelouch's Cat and Mouse from France and Viva Italia from Italy. All films are in their original language with English subtitles. "A Tribute to Chaplin" is also running at the Janus Wings Theatre through Sept ember 6. The tribute includes fourteen self-written, directed and starred productions from the years 1918 to 1952. For The Guilfordian laws protecting women will be abolished, women will be sub ject to the draft and sent into combat, women will lose social security benefits based on their husbands' earnings, and men and women will share public bathrooms. The legali zation of homosexual marriages and an increase in abortions are additional anti-ERA argu ments. Finally, many claim that the Fourteenth Amend ment and existing laws such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employ ment discrimination based on sex, make the ERA unneces sary. ERA advocates counter that the amendment affects only governmental action, not the private relationships of the family, and that no women will be forced to take jobs. They say that alimony, child support, and custody following divorce will continue to be based on need and the good of the child. They also main tain that the ERA will unmask protective labor laws which are only disguises for excluding women from higher paying jobs and opportunities for advancement; that although women will be subject to the draft, Congress could exempt either parent or both, as they did fathers in the most recent drafts; that women will not lose social security benefits, but that women's and men's benefits will be equalized; and that a constitutional right to privacy will still justify separate public rest rooms. Supporters say that same-sex marriages can be permitted or forbidden regardless of the ERA and that the right to an abortion will not be affected by the ERA. In response to the Fourteenth Amendment argument, pro ponents claim that the courts have not yet interpreted that amendment to mean that sex discrimination is unconstitu tional, and they show no indi cation of doing so. information concerning ticket sales, call 272-1200. Italian landscape slides accompanied by wine and soft background music attempted to set the atmosphere for this supposedly humorous and heartbreaking Italian flick. The crowd was of an elderly sect. We wondered as we sunk seductively into the soft, deep, plush, comfortable sofas how and why each person Guilford Meets Japan and Trinidad-Tobago i The Guilford 1979 Summer will be led by two faculty Schools Abroad have been members, from Guilford and announced to the campus. UNC-G. Two new schools have been The schools will be located added in Japan and Trinidad in England, France, Greece, to bring the total to six. Germany, Japan and Trinidad. Each of the schools will An outline of the schools, give two courses with a total courses and faculty will be of eight hours of credit and found below. SCHOOLS COURSES FACULTY England " "T.S. Eliot: Poet, Critic, Theologian" BethKeiser "The Vision of Reality in Medeival Masterworks: Art, Architecture, Poetry, Theology" Mel Keiser The faculty will team teach in both courses. Seminars visiting relevant historic places will supplement class room teaching. France "French Conversation" Claude Chauvigne "French Culture and Civilization" Paul Koenig The group will live and study for four weeks in Paris and one week each in Loire VaHey and Nice. Italy and "The Roots of the Western Tradition Greece in History" Roy Schantz "The Roots of the Western Tradition in Art" AdeleGroulx The group will spend two days in Paris, nine days each in Florence and Rome and the final three weeks in Greece. Germany "German Culture and Civilization" Robert Newton "Field Research Techniques in Popula tion and Urban Geography" (Geology 322) Gordon Bennett The group will visit and study in both East and West Germany. Japan "Cultural History of Japan" James Cooley "Japanese Relations with U.S. and China since 1850" Edward Burrows The group will spend the first week in Tokyo, the next two with families in Nara and the last three at Tezuka yama University. Trinidad- "The History of Black Africa" Tendai Mutundu Tobago "Black African Literature in French" (Taught in English) Claude Chauvigne Courses in Economics, Caribbean Culture or Third World Problems offered by the University of Trinidad may be substituted for "Black African Literature in French." v More complete information is available on each school. Inquire from, 8 faculty members above or the Center for Off Campus Education, 1 5 Fraziero2l. i IbcOSCOOOOOOOPOoaa&eiBiBioaOOOOOaOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO was invited. We felt honored and chosen to be part of it on behalf of the Guilfordian. As the curtains opened we were serenaded by sensual string sensations. The main character comes across a slain body and reports it to the police. We expected this to develop into a somewhat captivating murder plot. We waited, starving righteously while a distinct and definite September 12,1978 overly obvious emphasis on food made our mouths water. So it was depicted that a man alone realizes and comes close to accepting that a woman feels certain needs as well as and as much as a man. So where there is no sea, there is no beauty. So a land that is civilized and not cold can serve to warm the heart and whet the soul.
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