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vol. 7, no. 11 the university of north Carolina at asheville thursday, january 27, 1972 “The Woman As Artist In A Sexist Society” Draws Large Crowds Jan. 13 hour prominet women writers assembled on the campus of UNC-A on January 13 to discuss and present their views on the subject of “The Woman As Artist In A Sexis Society”. The symposium, which was sponsored through grants from the North Carolina Council of the Arts and the North Carolina Poetry Council, was presented at UNC-A under the auspices of the campus Fine Arts mag- anntjmage, and war organized largely through the efforts of Mr. Dean Cadle and Ms. Charleen Whisnant. The four writers featured were Ms. Charleen Whisnant, publisher and writer of Charlotte; Ms. Bertha Harris, teacher and writer of greensboro; Ms. Carolyn Kizer, poet and presently teacher of Creative Writing at' Chapel Hill, and Ms. Kate Millett, sculptor, and author of “Sexual Politics’*. The individual lists of credits for each of the women is extensive. Charleen Whisnant introduced the other writers since Ms. Whisnant is familiar to UNC-A audiences through her participa tion in poetry readings over the c^^^ the past two years. Ms. Whisnant “limitation of experience” as one of the primary reasons for the difficulty women encounter in striving to become artists, since art is the ability to express what life is and what life means. “The variability of our lives has been less than that of men’s lives,” she said. Women are forced to center their lives around procreation, the home, and the family whereas men have been encouraged to be creative, to be dreamers, she said. “Men have been encouraged to be romantic and to dream. . . . Society has never encouraged such aspiration in women. . . .We considered our sisters with such high ambitions to be deranged or masculine, “Ms. Whisnant continued. “The qualities to produce art have withered in us,” said Ms. Whisnant and she added that' until women learn to celebrate variety and variability in their lives, they will never be able to produce fine art. From the minute that a young girl is given a play stove and told to imitate mommy, women Film Society To Present Seven Films The UNC-A Film Society opens its spring semester series with “Sundays and Cybele” by French director Serge Bourguignon on Wednesday, February 2 at 8:00 special related story see page 4 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Bourguignon’s Sundays and Cybele is the first pro duction for second semester's Film Society’s offer ings. The rest of the series will feature six other out standing films. are stifled and kept from full maturity was Ms. Whisnant’s contention. Men have dreamed and their attempts have been called religious, women, instead, are never encouraged to achieve their dreams, they are custom- made mommies ' and house- see page 5 Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, “Sundays and Cybele” depicts the love between a lonely girl of twelve and a bomber pilot suf fering from anesia and haunted by the suffering he has inflicted in Indochina. I'he relationship between the girl and the older man is misunderstood by the convention-bound French town, which destroys both man and' child. See p.T A Summit Meeting to discuss tht; fuel crisis during the INS competition here on January 15. See story page 3. Candidate for Governor Morton To Visit Campus February 2. Democratic hopeful for the Gubernatorial Nomination, Hugh Morton will be on the UNC-A campus as a guest of the Special Programs Com mittee 10:30 to 11:30 am Wednesday, February 2. The Special Programs Committee has invited all candidates for the gubernatorial race in North Carolina to speak at UNC-A as guests of the college. Mr. Morton will be in the snack shop to discuss his platform with interested students. [A review of the foruml iTheatre Series ThisI ’erm, see page 7. Cochran No Decisions About Extra Funds Nothing has happened yet to the left-over SGA money from first semester. SGA President Jim Cochran says, “We’re still hoping for plans and suggestions. That money, however, just can’t be turned over to a charity as some people have suggested. We can’t use it to make a donation. It’s state money.” The money, originally re ported to be near $12,00. is now closer to $9,000., accordmg to Cochran who says that he has had to pay some bills and that is why the sum is less. The funds are mostly the surplus and unspent budget left to the Social Com mission which has tried to make more of its efforts self-supporting (i. e., the Fall Concert and beer busts) and has managed to keep its outlays smaller than expected. “The money was paid as an activity fee for activities on this campus; we can’t just turn it over to a donation,” said Cochran. During the first or second meeting of the Student Senate for the second semester the Senate will consider the matter of the spending of the extra funds. Cochran has asked that all stu dents interested in the disposition of the money come with suges- tions. The SGA is not yet committed to any plan, according to Cochran. ±n.s±de: Simulation Competition Brings the Learning Experience Closer to High School Students see page 3 People Drive Other People Crazy: The Psychology of R.D. Laing seepage 6 The^Writer’s Symposium Some Male Thoughts see page 5
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