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Editor's note: This is the first of a six
part series profiling outstanding women
in North Carolina and at the University
in honor of Women's History Month.
By Dawn Wilson
Staff Writer
. Barbara Harris, director of the
Women's Studies program at UNC, said
most students were amazed when they
learned that women were not admitted
to the University as freshmen until 1 965.
"Until then, this was a male college
to which women could transfer their
j unior year if there was a major here that
they couldn't get at Greensboro, which
was then the women's college in the
system," she said.
Harris grew up in the Northeast, re
ceiving her bachelor's degree in history
from Vassar College and
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ate from Harvard.
HistOrV "When I went to
' graduate school in the
Month early to mid-sixties, there
was no such thing as
women's history," she
said. It wasn't until the late '60s and
early '70s that women's history devel
oped as the intellectual outgrowth of the
fact that several women had become
feminists. Harris said the civil rights
movement of the '60s led to a demand
that the academy finally recognize the
people who were excluded from main
stream history, literature and other
academic subjects.
"We understood that we had been
taught a very distorted version of the
past," she said. "I don't think, certainly
yet, we're at a stage where in general
people are made aware of the history of
women. Ideally we should know some
thing about it in the same way that we
know something about the discovery of
America and the Industrial Revolution."
However, it is not easy to simply
integrate these missing chapters into
the history books. "You can't teach
everything," she said. "When you add
something it means taking out or de
emphasizing other things. It's hard to
get people who are traditionally trained
and don't have a particular motive for
changing the way they teach to actually
do so."
When Harris arrived at the University
in January, 1989, she started a feminist
theory group with faculty members of
both Duke and UNC. Harris is also
involved in the N.C. Research Group of
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She is the president of the Berkshire
Conference of Women Historians, the
largest conference on women's history,
and the third largest historical confer
ence in the country.
"Most of my intellectual life centers
around women's studies," she said. She
is also writing a book on upper-class
English women from 1450 to 1550.
Harris said women's history and
women's studies were not important to
women only. Considering all the prob
lems with sexual assault and discrimi
nation, it is even more important for
men and women to understand each
other, she said.
"Men live in a world with women,
and if they're going to relate in a non
sexist, egalitarian way to women, they
have to think about the same things
women think about. Women cannot
change their lives unless men change
also.
"We talk all the time about making
this a campus that is democratic and
tolerant and equally comfortable for
both men and women, white students
and non-white students. In fact, thus
far, we're not doing a terribly good job
of it."
Harris said she felt Women's History
Month was important "because one of
the ways in which you devalue a group
of people is by robbing them of their
history. It says v you've never done
anything important and no one like you
has.'"
The intention of Women's Studies,
she said, was to transform the academic
curriculum everywhere, not just in one
discipline. The program strives to bring
in life experiences of women from dif
ferent classes and different ethnic
groups.
Students at the University may major
in Women's Studies through the inter
disciplinary program. However, this is
a complicated process that requires
students to fill out special forms. Be
cause Women's Studies is included in
the interdisciplinary program, students
are not allowed to double major.
'Therefore, we have relatively few
majors, and it marginalizes Women's
Studies because it means we don't stand
in an equal relationship to other disci
plines that are fully recognized."
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Harris said a double major, including
Women's Studies could expand job
opportunities. For example, if a psy
chology major preferred to work with
women, then a double major would
help.
She said she thought the Women's
Studies curriculum was the only disci
pline on campus with so much interest
in affecting so many people but did not
have its own degree.
In 1988 the College of Arts and Sci
ences forwarded General Administra
tion a proposal to create an independent
major for Women's Studies. This pro
posal has not yet been acted on.
"If there were a lot of support, we
could have one of the five best Women's
Studies programs in the country ... it is
exceedingly frustrating," Harris said.
According to Donna Benson, the as
sociate vice president for academic af
fairs, the proposal has been reviewed,
and the administration is still consider
ing what would be the best way to
enable students in Women's Studies to
double major. But, priority has been
given to the problems associated with
budget cuts that affect all classes.
For Women's History Month, the
department is sponsoring a speakers'
program including Linda Kerber, one
of the nation's leading historians in
women's history and Judith Walkowitz,
director of Women's Studies at John
Hopkins University. Activities also in
clude a lunchtime colloquium withTera
Hunter of the UNC Department of
History.
Campus Calendar
MONDAY
Noon: Novelist and critic Maryse Conde will lec
ture on "Africa On MY Mind? The Presence of
Africa in West Indian Creativity and Conscious
ness" in the Toy Lounge of Dey Hall until 1 :30 p.m.
2 p.m. PC SAS session 1 is in 02 Manning Hall
until 3:15. Taught by Jose Sandoval.
3 p.m. A Walk-In Exam Prep Clinic will be
conducted Monday at the UNC Learning Skills Center
until 4 p.m. in 104 Phillips Annex.
'.JOB HUNT 104: On-Site Interviewing Workshop
will be held in 306 Hanes.
3:30 p.m. Internships 101: Introductory sessions
on the basics of internships and experiential learning
will be in 209 Hanes.
"Knowledge For What: Sociology and the North
Carolina Legislature" by Paul Luebke of UNC-G
and the N.C. General Assembly in 111 Murphey.
Sponsored by the Undergraduate Sociology Club and
the Department of Sociology. The public is invited.
4 p.m. SPSS PC session 1 is in 02 Manning Hall
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and Cristina Kelly until 5 p.m. in 104 Phillips Annex.
5 p.m. The American Advertising Federation
will be meeting in 203 Howell. Bill Green will be
speaking about life in the real world of advertising.
6 p.m. Graduate Dinner at the Presbyterian Stu
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The Umstead Committee of the Campus Y meets
in the Campus Y's Resource Room (upstairs.)
Anyone interested in meeting a group of exciting
people who enjoy engaging in high-spirited debate,
come to the North Carolina Student Legislature
meeting tonight and every Monday night in Union
226.
7:30 p.m. CGLA will be holding a forum with
officials of the Department of University Housing
about the experiences of gays and lesbians in Univer
sity Housing. Gerrard Hall
8:30 p.m. Come to a Great EASTER Celebration
with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes- not just for
athletes! Hear 1990 UNC Graduate, Jimmy Boggs,
speak. Outer left end of Kenan Field House.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The Special Projects Committe of the Union and
Delta Sigma Theta sorority will present a student
organized Spring Fashion Extravaganza on Tues
day, March 26 at 7 p.m in The Great Hall. Tickets are
$3 for students and $5 for the general public and all
proceeds will be donated to the Clearinghouse Network
on AIDS Research. A reception will follow. Tickets
available at the Union desk.
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Memory course helps
students cut study time
by Anothoy Rao
Former University of Houston football coach Jack Pardee said it best: "This
course was so helpful to several of my players, I made the whole football team
take the course."
Pardee read about a memory seminar held by noted memory expert and
teacher Alvin Jackson and sent three players who needed to pass some
important tests in order to stay in school. Uncertain that anyone can be taught
photographic memory, Pardee sent athletic department academic advisor Dr.
Jim Berlow as an observer.
In one three hour session Mr. Jackson took three college freshmen, whose
grades were so poor they were not allowed to practice football, and transformed
them into students who can perform studying and recall tasks better than the
brightest students on campus.
Since Dr. Berlow took part in the class, he admits his recall and memory
increased sixfold. He wishes Jackson's course was available when he studied
for his doctorate.
To test the athletes' increased memory skills, Jackson asked the trio to
memorize this number, 91852719521639092112, well enough to recall it in
thirteen weeks. It took them an average of two minutes. This reporter attended
the same seminar and witnessed them master German, Pharmacy, Anatomy,
names and faces, and Microbiological charts after looking at it once.
What impressed this writer the most is how Jackson's memory techniques
are used in reading and listening. Jackson used an economics text book and I
watched as the freshman read and recalled a whole chapter on "Macroeconomic
Effects on a Fully Employed Economy" after reading it once!
"Contrary to belief, no one is born with photographic memory, but it can be
taught, I have taught thousands in the last 12 years. I have taught it to those
wanting to use it to increase their G.P.A. to those with perfect G.P.S.s who
wish to cut their study time in half while maintaining high grades," Jackson
said.
"85 of our education is memorization, the rest is application and logic. I
will show you how to read your textbooks, history, anatomy, economics
Eharmacy and business ONCE, and know it so well you will be able to recall it
y page number or tuition is free," Jackson added.
"I know 321 memory techniques and teach my students the one that fits
them best including card counting and verbatim for law and acting. Right now
students use the "Rote" memory technique. Under "Rote" students are told to
go over and over what they wish to learn. As far as I am concerned "Rote" is
technique number 321, 1 have 320 better techniques. What student has that
much time to repeat information enough times to maintain top grades. A
student has nothing to lose by taking my course, I will teach them techniques
to read it once and know it by paragraph and page number, or the class is free,
absolutely," says Jackson confidently.
Jackson will be at the Carolina Inn North Parlor, Thursday March 28 FOR
TWO CLASSES 1PM and 6PM. STUDENTS ARE ASKED TO BRING CLASS
TEXTBOOKS WHICH THEY WOULD LIKE TO MEMORIZE.
The tuition for the 3 12 hour session is $55.00, all materials including
workbook is provided.
Jackson's class comes with a strong "results or else" guarantee. If he cannot
double your memory capacity and teach you by the end of class to recall your
textbooks by page number after one reading, the tuition is refunded immedi
ately. Learning memory techniques is like riding a bicycle, once you know them
they will last you the rest of your life.
Because of the personal attention required to teach his techniques, he can
only accept 30 persons in each section on a first come first served basis.
Registration is easy, leave your name and time you would like to attend at 1
(800)462-8207.