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.In‘view of International '

Women's Year, a committee nhas been formed through the Dean of WOmen's Office, to Focus on Campus Women. This committee, composed of four

students and three faculty e

and administratiOn; has met three times and some very interesting discussion has taken 'place. Out“ of the

discussion the group decided"

to find out the male viewt: of some of our Campus men and asked their opinion on the following question: , What do you think Internat:

’ional Women's Year will acc—

omplish? The following are the responses to the quest- ion.‘ ’

'"Hopefully, a better under- standing of women's right to choose her own role in society without discrimina- tion and equal "footing" with her male counterpart. :Practically, it will take more than one year to accom— plish this." Joe Power

"I don't think it will acc- omplish very much. I don't think we should have had an International Woman's Year because it's putting all

the eggs in one basket and will be a token representa- tion when the year is finis-' hed. Eeople will be happy

to see International Women's Year end because of the fo- cus on one group of people in the attitude shbuld be changed but focusing on, women in particular will defeat the purpose." Gordon'Campbell

"It will make Women aware there is an-oUtlet for supp- ort whérE'problems can be ’ aired. If a women is getting unjustly treated, through International Woman's Year ,and avénué can be created

to Express and act upon 8¥¢ﬁ¥ehdioeéoithétwwomen~«'*-‘

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do not think that~they are

- the only suffering victims and have to continue to be this way. It will bring \ women together into a single consciouSness of their prob- lems." Chris King

"International\Women's Year through its glorification

of women who aspire to top‘ posts in business and-gover— nment degrades traditional roles of women. It suggests that a women can not find self fulfillment as a home— maker." Wade‘MacLaughlin

"I don't think it will acc- lomplish bugger all. I think it's being over and done

and I think they could do

it more subtlely. Ads on the ‘ radio are condecending. People involved in women's lib are not interested in women at'all. They are egotists looking for a band wagon, and this happens

to be a good one to be on. We are being "over—killed" by Women's Lib." Walter Isnor

" I_think it's going to pressure some areas into

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giving women a fairer shot at jobs. In other areas,

those who unconsciously haven't been taking women

‘ Seriously‘as they should,

will now begin to. Some

men may begin to get their backs up and get picky, particularly employers, bec— ause men are not getting equal opportunities in some jobs. Jobs will not be glor— ified any more but POSitiOﬂS' will be made more available." Dennis Clough

"Absolutely nothing." Karl Curley

"It will satisfy the needs

'of a group of women who {feel it's vEry important 'to be constantly stating

the-cause for which they feel is the opression of women. I don't think that the average Ganadian women

gis overly concerned about

their status in society." Ian Glass

"It will re—emphasize the tremendous awareness of the role women can play in soci- ety as has been developing over the past several years." Jce'Revell

"It will bring attention

to how women are being trea— ted unfairly, being degraded and hopefully alleviate the problems they are experienc— ing particularly in the area of marriage and divorce where women often come out on the‘ raw end of the deal." Bing

Gallant

Notes” From our on ,va1,

NDP leader, Ed Broad- bent, said that IWY con- sists too much of slick advertising campaigns and slogans but almost not at all of developement of Wb-._ men's Groups and research into possible methods of bringing about equality.

a Mbanwhile an Edmonton Conference of Women's Gro-

Hups refused to accept any funds from government un—

til the abortion law was changed and the IWY slogan "Why Not" which they claimr‘ ed is seiist and discrim- inatory. Said a spokesper— son of the group "You do not solicit support from the enemy. Too long have opposing groups been co; opted by the federal gov— ernment. As long as itc

continuesito be aniéequa- lity then we refuse to h

have anything to do with

it. , '

Liberal women MP's ec— hoed that group's senti- ments saying in part that ‘the IWY slogan is "Bloody degrading” and Lalonde has been misled into en— dorsing the button by his office "full of surrogate wives". All are refusing to wear the button.

To this our PM replied in his usual incisive and penetrating manner "That's the problem with ladies — they bitch after the fact" He refused to comment on ‘ why he doesn't wear the button nor to answer the MP's criticisms.

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2"Those that are already involved will perpetuate 'the causes for which they are already persuing and not necessarily will the

numbers increase."

George ' Mitchell

uing effort in official circles to assure equality

'of women Jeanne Sauve, Federal Minister of the Environment, said "refusing abortion is not a dicrim— inatory law", explaining that the majority of the nation was against legal- ized abortion (despite an

- Ottawa Journal survey which showed a majority of Can— adians as desiring the re— moval of abortion from the criminal code).

Then too, the govern— ment has implemented about one-third of the recommen- dations of the Royal Com- mision on the Status of Women and has two women

ministers (out of thir- ty). Things‘are happening.