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Magazines return to bookstore next week
By Mike Clynch
staff reporter
The Associated Students Board of
Directors willreturn Playboy, Playgirl
and Penthouse to the magazine racks
at the AS Cooperative Bookstore next
week, but this time with anew wrinkle.
Point-of-sale information, agreed
to by a 4-2 motion in a January AS
board meeting, will be included with
each issue of the magazines. The
magazines will be shrink-wrapped in
a plastic protector and have a sticker
advising the reader of the individual
and societal hazards of looking at the
magazines. The bookstore will be re­quired
to display these warnings on a
sign placed above the bookshelf.
AS Vice President for Activities
Moira Hopkins and Vice President
for External Affairs Chad Goller were
asked to decide the wording of the
point-of-sale statement The board did
not require another vote on the specific
point-of-sale requirements selected by
Hopkins and Goller.
"This statement has been accepted
by all members of the board," Hopkins
said. "When I showed it to them they
said OK."
Goller said Lucy Colvin, who is
involved with the women's center,
helped select the wording for the
stickers.
Colvin was instrumental in re­moving
the magazines from the
bookstore last year. A recovered
bulimic, she addressed the AS board
in ah open meeting and attributed her
eating disorder, characterized by ex­cessive
consumption, to the effects of
societal stereotypes which she felt
were advanced by publications like
the magazines in question.
Goller said they selected the shrink-wrap
because the bookstore could not
put a sticker directly on the maga­zines.
He said the bookstore returns
all unsold copies of magazines each
month and the shrink wrap would
prevent damage to the cover.
Goller said the magazine sticker
measures about the size of a business
card and would be colored purple.
Two warning stickers will be
printed for the magazines. The first,
intended for Playboy and Penthouse
magazines, reads:
.'Research has shown magazines
that objectify women may lead to de­meaning,
harmful and violent treat­ment
of women, and a societal accep­tance
of this treatment.''
The second, intended for Playgirl,
reads:
"Playgirl is part of the spectrum of
objectification in our society that re­search
has shown may lead to harm of
individuals."
The magazine issue has been rag­ing
at Western for almost a year. All
See MAGAZINES, page 3
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Visiting Huxley College faculty member George Besch reflects on the white flags outside the Western Gallery on
Thursday. The flags are a memorial to the men and women killed in the Persian Gulf War.
Students rally in protest of war in Iraq
WEATHER
Today: Partly cloudy, with slight
chance of rain. Highs in the upper 40s
to mid 50s. Lows in the mid 30s to
near 40.
Weekend: Mostly dry Saturday,
Sunday and Monday, with patchy
morning fog. Highs in the upper 40s
to mid-50s and lows in the upper 20s
and 30s.
By Michael Flynn
sports editor
A crowd of about 150 people gathered at 11
a.m. Thursday to protest the U.S. government's
policy and its involvement in the Persian Gulf.
Fisher Fountain played mainstage for the
gathering sponsored by Associated Students
Peace Resource Center. The rally was part of a
national day of protest on college campuses and
at high schools at a time when fear of a U.S.-led
ground attack against Iraq is at a high level.
"It's a day to vent a lot of frustration and
feeling about U.S. policy and United States
involvement in the Gulf," said Sean Fisher, AS
social issues coordinator.
J.P. Falcon stood on the rim of the fountain
and sang that it was time to "come home," as the
crowd looked on, some of them curiously, some
of them clapping and moving their feet to the
sound of his guitar. Six people sat dressed in
black somewhat back from the crowd. The sex­tet
had painted white faces with black circles
around their eyes. A young women dressed in
white, dotted with red, lay between them. They
sat motionless and silent.
Fisher said the events Thursday, which in­cluded
the rally in Red Square and the placing of
hundreds of latices with the words "Iraqi
woman," or "Iraqi man" or "Iraqi child," written
in red on them, were all part of the demonstra­tion
against the war policy of the U.S. govern­ment.
Shirley Osterhaus, coordinator of the Sha­lom
Center and a local leader of the Central
American Activism group, spoke to the crowd
about the dangers of war—not just abroad, but
also at home in the United States.
"There has been a lot said from past wars in
terms of sexism and militarism," she said.
She told the crowd the patriarchal mentality
of the military is one of domination and control
and one that leads to peacetime problems like
racism and sexism. "It permeates our language,
arts and rituals," Osterhaus said.
She was still speaking at 11:50, when more
people started to shuffle through Red Square as
several classes adjourned. A number of people
took a few moments to stop and join the crowd
and listen to what Osterhaus had to say.
She noted the way the media has covered the
war, saying she felt it has been dramatized and
misrepresented. She used The Bellingham
Herald's lead headline from the second day of
the war as an example. "U.S. on Top!" the
headline read.
Osterhaus, who is actively involved in pro­moting
sexual equality, said the principles of the
military mindset and the way in which the military
operates reinforce the male-dominated ideals of
our American society.
"Domination and submission are at the heart
of miltarism," she said. "(The military mind
See DEMONSTRATION, page 4