Western Front - 1984 November 20

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WESTERN FRONT
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1984 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA
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VOL. 76, NO. 55
Pornography: 'Hostile and demeaning
By Karen Jenkins
Magazines, advertisements and
record covers showing women
bound, beaten, humiliated or oth­erwise
degraded in a sexual con­text
were the subject of a slide
show Saturday morning at
Fairhaven.
One slide showed a billboard
used to advertise a Rolling Stones
album. On it. a woman was stand­ing
with her legs apart and her
knees bent. She was tied up,
bruised and smiling. The caption
read. "I'm 'Black and Blue' from
the Rolling Stones and 1 love it."
Another slide was a cover of
Hustler magazine, in which the
lower half of a woman's body was
sticking up from a bloody meat
grinder.
The slide presentation,-
assembled by the National Women
Against Violence Against Women
Association, was part..of the con­ference
on ptarn^grd^hys-po-ristrred
by several of Western's organiza­tions
last weekend.
Throughout the conference,
pornography was defined as mate­rial
that is hostile and demeaning
to women. It was distinguished
from eroticism, defined as the
depiction of healthy sexuality.
Sherry Jubilo. former member
of the now-defunct Bellingham
chapter of the group', moderated
the presentation.
Another slide showed an album
cover from a group called New
York City. It was a cartoon of four
men chasing a woman whose
hands were tied.
The picture "turns gang rape
into a cute little joke," Jubilo said.
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Nancy Uding instructs Margo
end's pornography issues and
Other slides showed depictions
of women being cut Up, adolescent
girls being-raped by older men and
children being molested.
After the show, the audience of
about 20 women and 6 men broke
up into an all-men's and all-women's
group to discuss their
feelings about what they'd seen.
"It makes me sick to my stomach
to think men really get turned on
by that," one woman said.
Anothersaid the slides made her
Sanderson in effective self-defense techniques during last week-answers
conference.
feel like screaming.
Saturday afternoon, several
members of the Pornography
Education Center led a panel dis­cussion
about the legal and politi­cal
actions that can be taken
against pornography.
Nancy Mullane talked about a
civil-rights approach taken by two
women in Minnesota several years
ago. They proposed an amend­ment
to the city's existing civil-rights
ordinance that would out­law
pornography. Pornography
violated theircivil rights, they said,
because it encouraged violence and
hostility toward women.
The city council passed the
amendment, but the mayor vetoed
it.
Mullane said changing laws is a
long-term goal, but immediate
changes can be made "by
approaching it as a consumer."
Susan Given suggested people
tell proprietors of local grocery
stores they won't shop at their
store because it sells pornographic
magazines.
She also said they should let
store managers and owners who
don't carry the magazines know
they appreciate it.
She cited Albertson's, which has
stopped selling pornographic
magazines within the past year, as
an example of what consumer
pressure can do.
On Sunday morning, a film
entitled "Killing Us Softly" told
about the negative stereotypes
advertising perpetuates about
women.
Cambridge sociologist Jean Kil-
Ibourne narrated and helped pro­duce
the film.
People are not taught to take
' advertising seriously, yet it is one
of the most powerful socializing
effects in-our society, Killbourne
said.
Advertising shows women
"almost entirely as sex objects or
' 'moronic, housewives pathologi­cally
obsessed with cleanliness,"
Killbourne said.
She added that the media tells us
the only acceptable standard of
beauty is youth and absolute flaw-lessness,
and our "lovability is con­tingent
on achieving that
standard."
Other events at the conference,
included a documentary film
about pornography, a self-defense
workshop and an analysis of por­nographic
videos.
The conference was sponsored
by Sisterstage, Women's Center,
Men's Center, V.U. Gallery, A.S.
Program Commission, Women-space,
Fairhaven College, and the
Pornography Education Center.
Careers Day opens the door to future jobs
By Scott Friedrich
Western students looking ahead
to their futures caught a glimpse of
what to expect at the Business
Careers Day last Thursday.
The event, jointly sponsored by
the Career Planning Services and
the Pacific Northwest Personnel
Management Association
(PNPMA), attracted many stu­dents.
Student coordinator Jennifer
Williams, sophomore communica­tion
major, said the "event had a
bigger turn out than last year."
Tina Brinson. coordinator for
the Career Planning Services Pro­grams,
managed the whole affair.
She said attendance was up "at
least by 100 students. We had
between 500 and 600 students par­ticipate
this year."
Kelli Ambuehl, a representative
for PNPMA, echoed Williams and
Brinson, saying she had "talked
with 50 students before lunch, and
"I expect to talk to at least 50
more."
Greg Gosada, president of
PNPMA, described the.event as
useful and valuable to any student.
"We're trying to give students
the chance to spend some time with
possible employers to get a foot in
the door for future employment,"
Gosda said.
Scott Bailey, a senior Fairhaven
student with a self-designed major
in public relations, agreed with
Gosda.
"I'm meeting people in business
and fields I'm interested in getting
into. Perhaps I'll get a name and
address for a future interview," he
said.
Bailey said the Ehrig and Hof­fman
LaRoche companies were
especially helpful. He found out
what the companies were doing
and "how a person like me could fit
into their company."
Cathy A. Haverland, represen­tative
for the Pay-N-Save corpora-,
tion, said her company had found
many employees through past
Career Days.
"We've been recruiting since
1981 through this event. It has
provided us with top quality peo­ple
for our internship and man­agement
programs—better (peo­ple)
than we could have gotten
internally," Haverland said.
Brinson described what she
JANICE KELLER
Senior Fairhaven student Scott Bailey visits with Mike Shea, human resources manager for
Haggen's Foods, at Business Careers Day in the VU last Thursday.
believed Careers Day offered
students.
"This event is to provide stu­dents
with the opportunity to
expand their awareness of careers
and business," Brinson said.
Jody Whitaker, a freshman
business/computer science major,
found the event "eye opening."
"Prudential Insurance was very
helpful. They told me about their
jobs and what they look for in an
employee. Then they asked me
how old I was. I told them . . . they
told me to come back in five
years," Whitaker said, laughing as
she left.