18—The Daily Collegian Monday, April 13,
Asimov, O'Neill
to speak about
future choices
By LINDSAY NAYTHONS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Gerard K. O'Neill and Issac Asimov,
two writers who deal with the future in
their works, will be the speakers for'
Colloquy's Spring Term theme "Future
Alternatives." •
O'Neill, a professor of physics at
Princeton University and winner of the
1977 Phi Beta Kappa avllard for best
science book, will be on campus Wednes
day to speak on the topic "The High
Frontier," which is also the title of his
latest book.
The topic concerns space colonization
and what it would be like to live in a
climate-controlled satellite orbiting the
earth.
Asimov, who will be on campus April
29, is the author of "The Foundation
Trilogy" and "The God's Themselves,"
will be talking about science and space.
Asimov has written numerous short
stories and is a contributing author for
Omni magazine. Asimov also has a sci
ence fiction magazine named after him.
Diana Shenk, a Colloquy member, said
Colloquy is "doing well this term."
Shenk said the club has about 45 mem
bers, but not all are active. Topics for
speakers are discussed and voted on at
weekly meetings, she said. ,
Once a topic is chosen, the speakers
committee is responsible for getting ap
propriate speakers. The committee, un
der the supervision of adviser Jeff
Fremont, contacts agents for various
organizations and arranges a contract.
But sometimes Colloquy is proposi
tioned, Fremont said.
"Agents contact us all the time and
send literature on their speakers," Fre
mont said.
Colloquy President Dan Bollag said the
club will not know until summer about
the approval of its budget for next year
from Associated Student Activities.
"They gave us a ceiling of $20,000,
which is the same as last year," Bollag
said. "What ASA has to check is each
item on our budget and compare it to last
year's for any inconsistencies."
Although the club has a "huge list" of
speakers and topics for next year, Bollag
said Colloquy has had a hard time getting
visibility.
"We are making a big effort to get
more people involved," Bollag said; "We
have a table. set up at registration each
term."
"It's a shame that more students don't
know how to get involved. We have
important programming for students,"
he said.
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Women mudwrestle for charity funds
By DINA DEFABO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer were a kid, back playing in the mud."
While the Women's Mudwrestling Killam and 12 other women fought in
tournament meant a goodtime and a the mud at the fraternity this weekend
good cause for the participants and and raised $785 for the American Dia
spectators, the Delta Sigma Phi-spon- betes Association.
sored event caused many to protest the Funds were raised by selling bever
action as sexist. ages and collecting entrance fees and
For one participant, Kristie Killam, donations.
the contest brought back fond child- Michael Skrovanek, Delta Sigma Phi
hood memories. president, said the event was success
"lt was a lot of fun and a neat ful and he was pleased with the turn
feeling," said Killam, Primrose divi- out.
Referee Greg Steele declares a grimy Brooke Bensiger the Carnation division
winner in Delta Sigma Phi fraternity's mudwrestling contest held Saturday.
sion champion. "It was like when you
"Everyone had a good time the
participints, the brothers and the
crowd," he said. "The girls were very
competitive and seemed to take it
seriously."
Skrovanek said there were no inju
ries during the tournament and no
complaints from the neighbors or the
police department.
However, during the tournament, 12
men and women not affiliated with
any particular organization pick
eted in front of the fraternity.
They carried signs that read "Raise
money not sexism," "Women, isn't it
time we stoped do-ing men's dirty
work?" and "Wrestle problems not
women."
Referring to the picketers, Skrova
nek said, "They had their right to voice
their opinion."
"They didn't receive much attention
except for some heckling from the
crowd," he said.
The event took place on a 10-foot by
10-foot padded ring containing three
inches of sterilized topsoil, donated by
O.W. Houts and Sons Inc., West , Col
lege Avenue and Buckhout Street.
The wrestlers competed in three
weight divisions Primrose.division,
95 to 115 pounds; Carnation division,
116 to 135 pounds; and Daffodil divi-,
sion, 136 pounds and heavier.
Killam, an independent, took first
place in the Primrose division. Brooke
Bensinger, Alpha Gamma Rho frater
nity representative, finished first in
the Carnation division and Beth Seke
ra, Theta Chi fraternity representa
tive, came in first in the Daffodil
division.
The women wrestled for three two
minute rounds. Between rounds, there
was a 1 1 / 2 minute break to allow contes
tants to rest and and rinse off the mud.
The scoring system for the contest
was similar to a regulation wrestling
match, with points awarded for pins,
takedowns and escapes. The contes
tant with the most points in each divi
sion won.
The picketers, though, did not view
the match as a true contest. They said
the tournament was sexist, and that it
was exploiting women.
The tournament was another exam
ple of women being used as objects to
be observed by men, they said, and an
alternative event should have been
chosen.
Carol Fritsch (6th-political science)
said, "Mudwrestling is demeaning in
itself and when it is women's mudw
restling, particularly, it is even more
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dembaning."
"It shows a very negative image of
women and there are other things that
they can do that demean no one and
raise just as much money," Fritsch
said.
The picketers said people sprayed
water and threw mud and ice at them
while they were picketing.
"If they didn't feel guilty, they
wouldn't have been reacting the way
they did," Melanie Lachs (sth-art his- ,
tory) saidp.
"We are making them feel bad."
The picketers also said the, audience
and people involved with the tourna
ment were not concerned with raising
money for the Diabetes Association.
"What people are interested in here
isn't charity, it's tits and - ass," said
Abby Edelman (graduate-geography).
However, most of the contestants
said mudwrestling is not demeaning
and they entered the competition to
have fun and help raise money for a
deserving charity.
Tara Keefe (6th-education) said,
"Some people think that it is degrading
some of them are my good friends
but I think it is a fun way to raise
money for a good cause." ,
Several women who came to watch
the event--said they came just to see
A group of people, offended by the mudwrestling event, protested at the scene of
the competition. The protestors said the event was demeaning to women.
what mudwrestling was like and they
were not offended by the tournament.
"We wanted to come out and see
what it's all about," Clara Lombardi
(9th-English) said. "It's for a good
cause and it's fun it wasn't meant to
hurt anyone."
Linda Wentz (11th-nutrition), said,
"It doesn't bother me if that is what
people want to do, they can do it."
Several men who watched the tour
nament said they came because they
had never seen a mudwrestling tourna
ment and wanted to have a good time.
"I came just to see the girls throw
themselves around in the mud," said
Carl Volz (12th-marketing).
Rich Nolan (7th-business adminis
tration) §aid mudwrestling was fun to
watch but the event was uncouth.
"I, think it's hysterical but you
wouldn't catch my girlfriend in there,"
Nolan said. "I think it's a little crude
the whole idea of wrestling in the
mud."
Members of the Kappa Sigma frater
nity at Washington and Jefferson .Col
lege who were visiting the University
for a basketball tournament said they
thought the tournament was great.
"We have never seen anything like
it," one said. "It was wild and if it was
to raise money for charity, it was OK."
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