opinions
editorial opinion . .
Selling causes, not unity
Jobs, peace and freedom.
And nuclear disarmament, gay
rights, the environment, and Presi
dent Reagan's foreign and do
mestic policy. And almost as if an
afterthought, the commemoration
of the 1963 Civil Rights march gal
vanized by Martin Luther King
Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.
Causes, causes, and more causes
were the order of the day on Satur
day when more than 200,000 people
gathered at the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington to march in peaceful
protest. If you had a cause, you had
an audience to listen and enough
press to cover it.
If there was anything uniting
those who attended, it was the
participants' anti-Reagan senti
ment. The march sent a warning to
the Reagan Administration that
America's liberals are not satisfied
with the way Reagan is running the
country.
But this is nothing new. The liber
als in American politics have been
anti-Reagan since he hopped on the
backs of the Moral Majority to
further his first presidential cam
paign. The left wasn't able to gal
vanize its opposition then and
despite the strong outpouring of
anti-Reagan sentiment expressed
at the march, there is little real
evidence that they will be able to do
it in 1984.
Sure, all .the major speakers at
the march were anti-Reagan. They
all preached unity in their fight for
more jobs, human rights, and nu
clear disarmament.
Share your opinions
We hear the grumbles on the street and
the cheers in the halls.
Some say switching to the semester
system was the best move at Penn State
since Curt Warner skirted through a brutal
backfield.
Others insist it's confusing, disheart
ening and unnecessary.
Does the new system lighten your work
load or .burden your brain with yet more
courses to cram for?
Does dorm food depress you or does your
landlord drive you crazy?
Does the threat of nuclear war make you
shudder?
Do Reagan's economic policies irk you
or please you?
The Daily Collegian wants to know what
GOP women unhappy with 'ERA Alternative'
Finally, it is becoming apparent to women.
Whether Republican or Democrat, women are seeing
the results of the Reagan Administration's policy on
ending sex discrimination or rather, seeing thq lack
of results. President Reagan's intentions are not nec
essarily at fault although they could be. For the most
part, Reagan talks as if he supports women's equality.
The problem is that he has not done anything to further
women's rights.
For a long time, most of those women who attacked
Reagan's efforts were Democrats. For example, the
National Organization of Women, a predominantly
Democratic group, has consistently brought attention
to the discrepancy between Reagan's words and his
actions.
The dismissal of support for the Equal Right's
Amendment from the 1980 Republican presidential
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But there the unity stopped. Each
of the speakers went off on their
own tangents, parading their
causes and giving their own rea
sons why Reagan should no longer
be president.
For that reason Reagan has a
good chance of winning in 1984. The
Democratic Party is already badly
divided. For the speakers rep
resenting minority groups opposed
to Reagan to trumpet their own
causes does little but demonstrate
how divided the party can be.
To be sure, a Democratic presi
dent was elected the year after the
1963 march. But that march was
much more focused than its 1983
version. People were angrier then.
In the 1983 version, the marchers
in Washington were primarily
products of the "me generation" of
the '7os. Although it is no longer
"in" - to be concerned only about
one's self, some people have appar
ently decided to go halfway and be
concerned only about those like
themselves.
Speakers at the march used this
opportunity to sell their causes in
much the same way as souvenir
vendors used the event to sell ev
erything from commemorative T
shirts to Martin Luther King paper
fans.
The march should • havp been
organized to honor a great man and
his dream for America. The parade
of individual concerns was a disser-
vice to the memory of a man who
preached unity. And it did little to
encourage the unity he preached.
you think and what other members of the
community need to know.
We've got a new schedule. a new presi
dent, and even a new football team. Penn
State and the world with it is chang
ing before our eyes. And all of us at the
University and in the community are
changing with it.
Let your voice be heard in the crowd
Write a letter to the editor. Letters
should be one page typed double spaced.
You should include your name, phone
number and title or school year and major.
Letters should be brought or sent to the
Collegian office in 126 Carnegie, Universi:
ty Park, Pa. 16802.
Make suggestions. Make a difference
platform did cause some Republican women to defect.
However, most top women in the G 0 P organization
remained with Reagan and the party to seek Reagan's
"ERA Alternative." Until recently that is.
The most visible example of this resurging disen
chantment with Reagan's stands on women's issues is
Barbara Honegger. A project director for the Attorney
General's Gender Discrimination agency review, Hon
neger resigned last week after criticizing Reagan's
lack of action in The Washington Post.
In a column, Honegger outlined Reagan's stated
intentions and his lack of action. "To date, three
Quarterly Reports of the Attorney General have gone
forward to the president . . . but not a single law has
been changed," she wrote.
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Tuesday, August 30, 1983
Suzanne M. Cassidy
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mitment." Her criticism and resignation resulted in a
lot of media coverage and renewed speculation about
the power of the gender gap against Reagan if he
decides to seek reelection.
Indeed, this gender gap may be a potent force as
Honegger is not alone in her disillusionment.
Reagan may boast about his record for curtailing sex
discrimination. But Betty Heitman, co-chairman of the
Republican Party, disagrees. "I think we have done a
poor job," she said about the G 0 P 's efforts to end sex
discrimination.
Some defenders of the administration point out that
Reagan appointed three women to top-level cabinet
positions and the first woman to the Supreme Court.
Yet, Republican Muriel Siebert, the first woman mem
ber of the New York Stock Exchange and a former New
York state superintendent - of banks, called these ap
pointments meaningless.
In a speech before the New York Republican lead
ership, Siebert said, "The women who represent the
Republican Party at the highest levels of public life
in the Supreme Court, in the Cabinet and in Congress
have as much to do with the leadership of the party as a
mannequin has to do with the management of Bloo
mingdale's."
With all this criticism from within his own party, it
would seem natural that Reagan would do everything
possible to curb it and to woo women back to the G.O.P.
So far it seems he has only blundered. For example,
in a speech before the International Federation of
Business and Professional Women, Reagan quipped, "I
happen to be one who believes that if it wasn't for
women, us men would still be walking around in skin
suits carrying clubs."
This remark provoked a number of responses from a
cartoon in the Los Angeles Times depicting Reagan as
the caveman to a remark by Polly Madenwald, presi-
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dent of the United States' chapter of the federation,
that the comment was "degrading, inappropriate and I
was offended."
Later in the speech, Reagan said he would "do
penance" for his mistakes with women by going over a
new study on discriminatory laws. It is interesting that
one who claims to be such an advocate of women's
rights finds doing something about the situation such a
chore.
Considering Reagan's attempts to mollify women, it
is no wonder that his administration's actions are
harmful to women. The Department of Labor recently
announced that it would require only voluntary efforts
to promote hiring of women by businesses. This an
nouncement marks a leap backwards from affirmative
action, which required legal action upon the discovery
of discrimination.
And, of course, Reagan's lack of support for the
Equal Rights Amendment is another departure from
his good intentions. Honneger argued that his "ERA
Alternative" is just "a sham."
Moreover, Honegger said that the Reagan Adminis
tration is proof that nothing less than the ERA will
improve women's positions in this country because
"federal statutes can be repealed or, if technically still
on the books, be effectively voided by a president who
doesn't enforce or who narrows the scope of the law."
Without the constitutional protection of the amend
ment, women will be subject to the whims of a partic
ular president.
At the moment Reagan is our president, and perhaps
because of the upsurge in criticism he will change his
actions concerning the rights of women.
In his latest speech on the 63rd anniversary of
women's suffrage, Reagan told the Republican Wom
en's Leadership Forum that he ordered the Depart
ment of Justice to "accelerate" its efforts concerning
statuatory sex discrimination. Like many of Reagan's
other intentions regarding women, however, his words
appear to have accomplished little.
If positive action does not occur, perhaps the outrage
that many women now feel will be translated into a
strong voting block in the 1984 presidential election.
supporting candidates who will work toward ending sex
discrimination in our society.
Linda Menghetti is a junior majoring in political
science and a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Her
column appears on alternate Tuesdays.
reader opinion
_Without distinction
This fall,•t.hose of us who are returning to campus
are making many adjustments. But some of us are
confronted with a rather unfortunate situation
the conversion from a' standard to a variable
determination of graduation with distinction.
While it is true that in the past inequities among
colleges have made it next to impossible for many
brilliant engineering students to graduate with a
3.4, 3.G or 3.8, it seems that the new distinction
ranges are poorly conceived, especially because
they are not determined Until immediately before
commencement. •
I have a personal stake in this situation. I am an
undergraduate student in administration of justice.
But since the end of my sophomore year, I have
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tems planning and development (thanks to the
Integrated Undergraduate Graduate Program of
the University Scholars ProgrAm).
After a lackluster freshman year following my
discharge from the Army, I managed to bring my
grade point average into the old high distinction
range and within reach of the highest distinction
range. Now it appears that neither my college nor
the University Registrar can give me more than
vague guidelines to "shoot for." One needs to have
a GPA within the top 12 percent of one's college to
graduate with simple distinction, the top six per
cent to graduate with high distinction and the top
two percent to achieve highest distinction.
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means that many students who would have qual
ified to graduate with high distinction will graduate
without distinction, and many within the old high
est distinction range will graduate with simple
distiction. Not much recognition for a hard-earned
3.8 plus.
It would make much more sense to allow the
colleges to establish fixed distinction ranges, rath
er than averages, based on their educated percep
tions of what should be required. This way the
University may be fair to the engineers as well as
to everyone else.
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