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Thursday, April 18, 2002
Nathan Anderson, Opinion Editor
dailyopinion@ou.edu
phone: 325-7630, fax: 325-6051
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STAFF COLUMN
Women fight
Editor
Managing Editor
Night Editor
Assistant Managing Editor
Sports Editor
Opinion Editor
Photo Editor
Entertainment Editor
Advortieing Manager
Edltorinl Adviser
OKLAHOMA
through Thursdays, in 160 Copeland Hall
Guest columns are accepted at the editor's discretion
'Our View' is the voice of The Oklahoma Daily
Editorial Board members include Jennifer Johnson,
Amy Lacy, Nathan Anderson and two Doily employees
The board meets at 2 p m Sundays in
160 Copeland Hall
Columnists' opinions are not necessarily the
opinions of The Oklahoma Daily or the Editorial Board
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However, in my dealings with faculty members I
always knew that performance and motivation were
the only criteria in their evaluations of myself and
other students. Gender never entered into the equa-
tion Finally, when a few years ago I endeavored on
a project to increase the participation of women in
science
I received the unanimous support and encourage-
ment of the department's faculty members. To me 1
is another indication of the non-discriminatory and
encouraging attitude of the department's leadership
and faculty toward women.
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Nathan Anderson is an English junior. His turn-ons
include Teletubbies and Eddie Munster. His turn-offs
include the
switch that the
CIA put in his
skull to control
his telepathic
bond with
giraffes.
That's what
would go with
my centerfold,
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INDEPENDENT
Newsroom Directory
Nathan Anderson
Liz Mortensen
Killian Piraro
Aaron Shisler
Jack Willis
The forum was entitled "54 Years of Struggle: A
Forum Analyzing Palestinians and the Intifada,"
Argument for homosexual marriage
well-written and informed
0U chemistry department treats
women with dignity and respect
70 pages about Henry Kissinger and I lunier S.
Thompson.
Lidies: When we say we only read the magazine for the
articles, we mean it. There’s like three pages ot porn in
your average Playboy packaged along with 40 pages ot
Viagra advertisements. We don't want to see pictures of
naked women, we want to see pictures ol 1 high I let ner.
If there's one thing more arousing to men than nudity,
it's a man who gets paid to smoke a pipe and wear a
bathrobe all day long.
OU and Norman can't keep Playboy out. but they can
arrest models for indecent exposure. Personally. I don’t
think that there should be anything indecent about
exposure —except for Northern Exposure where that
provocative moose intrigued and aroused the town of
Cicely, Alaska.
Unfortunately, my own application for the magazine
was rejected on tlie basis of sexual discrimination. \\ hen
I see /’/ayg/r/'s"Boys of the Big 12," then I II believe that I
have a suitable outlet for my creative impulses. 1 need to
be naked, really. After my 78th parking ticket the judge
finally sentenced me to public service. What better way
to serve the public than to give women something to lust
after and men something to envy? With guns like mine,
the real indecency would be to keep them to myself.
Some sororities and sports teams are discouraging
their members from taking it off, which 1 can under-
stand. The same organizations discourage me from tak-
ing it off at parties and sports games around campus.
The women of OU will grace newsstands later this year.
I'll be stuck gracing my dining room dressed in bubble
wrap.
Bring your ketchup.
U.S.
cavalrV
TO TWO.
Rescue
NATHAN
ANDERSON
is on English /'unior.
His column appears
periodically.
along with my generous 34-33-34 measurements and
pictures of me posing seductively with my I lello Kitty
lunchbox. You won't see me naked because ot a physics
lab “experiment" in which I accidentally superglued
myself to my pants.
In case you "haven't noticed," you're not tooling any-
one. Playboy is in Norman this week and you know you
love it. To those who don’t know you love it: At least
acknowledge that you love dressing in bubble wrap and
covering yourself in ketchup There’s a difference
between not liking porn and not having a pulse. Finally,
to all of those who criticized Frank Keating and right to
work, you'll notice that Playboy showed up in Oklahoma
soon after the law went into effect. Thanks to our non-
union nudity, 1 think we can expect the economy to pick
up rapidly.
Oklahoma might not be so excited about the event if it
weren't one of the only states in which Playboy is still
considered porn. There's a certain mystique about the
magazine that inspires 16-year-old boys to shoplift it
only to realize they've just jacked 10 pages of porn and
To the editor:
On April 10, The Oklahoma Daily published an
article entitled "Discrimination troubles chemists" in
which the leadership and the faculty members of the
department of chemistry and biochemistry were
accused of discriminating against female faculty
members As a female graduate of this department
and a former student of department chairman Glenn
Dryhurst, I found the allegations made in this article
absolutely tenuous and unfounded I earned my doc-
torate under the supervision of Glenn Dryhurst.
During the five years that I was a member of his
research group, nothing in his treatment ever — and Letter to editor misinterprets intent
I emphasize, EVER — made me feel that he thought
less of me as a scientist or a person as a result of my
gender Throughout the years that I have known him,
I have found Dryhurst to be a dedicated scientist
whose deep commitment to excellence, both in his
scientific research and in the department he chairs,
knows no gender When a female graduate student
receives
To the editor:
I am a 1991 OU graduate who lives out of state.
, 1 . . I regularly read The Daily online. I just want to say
ber increasing every day. At least 2000 Palestinians ^ow proucj | arn f0 see Nathan Foell's column for the
legalization of homosexual marriage. It is well-writ-
ten and posits strong arguments. I hope that it is
well-received, not only by the students but by the
residents of Norman and of Oklahoma in general.
Kudos to Foell. It is students like you who make
me proud to be an alumna!
Michael McGuire ruled last week
that a state abortion clinic could
distribute brochures refuting
claims that there is a link between
abortion and an increased risk of
breast cancer. Apparently the judge
agreed with testimony given by "leading epidemiologists and endocrinolo-
gists" who confirmed facts listed in the clinic’s brochures. The clinic claims to
have culled its scientific data from the National Cancer Institute and the
American Cancer Society, which "both conclude there is no established rela-
tionship between the two subjects."
This is a major boon for abortion rights activists, and a ruling that strikes a
serious blow to some anti-abortion groups who have been using data taken
out of context to support their scare-tactic claims. Really, if anti-abortion
groups are so concerned about women not getting cancer, they should con-
tribute their money to cancer research instead ot masking their plan to force
their morals onto society with the “We care about your health, we really do"
smokescreen.
The second victory for feminists is also in relation to abortion. According to
The Washington Post and The Village Voice “all OB/GYN residents will now have
to undergo abortion training (in New York City public hospitals), unless they
oppose it on religious or moral grounds.” This mandatory training initiative is
supported by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and is expected to
begin luly 2002, sources from the Feminist Majority Foundation say.
Making New York City public hospitals the sites for mandatory abortion
training is tapping into a vast market of medical students and fledgling doc-
tors. According to www.feminist.org, one in seven doctors in the United States
completes some training in New York City. An increase in the number of abor-
tion providers will help decrease the number of women currently forced to
travel 50 or more miles to obtain an abortion. Abortion rights and anti-abor-
tion debates aside, also according to www.feminist.org. only 12 percent of
OB/GYN programs across the country taught first trimester abortions in their
standard curricula. This means if a patient needs an abortion purely for health
reasons, she is more likely in the future to be able to access the services with-
out switching doctors and further endangering her health.
Finally, as reported in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, emergency rooms in
Washington state are now required by law to provide emergency contraception
to rape victims. This would come in the form of either an FDA-approved drug
called Plan B or one called Preven, both containing hormones that, if taken
within 72 hours of sex, minimize the risk of pregnancy. This is not. sources
point out, the same as the abortion pill RU-486 (mifepristone), which the Food
and Drud Administration approved in 2000. I he so-called morning-after
pills are available without a prescription in only Washington state. California
and Alaska. That emergency rooms are now required to provide information
and the medication is a positive win in women's ongoing battle to have com-
plete autonomy over their bodies, especially in the event it has already been
taken forcibly from them by rape. Regular birth control pills may also act as
“morning-after" pills, although as with any instance involving unwanted sexu-
al encounters or possible unwanted pregnancy, the advice of a physician is
necessary to ensure the outcome you desire.
Women have won three small but important battles in the past week or so.
Maybe someday we can actually claim true and total sovereignty over our bod-
ies, and therefore over our lives. 1 live for the day our birth control pills are
covered by insurance and Viagra is not. I live for the day no woman has to rely
on the goodwill of old white men in Washington to decide her fate. It you re
looking for a reason to be a feminist activist, look no further than your own
body. It contains yet another glass ceiling.
Jennifer Johnson
Amy Lacy
Jill Sibray
Michoela Marx
Jenny Dial and Vu Vu
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which should be clear to anybody, and it aimed to
give the audience more information about the begin-
ning of the conflict and show them the Palestinian
perspective, which is rarely shown in most of the
media here. The forum was organized in a way to
make the audience have their own judgment. I am
incethrough female mentorship and role models, confused as to why Alpert would condemn the orga-
nizers because the audience was supposedly filled
this with Palestinians. In fact, the audience consisted of
mostly Americans and international students. In any
case, I do not see why it is a problem to have some
Palestinians attending the forum. We should not be
racist against them.
— Tahareh Tabatabaie I totally agree with Alpert that "no matter what
OU alumna the cause, agenda or belief, taking innocent human
life is wrong." So what do we say about the Israel
Defense Force operations against the Palestinian
civilians? I remember that a lady was sad for 15
Israeli kids being killed by suicide bombers, but
never even mentioned 300 Palestinian kids being
killed by what is called the "defense" force, a num-
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have been killed, and I can assure Alpert that more
than 300 Palestinians, including children, women
and the elderly, have been slaughtered in Jennin.
Isn't that terrorism? More than 100 human rights
organizations condemn Israel. Asia, Africa, Latin
America, the South Pacific and Europe are all
against Sharon's massacres against the Palestinians
Finally, the charge of "victimology" and "propa-
ganda" is outright racist. To present "both sides of
the story," so to speak, would be to assume that
"both sides" have equal moral claims. According to
all international law and world opinion, however,
they do not. Israel is an occupying army, stationed
in another people's land where it is committing war
crimes Why in the world would we, as students con-
cerned with the sanctity of human life, choose to
include that perspective? Most importantly, why do
the Palestinians have no right to show their point of
view on campus?
for their bodies
As you read this. I’m in Wyoming celebrating three major feminist victories
from the last week with mv best friend and fellow feminist Kate. Heres to
Oklahoma gaining some feminist
RPICTFN RAIN ground sometime soon!
I\m JI LH DHII1 First according t0 ww.femi-
is on English sophomore, nist.Org, North Dakota State Judge
Her column usually
appears every Monday.
To the editor:
I would like to comment on Ted Alpert's letter con-
cerning the Mideast forum. I would like simply to
- - - e, dear up some misconceptions expressed in his letter,
"caives such treatment, I find it impossible to believe The forum was not staged by the Muslim Student
that a female faculty colleague would be treated any Association; it was organized by a group of OU in-
differently The same is true about all other faculty dents — Jews, Christians and Muslims — and spon-
members of that department whom I came to know, sored by Pi Kappa Alpha, Amnesty International
either as members of my graduate committee or pro- and Muslim Student Association.
fessors I took courses with As a woman, I am very
sensitive to any hint of gender discrimination.
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