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~pork                                 barrel                                           By SaUy King
                                                                                           Last month l went to the Quarter
                                                                                       in search of a young white woman to
-- Genghis Khan, announcer for WTUL, Tulane University radio station,                  interview h er and learn how she had
who when requested to play "I am Woman" by Helen Reddy played as a                     broken into a concession here-to-fore
smug substitute "Under my Thumb" by the Rolling Stones. "We don't like                 worked by all mal e, a ll black and a ll
Helen Reddy around here, " he told women who called in to prot est, 11                 old professional s . By the Wildlife
"We're a bunch o f male chauvinist pigs, and we love it!"                              and Fisherie s Bldg. an o l d guard
                                                                                       surrey driver l oading up a family of
--Parish Prison authorities who denied women prisoners in the House                    tourists took a ll this world's time to
of Detention the opportunity to hear a marathon musical program July 14,               help me find the girl driver. He spoke
Male prisoners enjoyed local musicians, including several women sing-                  of his only female co-worker with a
e rs, who played in the courtyard of Parish Prison, Authorities said                   certain respect and camraderie ac-
allowing women inmates to attend would have caused t oo many "security                 corded to her because he worked his
problems 11 •                                                                          stand and she hers and they passed
                                                                                       each other in the course of a day's
--Channel 6-TV's cavalier treatment of r eporter Iris Kelso in failing                 work. He direct ed me to Jackson
to consider her for a promotion to director or managing editor, a lthough
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according to the COURIER 1 s excellent coverage, she was definitely the                    There in the passenger seat of t he
best qualified for the job, The COURIER also reported t hat the channel's              first surrey sat a girl, comfortable in
Midday program has dropped s i gnificantl y in the Niel sen ratings s ince             shorts and Mexican peasant shirt, whc
Terry Flettrich has had her show u sur ped by Charles Bosworth as news                 was looking down at a peach while she
reporter in the first half of the program,                                             slowly ate it, I asked her where I
                                                                                       could find the girl surrey d river , She
--Na t Belloni, STATES-ITEM sports reporter who in reply to
                                                                                       looked up at me and said, "I am she",
DISTAFF's charge that he does not t ake women athletes seriously, ad-
                                                                                       We smiled at each othe r as she greet-
mitted in a July 27 column that he is a "male chauvinist" and called
                                                                                       ed me. I climbed into the buggy very
the women's liberation cause "stupidity". Belloni said, "Personally, I'm
                                                                                       relieved that my quest had l ead me to
not all th<it interested in women as a thlete s." Mary Gehman is rising to
                                                                                       an old school fri end. "Mimi Costly- -
the challenge by applying to the S -1 as a woman sports report er . She has
                                                                                       Surrey Drive r" went down on my paper
promised to faithfull y inform S-1 readers on how well or poorl y male
athlet es are hung, their chest-waist-hip measurements and the style                   and our talk began.                         ~
                                                                                           An art major at the University ofthe
and color of their trunks.
                                                                                       South w h o is pl anning to become a v e t,
                                           you're a girl, kid, I'm going to            Mimi likes driving the buggy, relating
                                           teach you to respect yourself,"             to her horse and giving visitors some
  Blume supports the institution of        Maybe a better line would be, "Kid,         esthetic and h i storic contact with the
 marriage by saying, "When you're          I'm going to teach you to respect           French Quarter, She arrives at the
 living together, you constantly won-      yourself and to r espect a ll people."       Annette St. stables about 8:30 AM and
 der when you're going to get mar-         Maybe then the audience would                comes in from the streets about 4PM.
 ried and really start living together,"   understand another Blume, Molly              Mimi' s overall impression of the job
 Nina, in turn, reenters h e r rela-       Bloom, J ames Joyce's character              is that the people are nice and the mo-
 tionship with him, insisting that he      who found the meaning of"person''            ney is good. Last summer a woman
 not call her his "wife", I feel that      within herself.                             from Covington held this job making
 this subplot is superficial and irre -
                                                                                        Mimi the second woman buggy driver
 l evant, because both conditions re-                                                   in recent years,
 quire commitments, and I feel that
                                                                                            Mimi learned the trade as a child ~
blaming the probl ems in their re-
 l ationship on a marriage license
                                                                                        vacationing in Covington at her grand-           I ./
                                                                                       f a ther's house, Thi s summer driving
 is tota lly groundless, Surely, the
                                                                                        in the Vieux Carre has forced on Mimi
most important theme currently             Women In Prog'ress (WlP) , a fem-
                                                                                        some new skills as a driver and as a
being dealt with in all forms of           inist group at UNO, will have a table
                                                                                       psychologist, Like all drivers she
 media is the conditioning which           at registration for any women inter-
                                                                                       drives down the middle of one-way
tells us that happiness lies in            ested in joining the g roup, Feminist
having equal amounts of security           literature will be on display,               to page 15
and excitement, With such a goal                                                       :s;s;t;s:s:s:t:s:t::s:=:s:r:::s::;:s:::s:::.
there is little wonder why men and
women overlook human dignity,
                                                                                       School of Practical Feminism
why people constantly seek security
in thems elves and in others and
                                                  charlotte                             A work-study g roup is being organ-
                                                                                        ized to enable us a ll to share our
then disband it for excitement,                     behre                               knowledge with our s i sters. Women
Look harder, and you'll find ex-                                                        have volunteered to conduct sessions
citement, within yourselves, with-            *******************                       on: art, candl e -making, guitar, fe-
                                                 j\CCREDlTED SOCIAL WORKER              mal e anatomy, self-help, meditatioq,
in your own sell knowledge, the
                                                                                        improvisations-drama, and yoga.
r esource of which can never be ex-
hausted. Nina:, when 1ying in bed
reflecting her pregnancy says, "If
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                                                                                        The group will meet informally as
                                                                                        often as desir.ed, If you have some
you're a boy, kid, I'm going to                                                         knowledge or talent, please consider
t~>ach you to respect women, and if               phone: 525-2642                       sharing it through this group. Any -
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