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Western Carolinian Volume 64 (65) Number 19

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WESTERN 12 CAROLINIAN GET A LIFE February 2, 2000 A Tribute to the Mermaids bu Cjj'ustal Jrame "Excuse me sir, but where do the mermaids stand?" If a little girl can ask her teacher that question in "Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul," why can't women? ■ In a room full of giants, wizards, and dwarfs, women have long been forced to form their own identity, refusing to stand outside of a game where a loser might watch from the sidelines. Oh no, women have done quite ■■■«■■ the opposite, competing not for gold, but respect. There have been several gladiators along the way. Achampion of women's rights, Sojourner Truth fearlessly ad dressed the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Truth, according to Microsoft Encarta, was an emancipated slave angered by several men who assured the audience of man's "superior intellect." Upon hearing these comments, Truth arose to her feet and spoke to the crowd. "Look at me, look at my arms. I've planted and plowed, worked as much and ate as much as any man when I could get it, and ain't I a woman? Little man in the back there say women ought not to have as much rights as men, he Be a queen. Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge. Take it on! Be a truth seeker and rule your domain, whatever it is - your home, your office, your family - with a loving heart. -Oprah "Winfrey says, because women needs to be helped into carriages and over mud puddles." "Well, I tell you mister, ain't nobody helped me into no carriages, and I ain't been helped over nary a mud puddle, either. And ain't I a woman? "Everywhere I go, people ask me, Sojourner, what you feel about women's rights? And I say to them as I says to you all, if one woman, Eve, was able to turn this world upside down all by herself, looks to me like all us women in here together ought to be able to turn it right side up." When Susan B. - Anthony tried to turn the world right side up by voting in the 1872 presidential election, Anthony was arrested. Women in the United States weren't allowed to vote, so Anthony, in conjunction - with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, began the struggle for 15th Amendment rights. In her historic speech, Anthony defended her position on women's suffrage stating she "not only committed no crime but, instead, simply exercised Lher] photos courtesy Encarta Encyclopedia (Clockwise) Soujourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Naomi Wolf, and Gloria Steinem. citizen's rights, guaranteed to [her] and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any State to deny." Following Anthony's shadow, American writer and political activist, Gloria Steinem, continued to shatter discrimination in the 1900: 1013: 1915: 1918 1920 1921 1926 1932 1944 1969 1972 1973 1975 1979 1981 1984 1997 1998 1999 2000: Triumphs in Women's History Women are included in the Olympics (golf & tennis) Alice Paul and Lucy Burns lead 5,000 protestors for the right to vote Jeannette Rankin Becomes the first woman elected to Congress; Margaret Sanger opens USA's first birth control clinic Over 1.4 million women go to work replacing men overseas during WWI Nineteenth Amendment ratted giving women the right to vote Edith Wharton wins the Pulitzer for Age of Innocence Gertrude Ederle becomes the first female to swim the English Channel Amelia Earhart flies solo across the Atlantic "Rosie the Riveters" increase wartime women's workforce to 6 million Williams, Trinity, and Vassar colleges go co-ecl Ms. Magazine's first issue sells out in § days Roe vs. Wade guarantees right to abortion Title IX promises equal educational opportunity; Women are admitted to military academies; Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in tennis Mother Teresa wins the Nobel Prize for Peace Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman on the Supreme Court Joan Benoit wins the first Olympic Women's Marathon Women's National Basketball League debuts Women surpass men in high school graduation and college degrees Women's World Cup soccer draws world record-breaking crowds; Tori Murden becomes the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean In honor of the first female athlete entered in competitive sports at the 1900 summer games in Paris, 4,200 women are expected to compete in 118 events in women's rights movement. Beginning her career as a magazine writer, Steinem wrote in support of the feminist movement in the late 1960s. She later founded Ms., a politically controversial magazine, and helped to establish the National Women's Political Caucus and Women's Action Alliance. From an excerpt of her "Address to the Women of America," Steinem demanded that there should be no roles for women "except those chosen." The most recent warrior of women's rights is Naomi Wolf. With the publication of her first two books, "The Beauty Myth" (1990) and "Fire With Fire" (1993). the American feminist writer is the youngest literary celebrity of the women's movement thus far. Wolf has worked to make feminism relevant to a new generation by lecturing on college campuses. In Wolf's view, the task facing women in the last decade of the 20th century was to capitalize on the political power that they possessed but had not yet learned to exercise effectively. The game continues and so does the battle of women's rights. Although much progress has been made, the dawning of the new millenium holds the age-old challenge for women. Discrimination can one day be defeated and women will firmly establish the same social, economic, and political status as men. So, mermaids really do exist, but where do they stand? Anywhere they please.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Western Carolina University
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  - Date original: 2000-02-02
  - Date digitized: 2020-02-20
- Extent
  - Dimension: 14" x 11.25"
  - Pages: 20 pages
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- Location
  - Jackson County (N.C.)
  - Cullowhee (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  - HL_WesternCarolinian_2000-02-02_Vol64_No19
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  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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