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VOL. LXIII-No. 35 University of South Carolina, Columbia. S. C. 29208 "' - Liberationi working, Fr BY BOB FISCHL "It's working. The airline stewar dess on my flight here embraced me and said that now not only can she continue to work after the age of 30 and can be married but she can also be a mother and continue to hold her job, which airlines used to prohibit." What's working is the women's liberation movement, according to Betty Friedan, author of the Feminine-Mystique, and a woman who may be called one of the mothers of the movement. Testifying to its progress in an address to students Thursday nights at Capstone, she said, "We are finally entering Phase II of what has been the largest political and social move ment of the 60s and 70s. "The first step was to discover we were not alone. After that, it wasn't possible for women to watch televi sion and hear blacks, colonials of other countries, and students saying, "Freedom now' and not say, 'Me too.' "Now is the time for the men to join the sex revolution. From now on, it must be a two-sex battle against the roles which have stifled both sexes." Friedman said the time is past when "Women plays feminine and the man plays masculine, with the hitch that the role he is playing is the one that's rewarded by society." Jones: Unive By BUNNY SMITH such as unde Gamecock Staff Writer application an( "Indeed as we look around of educationa us, we find that all social Jones said. institutions are under great Traditional ] pressure and need to change sions which pe to fit the time. The Univer- simplistic trans sity is no exception, USC President Thomas F. Jones said in a paper, Rationale For Educational Innovation. This excerpt expresses Jones' basic educational philosophy. "The University should be the leader in plodding the way to their future with new experi ments and programs to meet the educational needs of the state. Universities tend to be too monolithic, Jones thinks, in VISIT-Presiden that schools center learning Nixon has acce only on the transfer of know- tation to visit Sc ledge. This neglects the need by the State I for higher levels of learning, Pae .. movement iedan says Hopefully the emptiness and iden tity loss a woman experienced by liv ing her life vicariously through her family's is past, Friedan said. Now with the dawn of Phase II of the sex role revolution men and women are expressing the need for the qualities of the other role. Men are wearing their hair longer and becoming more fashion conscious while women are entering fields from which they pre viously were barred. "Now we have reached nearly the end of the breakthrough .against explicit sex discrimination. There are a thousand lawsuits, and com panies have the threat of losing gov ernment contracts if they don't com ply. The telephone company-the lar gest practicer of sex discrimination has to pay $50 million in back pay to women who were exploited over the years, Friedan said. Another outgrowth of the women's movement has been the Equal Rights Amendment now being presented to state legislatures for ratification. Opposition entails more than economics, Friedan said. "I think women are the last group of people in society and the largest group of people who have been kept passive and manipulated for the profit and the power of those who really are the forces of evil. Those individuals who profit by death; those who would keep people passive and impotent See FRIEDAN, Page 3 rsity must cIa r stand ing, ledge are being replaced by I evaluation methods to emphasize these 1 material, higher levels. Jones thinks this can be achieved by ecture ses- trends toward more rpetuate the individualized teaching ferof know- methods as the kind t Richard M. ELECTION-Recent USC law sted an invi- graduate Franchot Brown is uth Carolina among five candidates for' ,egislature- the Democratic nominatioE to the city council. Page 4. -v==J, amaaU a s7 7, 17/J21 to a~~~ef suprvsiglroesor Auitt rial, inthrcfton, iieMytqu,adrse pa y oupn udns Tuersday night at C p t n.ag i ie emplyed n Cotemprarytelevision lectures, seminars Unierity,in hic a tu-and study abroad programs den aopt a idepndntare being phased into stuy roec onwhchheUniversity teaching work undr te gudanc ofmethods also to achieve this a suerviing rofesor.end. Future curriculum will be a4obnto o hs rg progres athison Dearing Bett Fridan,authr ofthe einines Mystimae, adio-e a gto ftutiistutonadsee empoye i Cotemorry evision lectures, seinacom Unierity,in hic atu-andstudabroad2 pereorams dentadots ainepenentarnbing phsed contom study prject onwhich hnUniver ity taching-1 works undios 0-0 er th udneo ehdlot cheethnd a supervisingrprofessor.mend Audio-tutoria instruction "Chane riu will bey r.Jonesd estimte ud oe Dratonporaryge univesityabou -0