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Women by Enj PROVO, Utah (AP) ? Half of America's history may be in the nntinn'a attis?c ? in ?1 u utvivi] IH UIC 1I11U1 111CI1 writings of women, said a Brigham Young University professor. Elouise Bell, assistant professor of English at BYU, wants to pry it loose and get it published. Bell is one of 25 college professors across the nation designated by the Modern Language Association in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Humanities to teach courses on the preservation and examination of women's nontraHitinnol literature ?" ?iwt OVUI V Not to be confused with jthe writings of such authors as George Eliot or Louisa May Alcott, the documents these professors want to examine include "informal" or "vernacular" literature from journals, letters and diaries. It is there, Bell said, that the real heartbeat of America is stores: the drama of the Westward pioneering mnupmpnt tho Innolinooc nf WnrM - - V V v?*v HVSaVAAJiaVWW VI TV V* AVI War I and World War II, the social issues of prohibition and childlabor laws. With only a few exceptions, the female side of these dramas has never been heard, she said. "For generations now, we have published the journals and letters of men ? the leaders in military circles, business, government and religion. We have had the male Doint of view because that was the power point of view but now we want to find out what was happening on the dark side of the moon," said Bell. "Women were not just sitting back and knitting. They were not passive members just kind of going along for the ride. They were also shapers. The purpose of exhuming these journals is to get a little better perspective of what our side of the human race has been doing all these years." Bell thinks there will be some surprises as more journa.'s surface and are corroborated by existing material. "We've had all sorts of myths and malignings to the effect that women couldn't be friends, women were catty, and a host of other equally destructive and invalid assumptions. But recent evidence indicates that the reality was otherwise," she said. She cited the work of scholar Carrol Smith-Rosenberg, whose examination of thousands of letters established that women's emotional investments in the 18th and 19th centuries were often in other women ? their mothers, sisters, daughters, cousins, and friends ? rather than in their more remote husbands. Another surprise may have to do with women's relationships to their regions, Bell pointed out. For men, i SG recruits paperboys Student Government is recruiting students to sell subscriptions and deliver The State ana l oumiDia itecora newspapers on campus. Students will be assigned to districts and receive $1 for each subscription sold and a salary of 4.8 cents for each newspaper sold. The State will pay an additional 12 cents for each Sunday newspaper. V ' > '.* A special subscription rate of $10 will be offered to USC students by The State, Columbia Record will offer a $7.00 rate for a six-day delivery. fTnnfant Michael WnrnhmiAr At the SG Office before Wednesday for any information regarding for Jobi 8??nba8?iptt*iWi ? 's diaries glish prof i regional differences were significant because of their work ? farming on the plains, mining in the mountains, raising cattle on the prairies, fishing off the seacoasts. But journal examination is beginning to show that for women, daily work remained pretty much the same whether they were in Arizona or Oklahoma, the Dakotas or California. What really mattered were the friends and family they were with, or separated from. "The Mountain states region, and Utah in particular, should contain more journals and diaries by women than any other in the country," Bell said. "I cannot imagine a state that would have rrmrp Hnrnmontc nor oanifo ?- jyv* vupiva. "From the earliest days of Mormonism, members have been strongly urged to keep personal journals, and many of the Utah pioneers did so, compiling literally volumes." that's sol The more your courses approj lem8 of the real world, the moi calculator that's already there These two programmable rrom lexas instruments can t your engineering courses ri ranks of professionals like tl created the complex program and speed up scoring at Olympics. TheTI Programmable 58C lc your time learning concept working problems. $130*. Perhaps your current cal solve advanced engineering p you'll probably spend a lot of 1 With the TI-68C s 480 prograi to 60 memories, plus 170 ke; tions and operations, you'll t: just how much of the work th do for you. 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