Women's Teach-in To Feature Local And National Figures

Women from all over the city, state and nation will gather on the University campus next month to discuss their cause. Not liberation, but "The Changing Roles of Women in the United States." The occasion is the lOOth anniversary of women at the U-M and the event is a weekend teach-in on Oct. 10 and 11. The teach-in will feature such national figures as Prof. Mariene Dixon, author Robin Morgan, truck driver-turned educator Jo-Ann Gardner and Mrs. Catherine East of the U.S. Department of Labor. State women planning to join in the panels, workshops and formal speeches include U.S. Representative Martha Griffiths, state senator Loraine Beebe and Jane Hart, wife of Sen. Philip Hart. Arm Arbor attorney Jean King and U-M vice-president Barbara Newell will be two of the many local speakers. The purpose of the teach-in is to provide local women with an opportunity to hear and discuss the various roles of women - from liberationist to full-time homebodies. The speakers' focus will vary from "How to Raise Your Daughter To Be A Liberated Woman" to "Social History of Women in the United States," and "Implications of the 'Women's' Amendment." The tentative schedule includes opening speeches between 10 and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10, in the Mason Hall auditoriums by Prof. Gardner, Prof. Dixon, Mrs. King, Sen. Beebe, Rep. Griffiths, and Miss Morgan. The speakers, who will be broken into three groups, will cover the alternatives available to women in academies, professions, government and marriage. Participants in the Saturday afternoon session will have the option of attending any three of 20 different workshops in Mason Hall classrooms. Each will last one hour and 15 minutes and will be directed by speakers from the morning and additional state and local women. The Sunday schedule high four national figures who lights a panel discussion by represent different sentiments on what the role of women should be. The panel will start at 1:30 p.m. and will be followed by a qeustion and answer session. Speakers discussing "Where Do We Go From Here?" include Prof. Dixon, Miss Morgan, Prof. Gardner and Mrs. East. The credentials of the four panelists to assemble for the teach - in represent various types of involvement in women's affairs. Mariene Dixon is the most noted feminist in the group. A radical sociologist, Prof. Dixon's failure to win reappointment to the University of Chicago faculty set off several protests two years ago. Sex discrimination was an issue during the protest. She is now at McGill University in Canada, but spends much of her time commuting to the United States to speak on developments in the feminist movement. On the less radical side is I Mrs. East, who is executive secretary of the interdepartmental committee and citizen's advisory council on the I Status of Women in the U.S. Labor Department. Robin Morgan will represent a second element of the Women's Liberation Movement. The former child star - she played Dagmar in the "Mama" televisión series - is one of the founding members of WITCH (or Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Heil). Miss Morgan, who is the wife of poet Kenneth Pitchford and mother of a yearold son, is a poet, editor and author of the new book, "Sisterhood Is Powerful." Prof. Gardner, who worked as a truck driver for two years before earning three degrees in psychology, has held teaching positions at Cornell University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, and most recently at the University of Pittsburgh. Her involvement in women's affairs i n c 1 u d e s organization of the Professional Women's Caucus, founding KNOW, Inc.- A Women's Press, serving as a board member of the National Organization of Women (NOW), and the presidency of the Association for Women Psychologists. The teach-in is free and open to anyone interested.