tl19711001-000 ". XXIV, No. 4 Towson State College,_ October 1, 1971 Towson, Maryland 21204 MEI ot,a Debaters arguing the topic of women's increasing power. Economic conference A conference entitled -The President's New Game elan-The Implications for Maryland"" will be held at Towson Monday. October 4 between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Jointly sponsored by Towson State, Maryland National Bank and the Maryland Port Administration, the conference will discuss President Nixon's August 15 economic statement and its impact on the Maryland financial and trade community. Specific topics include the strength of the dollar, Euro-dollars, trade development. domestic effects of devaluation, interest rates. and a forecast of future events. The conference will be lead by representatives from business, banking, and government. W. Gregory Halpin, Deputy Ad-ministrator of the Maryland Port Administration, will discuss effects on Maryland trade and commerce. F. Peter Polimeni, International Officer at Maryland National Bank, and Dr. John Hampton, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Towson, will discuss foreign currency and Euro-dollar implications. Cameron Slack, Vice-President in Commercial Lending at Maryland National Bank, will cover domestic effects of fiscal changes and impact on interest rates. The registration fee is $25 and includes lunch. Those intereste in participating can register through the Department of Business Administration, or by calling extension 634. � British Debate by Konrad ilerling Last Monday night, at Smith Hall, a team from England took on TSC's fearsome duo, Lew Olshin and Craig Schloer in a British-style debate. The topic was ""Resolved: that the power of women is increasing and should be di m i nished.'"" Eric Parsloc and Dennis Carter, two Oxford graduates attempted to uphold the resolution charging that. the more popular women's lib becomes, the more it diminishes the role of women as mothers"" and generally attacked the movement. Mr. C,a Her saw it as a ""conspiracy of braless, middle-class amazous with burratic theories."" Craig Schloer and Lew Olshin countered with statements implying lack of opportunity and filling the audience halls with such notable women as Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel, and Indira Ghandhi, pin. of India. Olshin, who was aided to an extent by a female member of the audience, spoke out strongly for more wom-en's rights and that men were fearful of actually being equal with the weaker sex. Craig tried to persuade his Smith Hall listeners that the opposition had tittle, if any of a case, that they frankly knew more about ""taking a cold bath"" than the harms of women's increased power. Schloer was indeed merciless Stating that the premise in thq, first affirmative by Eric Parsloc reminded him of the book, The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew. which consisted of 200 blank pages. Schloer ended the evening's festivities with this anecdote--a working man in the suburban house after supper says, ""I want some dignity. I want ' sotne respect. And I want sotne warm water 'cause I won't wash dishes with cold water for no .woman."" Gloria Steinem to speak on Women's Liberation by Mike Dilworth Gloria Steinem, one of the country's most controversial and widely acclaimed non-fiction writers, will be the featured speaker in Towson's thrid segiment of the Public Per-formance Series on October 8 at 8 p.m. in Stephens Auditorium. A contributing editor and columnist for New York magazine and somewhat of a political celebrity, Steinem will speak on the topic, ""Women's Liberation."" An ardent defender of Black Panthers, Eskimos, Indians, Young Lords, Chicanos and Women. Steinem has written articles for Harpers, Voge, Time, Look, Ladies Home Journal, Glamour, and etc., often on current seicial subjects or events with the accent on Politics, Steinem was born March 25, 1934, and went to ith College in Northhampton, wlassachusettes where she majored in government and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. Later she accepted a g Year fellowship to India studying at University of New Delhi and University of Calcutta. Following study in Asia, Steinem took a job 9s an officer of Independent Research services ,In Massachusettes. Her journalistic career Degan in 1962 when her first article was 112)su.blished in Esquire entitled ""The Moral %armament of Betty Coed."" c, Corning to New York in the early sixties, '3�t_einern worked for a humor magazine, Help,"" persuading prominent people to ap- Pear on its cover. Later in 1963 she collaborated With Robert Benton on a book entitled ""The Beach Book."" Gloria Steinem, voice of women's liberation. The grand-daughter of a onetime president of Ohio Women's Sufferage Association, Steinem gradually became involved with Women's Liberation and other political movements. In 1963 she answered a classified ad and proceeded to become a Playboy bunny. The experiment resulted in an article in Show magazine. ""A Bunny Tail."" But Steinem ap-parently had not yet become critical of the idea of women as sex objects. It was later when she wrote for New York magazine that her writings' became more serious and critical. Steinem voiced her discontent with the Presidential campaign of 1968 with such articles as ""Trying to Love Eugene"" and ""Learning to live with Nixon."" At this point Steinem's writings' and public appearances became much in demand as she appeared on many network TV talk shows. Ever since, Steinem has been traveling across the country supporting minority causes and lecturing on women's rights. On Women's Liberation Day in August 1970, she helped lead a women's march down Fifth Avenue. While interviewing Hugh Hefner for McCalls magazine, Steinem told Hefner that, in his crusade for sexual liberation, he was ""beating a dead horse."" She went on to say, ""I don't mean you have to be a radical or \ a revolutionary. It's just that, well a man is known by his enemies. You're a very powerful rich man who could influence things. But all your enemies seem to be in the post office."" To hear the woman who once said, ""Any woman who spends more than fifteen minutes getting ready to face the world is just screwing herself."" attend the Gloria Steinem lecture on Women's Liveration October 8. "
