Item Information
Title
Demands of student group, “Female Liberation, No. 27”, circa 1970
Description
Demands of student group “Female Liberation, No. 27”, circa 1970. Performed by Katia Carmichael, Lauren Ragsdale, and Aubree Dixon.
Creator
PlayMaker’s Repertory Company in collaboration with the University Archives at Louis Round Wilson Library
Date
2021
Language
English
Identifier
https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/items/show/7587
Transcription
Aubree: Demands of student group “Female Liberation, No. 27”, circa 1970
K: We, the members of Female Liberation, Number 27, demand that the University of North Carolina implement needed and necessary changes in policies and regulations to insure equality and justice for all people in the university community.
We advocate:
L: 1. revision of admissions policies; Women are at least half of the total population, yet we represent only 15% of this year's freshman class. We reject the policy of admitting less qualified men to Chapel Hill while formally channeling qualified women to Greensboro and informally channeling women to two—year colleges.
A: 2. elimination of discrimination against women in granting of fellowships and scholarships, and elimination of all discriminatory scholarships such as the Morehead Scholarship.
K: 3. removal of quotas to limit the number of women in degree programs such as Fine Arts, Pharmacy, and Liberal Arts that restrict females (Page 23 of the general catalogue contains a complete list)
L 2: 4. recognition by the University that female students are as capable as male students to pursue careers in math, science, business, law, or medicine; The covert and overt channeling of women into the traditional “female” majors and professions such as nursing, teaching, and social work must be ended.
A: 5. removal of the term “sex” from student permanent records which are available to graduate schools, employers, and government agencies; “Sex” should be included on registration cards to determine the women enrolled, but like “race,” it should not become a part of any student's permanent record.
K: 6. abolishment of faculty discrimination; UNC makes no genuine effort to recruit female faculty members, and those who are hired are kept at lower academic levels with little opportunity to obtain full professorial status or to become department heads. We insist, of course, that women be paid the same salary a man would receive.
L: 7. denial of recruiting privileges in the Placement Service to any company which overtly or covertly discriminates against women.
A: 8. appointment of women with a contemporary female consciousness as administrators and members of the Board of Trustees; The current female members of the Board of Trustees are representative of no one except the North Carolina elite (their husbands.)
K: 9. Inclusion of courses for and about women in the curriculum and inclusion and re-evaluation of women in the subject matter of existing courses; Women are either patronized or ignored in courses, or their role is defined as erotic, troublesome, and/or neurotic. It is certainly no accident that women students learn that all accomplishment and all honor is male.
L: 10. extension of the period of time to obtain Masters and Doctorate degrees for women; Women are usually unable to attend school full-time due to added societal burdens of family and home.
K: We, the members of Female Liberation, Number 27, demand that the University of North Carolina implement needed and necessary changes in policies and regulations to insure equality and justice for all people in the university community.
We advocate:
L: 1. revision of admissions policies; Women are at least half of the total population, yet we represent only 15% of this year's freshman class. We reject the policy of admitting less qualified men to Chapel Hill while formally channeling qualified women to Greensboro and informally channeling women to two—year colleges.
A: 2. elimination of discrimination against women in granting of fellowships and scholarships, and elimination of all discriminatory scholarships such as the Morehead Scholarship.
K: 3. removal of quotas to limit the number of women in degree programs such as Fine Arts, Pharmacy, and Liberal Arts that restrict females (Page 23 of the general catalogue contains a complete list)
L 2: 4. recognition by the University that female students are as capable as male students to pursue careers in math, science, business, law, or medicine; The covert and overt channeling of women into the traditional “female” majors and professions such as nursing, teaching, and social work must be ended.
A: 5. removal of the term “sex” from student permanent records which are available to graduate schools, employers, and government agencies; “Sex” should be included on registration cards to determine the women enrolled, but like “race,” it should not become a part of any student's permanent record.
K: 6. abolishment of faculty discrimination; UNC makes no genuine effort to recruit female faculty members, and those who are hired are kept at lower academic levels with little opportunity to obtain full professorial status or to become department heads. We insist, of course, that women be paid the same salary a man would receive.
L: 7. denial of recruiting privileges in the Placement Service to any company which overtly or covertly discriminates against women.
A: 8. appointment of women with a contemporary female consciousness as administrators and members of the Board of Trustees; The current female members of the Board of Trustees are representative of no one except the North Carolina elite (their husbands.)
K: 9. Inclusion of courses for and about women in the curriculum and inclusion and re-evaluation of women in the subject matter of existing courses; Women are either patronized or ignored in courses, or their role is defined as erotic, troublesome, and/or neurotic. It is certainly no accident that women students learn that all accomplishment and all honor is male.
L: 10. extension of the period of time to obtain Masters and Doctorate degrees for women; Women are usually unable to attend school full-time due to added societal burdens of family and home.