NOMINATIONS DUE TODAY Ann Arbor group to hold contest' for sexist advertising, The Michigan Daily-Friday, March 4, 1988- Page 3 Women's Weekend to focus on media By LISA WINER. The Ann Arbor Citizens Advisory Committee on Rape Prevention (CACORP) presents its Fourth An- nual Contest on Sexism i n Advertising this month, entitled "What If They Were Selling a Woman and No One Was Buying?" The purpose of the contest is to "examine the images of women pre- sented in the media, and to increase our awareness of the ways that vio- lent and degrading images create an atmosphere that accepts and support the sexual victimization of women," said Marian Milbauer, CACORP coordinator. Today is the final day to submit nominations. MILBAUER SAID a likely nomination for the national award this year is a Speedo advertisement which states, "Gentlemen, start your engines" below a photograph of a } beautiful woman in a bathing suit. Milbauer believes this conveys that "(this woman's) presence on earth and in this bathing suit is for male sexual pleasure." Not only is this ad degrading to women, Milbauer said, but also since it suggests "men can't control themselves," it promotes the idea that men are excused in violating women. "It's all a part of our rape culture," said Milbauer. ACCOUNT Executive Ken Pierce for Speedo's advertising agency, Wieden and Kennedy Company, feels differently. Pierce, who expressed concern that his advertisements not be sexist, said the advertisement was "right on target." "We had talked about these kind of things," Pierce said. "We are very cognizant of women." He said he does not approve of "selling sex." "You want to look good in a Speedo, you want others to feel at- tracted to you. It doesn't go any fur- ther than that." He said his adver- tisement speaks to women who "feel good about themselves, who are not afraid that they are attractive to men." CACORP has been successful in the past in bringing change. A bill- board for Black Velvet displaying a woman in a seductive position and a slogan, "Feel the Velvet Canadian" was changed due to local protest. By VICKI BAUER East Quad's 21st annual Women's Weekend will recognize women's contributions an d achievements in the arts by focusing on women in the media. This weekend's symposium is intended to create an awareness about women's accomplishments in print and broadcast journalism along with film, said Women's Weekend Coordinator Kristina Larson, an LSA senior. "The weekend is not meant to be about militant feminists. It's meant to be a celebration of women in the art. I personally don't like the name 'Women's Weekend.' I hope more men will come out for it," Larson said. Women's Weekend will begin at 8 p.m. tonight with keynote speaker Ruth Bayard Smith, the Midwest stringer for the Boston Globe. "There are still a lot of people who aren't aware of what women are actually doing in the arts and are quick to write them off," said Inteflex Senior Robert Dunn, one'o the symposium's 20 planners. Tomorrow at 3 p.m. there will be a panel discussion with women journalists and a photography exhibit featuring women i n advertising. At night popular films by women directors will be shown. "It's not going to be preachyor like going to a lecture. The events will be informal and fun and I hope people won't be afraid to talk or say how they really feel," Larson said. The weekend will culminate Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Halfway Inn, where women will perform by singing, dancing, and reading poetry. All events are free and will take place in East Quad. The symposium is being sponsored by the East Quad Representative Assembly. Mumford High considers implementing dress code DETROIT (AP) - Concerned and jewelry items. educators at Mumford High School are considering imposing a ban on School Principal Robin Oden said expensive clothes because they think a dress code might enhance learning students should value studying more at the school. than style. Oden has said no single incident Mumford officials have said a prompted him to seek a dress code clothing ban might include Troop but there have been several incidents brand jackets and gym shoes, leather in which students have had clothing jackets and other expensive clothing stolen going to and from school. CORRECTION At Tuesday night's MSA meeting, LSA senior Dan Tobocman read from Robert's Rules of Order, not the assembly's constitution, to determine whether the assembly could hold a second, roll call vote after the first vote had been tallie Daily Photo by DAVID LUBUNER Dutch feminist Marja Brouwers speaks on feminist literature last night at the International Center. Women writers have traditionally been discouraged by duties of motherhood and restricted access to education and libraries, she said. Author speaks on s .. women's writing By DAYNA LYNN names to get their works published. There have been no female "Great women writers were usu- Platos, Ovids, or Shakespeares be- ally not mothers," she said, because cause traditionally women have not childrearing and household duties left been in a position to produce works little time for writing. Brouwers said of this caliber, said Marja Brouwers, high infant mortality rates - and a feminist writer from the Nether- the necessity of having an average of lands. 12 children to assure that four chil- Brouwers spoke on international dren would survive past the age of feminist fiction at the International 18 - restricted the time women had Center last night in a visit sponsored to write literary works. by the Netherlands America Univer- EVEN IN this century, women sity League. were denied access to libraries and Brouwers, author of two novels, education, thus limiting their expo- is currently a writer in residence at sure to great literary works. Author the University of Minnesota at Virginia Woolf was denied use of the Minneapolis. She has taught Dutch libraries at Oxford and Cambridge literature in translation there since during the 1920s. last fall. It is still difficult for women BECAUSE SHE did not feel at writers, particularly for women from ease speaking in English, Brouwers small European countries, to publish read last night from a paper she their works in America Brouwers wrote on European feminist fiction said. after French novelist Simone de When women received equal Beauvoir. rights early this century, it "opened "The bulk of world literature has schools and universities to women." been written by men," because The decrease of infant mortality rates patriarchal societies have restricted freed women to write, Brouwers said. women's roles, she said. Talented "The arts are neither male nor fe- women writers like the Bronte sis- male," she said, noting that a bal- ters and Mary Anne Evans (George ance should be sought between male Elliot) were forced to assume male and female writers. 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