The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 24, 1989 - Page 3 Speaker reveals unknown artists ay Ann Maurer and lMatthew Shankin The words "women" and 'sauppression" have been synony- mous throughout history in the field of art. 'Only in the last decade have *omen artists gained acceptance and world-wide recognition. But for Scandinavian women artists, the repognition is slow coming. Last night, Danish writer Grethe iolmen spoke on the unrecognized accomplishments of Scandinavian women artists and brought her lec- ture to life with a slide presentation of 50 virtually unknown, but highly regarded, works of art. Holmen told about 75 people at the Modern Languages Building that the main objective of her midwest topr is to bring much deserved recognition to these hidden artists. Holmen feels their lack of expo- sure is due to Scandinavia's cultural isolation from the western world. "Scandinavia is a region tucked away from the western influence, and our artists have not been well repre- spnted in Europe and the United States," she said. "On the whole, our artists have remained our artists." Holmen spoke on 19th century artists from Norway, Sweden, Fin- land, and Denmark, giving a brief account of the hardships they en- dured. These hardships included harsh criticism by art critics and a society Which believed a woman's place was in the home, she said. "These women had a double handicap," Holmen said. "Not only were they women, but women in a male-dominated art world." For example, Holmen said women paid double in tuition for the same education men received. Also, class sizes increased - for women only - resulting in less personal- ized instruction. In response, women opened their own schools but were still subjected to the whims of the male academia, IDolmen said. "Women were allowed to paint male nudes, but only if the subject 'wore a heavy loincloth," Holmen said. . "The works by Scandinavian women artists are few and far be- tween in the museums, I hope this changes soon" said Holmen. CCF supporters appeal group's status to regents BY ALEX GORDON Supporters of the local Cornerstone Christian Fel- lowship packed the public comments session of the University's Board of Regents meeting yesterday to protest CCF's recent derecognition by the Central Student Judiciary. Four students and one University professor ad- dressed the regents, arguing that CSJ's actions against CCF were a violation of freedom of speech and reli- gion. Last month, CCF was officially derecognized by the judiciary branch of the Michigan Student Assem- bly because of the group's policy against allowing gay males and lesbians to reach leadership positions. CCF's supporters all requested that the regents re- view the ruling themselves. Bryan Mistele, an MSA representative and member of the Inter-Varsity Chris- tian Fellowship, asked the regents "to ensure that your own policy of freedom of expression for closely held religious beliefs be enforced." MSA President-elect Aaron Williams confirmed yesterday that he wants the case retried. He said that the MSA constitution should include a provision about religious freedom. "I don't believe in derecogni- tion in general for any groups," Williams said. Four of the CSJ's 10 judicial spots are currently unoccupied. A four-member panel of two judiciary and two MSA members appoints the judges. Current as- sembly president Mike Phillips said he would try to fill the spots during the next 11 days, so Williams' assembly will not be able to influence the appoint- ments. Phillips added that he agrees with the CSJ's ac- tions, but acknowledged that "gray areas exist when you have the Bill of Rights bumping heads (between freedoms of speech and religion)." Spokespeople for the Lesbian and Gay Rights Or- ganizing Committee (LaGROC) yesterday called the protest "outrageous" and said the arguments were "flawed." Eric Herrenkohl, spokesperson for the Michigan Christian Fellowship, clarified to the regents CCF's religious justification for "being unaccepting of homosexual behavior within (their) group of leader- ship." "Intervarsity holds to the Biblical teaching that same-gender sexual relationships are rebellion against our Maker, and therefore destructive of our human- ness," Herrenkohl said. Philosophy Prof. George Mavrodes said it was ab- surd for any group to "accept into their leadership peo- ple who flatly reject" the group's principles. What actions the regents might take, if any, have not been determined yet. Regent Paul Brown (D- Petoskey) said "regents don't like to get involved in student affairs." Groups derecognized by MSA are prohibited from meeting in University facilities, obtaining funds from the assembly, and from using amplification equipment for Diag speeches. However, LaGROC spokesperson Brian Durrance noted that according to an ad in the Daily, CCF still. meets in Mason Hall. "It's not like they're off cam- pus," Durrance said. "There's a big difference between derecognition and censorship." During the regents' meeting yesterday, Vice Presi- dent of Student Services Henry Johnson said he had advised an attorney for the CCF that the group may be able to file a complaint under the University's anti- discrimination Policy, but he added that CCF has not done so. JULIE HOLLMAN/Daily A student from Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament holds an umbrella with holes that amount to five percent of the umbrella's surface area cut out. This, according, to WAND, represents the 5 percent ineffectiveness of SDI. WAND protests SDI as ineffective BY TONY SILBER Bearing umbrellas riddled with holes, members of the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) protested the sixth anniversary of former President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" proposal yesterday in the fishbowl. The protesters said the umbrellas symbolized the holes in Reagan's 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) plan for a satellite defense shield to protect the U.S. from nuclear attack. The system will not work and cannot protect all the people, WAND members said. "Even the experts claim that only 95 percent of the missiles would be destroyed at best, but that's not enough. It could still cause a nu- clear winter," said Robin Guenzel, a Residential College senior and member of WAND. "The billions of dollars they are spending (on Star Wars) could be better spent on the homeless." Tobi Hanna-Davies, Washtenaw County WAND co-president, said SDI will also lead to unlimited escalation of the arms race. "Star Wars escalates a space race and it will force the Soviets to keep up with us," she said. "We will continue to see newer and nastier weapons as a result of this." However, LSA junior Steve Carey, after receiving a flier from the WAND members, said he disagreed with the group's assertions. "I think it is a great thing that the United States is spending billions of dollars on a tool of defense rather than offense," he said. "I'd like to see nuclear weapons abolished, but only if it were a mutual bilateral cut with the Soviets." Hanna-Davies agreed, but said the Star Wars project contradicts the idea of arms control and reductions. "The arms race will only continue to spiral upwards as long as we keep spending so much money on a system that won't protect the people," she said. "Star Wars protects our missile sites, not our population." Speakers: Iran economy still suffers from 1979 revolution BY DIMA ZALATIMO Iran's economy is in a "paralyzed state," an Iranian-born visiting scholar told a 50-member audience last night at Rackham Amphitheater. Dr. Sohrab Behdad, who is re- searching the political economy of the Iranian Revolution at the Uni- versity, said the situation can only be contained when a new regime es- tablished a new economic order. To solve the "prolonged revolu- tionary economic crisis in Iran," Be- hdad said Iran would have to borrow about $15 million from countries who presently place Iran in "the sa- tanic category." Behdad was the first of three speakers during a critical discussion of trends in post-revolutionary Iran, sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies. The discussion, a continuation of the Center's annual Briefing Series, was titled, "Iran - Ten Years After The Revolution." It focused on Iran's economy, culture, and rela- tions with superpowers and other countries. Iranian-born Dr. Mohammad Ghanoonparvar, a Rockefeller Re- search Fellow at the University, said the seemingly secular Iranian state became a religious one, and its monarchical dictatorship became a religious autocracy after the revolu- tion 10 years ago. Censorship of art has been a measure used by both governments used to silence voices of opposition, Ghanoonparvar said. "After the revolution, social ac- tivities were limited to demonstra- tions and prayer meetings," Ghanoonparvar said. Dr. James Bill, a professor of government at the College of William and Mary, then told the au- dience that Americans misunderstand Iranians by unjustly connecting them with terrorism, hostages, tur- bans, and million-dollar death war- rants. Despite Iran's negative image, Bill said that in the long run, both Iran and the U.S. would need each other for geographically strategic reasons. Bill also presented a slide show which he put together after his trip to Iran this past summer. 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