Show 10 107 4 March 3 1975 Page 9 Viewpoint Utah and the equal rights ajmendmetirt debated by Dayne Goodwin Cafeteria Chaos Editor Student Life: As a continuous inmate of the East High Rise dorm I recently experienced a type of hospitality you could only receive in the High Rise cafeteria I was ready to munch down one of those rare steak dinners (served only when the moon is blue) when I was approached by one of the female employes She informed me that I must prove whom I was or forfeit my rapidly cooling dinner After sounding off my name rank and serial number (which didn’t satisfy her) I whs ordered to produce an ID card or exit with an empty stomach After further I nonsensical argument proceeded to do so and was therefore awarded my chilled evening meal This certain employe usually works the morning shift and is therefore unfamiliar with the students inwhom miss breakfast cluding myself Her job is to recognize students and record their meal number Her job isn’t to tell a person he can’t eat just because she didn’t recognize his face I know of no other college cafeteria where such conduct is displayed I’ve been here 5 months and hassles such as V this and others occur the I in cafeteria frequently think it’s about time the students were given a little more consideration and respect My solution to the problem is to introduce coupons and let the students buy their meals instead of being limited to what and how much they want to eat Many students miss 5 prepaid meals each weekend because they truck home for certain reasons This is an to those obvious rip-of- f students and a gross pofit for the cafeteria management A'i my Chinese roommate sums it up "They know our money but they don’t know us” My compliments to the chef too bad the food was cold is The Equal Rights Amendment a simple straighhforward the US government the Mormon Church has now become a statement prohibiting leading reactionary element discrimination by sex The within the establishment world of ERA is a matter of basic corporate finance Government democratic rights Nevertheless it has come under heavy attack from well organized and well financed right-win- g forces They have been able to prevei& ratification in the more conservativer j5olitically backward states primarily in the South of stands now the states have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment These states account for the vast majority of As it two-thir- ds statitics show' that equal pay for equal work would cost the cor- porate establishment nearly double what is now being paid in wages to women The fact is that women are oppressed and discriminated against not just by male chauvinist attitudes but by the social system that materially benefits from the oppression of women It is this institutionalized sexism that produces male chauvinist psychology Women struggled for more to win the than to rural states with traditional right vote The Equal Rights political power structures to veto Amendment was introduced into the majority’s desire to extend Congress immediately after that full democratic rights to women first victory in 1923 It was inUtah’s legislature now has the troduced into Congress every relatively distinctive honor of year thereafter for nearly y having defeated the ERA another Not until the rise of the new twice The most powerful foe of the ERA in Utah is the Mormon women’s liberation movement did the ERA pass Congress in Church When the Mormon Church 1972 Opponents of the ERA speaks it is not just the voice of know that ratification of the 27th religious oracle It is probably Amendment to the Constitution is the most powerful economic going to be a major victory for force in the state — with vast land the women's movement Ratification of the ERA will holdings large financial investments and control of many encourage women onward it will encourage women to challenge corporations The Mormon Church publicly sexist discrimination give declared its opposition to the women increased confidence in Equal Rights Amendment in the their own ability to be politically active to work for and to win January 11 issue of Church News a few days before the state needed social change Both those who support the legislature was convened with an women’s liberation movement invocation by Spencer W Kimball Ths statement is full of and those who simply but truly the fallacious reasoning and the support basic human rights blantant scare tactics typical of basic democratic rights should ' the right-win- g opponents of the work for ratification of the ERA The statement does not ERA A successful movement for quote the clear and precise of the ERA in Utah ratification of the ERA language around lobbying be built The fact is that the Mormon can not Church is an extremely the legislators It is clear that authoritarian patriarchal in- most legislators are more con stitution — like most religions The biggies in the Mormon 'I Churph are deeply fearful of the Womens Liberation Movement They are opposed to equal rights the population of the United Sates The conservatives are d counting on the half-a-centu- lighty-populate- ry half-centur- "hfcr cerned with the desires of LDS General Authorities than with the needs of Utah’s working women and men The and Democratic Republican parties came into existence in Utah by edict of the Mormon Church One of the used arguments against statehood for Utah was the fact that the Mormon Church controlled a monolithic political party the People’s Party It was dissolved by the Mormon Church in June 1891 and its members were told to divide between the Republicans and Democrats (Utah became a state in 1896) The legislators can not be relied on to listen to reason — or even their own constituency As one woman wrote to the Salt Lake Tribuen ‘why is it that we elected Democratic and Republican legislators but we’re getting American “Party politics?’ The answer is: because the Mormon Church’s politics are indistinguishable from those of the American Party and its backbone the John Birch Society Utah’s Democratic Party which had a majroity in both houses of the legislature is commited in its platform to ratification of the ERA They could have passed it They did not Governor Rampton said that he was in favor of the ERA but he would not press the legislature to ratify it As they say "With friends like this who needs enemies?” The establishment in this state is not interested in explaining what the ERA is or why it deserves the support of the working people in Utah Even those who claim to support the ERA will not take on the right-win- g opposition in a serious manner they are not willing to take the ERA to the people in an effort to build support The Equal Rights Amendment i OF It is true that Mormon (Utah) women were among the first to gain the fight to vote But since wrong Take stock inmerica Interested in See Page 12 AIWA OFFERS Special Pacltage Pricing those early days when the Mormons experimented with communal socialism and fought 503-54-42- A the church leadership of taken Utah poll University just a few weeks ago showed that the plurality of Utahns favored the Equal Rights Amendment Those who support the ERA will have to build an independent movement if the ERA is ever going to be ratified in Utah It will be the support of hundreds of thousands of Utahns that will actually ratify the ERA not the action of a few legislators We should begin now to organize a popular movement of massive visible support to the Equal Rights Amendment We must continue to build support for the ERA until it becomes the law of the land The establishment media have been saying for weeks that the ERA is dead in Utah They are 4 for women Kevin M Donahoe is in the best interest of the working people who make up the bulk of the membership of the Mormon Church Going by a recent Deseret News poll we know that at least 31 percent of LDS Church members support the ERA despite the stand of ON THE “world’s most advanced line of audio equipment” Here's an 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