By John Perrone
Staff Writer
Judith Stiehm, vice provost and professor of political science, will speak at noon today in the Seaver Science Auditorium to discuss the slow integration of females into the armed services and why women are not allowed to engage in battle.
“It's (combat) what the whole enterprise is all about," Stiehm said, regarding the purpose of the U.S. armed forces, which began accepting women in areas other than clerical and medical positions in the early 1970s.
Stiehm's lecture, "Women in the Military in the United States," will question the military's reasoning — particularly the Air Force — for excluding women from battle.
"There's not a rational answer," she said, but "most men give a whole string of reasons for it."
Over an archway at the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colo., are the words, "Bring Me Men." But Bring Me Men and Women is the title Stiehm gave her book, which discusses women's entrance into the Air Force and other military branches.
Stiehm did her research for Bring Me Men and Women by spending 15 months looking through documents at the Air Force Academy.
Stiehm, who teaches the political science class Sex, Power and Politics, said the mystery about the Air Force's policy is more ideological.
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GIVING IT THE OLD BRUSH-OFF
Staff handles credit transfers
Resignation of articulation officer doesn't affect campus
By Yamil Berard
Staff Writer
An academic credit evaluation staff consisting of 12 counselors and evaluators is continuing the work of Joan Nay, the former university articulation officer, who resigned at the beginning of last semester.
Nay was responsible for handling academic credit transfers from other institutions.
Nay's resignation "did not affect the student-s. . . it was virtually undetectable," said Kathryn Forte, director of admissions.
The job of the articulation officer at the university entails researching and making decisions in regard to academic credit tranfer agreements with other institutions of higher education.
"Joan Nay updated a couple dozen general artic-
The Student Union Building is getting a makeover this week, as painters touch up the windows of the old structure near Tommy Trojan. The project is a temporary inconvenience to employees and students, but this gargoyle (inset) doesn’t seem to mind.
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(Joan) Nay's resignation did not affect the students.'
— Kathryn Forte, director of admissions.
ulation performances," Forte said. But her responsibilities did not include the entire academic credit evaluations program, Forte said.
Although Forte said that Nay's resignation did not cause any problems for students' services, her resignation did cause the admissions office to postpone a few agreements with other institutions.
Forte said that credit evaluations must be updated by the university, and the articulator's function, which Nay handled, is being handled as well as before.
The university has instigated a newer and more effective system of determining which academic credits merit transfer, Forte said. "Instead of having one person's experience, several specialists equally capable of performing the function will be employed to perform the role," she said.
This method is "a whole lot better — because it plans for the future, and does not centralize articulations," she said. "When someone walks out the door," there will be several specialists with the knowledge necessary to complete the job, she said.
In order to create a more competent staff, this communicative system will allow evaluators to relay more pertinent and precise information, Forte said.
"This staff of competent specialists will be drawn into the creation of evaluation agreements," she said. The staff's pending work includes the updating of a credit evaluation agreement with Mary-mount Palos Verdes this weekend, Forte said.
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Vice provost to deliver lecture
Topic to focus on exclusion of women from battlefield
"There's much more to (flying aircraft) than physical strength," she said. There exists a male-oriented rationale that says combat proves manhood. She said that if women engage in battle, they still have not proved their masculinity.
However, there has been some progress for women in the Air Force, she said. Non-fighter jets, such as cargo and reconnaissance planes, are sometimes flown by females.
Stiehm said women represent 10 percent of the armed forces, and explained that there is no quota for additional female enlistment.
"They (the armed forces) are not going to have any extra," she commented.
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