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OUR LIFE MONTHLY , pu b lish ed b y Ukrainian N ational W om en's L eague of Am erica Vol. XXXV MAY 1978 NO. 5 THE BALLAD OF THE GUELDER-ROSE TWIG Once a boy brought home a guelder-rose twig. And he whittled a flute, so that, as in the fable, he could hear the words of the poor little orphan. And an unknown melody flowed, without words, without tears, yet sad as the song of a seagull in the grip of misfortune. Surely it’s not for naught a legend has it that a girl’s heart has flowed into the clusters of red. And through the swamps, the labyrinthine ways, through the jungles of human derision, he set out to seek the guelder-rose, the one, the only in the world. And 'neath that guelder-rose, beneath that one and only— girls and maidens, like a flood of dreams. And garlanded, each one, be it with the cluster of red, or with a leaf. And each one knows the eternal fable about the ed g e of loneliness and the flute’s lament. Iryna Stasiv-Kalynets UNWLA’S VICE-PRESIDENT, OLGA STAWNY- CHY APPOINTED TO NATIONAL COMMITTEE AND ATTENDS WHITE HOUSE CEREMONY On March 22, 1978 the first meeting of the Continuing Committee of the Houston Conference was held at the State Department in Washington, D.C. This comm ittee of 470 men and women includes Commissioners, heads of major w om en’s organizations, chairs of special interest c a u cu ses formed at Houston, and State chairs of delegations. Also included are additional members appointed by the IWY Commission. Olga Stawnychy was appointed to serve on the Continuing Committee of the C onference and attended the official cerem ony at the White House. Ms. Stawnychy is past president of UNWLA’s Branch 18 in Passaic, a member of the National Council of the Ukrainian C ongress Committee of America, Board Member of the Ukrainian Museum of New York, and vice-president of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America. She had attended the International W omen’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975 and was a D elegate-at- Large to the National W omen’s Conference in Houston. Following the morning sessio n there was an official cerem ony at the White H ouse where Ms. Bella Abzug as Presi ding officer of the IWY Commission presented the President with an advance text of "The Spirit of Houston," the Commission's official report on the National Women’s Conference held in Houston last November. MOTRIA KUSHNIR substantially increase allocations to athletic programs for girls and women — or, on* the other hand, cut back on boys and mens programs. B ecause money, and not just lip-service to equality, was required to achieve parity, many educators closed ranks to fight Title IX. The en d less rounds of hearings, reformulations and re visions of the regulations greatly slowed down progress in the battle for educational equity. As is always the c a se when institutions or interest groups are required to reform them selves, emotional appeals and sensationalized claims were directed at the public in an effort to whip up support for the status quo. Rather than informing parents and students about the real intent of the proposed changes, those op p osed to Title IX launched a campaign misinforming Americans that the law would require coeducational locker rooms and boy/girl team s for contact sports. Much like the argument that the ERA would eliminate separate toilets for males and fem ales, th ese se n sa tionalized statem ents were not at all grounded in truth; never theless, alarm spread among parents who feared their children would be exp osed to outrageous innovations, such as mixed- sex showers, in the name of equality. The media, displaying their usual lack of intelligence, seized upon the juicy controversy of coed locker rooms while largely ignoring the salient points of the debate. Title IX, for НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ТРАВЕНЬ, 1978 21 WOMAN NEWS AND VIEWS IN A WOMAN'S WORLD (Continuation) As the w om en’s movement gained momentum in the late 1960s and early 1970s, concern for equality of opportunity focused largely on two areas: employment and education. As early as 1972 C ongress responded to pressure for reform — exerted by such groups as Teachers NOW and the American Association of University Women — by passing legislation de signed to eliminate sex-discrimination in the educational system . Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments was the first law which not only required sex-fairness in education, but also established a system of penalties for noncompliance; any sch ool district, university or other educational organization found to be discriminating on the basis of sex risked loosing federal support in the form of funding subsidies. The battle for nondiscrimination was only half won, how ever. After C ongress p a sses a law, the legislation is referred to a responsible federal agen cy and C ongressional com m ittees that are responsible for drawing up regulations for its im plementation. In the c a se of Title IX, massive resistance to the law was mounted during the writing of regulations for implementation. Not surprisingly, the greatest reaction cam e from organized co lleg e athletics associations, for the area of physical education, discrimination was the most blatant and obvious. If required to comply with both the letter and the spirit of the law, American educational institutions would have to
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