Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 11

JOHNSON CITY PRESS Thursday April 18 1996 Page Buildings feminist namesake accused of racism Catts controversial remarks were no secret when the university renamed the building In fact the school held a seminar on Catts life and views Martin Jischke the university president said the school has no plans to change the buildings name He noted Catts support for the League of Nations in fiie early 1920s and later for the United Nations While I dont support everything that Carrie Chapman Catt did or said I believe her contribution to womens suffrage and world peace are worthy of the recognition that the university has given her Jischke said state strategy to build momentum for the womans suffrage amendment that was ratified in 1920 She also founded the League of Women Voters Neither Iowa nor the university had done much over the years to honor the schools most famous women graduate Previous efforts to name buildings for her were laughed off by those who didnt want a Catt house Last fall on the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment the university relented Old Botany was renovated and renamed Carrie Chapman Catt Hall It houses the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences womens suffrage" Catts supporters say she was a product of her times who made the statement simply to win Southern support But students and others say the school cannot shove aside Catts remark and others like it Catt also spoke of prohibiting voting by uneducated immigrants and referred to Indians as savages "A product of her times? I cringe every time I hear that remark said Meron Wondwosen a black sophomore from Silver Spring Md People treating people with dignity is not something that is bound by time Its a basic principle It was Catt who envisioned the state-by- The Associated Press AMES Iowa Carrie Chapman Catt a crusader for womens suffrage and founder of the League of Women Voters had the right feminist credentials for Iowa State University to name a building after her Her views on race are another matter Now the university ia under pressure to reconsider its decision to honor Catt an Iowa State graduate who died in 1947 at age 88 The debate focuses on a statement Catt made in a losing effort to win ratification in two Southern states of the amendment giving women the vote: White supremacy will be strengthened not weakened by until OCTOBER 96 LA-Z-REST RECLINER i BYLA-Z-BOY Smooth clean styling for ease and comfort A fan tastic reclmer at a terrific price Chqice of 2 colors Value Price s479w yV -v Limited 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in state prison for the 1978 murder of Roxanne Woodson also 16 He had received the death penalty but the state Supreme Court reversed the sentence last May It stated that because his conviction in Clowers murder had been overturned it could not be used as an aggravating circumstance to justify the death penalty in the Wood-son case Shepherd was convicted of second-degree murder in 1991 for Clowerss death but the state appellate court overturned that decision in 1992 because several jurors in that case had seen the televised re-enactment The state will now retry the Clowers case Juy selection begins April 22 in Monroe County Circuit Court Shepherd grew up in Tellico Plains He quit school after finishing the third grade He sometimes worked as a part-time mechanic Testimony from earlier trials indicated Shepherd hung out with drug dialers and users in his hometown in southeast Tennessee Although much older he and other men would often go to teen parties where bonfires were built in a 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