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...rather bawdy little fungus," according to Jonathan Wolken, who met the word and the fungus while studying biology at Dartmouth a few years ago. Wolken also studied modern dance, in an unserious way, in the class of a young teacher named Alison Chase. When he and Classmate Moses Pendleton found, to their total astonishment, that the strange gymnastic writhings they were inventing led to coherent routines, and then to the formation of a small dance troupe, the carefully unserious name for the new enterprise was at hand. Calling their troupe Pilobolus was, it seems now, an ironical reminder to themselves...
Says Lance Corporal Deborah Genest, a bulldozer driver at the Marines' Camp Pendleton: "It's a macho thing. There's a lot of resistance to us, but we can do more than some of the puny guys." Retired Major General John Singlaub, former chief of staff of the Eighth Army in South Korea, argues, however, that "it's a silly idea to put women in combat. To say that they are physiologically equal to men is to defy reality...
...Corporal Jann Smith, 23, a communications specialist at Pendleton, advises that wolf whistles are easily handled by "waving at the guys and acknowledging it. All that the men want is a little attention." She feels, however, that the Marine Corps could have prepared her better by giving a class in the psychology of the sexes. "All we got," she explains, "was a lecture by a chaplain on being careful: 'Don't get pregnant and beware of lesbians...
While hostility from some servicemen seems unabating, a recent poll indicated that two-thirds of the men at Pendleton felt perfectly comfortable with the opposite sex serving on the base. Observes Corporal Smith: "When they get to know you, the men are nice. Those in our barracks look out for us." There also appears to be a growing respect for women's martial abilities. Private David Fisher, 19, a member of Shirley's platoon, confesses: "I felt that this was no place for girls. But after they outshot me on the firing range, I changed my mind...
Film--"Phantom India: A Look at the Castes." 105 Pendleton East...