โ Scribed by James E. Felten
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The following are open letters addressed to the president of the American Astronomical Society regarding Council support of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. DearMargaret, . At Austin I did not get a chance to speak to you after hearing about Council's action on the Equal Rights Amendment. Therefore, I am writing this letter, Pursuant to your request for opinions from the membership, to tell you that I am strongly opposed to this action, and to urge that the matter not be allowed to rest here.
Most of the arguments against Council's action are fairly obvious, but I will state some of them anyway. I do not want to get into the pros and cons of the ERA itself, because I believe that these are largely extraneous to the chief issue that faces the Society: namely, whether to become involved in poltical action.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
I hope that Ms. Bissell will excuse us for our "unwarranted defensiveness" in our recent Quarterly articles on astrology and the scientific method. After all, the territory we defend has been won at great sacrifice on the part of men and women working in astronomy for dozens of decades. We have froz
~quarian backdrop needed if the vernal equinox is to make its grand entrance Infto the constellation of Aquarius, thereby signalling the start of the fabled "Age o Aquarius"? Ms. Bissell mentions that "much work" has been done on the influences of factors such as asteroids in the horoscope, distance