The oppressed majority
"Women are obviously going to move;
whether Lincoln gets into the movement depends
on whether or not you are imaginative enough,"
Florynce Kennedy told a Time Out audience last
week.
There are some obvious reasons why women
should move.
The undergraduate enrollment of women at
the University rose 40 per cent in the last 10 years
but the enrollment of women in graduate school
dropped from 16 per cent to 13 per cent.
According to the Faculty Senate Committee
on Women's Rights, 30 per cent of undergraduate
women at the University say they want to go to
graduate school, but only 13 per cent end up
there. The question is "why?"
Does the graduate school admissions policy
discriminate? Are men given preference for
scholarships? Are there other ways women are
discouraged from improving their education?
Studies suggest women perform better in
school than men up until the time they earn a B.A.
What, besides marriage, keeps women out of grad
uate school?
The discrepancies are not limited to students.
The University hires very few women faculty
members. In the College of Arts and Sciences
eight departments have no women. Figures here
are in accordance with national trends. Nationally
in 1940, 28 per cent of the average college faculty
was female. By 1960 the figure had dipped to 22
per cent.
The University seems to consider women as a
reserve labor force someone they can call in at
the last minute until they can hire a man.
What women faculty members there are tend
to stay in the lower faculty hierarchy. Department
chairmen say they do not promote women because
most of them, if they are married, cannot move
and women don't need the money anyway.
For example, there is a full professor in this
University, who happens to be a female, who makes
$12,000; but there are men in her department who
are making $6,000 more than she.
The clerical staff of the University, comprised
mostly of women, is hardest hit by the economic
discrimination. Some full-time clerical employees
earn $1.59 an hour when the federal minimum
wage is $1.60.
Only five per cent of the clerical staff earns
more than $5,000 annually. Generally the Univer
sity wage scale is lower than other Lincoln busi
nesses. A woman could work 25 years for the Univ
ersity and never earn more than $4,500 a year.
The Faculty Senate committee found that pay
raises tend to go to people who are already making
more money. To get a raise the clerical worker
must apply for a transfer to another office and
very few of these transfers are granted. If a higher
position is open in the woman's own office, a man
may be brought in to fill it.
In a survey by the Committee clerical workers
were asked what they saw as their future at the
University of Nebraska. Ninety-eight per cent said
"none."
So, University women and men are left
with the challenge posed by Florynce Kennedy and
the woman who sits behind the typewriter.
Connie Winkler
Managing Editor
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Sen. Hruska votes for himself
by MICHAEL J. NOLAN
and ED GANEY
"Vote for Senator Hruska; he
votes for you!" When settling
on that particular slogan for his
flowery, circus-like billboards,
Roman Hruska must have had
in mind the famous words of P.
T. Barnum, "A sucker is born
every minute." Recently,
Ilruska has been the target of
several columnists. They have
pointed out that while the
Senator votes for his consti
tuents, he frequently votes for
himself.
Jack Anderson's Washington
Merry-Go-Round, for example,
in April claimed that Ilruska
secured a $2.5 million govern
ment contract for Omaha
architect Leo Daly in exchange
for a $5,000 campaign promise.
A serious allegation, it evoked
only a matter-of-fact denial
from Ilruska and Daly.
SHORTLY AFTER t h e
Nebraska primary, Anderson
lowered the boom again, ac
cusing the Senator of accepting
disclosed that Hruska's Omaha
law firm has been retaining
$8,000 from the Western Bohe
mian Fraternal Insurance
Association "at the same time
he has been championing the
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insurance industry on capitol
hill." Moreover, Anderson
large insurance companies
(Lumberman's Mutual
Casualty, Sentry Insurance,
etc.) for years a trick the
Senator learned from his old
friend Everett Dirkscn, and
that champion of the fat cats,
Senator Thomas Dodd.
IIRUSKAS CLOAKROOM
maneuvering, however, dates
further back than his recent
skullduggery. For Instance, in
1960, he was a member of
Senator Estes Kefauver's anti
trust subcommittee which in
vestigated fraud within the
Food and Drug Administration.
The subcommittee discovered
that Dr. Henry Welsh, head of
the FDA's antibiotics division,
accepted $250,000 in payoffs
from Merck, Sharp and Dohme,
Upjohn, and other drug com
panies. Anthony DeAngelis, a
lobbyist for the salad oil com
panies, was later convicted of
frauding millions. Roman
Hruska, more than anyone else,
was responsible for subverting
the investigation before it could
do further damage.
ACCORDING TO the
Nebraska Research Agency,
Hruska was to receive $75,000
from company associates in
appreciation for his effective
torpedo job. Closely connected
with the $75,000 were a series of
mortgages in escalating
amounts of several hundred
thousand dollars between a
local Omaha bank and Hruska.
The Research Agency con
tends, "there is reason to
believe that some of these
mortgages are not necessarily
bonafide loans, that these
transactions involve a large
sum from Anthony DeAngelis,
who was recently convicted of
embezzling over $25,000,000."
IN ADDITION, close scrutiny
of the mortgages reveals that
some of the land in question
was located directly in the path
of the proposed interstate
highway between Omaha and
Lincoln. Coincidence? Or is it?
Senator Hruska is up for re
election this year. Yet in light
of this information, that air of
honesty that usually shines
about his head now seems
rather scanty and hardly
odoriferous. Hopefully before
November 3, he will explain
these actions to us "mediocre
folks" for In the Senator's own
words, we're "entitled to a lit
tle reprcsentatkn.,,
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THE NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1970