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o 8: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1969 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL. 93, NO. 6 I Journalist against the 'pill' The first book against birth control, published before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an nounced that the pill was safe, has been rushed into distribution by a major New York publishing house, according to its press release. "The Pill: An Alarming Report" was written by Morton Mintz, a prize winning journalist and medical reporter, who has charged that the FDA's "failure to come to grips with the major questions about oral con traceptives is unpardonable." The FDA has decided to play down the dangers of birth control pills and has decided against passing anti-pill legislation at the present time, ac cording to the release. Curiously the findings of the FDA, as noted in their Second Report on Oral Contraceptives on Sept. 5, sup port what author Morton Mintz believes: The risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs of Pill users is about 4.4 higher than for non-users. The Pill may increase cancer potential. Women having a history of blood clotting ailments, lumps in their breasts, breast cancer and persistent headaches should not take oral con traceptives. Long range effects have still not been charted. The FDA. however, decided not to pass anti-pill legislation because "the ratio of benefit to risk is found to be sufficiently high to justify the designation of 'safe' with the intent of the legislation." Concerning cancer and the pill, the FDA has merely stated that it Is "the major unresolved question" and that funds and resources are urgently needed for investigation. In consider ing birth defects arising from the Pill, the FDA says it is not yet possible to draw definite conclusions. In the face of mounting evidence that the Pill is hazardous to soma women and fatal to others, drug com panies and naive physicians continue to promote it, Mintz said. Want a cheap remedy for post-grad poverty? bv Ron Whllten Ncbruskan Staff Writer There conies the time in the life of every student when he must leave the relative security of university life and seek employment in the cold and 1m personal work-a-day world. The University of Nebraska has long realized that such a step can be a frustrating and disappointing ex perience for the student. As a partial remedy, the University offers the Placement Office. The Placement Office, under the direction or Dr. Frank Hallgren, serves as a middleman between employer and prospective employee. From the little office in Room 230 of the Union, the Placement staff, Hallgren, three secretaries, and a dozen students, operate an extremely beneficial student service. The Placement Office serves all save one of the University divisions. The Teachers College has a similar (eparate bureau, operated by Lee DeJonge. The main function of the office Is to solicit and arrange interviews with I lie countless Industries and organizations offering college graduate positions. Interviews for this year will begin October 3 and will run ihrough March in the interviewing complex of the Union, Room 225. Resumes of each individual are provided to all interested companies by the Office. These files are actually the responsibility of the student and are merely distributed by the Place ment Office. Few students realize how Important it is to compile faculty recomm?nda tions and personal preference forms. Hall notes that "faculty members are probably as knowledgeable as anyone about your field and your qualifica tions." The Office never attempts to In fluence a company. This is un necessary, according to Hallgren because, "students really sell themselves." Indeed, students are on their own when being interviewed. "We can help him decide, we can set up the inter view," said Hallgren, "but the student has made his own record and he Is the one who will present it." Cognizant of the fact that this is often a first time experience, the Placement Office Is offering a seminar September 30 at 7:30 P M. in tht Union ballroom concerning "How to be Interviewed." Teachers Place ment U also offering sucn tips wita W k ' When ASUN President Bill almost listens. ASUN adopts most In a meeting filled with questions of parlimentary procedure the ASUN senate considered its 1969-70 budget Wednesday afternoon. Considering each item separately the senate passed several portions of the projected $27,000 budget. $2,500 was appropriated for the operation of the Nebraska . Free University. NFU director John Marcotte explained that the projected budget Includes a $300 per semester for a class research fund. He said that this fund would allow free university classes more leeway programs September 29. October 1, and October 2 at 4:30 P.M. in Love Library Auditorium. The Office does meet with a ma jority of the anticipated graduates each year. B:t. as Hallgren sees it, "one of the ironies of the people we deal with is that those who need us the most use us the least." Seniors who are still undecided about their future are difficult to help. Hallgren emphasized that, a s freshmen, people should begin determining some long-range goals. "This doesn't mean you can't change your mind," he adds, "but employers want students to have some sense of direction ." Nevertheless, the situation is not hopeless. The Office provides several opportunities to examine different careers. The Placement Library in Union Room 226A contains hundreds of pamphlets and catalogs of every possible phase of employment, from DuPont to the Green Giantt Company, from the Central intelligence Agency to the San Francisco Bay Nava' Shipyard. The College Placement Annual which lists industries and other employers alphabetically as well as by occupation and location. Is available at the desk in Room 231. In formation on any specific company can also be obtained there. The Office is not trying to force any person into any position he does not want. The same facilities of the Placement bureau are open to all alumni regardless of age. In the past it has assisted some who were discharged from their Jobs, some who felt they wanted to return to graduate school, and even u few who changed their minds long after graduating. A special interest is also shown tc the men who will go directly Into the military upon graduation. Hallgren urges these people to still pursue In terviews for their career because often "a company will be more thar willing to assure you a job after the armed forces." Despite its small size, Nebraska's Placement Office is considered to be one of the finest in the nation. This may be attributed to the personal at. tention it gives students and to the large amount of resources it offers. Dr. Hallgren has lamented that "not every student profits from our help." Regardless, most students will find entering the cold.' cruel work-a-day world a little easier because ol iL Chaloupka speaks, everybody In projects than they have had in the past. Record store Also approved was an item of $1,450 to fund the Community Services com mittee. Committee Chairman Bruce Cochrane said that the money is to be used in establishing a student cooperative record store. The October Time Out program was funded at $3,500. Most of this money will be used to bring in speakers for the program, according to senator Nancy Ryan. Programs of the ASUN Human Rights committee were funded at $3,000. Chairman Phil Medcalf said that the committee will conduct a nu mber of programs with this money. Medcalf explained that some $800 of the appropriation will be used to fund the Afro-American Collegiate Society. $500 is earmarked to aid the Nebraska conference on Indian Unity, and another $500 Is slated for pro grams concerning Brown Americans, lie said Films may be cut Some $400 is planned for films, but this amount may be cut, Medcalf ad ded. An item of $1,200 to send ASUN delegates to various national con ferences was approved, as was $400 for foreign student activities. The ASUN electoral commission was funded at $1,000. Also ap propriated were $3,605.25 for salaries, $1,300 for office expenses, and a $1,500 general expense fund. Keep America . . . V. Move to needs direction, order by Sara Schwleder Nebraskan Staff Writer Men laugh. Women holding babies don't quite understand. Young in nocents reading Modern Bride don't bother to misunderstand. The most obvious fact about the women's liberation movement is that no one quite understands where its going, or why. Several organizations have been founded to promote women's rights. The National Organization for Women (NOW) works for the repeal of abor tion laws and equal employment for women. The Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) is a loose, vague group of women that sympathize with the movement as a whole. Many of them create in local activities to promote women's equality. The most radical organization is the Women's International Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH) advocating revolutlon and total re-structuring of society to gain equal rights for women. The movement began in 1963 with a book entitled The Feminine Mysti que, by Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique is a psychological approach to the suburban housewife's repressed dreams of being a whole person. Friedan maintains that the reason housewives so often feel unfulfilled with children and a husband is because the only thing they've really of budget A number of budget items were tabled for later consideration. These included $3,000 for the World In Revolution Conference, $5,500 for the Faculty Evaluation program, and $500 for a Regents Election Fund. Positions open Dianne Theisen, ASUN first vice president, announced that several ASUN and Faculty Senate committees currently have openings for students. She explained that these positions are open to all students and that anyone Interested should come to the ASUN office as soon as possible for in formation and applications. She also announced that applica tions are being accepted until Friday for three other ASUN posts. These include director of records, election commissioner, and a member of the Parking Appeals Board. Applications due wed. Bill Chaloupka, ASUN president, announced that no vacancy exists in the Senate from the College of Arts and Sciences. However, a vacancy does exist in the Graduate and Pro fessional College. Applications for this position are due by next Weduesday, he said. Medcalf made a brief announcement about the Student Vietnam Moritorium scheduled to begin Oct. 15. He said that anyone interested in participating should contact Mike Shonsey at the United Ministries to Higher Education. free9 accomplished is the simple and elementary act of having children. Anyone can do that ... at least, almost anyone. This feeling of worthlessness is misunderstood by a man involved In his career. Each day he does things that are important to him and his peers. A man's self-image is bolstered by every success of every day, while a woman at home so rarely has a tangible success that she loses sight of what she is. Makes sense Friedan makes enough sense to convince many women to think about what they are ... or what they are not. Inequalities that have always ex isted are being recognized for the first time. Black demands for equality in education, politics, business and social status prompted lily-white American women to demand their ri ghts, too. In the business world, for example, 20 per cent of college women with 4-year degrees can get only unskilled or semi-skilled work. Eight per cent of college-educated women with five, or more years can get only semi-skilled work. Why bother to go to college at all? they ask. In addition to difficulties getting jobs, once a smart young lady has landed a job, she is paid less for it than what a young man doing the very same thing would be paid. Women earn less According to the August 2, 1969 issue of Business Week, almost all business people male and female readily concede that women executives earn less than men." Estimates given in Business Week on the earning power of women in relation to men indicate that women make from $.60 to $.75 for every dollar earned by a man. As if that weren't enough, women are discriminated against in other aspects of business notwithstanding hiring or salary inequities. Instructors' live-in is latest Greek thing Faculty members moving Into sorority houses is the latest develop ment toward improving faculty-student relations. Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority has set up a program this semester which will bring different professors from different areas of the academic field into their house as temporary residents for two weeks. "We are setting up the program to offer our people the same op portunity that there is In the Centen nial College and that dorm students have in working with graduate assistants." according to Carrie Douglas, who conceived the idea last tboa kv f Anion . Beautiful women For instance, inequalities in Federal Housing Authority policies preclude a woman from buying a house alone, although there are thousands of single, separated, divorced, o r widowed women who need a home of their own. Socially, the woman is continually inferior to her male counterparts. The July issue of New Republic puts it this way: "If the myth that American women have equal rights still persists, mere mention of abortion laws should dispell it. Women are compelled to sneak, cheat, and lie rather than con sult a doctor. Abortion laws should not be revised, but repealed. In the few states that have revised laws, women wanting an abortion will have to face the humiliation of convincing several male doctors. "And until repeal, the poor will continue to be penalized most, since the majority of legal and safe abor tions granted in states with reformed laws are performed in private hospi tals." A Myth Contraception for the "sexually liberated" young woman is a myth. Again, a young working girl that wants to have sexual relations with her boyfriend must lie, cheat, or steal to prevent unwanted children. Prostitution laws punish the woman for selling her body but not the male who patronizes her. Of course, there are women who say "Yes, it's a man's world, and that is the way it should be." Or, "Women can liberate themselves in dividually; they don't need a move ment." Some women are content to be un paid domestics, visualizing untold romance in dirty diapers and a sinkful of dishes. Many of them are probably very happy. But for those who are not, the women's liberation movement, still struggling for official recognition, seems to offer hope. spring while visiting campuses in the East. She explained that the program is a two-way learning process, because it also gives the faculty a chance to discover on their own the merits of what the Kappas are doing. George Wolf, assistant professor of English, will be the first faculty member to take part in the program. He and his wife, who teaches English at Nebraska Wesleyan, will move Into the Kappa house on October 6. They will live in a room and a half apartment with bath In the sorority house basement. They will eat all of their meals with the Kappas. Wolf views his stay with the sororitv girls as an opportunity to learn something of which he has almost no knowledge. "I have always been pretty down on fraternities and sororities, and probably unjustifiably so." he said. "Their external activities seem so trivial. Now. I have a chance to see what happens on the inside and evaluate It for myself " Something interesting to Wolf is that sorority girls spend more time among their sisters than they do in class. He wants the chance to observe them to see if there is any relation between the way they live and their classroom Mcrformance. Wolf says that he isn't planning to structure anything, but he will hold some of his classes in the Kappa house to give the girls a chance to sit in and see what he is doing. The Kappas have three objectives in carrying out the proeram, ac cording to Miss Douglas. First Is to ot to know the faculty as friends. Secondly, they want the faculty to et to know more about the student n a personal level. The third objective is for the student :o take learning out of the classroom ind apply it to everyday life. The Kappas hope to have four pro cessors in for a two week period. They would also like to have any faculty member come to spend weekends who would find it impossible to spend two eeks. Wolf says that he has hopes of a worthwhile experience. "I spent a few days last year in Abel Hall, nd I wish I would have had more time," he said. The only problem he forsees is the strain Involved in trying to do too much at one time. If the proeram proves to be a suc cess. Miss Douglas says the Kappas will give some thought to bringing someone In for a full semester. 6- i ... t -