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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1969
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 93, NO. 6
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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.
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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
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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.
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