Time-Out
sexism, reform, law
"Although this year is an
election year, Time-Out is
seeking to expose students to
social problems, as political
issues would just be a rehash,"
Terry Uland, Time Out Out
Conference chairman said.
Time Out has no specific
theme this year. The emphasis
has been placed on a variety of
social concerns."
Time-Out efforts in seeking
speakers for the conference
have been geared towards the
topics of sexism, educational
reform, and the student and
law.
Florence Kennedy, black
feminist and civil rights ac
tivist, has agreed to speak.
"We chose to bring in a
feminist because this campus
has not been exposed to a
woman of national reputation,"
said Uland.
Larry Magid, director of the
National Student Association's
Center for Education Reform
and one-time coordinator of the
Center for Participant Educa
tion at Berkeley, is slated to
speak on the topic of educa
tional reform.
Magid formulated and pro
posed the "Social Analysis
Course 139X," which
featured lectures by Eldridge
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the struggle over People's Park
and implementing curriculum
reforms at Berkeley.
Director of the NSA Student
Legal Rights Program Mike
Liethen will also take part In
the conference. His NSA pro
gram is designed to help
familiarize students with their
rights as students.
The conference will also deal
with the problems of hunger,
poverty, the environment and
racism, but on these topics it
will "tend to keep the orienta
tion of the presentation as local
as possible," Uland said.
"It doesn't do any good to
hear about the air pollution in
Los Angeles, when there exist
problems of pollution and feed
lot runoff in Nebraska. We are
trying to relate social issues to
this area of the country,"
Uland continued.
The conference has been
scheduled for October 15, 16,
and 17 with an emphasis on the
latter part of the week in order
to alleviate class conflicts. This
Is the first conference in which
activities and speakers have
been scheduled for a weekend.
Morrison meets
with students
Frank B. Morrison, Demo
cratic candidate for the U.S.
Senate, will rap with students
at 8 p.m. Oct. 7, in the Selleck
Quad cafeteria. The discussion
is sponsored by the Selleck
student government
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University women who feel
discriminated against have an
advocate in the Faculty
Senate's Women's Rights
Committee.
Created by the Faculty
Senate Human Rights Com
mittee last spring, the com
mittee "is charged with in
vestigating the status of
academic women, non
academic personnel and
women students to discover if
patterns of discrimination exist
and if they do, to propose
measures to correct them,"
said chairman Linda Pratt, an
English instructor
The committee isn't a
women's liberation group, but
one concerned with civil rights,
she explained. It will con
centrate on gathering in
formation for its report next "
spring to the Faculty Senate.
Helen Snyder, associate dean
of Student Affairs, expressed
the hesitancy f committee
members to comment on sex
discrimination on campus until
there are supporting facts. But,
she said "It appears there are
some situations where the
position of women can be im
proved." In the May issue of Saturday
Review, Paul W o o d r i n g
reported "Women now are ad
mitted to all but a small and
diminishing number of private
colleges, including graduate
and professional schools.
Women are admitted to nearly
all the professions teaching,
social work, and nursing
employ more women 'han
men."
Woodring added that only 11
per cent of Ph.D. degrees
granted annually are taken by
women and only 22 per cent of
all college teaching positions
are held by women.
On the graduate level, the
enrollment of women has
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declined, in accord with the
national trend. Ten years ago,
17 per cent of those in graduate
college were women. In 1969,
the number declined to IS per
cent.
Ms. Pratt noted that the
committee has received no
complaints yet, nor has it in
vestigated sex discrimination
concerning graduate positions
at NU. She said the committee
target is a policy of awarding
fellowship money and graduate
positions on the basis of merit.
Much discrimination is based
on subtle attitudes, according
to Ms. Pratt. Men don't con
sciously pursue a
discriminatory policy, she
asserted.
"Many women think in terms
of racial discrimination and
don't think of economic
discrimination as being
discrimination." she aid.
The June issue of Business
Week reported women's pay in
1968 was only 58.2 per cent of
the average male paycheck.
Women doing the same job
seldom get the same pay, and a
woman chemist with a Ph.D.,
for example, averages $9,500,
while her male counterpart
averages $13,000.
One emphasis of the com
mittee this year will be on the
University clerical staff where
the average wage for full-time
employes is below $3,500 and
few receive more than $4,500,
Ms. Pratt said.
In the academic area,
policies vary by departments,
she said. There is discrimina
tion where women aren't pro
moted or are paid less.
General committee goals are
a decent living wage for all
personnel with cost-of-living
pay increases, a means of pro
motion for clerical staff, and
promotion and salaries for the
academic staff according to
qualifications, Ms. Pratt said.
Questionnaires were sent to
department heads and the
clerical staff to determine how
many women are employed
and their salaries. This data
will be fed into a computer to
discover any patterns in the
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economic area, promotion and
hiring.
Women with complaints are
encouraged to contact the
committee, which Is composed
of two students, one graduate
student, one from the clerical
staff, three women professors
and one male professor, Ms.
Pratt said. . ,
Concern with sex
discrimination in the academic
world has gained momentum
with the growth of the women's
liberation movement.
The Women's Equity Action
League (WEAL) is a 2-year-old
organisation of women lawyers
pledged to attack sex
discrimination in academic in
stitutions. Educational institu
tions were exempt from the
Civil Rights Act until an ex
ecutive order in 1967 corrected
the omission.
The U.S. Labor Department
Office of Federal Contract
Compliance has issued
guidelines which bar. icon-
tractors from making distinc
tions .based on sex in am
ment: opportunities, . wi
hours, oi working condition
The"U.S. Health, Ed
and Welfare Department
presently reviewing its con
tracts . with the University of
Maryland, State University of
New York at Buffalo j and
Harvard for alleged $ sex
discrimination.
English majors
meet Wednesday
Undergraduate English ma
jors who are interested in the
Undergraduate English Organ
ization, a group formed by stu
dents last spring, will gather
for an organizational meeting
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Nebraska Union.
The organization will concern
itself with representing the stu
dents on committees in the
English department, offering
advice on curriculm change,
and promoting understanding
between faculty and students.
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