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" 'A" V" V"-a I -1 COLI Wednesday, november 13, 1974 lincoln, nebraska vol. 98 no. 45 Sex discrimination investigation begins By John Kalkowski A preliminary investigation of a formal complaint charging the Universi ty of Nebraska with sex discrimination has been started by the Region Seven Civil Rights Commission, according to J, L Thomas, Regional Director of Higher Education in the Kansas City branch of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). The Civil Rights Commission will probably conduct an on-site investiga tion in January or February, Thomas said. Information concerning the charges became public when the Lincoln Star obtained a rough draft of the complaint and published an article on Nov. 1 . According to the Lincoln Star, a 70-page document filed by a group identifying itself as the ad hoc Commit tee on Women's Concerns alleges that a pattern of discrimination against women faculty and staff members exists at the University. The committee says appar ent patterns of discrimination in em ployment, pay, promotion and tenure against women exist and reports several possible cases of discrimination within iheNU system. During the past three months, a 20-person core group researched and drew up the complaint. An additional 130 persons signed the letter. Adam Breckenridge, vice chancellor of academic affairs, said some signa tures on tho letter cannot be deciphered. He said he acknowledges only, those signatures which are readable. Continued on pg. 11 . World food problem discussed e .jp A gloomy picture was forecast for the world food problem at a panel discussion Tuesday night in the Nebraska Union. The informal program was sponsored by the UNL Student Task Force on Hunger and the Lincoln Walk for Development. The panel of four agricultural, nutrition and population specialists agreed that the world was headed for a world famine if something was not immediately done. However, specific solutions varied. Steve Lutman and John McClendon, both of the Nebraska chapter of Zero Population Growth, looked to a check on population growth as a vital part of the solution. "More food does not reduce hunger, it just makes more people," McClendon said. He explained that population control was necessary because increased food production and birth control were only two ends to the same question. . Lutman said the world should first reach an optimum population, maintain that popula tion and then let international technology catch up with world food needs. Panel member Hazel Fox, UNL Food and Nutrition Department chairman, said she looked to a more individual solution. "The United States has oversold and over bought protein," Fox said. "We can easily get along with much less meat in our daily diets." She noted there are many foods that supply as much protein as meat. James Kendrick, a panelist and UNL professor of agricultural economics, said the U.S. should first realize that it. is impossible for it to feed the world. "President Ford and Kissinger (U.S. Sec. of State Henry) have been making wild statements that the U.S. is going to feed the worloV' Kendrick said, "but they, .have not been doing their homework." He explained that it was extremely costly to produce food. Kendrick said he thought the basic question was whether the developed nation; were going to sacrifice their style of living in order to feed the underdeveloped countries. "I'm betting they're not." Kendrick said. He said he believed in a family philosophy: "Unless you're one of us, we don't care." Kendrick said the world would eentuall reach the stage that the developed natio s would be set against the backward nations. J A V??,V4 Yr - - "J:x w. . .v. Panelist Ja,mes Kendrick solutions to.th wbrld food crisis. discussed Master's Week J f " ' ft-' 1 Alumni to visit campus "1 In tjtmrtm. James C. Olson ....... . A. Nancy C. Andreasen ' ' y w-I If1 A N L.-.J 1 ' v;. ' j v . I ;'..J " v., v f . ; ' Win ' Paula B. Wells John H. Lonnquist 4 George F. Andreasen Dean Kiliion Eleven distinguished UNL alumni will visit campus Thurs day and Friday as part of the 1974 Masters Week. Each graduate will meet with students and faculty members in classrooms and living units to discuss their postgraduate ca reer experiences. Master's Week is an annual event sponsored by the Inno cents and Mortar Board senior honoraries in cooperation with the UNL Chancellor's Office. The 1974 Masters include: Dr. George Andreasen, pro fessor and chairman of the de partment of orthodontics at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry in. Iowa City. He has received recognition as the co-inventor of a clinical use for nitonol, a revolutionary wire with unusual elastic properties which was developed for the space program. Dr. Nancy C. Andreasen, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City. Before receiving her M.D. degree, Dr. Andreasen tauqht English at Nebraska Wcsleycn, the Univer sity of Nebraska and the Univer sity of Iowa. Her research interests now include psycho matic medicine, schizophrenia, creativity, thought disorder and nosology. Stephanie Dort, assistant pro fessor and clinic coordinator at the Northwestern University Schcol of Dentistry, in Evanston, III. Since her graduation from UNL in 1966, Dort's career has taken her through private prac tice, graduate school, and super visory and teaching positions in several states. Robert C. Holland, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Hol land served as associate director of the Board in 1964 and was appointed secretary of the Board in 1968. He held that position until he became the Board's executive director in 1971. He will host a rap session a' Centennial College Thursday from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Dean Kiliion, professor of music and director of bands at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Tex. In addition, Kiliion is director of the Lubbock Municipal Band and is in great demand for band clinics throughout the United States. Prior to assuming his present position, Kiliion was director of bands at Fresno State College in California. John Lonnquist, professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Lonnquist has attained national an'1 inter national fame as a-maize genet icist and breeder and has served as a consultant to several Central and South American countries. He has won numerous awards, Continued on pg. 14