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A federal appeals court in St. Louis has ruled
against the university for paying male employes
less than female employes. The decision seems
double-edged.
The ruling Tuesday by the 8th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals . stated the university acted
illegally when it developed a special salary schedule
for female employes in the colleges of Agriculture
and Home Economics in 1 972.
The revised pay schedule was part of an effort
by NU to comply with the federal Civil Rights Act.
Male employes' pay was not conisdered in this
effort, apparently only because the minority whose
equality was at issue here was women.
The salary schedule was complicated, but when
it was completed, its makers were confident it
would satisfy the provisions of the Civil Rights
Act.
What no one seems to have forseen was that the
new pay scale, while complying with one federal
law, might violate another.
After the schedule went into effect, extension
agriculturalist A. Neil Dawes of Fairbury filed suit
against the university on behalf of extension
employes at the College of Agriculture. Dawes's
suit claimed the salary schedule violated the Fan
Labor Standards Act because it was applied only to
women.
A U.S. District Court judge in Lincoln decided
the suit in favor of the university, but the appellate
court overturned that decision on grounds that,
under the new schedule, males with equal
education and experience were being paid less than
the minimum salary for females.
If the university chooses to pursue the matter, it
may find itself in what one attorney for NU called
"a legal never-never land."
Apparently no happy medium has been found
between the two federal acts in this case, so if NU
complies with one law, it violates the other.
Both the university's original effort to
compensate women, and the Circuit Court's
decision that men were being discriminated against,
are commendable. What is working against both
sexes in this instance is the law.
Double takes: The Omaha World-Herald reports
that a national research group has rated Boston's
mass transit system the best in the nation. That's
quite an achievement for the city where "bus"
dirty word.
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Dear editor,
Even in this hour of enlightenment, I have blundered.
To all who received invitations to the official release of
the 1975-76 Builders" Calendar and took offense at the
phrase, "Gentlemen of the press are invited," as chairman
of the Calendar and Directory Committee of Builders,
publisher of both the calendar and the invitations, 1 take
full responsibility for our hasty choice of words and would
like to take this opportunity to apologize.
Having no good excuse, I offer none. I might point out,
however, that Builders is as endowed with women as is the
Daily Nebraskan. I wouldn't like to think that our PR sheet
was announcing our possible closemindedness toward
women of the press, but rather was announcing that
Builders has once again made available a pocket calendar to
our campus.
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By Arthur Hoppe
"Good evening, sir," said the young man on my
doorstep, holding forth a can. "I am collecting for The
Mothers' March on Tertiary Cineraria."
"Teriary cineraria?" I asked suspiciously. "What are the
symptoms?"
"What've you got?" he said. .
"Well," I said, "I've got an aching back, a stiff shoulder
and an itchy elbow."
"By George, you've got it!" he said, happily rattling his
can. "Anything you'd care to give. . ."
"Hold it," I said. "Tertiary cineraria is a new one on
me.
"Of course," he said with dignity. "Do you think I'd be
collecting for any old disease? They just invented it."
I inquired politely as to what fiends would go around
inventing new diseases.
"Please," he said, offended, "you are speaking of half
the pioneers of modern medical science."
"I thought pioneers were supposed to be discovering
cures not diseases."
That s the other half," he said. "One half discovers
cures for old diseases, the other half does its part by
discovering new diseases to replace them with. For
example, that's how we cured the common cold."
"We did?"
"Where have you been?" he said. "Have you run into
anyone lately with a common cold? Not a chance. Precisely
98.2 per cent of those who used to have a cold now have a
virus. The other 1 .8 per cent suffer from allergic reactions
Or take the grippe."
"No, thank vou."
""Don't worry, we cured the grippe. It wasn't easy. But
after years of painstaking research we managed to replace it
with 17 different kinds of influenza." P
"Amazing!"
"Oh, that's nothing. Thanks to smashing breakthroughs
we've also cured sore throats, yellow jaundice and tired
blood, all of which once plagued millions. Today, we have
instead strep throats, hepatitis and mononucleosis, all of
which now plague millions."
"It's good to know our scientists are keeping up."
"Actually," he said proudly, "they're drawing further
and further ahead. Fifty years ago, who ever worried about
emphysema, high cholesterol or psychosomatic
dermatalogical dysfunctions?" ,
"Not I," I said.
"Of course, we've lost a few, tike infantile paralysis
which we replaced with polio which we unfortunately
cured. That's why I'm forced to collect for tertiary
cineraria." ;
I asked what it replaced. "In your case," he said,
"arthritis, bursitis and the heartbreak of psoriasis."
"It is fatal?" I inquired nervously.
"Death is inevitable," he said gloomily, "sooner cr
later."
"I'll give!" I cried., "I'll give! But, tell me, is
widespread?"
. "It will be," he' said confidently, "as soon as we can
crank out enough press, releases." (Copyright ChrorUeto
Publishing Co. 1975)