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Greak-Isd A5UN represents select few
Mike Frost, thank you for making, on
the behalf of the student body, a realistic
comparison among the Greek-led parties;
Reach, Action and Real. Your sweet
sounding Valentine's verse had in it a deep
meaning for students. Students should be
ware of the same campaign promises which
have the single purpose of gaining votes.
toward the potential of student govern
ment. Richard King
junior, political science
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Wednesday, February 16, 1933
clones
As prospective entrants into the labor
market, we students at UNL have good
reason to be thankful to the faculty and
staff of the College of Business Administra
tion. During the past week, CBA sponsored
its annual B-Week activities, during which
John Molloy was guest speaker. Molloy,
author of "Dress for Success," provided us
with more factual data that is consistent
with the already burgeoning evidence from
the social sciences. This data clearly and
consistently points to a rather unmistak
able depressing conclusion.
Social scientists, like Thorestein Veblen,
John Kenneth Galbraith and Rosabeth
Moss Kanter have come to agree that oui
corporate leaders are selected through a
process of "homosocial reproduction" or
social cloning. In this process, educational
institutions in general, and business
colleges in particular, play an important
social role. Educational institutions deliver
certificates which serve as job tickets. In
more technical language, educational in
stitutions provide their students with
"ports" to those entry-level corporate
positions. This is consistent with sociologi
cal data which show that corporate leader
ship is based on age, sex, kinship orders,
political affiliations, as well as voluntary
and involuntary associations.
But educational institutions do more
than provide "ports of entry" to those
lucrative corporate positions. They also
transmit the values and ethos of the bus
iness community to their members. The
logical deduction is that students will win
acceptance in corporate organizations to
the extent that they follow and accept the
ethos and values of the business commun
ity. In the quest to win approval, dress is
an important component in the equation
for corporate success.
About 50 years ago, economist John
Maynard Keynes observed that business
men were a somewhat fickle and nervous
lot - understandably so, as their activities
border on the margin of the immoral. Dress
serves as a sort of filtering device whereby
the unworthy are weeded out. Conservative
dress represents a form of acceptance
which tells the employer: Yes, I am willing
to subordinate my ethics for the benefit
of the group; Yes, I am willing to wipe out
my neighbor's job and then foreclose on
his car and moitgage when he can't make
the payments; Yes, I am willing to divide
entire communities and then go to Taiwan
where the relative wage and tax differential
is cheaper; Yes, I am willing to do all of
these things and more for the sake of
winning acceptance in the corporate com
munity. Veblen was correct when he wrote to
ward the close of the 19th century that
dress is an expression of the pecuniary
culture. That is why Molloy opened his
talk telling his audience "if you don't
listen to me, you've had it . . . dressing for
success is not a choice . . . it's do or die."
To tell us the importance associated
with dress in the corporate world is one
thing, but to then turn around and remark,
"This is not based on personal opinion (be
cause) I am a researcher" is another matter.
Apparently Molloy would have us believe
that he is neutral on the subject and that
by expousing this he is immune from value
judgments. Such efforts are futile because
the term "success" is value laden. Success
as defined by Molloy is a synonym for con
formity; put somewhat differently, it
means to blindly follow in the footsteps
of those who seldom think about the social
consequences of their activities.
When the time arises, I urge my
colleagues at UNL to take consumer ad
vocate Ralph Nader's advice and pose the
following question to the corporate inter
viewers: Is this the kind of organization 1
can feel good about being a part of? To
this ends-in-view Molloy is incorrect. One
does not acquire power by playing "their
game." Submitting to the rules of "their
game" is, from the individual's perspective,
the absence of power.
In the meantime, as a form of symbolic
protest against an attitude which I feel is
subversively undermining what is good in
contemporary American society, 1 plan to
wear bowties whenever the situation pre
sents itself.
Jerold Laval Davis
graduate student, economics
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The leadership offered by the Greek-led
parties is tainted with attitudes that stem
from a ceitain few. This order of leadership
is not in the initial interests of the student
body. What we need is a student govern
ment that represents a fraternity of all
UNL students. One should not have in
mind that a difference in organization is
intrinsically good, but that the existing
establishment has continued to prove itself
ineffective, and has done so over a long
period of time.
This is not an attack on the Greek
system, but the fact that Greek houses are
organized and always have a corral of
candidates does not make them better
organizers, especially organizers of the
government of the entire student body. Let
all students go into the ASUN election
with a brighter, more positive outlook
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Rr'Ui: Fact:
If peep!? Qen a sexuai harasser will assume that "no" means "yes" and not
re!y want to dis believe a refusal. Even when a negative response is clearly under-
axxzp unwanted sex- stood, some teachers and supervisors are ready to use their
--n, thy can do power to coerce their students and employees. The unwilling
$a ff ttey ere seausSy ha- ness of an authority figure to "take no for an answer" separ
rs:rsd they must hive csked ates sexual harassment from acceptable sexual behavior,
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Fact:
Most chzrrs of sexual harassment Men and women who openly charge sexual
ere hits, Pccpla use these charges as harassment are often not believed, may be ridi-
a of "rzSng back" st someone else culed, may lose their jobs, be given a bad
wi'Ji hom they are erjgry. Thus, sexusl
hr.ri:;msr.t hz received more attention
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grade or be mistreated in some other way.
They have little to gain from false charges.
On the contrary, confidential surveys in
dicate that the majority of sexual har
assment cases are not officially reported.
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