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Tuesday, January 31, 1984
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 89
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highlight B-We
By Noreen Nlijni
UNL students will share the stage
with Chancellor Martin Massengale,
Regent Nancy Hoch, state Sen. Chri3
Abboud and Mies Nebraska, Kris Low
enberg in a fashion show during 13
Week '84.
B-Week, sponsored by the Student
Advisory Board of the Business College,
starts Feb. 5 and continues to Feb. 10.
Xerox, Osco Drug, the State of Neb
raska's Department of Revenue and
the Nebraska Society of Certified Public
Accountants are among the companies
represented in this year's B-Week. Each
company will have a booth on the first
floor of the College oi Business Adminis
tration building.
The "Dress to Impress" fashion semi
nar, sponsored by Ben Simon's, Inc.,
will attempt to show students how to
dress for success, said Laura Meyer,
co-chairperson of the seminar.
A raffle will take place during the
"Dress to Impress" seminar. The grand
prize is a $ 1 00 Ben Simon's gift certificate.
Raffle tickets will be sold before the
seminar and at the door. -
Hardware and software from such
companies as Radio Shack and Epsom
will highlight the Computer Fair. Two
sessions teach students how to use the
computers in the basement of the CBA
building.
John Nelson, a member of the Young
Presidents Club and president of Insur
ance Agents, Inc., will lead an open
discussion.
The B-Week Bash at Judges, 2630
Cornhusker Highway, wraps up B-Week
'84 with entertainment by the band,
"Vicious Rumors."
A freshman leadership seminar and
banquet is also included in B-Week '84.
It is open to those freshmen business
majors with grade point averages of
3.4 or higher.
Tickets to the "Dress to Impress"
seminar and the Bash will be sold at
booths in the Nebraska Union throughout
B-Week, or may be purchased from
members of the Student Advisory Board
of the College of Business Administra
tion. B-Week '84 allows students to interact
with the community and other stu
dents, said Becky Barlow, co-chairperson
of B-Week '84. B-Week, she said, also
promotes the (College of Business Admini
stration and its student clubs. Schedules
of B-Week '84 events can be obtained in
the CBA dean's office.
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By Lori Paulsen
When Jessie Myles, assistant profes
sor of sociology, finishes his disserta
tion and earns his Ph.D. this semester,
he will become the fourth black Ph.D.
teaching full time at UNL
According to Jimmie Smith, Multi
Cultural Affairs director, only three
black teaching faculty members now
have Ph.D-.'s of about 1 ,800 UNL teach
ers. He said the number of blacks with
doctorates is lower now than in 1970
when there were four.
Myles said he accepted the position
at UNL because the program had what
he wanted to teach, and the university
had the resources he needed for his
research. Myles said this is his first full
time teaching position, although he
has had eight years of teaching expe
rience. "I never wanted to teach," he said,
but after I started teaching I became
more comfortable with it. I felt like I
had something to offer."
Myles has taught in graduate pro
grams at Grambling State University in
Louisiana, Northeast Louisiana State
University and Harris Stowe State Col
lege in St. Louis. He has also taught at
Florissant Community College and Wash
ington University in St. Louis.
Myles said he chose to study sociol
ogy because it is flexible and broad.
"I could go from the classroom into
many fields," Myles said.
Once interested in how sociology
relates to religion and economics, Myles
said teaching is what he likes now and
is where he wants to be in his career.
Aside from teaching, researching is
an important part of Myles' career. For
two years, he has been researching the
role of blacks in the criminal justice
system. Myles said he is trying to find
out if race makes a difference in fear
and beliefs about crime.
Some of what Myles teaches in his
classes also deals with racial issues.
"I see the need of dealing with racial
issues," he said. They can't be put
under the table because they interfere
with interactions of others."
Myles said he is concerned with
teaching more than the subject of the
class. One of his goals is for students to
get a better understanding of them
selves, v
"It is important to dispel formed
stereotypes and bring people to realize
they have them," Myles said.
Myles said meeting the needs of stu
dents makes him an effective teacher.
"You have to be fair and firm, but you
must also be flexible," he said. "You
have to meet the needs of students
when they aren't always obvious."
Myles has taught in both predomi
nantly black and predominantly white
colleges and said the demands from
him are the same because the stu
dents' needs are similar.
Myles said he thinks most students
would benefit from teachers of a dif
ferent race than themselves.
He suggested one reason UNL has so
few black Ph.D. teachers is that Lin
coln is predominantly white. '
"A black Ph.D. with a family has to be
concerned with his family members'
welfare " he said.
Myles said he was concerned about
moving his children from a 40 percent
black neighborhood in St. Louis and
rearing them in a predominantly white
neighborhood.
Myles is married and has two boys;
Derryl, 5, and Kevin, 2.
Blacks with doctorates also worry
about salary and the commitment of
the university to hiring more black
faculty members.
"True commitment is important,"
Myles said. "It's not just a surface
attempt to get quotas."
Myles said he thinks UNL realizes
the need to bring in black professors.
"Like other universities, UNL is
competing to get black teachers to
come here," he said.
So far, Myles said, he and his family
have adjusted well to Lincoln. His goal
is to play an active part in the com
munity. "I see it as an obligation to myself
and the community to get involved," he
said.
Craig AndretenDally Nebraskan
This tree, once nearly 50 feet tall, was felled not by a woodman's ax, but
by Sunday's wind storm. The cedar at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Andresen, 3133 S. 40th in Lincoln caused little damage as it fell,
missing power lines by only feet.
Eoontz: Women's lives
depend on pay equity
By Mary C. Reilly
Women, college students, part-time
and unmarried persons suffer wage
and employment discrimination, said
Elizabeth Koontz, chairwoman of the
National Commission of Working Wo
men. Koontz was the guest speaker at a
seminar Saturday on pay equity.
Pay equity holds that jobs requiring
comparable but not identical skills
and responsibilities should be paid
equally. The issue affects everyone in
the public and private sector, Koontz
said.
As employees and employers, it is
important to know the impact of pay
equity in our society, according to a
brochure produced by Friends of the
Nebraska Commission on the Status of
Women.
This country boasts a work ethic,"
Koontz said. The basic principle behind
thework ethic is that if one does the
job well, one will have an opportunity
to advance according to the skill and
one's ability and desire," Koontz said.
That's a big hoax," Koontz said, one
that has especially been played on
women. v
"Now, where I come from in the
South, it was called segregation," Koontz
said. "But within segregation, there
also was the same thing. There were
certain things girls were supposed to
do, women were supposed to do and
certain other things men were supposed
to do. So we really don't have to worry
about whether it s segregation or not.
It's our society," Koontz said.
Koontz said she has been successful .
in her career because she has been
allowed to come up through the sieve
where women and blacks were hired
so the employer would look good, she
said.
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Inside
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A new position means coming
home for UNL's pre-admission
counselor Psga 3
Choreographer Robin John
son hopes to help interest in the
art of dance grow by leaps and
bounds Pegs 8
A Canadian sprinter comes
to Nebraska to further his Olympic
dreams Peja 10
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Arts and Entertainment. . .... 3
Classified 11
Crossword 12
Editorial 4
Off TheVyire .'. 2
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