Nebraska Diplomats promote
industry, youth staying in state
By Lynn Schwebach
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska Diplomats wel
comed more than 150 business execu
tives who are graduates of the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, to speak on
Nebraska’s future business environ
ment at a banquet at the Cornhusker
Hotel Friday.
The Diplomats are a group of
business executives who voluntarily
ask in- and out-of-state businesses to
promote Nebraska. The group is an
offshoot of the Nebraska Department
of Economic Development
Larry Hall, president and chief
operating officer of KNEnergy Inc.,
in Lakewood, Colo., was just one
executive who discussed the need to
intertwine education with econom
ics.
“It will be important from an edu
cation standpoint to focus on the kind
of education and leadership needed to
attract industry to Nebraska,” Hall
said.
Hall, a 1967 UNL law graduate,
said UNL can become a leader in
economic development by establish
ing centers that would develop the
skills in students that industry needs.
For example, Hall said , the Boston
area is now considered ‘'hi-tech”
because eastern universities imple
mented programs to develop stu
dents’ technical skills. After gradu
ation, students stay in Boston because
they can find jobs, Hall said.
UNL must fry to keep Nebraska’s
“most valuable resource—the young
— in the state,” Hall said.
Clark Carpenter, vice president
and treasurer of Elkay Manufacturing
Co., Oak Brook, III., received his
bachelor of science degree in busi
ness administration from UNL in
1958.
Attracting business to Nebraska,
Carpenter said, means offering com
panies a “hardworking work force
with a good educational back
ground.”
Carpenter said (Mice a company
locates in Nebraska, the state must
make it attractive for that company to
stay and help it to grow.
Gary Warren, who received his
undergraduate and law degree from
UNL, agreed with the out-of-state
guests.
Warren, vice president of corpo
rate development of Hamilton Tele
phone in Aurora, said the Diplomats’
tie to education will be critical in the
next 10 to 20 years.
Warren said that up to this point,
the Diplomats have not developed
any direct connection with UNL.
In the future, Warren said, the
Diplomats hope to work more and
more with the business and engineer
ing colleges.
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the program.
Petersen said ASUN can still do
nate to the “Do It Sober” program, but
only if RHA also participates.
Koubsky was not available for
comment Sunday.
Residence Education plans to do
nate $500 to the “Do It Sober” pro
gram, said Lyn Jakobsen, assistant
director of housing/residence educa
tion.
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Sex segregation in schools
Boys get better quality education than girls, authors say
By David G. Young
Staff Reporter
American classrooms possess an
innate sexual bias which affects ca
reer performance in adults, according
to two national activists for sexual
equality.
David and Myra Sadker, profes
sors of education at American Uni
versity in Washington D.C., spoke
before a group of nearly 300 students
at Nebraska Wesleyan University’s
O’Donnell Auditorium Friday.
David and Myra Sadker are co
authors of the 1973 publication,
“Sexism in School and Society,”
which they claim is “the first book
written on this topic.”
“It’s the more subtle bias that faces
us today that is harder to overcome
than the blatant bias of the past,”
Myra Sadker said.
This bias was demonstrated by
construction of a mock classroom,
using students from the audience. In
this classroom, girls were praised for
the quality of the handwriting in their
assignments, while boys were given
specific attention on academic sub
jects.
According to the Sadkers, the lack
of attention given to female students
by their teachers is a major problem in
the American school system.
“Race segregation is outlawed.
Sex segregation is the norm,” David
Sadker said. “Boys get more precise
evaluation, more encouraging evalu
ation, more useful evaluation.”
Females tend to be ahead in all
subjects upon entering primary
schooling, but males end up ahead on
all subjects when leaving high school.
Girls are the only ones in the public
schools who have this reaction, they
said.
In their presentation, the Sadkers
also showed pages from a 1970
children’s picture book, “I’m Glad
I’m a Boy/ I’m Glad I’m a Girl.”
According to the captions, “Boys
are presidents, girls are first ladies.
Boys invent things, girls use things
invented by boys.’’ • . ~
“At the time, the word sexism
wasnt even in our vocabulary,
David Sadker said.
The Sadkers also criticized th
chauvinism which exists in the teach
ing of American history. Not only di
Ely Whitney invent the cotton gin, s
did Catherine Greene, Myra Sadk(
said.
According to Myra Sadker, sue
sexism can’t be overcome until tf
problem is solved in the classroom
“ As educators, we have the oppe
tunily to change things and mai
them better for everybody,” she sail
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