Speaker focuses on differences between sexes
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By Josh Nichols
Staff writer
Sometimes men have to do strange
things to put themselves in women’s
shoes - even compete in a beauty con
test
The contest, designed to show men
how women constantly feel judged, was
part of a lecture by Warren Farrell titled
“Why Men Are the Way They Are,”
which also is the title of one of his three
books.
Farrell’s 25 years of discussing the
sexes and how they feel has landed him
on “Donahue,” “The Oprah Winfrey
Show,” “20/20,” “Larry King Live” and
others.
Wednesday, Farrell covered a much
broader topic than indicated by his pre
sentation’stitle: He discussed the prob
lems and misunderstandings between
the sexes and with people in general.
“The program was directly about
men walking a mile in the others’ moc
casins,” he said, “but indirectly (about)
knowing how to walk in anyone else’s
moccasins, such as parents, brothers
and sisters, employers and anyone else
you have problems with.”
Among Farrell’s views is his theory
that men die sooner than women
because they have more stress.
The reason, he said, is because for a
man to impress a woman, he has to deal
with the stress of trying to look good
and be successful.
Farrell said women don’t have the
same pressure as men to be successful.
Many students in the audience were,
at first, surprised by Farrell’s radical
explanations of why men and women
act as they do.
“It gave a different outlook on men’s
roles and obligations in society,”
Richard Speth, a sophomore pre-medi
cine student, said.
“I believe most of what he said
makes sense, but it is difficult to under
mine values you’ve held in your mind
all your life.”
Charlotte Brugman, a freshman
agronomy major, said she would be able
to apply what Farrell said to her life.
“It gave me an understanding of
what my boyfriend is thinking when we
sit down and talk,” Brugman said. “I
think a lot of what he said makes sense if
you sit down and relate it to yourself.”
Farrell said women are forced to
take part in a beauty contest every day of
their lives, whether they want to or not
To make the male audience mem
bers understand this, he had the audi
ence take part in a role-reversal activity.
All males were asked to walk to the
front of the room and participate in a
beauty contest
The women then were asked to
judge the men on their appearance and
choose a beauty king.
Farrell, who wrote his first book,
“The Liberated Man,” in 1974, has
adjusted his viewpoint over the years.
“When I first started, I was com
pletely explaining the women’s perspec
tive,” he said. “Then I began to see that
men were not feeling understood, so I
developed this project to have women
and men walk a mile in each other’s
moccasins.”
Farrell is writing another book tided,
“Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t
Say”
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It gave a different outlook on men s roles
and obligations in society.”
Richard Speth
sophomore pre-medicine student
Security reasons prompt new $20
■ Andrew Jackson gets a
makeover to slow down
counterfeiting.
By Brian Carlson
Staff writer
Old Hickory got a facelift
Thursday.
The U.S. Treasury began circu
lating the newly designed $20 bills,
featuring a larger, off-center portrait
of the seventh U.S. president,
Andrew Jackson.
The new bills also display a
watermark identical to Jackson’s
portrait, color-shifting ink, micro
printing and other features designed
to thwart counterfeiters.
“By incorporating these security
features, it should deter people from
being able to counterfeit easily,”
said Connie Lykins, public affairs
coordinator for the Kansas City
Federal Reserve Bank.
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rency denomination to be
redesigned in the last three years.
“Old Hickory” Jackson’s new look
on the $20 bill matches that of
Benjamin Franklin on the new $100
bill, released in 1996, and Ulysses
Grant on the new $50 bill, released
in 1997.
Pam Golka, a marketing repre
sentative for Havelock Bank in
Lincoln, said the release of the new
$20 bill was receiving more atten
tion than did the new $50 and $100
bills because of its wider use.
Next to the $1 bill, the $20 bill is
the most widely used, she said. And
she said the $20 bill is the denomi
nation most widely dispersed
through automated teller machines.
“It’s the bill that most people are
used to seeing and using,” Golka
said.
But she said the circulation of
the new $20 bills could take time -
possibly up to six months - before
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into circulation, bills with the old
design still will be accepted as legal
tender. Banks will remove bills with
the old design from circulation only
when they are damaged.
Golka said the U.S. Treasury
plans to issue new designs for the $ 1
and $5 bills in 2000.
Other features of the new $20
bills, according to the U.S. Treasury, ]
include: |
■ The numeral “20” in the lower ]
right comer on the front, printed in
color-shifting ink that appears green
when viewed from the front, but
black from an angle.
■ The large numeral “20” on the
back, which is easier for vision
impaired people to see clearly.
■ The reverse side of the bill
now will feature a portrait of the {
north side of the White House. The
old design had shown the south side
and lawn.
the new bills are issued regularly
through ATMs.
Kathy Reese, a retail banking
officer at the National Bank of
Commerce in Lincoln, said NBC
would receive its first shipment
of the new $20 bills Friday and
begin circulating them immedi
ately.
“We’ve had people telling us it
looks like Monopoly money,” she
said, laughing.
But the public has grown used to
the new design after the release of
the new $50 and $ 100 bills, she said,
and probably won’t be overly con
fused by the new $20 bills.
“When the 100s first came out,
people were wondering, is this real
or not?” she said. “But the 20 is so
similar to the 50 and 100 that I
don’t think we’ll have any prob
lems.”
As the new $20 bills are placed
First female appointed to state high court
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
A justice who law partners
called an example of how to be a
lawyer will be the first female jus
tice on Nebraska’s Supreme Court.
Lindsey Miller-Lerman was
sworn in Wednesday in a ceremony
in the Capitol rotunda.
After learning of the appoint
ment, Miller-Lerman said she was
honored and pleased, and she is
ready to start working.
“As my father used to say, ‘get
your lunch pail and report to work,”’
she said in prepared remarks.
“She is marvelous,” said
Patrick Griffin, a partner in Kutak
Rock law firm in Omaha where
Miller-Lerman worked from 1976
1992.
“She’s one of my mentors,
frankly,” Griffin said.
Miller-Lerman has served as the
chief of the Nebraska Court of
Appeals since 1992, where she was
also the first female judge.
Gov. Ben Nelson appointed
Miller-Lerman to the high court
Aug. 5 to replace D. Nick
Corporate, who retired earlier this
year.
Nelson said in a statement that
Miller-Lerman will make an out
standing servant of the people of
Nebraska.
With Miller-Lerman’s appoint
ment, Nelson now has appointed
every member of the court.
Miller-Lerman, a Columbia Law
School graduate, came to Omaha
from New York, where she had
worked as a law clerk in federal
court.
She persuaded the Kutak Rock
partners to hire her part time, so she
still could devote time to her family.
Her co-workers marveled at
how she could balance her work-.
load with her family life, Griffin
said.
“She was a part-time attorney
with a full-time load, and she was
able to juggle everything,” Griffin
said.
Later Miller-Lerman was
named a partner in the firm while
still working part time - an unusual
feat.
Her secretary of 14 years called
Miller-Lerman the most remarkable
person she’d ever met.
Miller-Lerman’s understanding
of the law and professionalism
helped her excel in securities
defense at the national firm and
later as a judge, Griffin said.
“She is extremely bright, and die
has an extraordinary understanding
of the law.**
