Editorial
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Sex and salary at the University
They’ve finally decided there is sex
discrimination at the University. Good. Sex
discrimination is and has always been one of
the most vile kinds of bigotry. It becomes
even more ridiculous in light of the fact that
there are more women in the world than
men.
President Clark maintains that sex
discrimination is not intentional. This.of
course is ridiculous. The quota system for
women in higher education has been around
as long as there have been schools. This is
most evident in such institutions as law and
medical schools. Sex has been the deter -
minent factor in applications for positions in
education for years.
The following table from the hearings
before the Special Subcommittee on
Education of the House of Representatives
9lst Congress* shows this most clearly
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5.148 28.892 9.322 10.064
8.893 37.232 7.870 8.446
9.454 19.464 6.454 6.864
HEW has told the University that they
face losses of $1 million a year in govern
ment contracts if it doesn’t submit guidelines
that will help to eliminate sex discrimination.
This could be an effective tool in ending this
insidious practice. Hopefully there will be
campus-wide forums in which all views may
be presented and from which the guidelines
might stem.
One suggestion that might be extremely
useful would be a “blind” application
system. Under this all applications for
academic positions and graduate school
would be submitted without information
concerning sex, marital status or anything
else that could identify someone according to
sex. There would be problems but th s could
be one step.
The evidence against the University and
higher education in general is just too strong
to deny. The guidelines demanded by HEW
might help, but only if the University is
honest in its effort to end sex discrimination.
Letters
Education-Industrial Complex
There are few professors on campus
who have taken the time and have the
ability to organize their lectures so as to
make the best possible use of the reserve
reading room and the library, in general.
To those people who have, I have great
admiration for both their professionalism
and consideration toward students’
financial means.
Unfortunately, too few possess these
qualities so evident by the long faces in the
bookstore. The pain of buying an armload
of seven to twenty dollar texts has become
almost unbearable to many. One thing
seems obvious from the activities at the
Co-op—Educational Industrial Complex
has become an influential force on this
campus.
There has been an equation of the
number of texts and their cost with the
quality of education. Paperbacks have
been somewhat of a help but four $3.95
paperbacks per class is not desirable
either. What is needed is more com
petently prepared lectures that in
corporate die ideas of these books. Those
books that are essential to the course
should be on reserve and more use of
mimeographed material would be
especially valuable.
Many professors have mastered the
technique of providing the needed in
formation within their lectures while
others ramble on for hours about the most
basic and boring aspects of the course.
The real negligence and fault lies with
the students who are intimidated into
accepting the asinine lectures and the
purchasing of texts that should be covered
in lectures. Remember, profs get paid for
out of class research and reading. We
should question the necessity to read
material they are being paid to lecture on.
Texts are for reference and basic con
cepts, not replacements for competent
lectures. We have one of the best libraries
going and I believe it should have more use
than the Co-op bookstore.
Jim Lapping
Jr., CSPA
Go to Jail
It’s true, as your news story of April 1,
1971 states, that I didn’t specify whether or
not I wanted to go to the pen even though
District Attorney John Leahy repeated
over and over again “I don’t want to go to
the pen” in connection with marijuana
laws.
For the record, I don’t want to go to the
pen and I don’t know anyone who does
want to go.
The point is that many young people
are being put in jail today because of our
marijuana laws, laws that didn’t exist
before 1937 and laws which have not been
effective against either use or abuse of
marijuana.
On the contrary, pot’s illegality is part
of its attractiveness to many young people
who regard these laws, with some
justification, as another example of
establishment hypocrisy. Recently the
Oregon State Senate with only one
dissenting vote, passed a bill
decriminalizing alcoholism and indicating
that the way to attack this serious social
and personal problem of drug abuse is
through health and education measures,
not the criminal law ....
If you or any of your readers favor
such a change in our laws this year, please
call or write without delay to express your
opinions to members of the Lane County
delegation, other members of the
Legislature and, in particular, members of
Martin Luther King:
A Citizen of the World
In constructive togetherness let us stand
And “us” is embracing,
I speak for no race.
Humanity is at stake if love is racial
King, our model, was a citizen of the world
Any honor to him should transcend racial thinking.
His gospel was constructive—non-violence was his creed.
He lived his sermon and left us the pattern.
His message was simple, its content was factual:
Man is divine no matter his race,
Is worthy of dignity no matter his station,
Love is the banner for peace on earth.
This is the message,
Shouting is unnecessary,
Patient ploughing insures rich harvest.
Oppression of man by man anywhere on the globe
Is a shameful blot on civilized humanity,
For freedom is a farce, when man is in chains.
Our weapon for freedom is non-explosive,
Shouting and stamping of feet
Are of no avail.
Intelligent endeavor with the torch in our hands
Makes day of night and shatters our fears,
For fear holds in bondage where fetters are none.
It’s important to remember—
Freedom is not given,
It is the birthright of man.
The reverse of this order
Is the cause of our conflicts,
And silent endurance perpetuates the evil polity,
But violent redress is the loss of the game.
What then is the course of action?
You might ask.
An erratic traveller has no destination to hit,
His trip is to Nowhere,
But it takes him a lifetime.
My friends, our model is the Great Martin Luther King
His gospel of love and non-violent approach
Is the only hope for confused humanity.
Let’s stand up and give him a bravo—
Bravo for the seed of love he sowed,
Bravo for the cause of peace and tolerance he championed,
Bravo for the man he was.
Sydney Onyeberechi
Graduate, English
the Senate Criminal Law and Procedure
Committee, Kenneth A. Jernstedt,
chairman, Betty Browne, vice-chairman
and Don S. Willner, Ellis P. Carson, Jr.,
Edward N. Fadeley, C.R. Hoyt, Anthony
Yturri, John D. Bums and Vernon Cook.
As a parent and a lawyer I have seen
the anguish and bitterness caused by the
operation of our laws against marijuana.
Our law enforcement authorities, our
judiciary and our bar can be better em
ployed. The problems caused by and
leading to marijuana use and abuse can be
better understood if the criminal penalties
are reduced to the level of misdemeanors.
Charles O. Porter
858 Pearl St.
Letter to the Edltor
Conceming Tim Travis’s commentary
“Manson is Already Dead”-certainly
there was more involved in this trial than
just bringing a group of accused mur
derers to justice. There is no question that
the death sentence is inhuman as well as
being ineffective. But what is this crap
about the irony of Manson and his band
killing “crazy Hollywood types, amoral
orgy participants who are forever getting
huge sums of money for not working and
divorcing one another?” Regardless of
how Travis has concluded that all those
killed were “crazy Hollywood types”
(which is apparently not a “good” type to
be) a crime is a crime no matter what the
life style of the victim. Manson's crime is
not lessened, as Travis implies, because of
the nature of those killed. It is distressing
to consider the parallels between Travis’s
thoughts and those who feel the National
Guard should not be prosecuted for the
killing of those students at Kent State, for
after all they were just “crazy student
types, amoral orgy participants who are
forever getting money from home for not
working.”
C. Kirk Johnson
Junior, Psychology
Expose
In our study of prices at stores in the
campus area, Miss Barnes and I did not
pretend knowledge in the field of
management of the retail establishment.
Had that been the case, we would have
published a detailed expose rather than a
survey.
It is simply not possible to argue with
the facts presented in our study. We did
imply an impatience with the Co-op’s
higher prices. I see personal benefits in
avoiding business with the Co-op, and I
wished to pass this information on to fellow
students.
Henry Itkin
Sophomore, Psychology