Minister helps students adjust
By LAURA BRENNER
Of the Emerald
We all at some time in our college lives feel a little
lost, a little unsure of who we are or where we’re going.
Helping students find themselves has been Rev. G.G.
Goldthwaite’s life for the 26 years he has spent in
campus ministry, 11 of those at the University.
“I’m concerned about people relating to one
another,” said Goldthwaite. Through counseling and
small group sessions Goldthwaite has worked at helping
students understand their new life away from home.
“My principal interest has been with students
leaving home and coming to the campus. I have often
said when the student leaves home and goes to the
university it is the most traumatic experience of life,”
continued the minister.
“All people are frustrated, unsettled, somewhat lost.
They’re looking for the meaning to life. It might not be
religion. My Christian faith,” he continued, “is an an
swer for me, for a lot of people, but it is not the only
answer.”
With the increase in interest in religion there has
been a shift from trying to find the answers all by
yourself to seeking external help. There is new interest
in dogmatic religions which is unusual. People are
perhaps looking for sure answers to the meaning of life;
something stable in an unstable society. Groups like the
Jesus Freaks are, in Rev. Goldthwaite’s opinion, finding
their own answers.
Since he began at the University the Co-operative
Christian Ministry has been formed. This involves the
eight Christian denominations in an organization where
they can work together and share resources. Before they
became organized “they had been pretty much working
by themselves. Now we work together. We hold retreats
and discussion groups. We set up the Koinonia House”
and it works in conjunction with Newman Center and
Wesley. Goldthwaite acts as the liaison between the
groups.
Rev. Goldthwaite has “no plans in particular” for
when he retires at the end of this month. He is going to
travel all over the United States with his wife for awhile.
In the fall he hopes to offer his services to organizations
which need him, for instance helping senior citizens or in
counseling. “I’m still concerned about people. That’s
why I am where I am.”
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Rev. G.G. Goldthwaite
Most
fellowships
awarded
to men
“In 1972-73 about 80 per cent of the
nation’s most prestigious fellowships and
awards will go to men,” says a study on
Women in Fellowship and Training
Programs released Nov. 28 at a conference
sponsored by the Association of American
Colleges, with financial support from Esso
Education Foundation.
"Fellowships, traineeships, and in
ternships play a large part in the process
of educating the best American scholars,
professionals and business and govern
ment leaders. . . . Until women achieve a
higher participation rate in these
programs, many qualified women will
lack one of the more important credentials
necessary for career upward mobility.
“In 12 of the 40 programs which provided
data on the number of applicants, less than
10 per cent of the applicants were women.
In all but eleven programs, women
represented less than 25 per cent of the
applicants,” the study found.
Suggesting that women, to some degree,
self-select out of these programs even
before application because of the feeling
that only-superwomen-need-apply and
because of too rigid time and age rules, the
report concludes that those women who do
apply “are as a group somewhat more
likely to be more highly qualified than
male applicants; ” therefore “it is difficult
to explain why women are much less likely
to be recipients than men in almost one
third of the programs studies.”
Recommendations for increasing
women’s participation include redesigning
informational and promotional materials
so they encourage rather than discourage
women from applying. Changing the word
“he” to “persons” cm announcements and
applications and calling specific attention
to the program’s interest in women will
help to get women applicants. (For
example, the White House Fellows
program has this year developed a special
outreach for women in response to
criticism from Women’s Equity Action
League and other women’s groups
recently.)
Adding more women to selection boards,
establishing new networks for submitting
names of women to programs, and taking
a hard look at selection procedures and
policies will go a long way toward getting
more women into the programs, the study
asserts. “Questions about what a woman
will do with her young children, or how her
husband will feel if she has to travel,’’
should not be asked unless they are also
asked of male applicants.
The study also points out that a new
law—Title IX of the Education Amend
ments Act of 1972—prohibits colleges and
universities receiving federal funds from
discriminating on the basis of sex. This
would cover institutional nomination and
selection assistance to both public and
private fellowship programs.
Finally, the study suggests that the
participation of women in fellowship
programs may beheading for an early test
because many federal aid programs are
being phased out and more and more
people will be looking to private sources
for funding. “Whether or not women
achieve parity ... in a period where the
demand for such aid far exceeds the
supply, is dependent in large part on
whether fellowship sponsors determine
that funding female students and
professionals is an important goal.”
Women plan Mall vigil Friday
to protest apartheid policies
A vigil protesting the South African policy of apartheid will be held
by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF) Friday.
The vigil, which will be conducted by women wearing black
sashes, will take place at noon in the central plaza of the Eugene Mall.
The protest is part of a “major international focus against racism”
according to Marian Barnes.
Barnes said WILPF has been appointed to coordinate action
proposals to further the implementation of United Nations decisions
regarding racism and racial discrimination by a special committee of
the UN on human rights.
“Dec. 10 is the 24th anniversary of the signing of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. We feel the most appropriate way to
observe Human Rights Day is by drawing attention to the complete
denial of human rights under the South African system of apartheid,”
Barnes said.
WILPF is urging the U.S. to stop selling airplanes to South Africa,
to stop granting the nation a preferential sugar quota and to remove a
NASA satellite tracking station from the country, Barnes said.
We* wish you a
Merry Christmas!
^ Oregon Daily Emerald
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WINTER TERM
CPE DANCE CLASSES
revisions and corrections to the time schedule
MONDAY and WEDNESDAY: WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY
5118
5128
5130
5124
5133
5134
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30
.1:30
3:30
11:20 CPE 181
12:20 CPE 1*3
.1:20 CPE 1*4
2:20 CPE 18*
.3:20 CPE 385
WF *lnt. Modern
WF Beg. Ballet
WF Ballroom
WF Balkan
MW# Int. Ballet
Gries
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Hearn
Gries
van Muyden
Ger 353
Ger 354
Ger Studio
Ger Gym
Ger 354
5:20. CPE 384 MW -H- Adv. Ballet van Muyden Ger 354
TUESDAY and THURSDAY
S13S
5129
5120
5110
5119
6400
10:30-12:20
11:30- 1:20
11:30- 1:20
12:30- 2:20
1:30-3:20
1:30.3:20
.2:30-4:20
3:30-5:20
4:30-.6:20
7:30 .9 PM
CPE 197
CPE 388
CPE 194
CPE 199
CPE Its
CPE 198
CPE 180
CPE 183
CPE 183
CPE 184
Greek Folk
* Jan II
Elem. Ballet
Mexican Folk
Jan l _
Intntl Folk
Beg. Modern
Movemt Act
Movemt Act
Hawaiian Folk
Feshbach
Reeves
van Muyden
Porter
Reeves
Gries
Clark
Reeves
Reeves
McIntyre
Ger Gym
Ger 353
Ger Studio
Ger Gym
Ger 353
Ger Gym
Ger 354
Ger Studio
Ger Studio
Ger Gym
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Friday, December 8.
THE INVESTIGATION OF A
CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION
Directed by Elio Petri. Academy Award 1970-Best
Foreign Film. A murder story. The chief of the
homocide division murders his mistress, purposely
leaving clues pointing to himself which his subor
dinates refuse to recognize. A penetrating study of the
nature of authority. Inspired by the work of Wilhelm
Reich and Herbert Marcuse. Also, a short on the
alienation inherent in modern life.
7:00and9:15
MUC 180 PLC Admission 51.00 FlllVtS
Jazz Nite
featuring
Lane
Community
College
Stage Bands
The
Starlighters
Thurs. Dec. 7:30 PM
So. Eugene High Auditorium
$1
"one of the very few
films of recent years
that really matter"