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women in the labor market. They are also
the women in the home: the "housewife"
and the mother. Working women outside
the recognized labor force are just as af
fected by technology as women in the labor
force. Acker said.
With new computer technology, clerical
jobs — which is the most feminized field —
are more and more likely to be accomplish
ed at home, through a computer terminal
plugged into the main company. Society
must be careful not to place woman in the
position of working at home both as a
member of the labor force and keeper of
the house.
But not all of the news was shadowed by
negativity. There is a "real explosion of
capital investment into highly feminized oc
cupations,” which is one of the re
quirements for advancing technology. Van
Houten said.
"I think what unfolds in the next two
decades is going to depend on social
choices," Van Houten said.
FRAGILE WILDERNESS
Humanists play at least as big a role as
politicians in protecting America's
wilderness, said a University law professor.
“The existing situation is fragile enough
that politicians alone will not be decisive,”
Law Prof. Charles Wilkinson told his
"Wilderness and Technology" seminar au
dience. "This is a field where ideas matter."
So far, Wilkinson said, America's
wilderness policy has been enlightened.
Congress' Wilderness Act of 1964, which
established 9.1 million acres of protected
wilderness land, was essentially a humanist
based document, he said.
"It was the first time a nation had pro
tected land in its pristine state by statute,"
he said. "What you really have is legislation
to protect beauty."
Presently, some 80 million acres are
designated as wilderness area, comprising
3.5 percent of the country's landmass,
Wilkinson said. An additional 85 million
acres are being considered for similar
designation, he added.
But Wilkinson cautioned that the protec
tion of the 1964 act is only as strong as the
people who defend it.
"Preservationists worked so hard for this
act because they wanted permanent protec
tion. In fact, those laws are terribly fragile, it
seems to me," Wilkinson said.
"law can always change. In this instance,
law merges with beauty and ideas, and if
people are not willing to fight for that beau
ty and those ideas, then the laws are going
to change."
Wilkinson instructed those in attendance
to answer for themselves why the nation's
wilderness areas should be protected in the
first place.
"Aren't we engaging in a kind of cultural
arrogance if we don't set that land aside?"
RESPONSIBILITY
When one of the thousands of American
products has lethal or harmful conse
quences to consumers, the social respon
sibility falls into the laps of corporate
management, said a University economics
professor.
If corporations don't act, then the govern
ment must, said economics Prof. Robert
Smith in a seminar, "The Limits of Cor
porate Social Responsibility," after Mon
day's convocation.
Corporations produce goods because
potential profits may lead to research,
development and other avenues of making
more money. Smith said.
Society cannot expect corporations to be
fully responsible for their actions when the
motivating factor for their existence is
money, he said.
"It is the role of government to rationally
regulate," Smith said.
"Our principle constraint system is the
market. Where it fails, we still expect more.
We should be prepared to change the rules
of the game. There is a rational role for
government," he said.
"Corporate management exists in an en
vironment that is both an incentive system
and a constraint system to technological
change," Smith said.
But there is also a need to have a society
with constant technological changes, he
added.
Improved health care and transportation
are some benefits of technological ad
vances, but consequences include
downward changes in the quality of life, the
environment and military power, he said.
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When signing up for humanities
courses in the future, students
will not know if they are register
ing for the smaller scetions. The
program is aimed at attracting a
wide variety of students, said
Robert Berdahl, College of Arts
and Sciences dean.
"We're going to be comparing
the retention rate of the randomly
selected students against the
University," Berdahl said.
The new sections will
"minimize" the use of midterms
and finals, too often a necessity in
present humanities courses,
Taylor said. In their place, Univer
sity faculty will employ the
"classical" method of teaching.
"The emphasis will be on the
arts of interpretation which the
humanities share, namely
analysis, imaginative rethinking of
past thought, writing and discus
sion," Olum said.
But Taylor said the increased
amount of writing demanded in
the new classes will not
discourage students from taking
them.
"We hope to make it exciting
enough that there won't be a
higher drop rate," he added.
Each term, the center will print a
journal containing the best stu
dent papers, Taylor said.
Olum vowed that the new pro
gram will not end when the grant
monies are exhausted, however.
"It is our intention to continue
this on the part of the University,"
he said.
The new center will also p ide
research funds for f jlty
members in universities, < ages
and high schools in tl area,
Olum said.
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