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editorial Professor supports plaintiffs ‘ fight Recalling Penk lawsuit revelations $73 more than that of ohm of her former students. hired this year by WQSC, According to an Associated Pres* newt item, Penk. who received hut doctorate in mathematics in 107S, was offered a salary of $23,07# for the 1984-85 academic year She later loam «3 that a male former strident of hers had been hired as an assistant professor for $23,000, He earned a master's degree last August and is now begin n.ng preparation toward a doctoral degree. Of course, the rationalizations of fered by administrators to justify such gender-related salary differentials in variably center on so-called “market conditions*’ and other idiosyn cratic experiential variables that. It is alleged, frequently tend to favor male academicians. But on the face of it. the kinds of pay ment discrepancies cited by some of tiie Penk plaintiffs in their sex discrimination lawsuit seem, to me. to be curiously revealing. As a University male faculty member, 1 wish to commend those stouthearted plaintiffs in the Penk litigation wb» have endured no little financial and emotional discomfort in their courageous struggle to ease the way for other coming up in the Oregon State System of Higher Educa tion. And in the process, males, too, may have been helped to acknowledge the entrenched attitudes of gender bias that ate still evident m outs community. For example, during the course of the Punk proceeding* H was reported that In the early 1980». University President Paul Oium and Provost LNck Hill both resigned from “The Roundtable” — a local, social-intellectual (town and gown! caucus of about 100 members, whose bylaws prohibit (be participa tion of women? In early 1985, i can't help wondering whether "The RoyruHabis ’ Is still an all-male anachronism — and if so whether other male academicians from the University who might once have belonged have now prudently followed Oium and Hill and given up their seats, too. in such a sexist, chauvinistic enclave. Professor, counseling psychology letters Mandatory dentiMstmMtf, I Jeel aqarif mm. ' HaassEy Milk w-m * ^pen-minded. jaieoritT cosceraed. cosssaassify «e> the fSpsessi of feparessoffs. in Sss r rsscsscE. ffc 'sess of hi* issead b* s kszy Ife W*#?? ’•xxmuji m taut ___ G£ gnll/Sgg, SE S2SK 32* 'Twisaiae Trsaf~" A g sssssc^? g* :.-». M-W;=t ’a^nrisas killed 7$us socaety awes % tiae 2 maaty ibai *ssa&£ & m aasMjoapie- m septs* m a ~~dtsiB&‘' w*wM. are* irons 'znd brawe So teso Sbe maw me db ias tibe fees? of watch Mar*mM8kw£sBaA'ma£l} lb *asa] of arse oNMNHMtf Can Jf give up iss& a ssssssssoss as joe »a SaM^La ssassofe. 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It appears that the name of the espitei, '‘Washing -font, has gone to his head because he is so intent «n developing nuclear detergents in space as well as on Earth, i had heard the defense department had a lot of pro blems that needed cleaning up. but I think that his is a case of overkill. Granted that the mass of blood is hard to clean, as "out damn spot” Mac But h would at test to. But to destroy the Item to be cleaned hardly would sell a common detergent. Why then does President Reagan seem to believe that a nuclear detergent would do justice to removing a spot which he considers to be staining the world? Notice I lint there is an ap parent error in the terminology, out as an analogy with homophorsk qualities it well il lustrates ray desired point Scott Brendt-Erichsen Political Science Act of violence In respcmdinfl to Andreas Mueller's letter of Feb. 26, 1 would like to make the follow ing comments: The basic question is no! wmnnxr or m» a woman has the right to control her own body — It Is v\ hether that right extends to the taking of another human life that is living inside of the woman. The time for a woman to exer cise her legitimate control oyer her body Is before conception occurs, by using birth control or by abstaining from intercourse. Alter a life has begun, it is too late to talk about her ‘‘right to control her body," because the fact is that another body beside her ow n is now involved — that of the child. Depriving an unborn child of the right to live is the ultimate ad of violence against the defenseless William Moore Eugene