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Chief Harry H. Moyer officially swears in Dave Caruso and Bill Neil as co-editors
in chief.
Comma' Digest News Service
It doesn't take much observation --going
back to graduate school is probably enough--
to notice that most American universities are
practicing greater discrimination against
women then would be tolerated in most
business and industries.
Last fall, the U.S. Department of Education
announced plans to investigate 80 colleges and
universities for alleged discrimination against
women students in their athletic program
alone. There were 124 complaints by in
dividuals and groups that the schools were
violating Title IX, the 1972 law prohibiting sex
discrimination in education.
Despite the 1972 law, faculties still tend to
be predominantly male, except for part-time
and non-tenured positions. This trend con
tinues, even though last year for the first time
in history, there were more women enrolled in
colleges than men.
Two leading universities announced last fall
that they would take steps to change that pat-
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tern in their faculties, a move which may set a
trend to be followed by other institutions of
higher learning.
Both Harvard University in the East and
Stanford in the West have taken positive steps
to include women and minorities on their
faculties in both tenured and other positions.
With support from President Donald Ken
nedy, Stanford has begun a major national ef
fort to recruit top women to tenured faculty
positions.
Stanford made a similiar effort in the early
19705, and though results were impressive,
momentum fell off. When fiscal cuts began a
few years later, women again lost ground.
Graduate Dean Bliss Carnochan reported
that only two women were among 72 pro
fessors appointed directly to tenured positions
between 1974 and 1979.
Since then, an energetic effort has been
made to find the quality of woman needed to
recruit them for faculty posts, at Stanford.
Thursday, May 14, 1981
By John G. Harvey
It's not exactly the Washington Post
and Bill Neil and Dave Caruso aren't
quite ready to be the next Woodward
and Bernstein. However, they are ready
to become the first co-editors in the
history of the C.C. Reader.
"The correct title is 'co-editors in
chief,' " according to Dave.
"The important thing," says Bill, "is
to publish a paper that benefits the
students. It should keep them aware of
what's happening. Anything printed in
the C.C. Reader should be worthwhile.
We're looking for quality, not necessar
ily quantity. "
The paper will remain basically the
same in format. However, Bill and Dave
are very innovative, and bring some new
ideas to the paper.
"For one thing, we're always looking
for fresh and witty headlines," says
Dave. "A good headline catches the
reader's eye."
"Another change that we're contem
plating is to put 'Ask A Stupid Question'
on the front page," explains Bill. "After
all, if . eo ile are goin: to read it, we
Recruiters have found a shortage of women
in certain academic areas. In such fields as
medicine and engineering, women and
minorities are in demand in the non-academic
world, and frequently give up graduate and
postgraduate work and so fail to get the higher
level degrees necessary for faculty positions.
The New York Times also recently carried
from Cambridge, Mass., that Harvard's facul
ty of Arts and Science plans to begin actively
recruiting women and minority applications,
both for junior and tenured jobs.
Harvard also plans funding for at least two
annual visiting professorships to be filled by
minorities over women.
There are other schools which have
pioneered in this effort as well, and Stanford
and Harvard are only examples. Yet hundreds
of state and private colleges have yet to follow
suit. Perhaps they will become more aware of
the problem and possibilities through the
leadership of a few.
might as well put it on the front page so
they can find it easily."
Why such a drastic move? Because,
according to Dave, the column has the
highest READERship in the entire
paper.
On that note, both Bill and Dave
want to remind Dr. Mahar that they're
still waiting for his question!
Something that should prove quite
valuable to the paper next year will be
the addition of the AP wire service. The
service will be shared with the radio
station (WNDR) and the Humanities
Department.
Editing the paper together won't be a
problem for either Bill or Dave because
they work well as a team. "We don't
foresee any problems with the co-editor
setup," says Bill. Adds Dave, "We just
hope that we have more people like
Activities Editor Keith Ganta, Photo
graphy Editor Mark Clauser, Sports
Editors Darrell Reider and Kevin
Speigel, and staff writers Kathy Kern,
Yvonne Harhigh, and John Harvey to
help us."
None of these people are Pulitzer
Prize winners yet. But it can also be said
that there isn't a Janet Cooke among
them.
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DORIS HUGHES
MEMORIAL AWARD
The Office of Student Affairs seeks
applications and nominations for the
Doris Hughes Memorial Award. This
award is made possible by a fund
established by the family and friends of
Doris Hughes, the first Advisor to
International Students. The purpose of
the award is to recognize international
students who have actively participated
in campus activities and who have
achieved academic success. Considera
tion shall be given to all students whose
permanent residence is outside the con
tinental United States and who have
achieved a grade-point average of 3.0 or
better after completing at least two
terms of study at the Capitol Campus.
The form needed to apply or nomin
ate can be obtained from the Office of
Student Affairs W-105. It should be
completed and returned to that office not
later than Friday, May 29, 1981. Recip
ients of the award will be announced by
Provost/Dean Gross.
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