rage 8 t nursaay, tebruary 14, 198) the Capitol limes Sexism is 'worse' outside of classroo (CPS) -- College women find "even worse" campus sexism outside the classroom than they do in classes, a major college group claims. Discrimination against female college students by male faculty and administrators ex tends beyond the classroom and may be more career-damaging than in-class sex bias, the group's new report charges. In fact, sex discrimination in financial aid offices, and in career counseling and employ ment centers can cause women to "lose confidence, lower their academic goals and limit their career choices," study authors Roberta M. Hall and Bernice R. Sandler claim. The study, sponsored by the Association of American Col leges' Project on the Status and Education of Women, follows the same authors' earlier ex amination of college classroom sex bias. It revealed "things are even worse outside the classroom," when class rules no longer app ly, Hall says. The earlier study charged male faculty favored male Club office dedicated (continued from pg. 3) In other Presidents' Council business, Bambi Grasser, of the Capitolite, announced that senior portraits will soon be taken. All clubs should arrange a time to have their members' pictures taken for the year book. This time should be scheduled within the next two meetings. If anyone needs more information, they can contact Grasser. Engineering students plan to participate in a mini-Baha com petition. This is an inter collegiate event with com petitors from major univer sities. Dennis Caldwell, of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers), requested assistance from organizations to par ticipate in a joint fund-raising event for the competing engineers from Capitol. Plans have been made to replace the old furniture in room 216 with new office fur niture and to install new dividers for the new club office complex. Student Government President Peter Mekosh said the purchase of this new fur niture will be financed by the administration filing for a loan and a mini-grant request from SGA. An open house for the new club office complex was scheduled for yesterday. Pro vost/Dean Ruth Leventhal was scheduled to officially dedicate Room 216 with a ribbon cutting ceremony. students in classroom situa tions, Hall notes. The new report found career and academic counselors also often unconsciously discourage women from taking certain male-dominated majors, and consider men more knowledgeable and career-minded. Counselors and professors also spend less time with women students than men out side the classroom, and give less encouragement to women who seek leadership positions on campus, the study shows. "Younger women may enter college expecting equal treat ment," Hall explains, "and young women who have never been employed in the workforce are very apt not to be aware of the differential treatment. But they're more likely to be demoralized by it." "Most 18-year-old girls don't know what happened with the women's movement in the six ties and seventies," agrees Florence Hall, educator and founder of New York's Feminist Press. "It's also true most 18-year-old males don't know what's going on. The results of the survey didn't come as a surprose to me." "But it's fascinating that in 1985 we're seeing a recurrence of some of the all-too-familiar attitudes that the women's movement faced in the sixties," she continues. "It's easy to slip back." While older women students often are more sensitive to sex ist behavior, and are conse quently better able to survive it, study author Hall warns subtle discrimination can discourage them, too. "Returning women students very often have a great deal of thought to their situation, like career plans and ways in which their sex has held them back," she explains. "But it cuts both ways." If a severe problem persists, such as financial or counseling discrimination, students should use campus grievance pro cedures or administrative chan nels, Hall advises. "It's important we remind ourselves that the effort to build coed education is not completed," she adds.
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