i- Editorial Opinion A university is often a testing ground for new social concepts. Attitudes are formed freely because opinions are reached through personal exploring and gaining of knowledge. Even with an atmosphere of learning and open-mindedness at this University, the con cepts of equal pay for equal work and no discrimination for the University’s female employees have not yet become a reality. At University Park alone, the University employs 488 full-timeprofessors. Yet only 25 of the professors are women. Of the 427 associate professors who work here, only 45 are women. Eighty-seven of the 372 assistant professors are women and 65 of 142 instructors are women. With regard to salary, in 1978-79, women earned from $6OO to $3600 less than men for given positions at the University. One female faculty member said she earns $17,000 annually and a male counterpart, who is roughly as qualified as she but is part of another department, earns $32,000. She earns approximately 59 percent of her male coun terpart’s salary. Women make 59 cents for every dollar men make,, according to an article by Nancy Kreiter in the 1980 October issue of Spokeswoman. The faculty member said two possible reasons for the gap are sex discrimination Conserve energy A close examination of the article on energy conservation in the Oct. 21 issue of The Daily Collegian reveals the answer to the following questions: Why do student energy contests lose money, why can’t students be motivated to participate in energy conservation and why do the dorm areas waste gross amounts of energy?' The answer is simple students do not have significant control of the energy use in dorm areas. The energy saved when a student turns off a light is negligible compared to the energy wasted in hot water use, dorm heating and throw away materials. It is time for the- University to stop rationalizing its effective conservation efforts by blaming the sfhderit body, if must take.aclibris'fo,; significantly reduce energy use (and energy costs) .in the dorm areas. Student cooperation is certainly a necessary part of such a program, but the University must take the initiative in developing effective programs. For starters, why not: • Replace or properly adjust shower heads for minimal flow. • Install flow restrictors in faucets. • Provide students with a means of controlling room heat (where it is feasible). • Recycle paper. • Stop selling soda in non-returpable bottles.. Energy conservation is an absolute necessity lor the economic survival of Penn State and the security of our nation. As an educational in stitution and a spender of taxpayers’ money, the University has a responsibility to act now in stead of waiting for a crisis to develop. Greg Buhcl, Ith-mcchuuicul engineering Oct. 24 PSU gold mine To the Penn State football fans We, among Nebraska University fans who attended the Penn State-Nebraska game, want to praise the people of Pennsylvania. Never have we encountered such hospitable, beautiful people as we did at Beaver Stadium. The friendliness and kindness of the Penn State fans should be something to be proud of. Keep it up. you have a gold mine there! Phi! and Louise Monaco, Omaha'. Neb Oct. i:t Private practice Basketball season is here again and, as usual, activities in the Rec Hall gym are suspended during practice. Alter discovering the inside track closed and the pins missing from the two universal machines next to tiie mats behind the bleachers, I joined a gym class sweating and groaning on the mats and began exercising. Tiring of this I doggedly walked to the end of the bleachers and watched our team practice. "Excuse me. but you are not allowed to watch the practice," a voice from behind me said. I turned in disbelief to the man in’lhe red coat and said, “I can’t what?" The man fidgeted with his pockets and half heartedly said, “The coaches do not like people watching the team practice.” I could not believe what I was hearing. I was ALMQSTA V Mythical equality Women still suffer from job discrimination Letters to the Editor STACKS itwiN i PEOPLE ?OHLV ’ 3JTSSE ToKISKV •it? •' • i & THIS /*s TERGISUz! THE S)<?£>S fYmST HflV£ eaten ouk oread czum&s!' 0 being told not to stand in a certain spot and look in a certain direction. It was as if I had stumbled upon top secret maneuvers of some special forces or my presence was defiling a sacred ritual. Confused and feeling a bit rejected, I never theless felt important that my mere presence could distract a well-disciplined team of basketball players. As I was corraled back to the mats I noticed a sign on the door of a coach’s office in bold print which read: “This is not an information booth.” As a student who pays for the University to impart information, I think I deserve a better explanation for these keep-out, don’t-bother-us attitudes. Hugh 11. Connell, llth-general arts and sciences and petroleum and natural gas engineering Oct. :m Veto votes The political cartoon in which Congressman Anderson is receiving a “Dear John letter” in the Oct. 22 issue of The Daily Collegian epitomizes a rather common complaint in this and most elections. We frequently find ourselves not voting for the candidate we like the most, but for the one we dislike the least or at least tolerate the most. ' What I propose for all future elections is a modification of the ballot which would include a voting option entitled “none of these.” (This was done in Nevada in the previous primary. I would like to add that Edward Kennedy managed to tie with that category.) And an additional voter option which I term “veto” of any candidate. Essentially the voter can cast his or her vote for a particular candidate; vote for none of these; or can cast a “veto” for a candidate they strongly object to. If “none of these” is the “winner" the election is held again with a new and totally different list of candidates; anyone who lost in that fashion cannot seek that office for that particular term. As for vetos, every veto vote a candidate receives will be subtracted from his final total. In this fashion if you are indifferent to two out of srmNQ... against women or the belief that women are inferior to men. Audrey Rodgers, coordinator for the Women’s Studies program, said women are sometimes considered cheap labor or captive labor. Rodgers said women are willing to accept lower wages because they want to work. Some women are captive because they are at the University because their husbands are here, she said. Assistant Provost William W. Asbury said women tend to work in fields of study, such as education, that often pay less than fields of study such as engineering which employs mostly men. Regardless of why women want to work or the field in which they choose to work, they should be paid a salary equal to their abilities and equal to the salaries of- their male coun terparts. The University should also hire more women in the more advanced jobs, such as professorships. The University should avoid falling prey to national averages and social shortcomings when evaluating an educator’s performance and importance to the system. After all, society’s wrongs do not make discrimination right, and the University should avoid perpetuating the myth that they do. ‘4l k(: ;v » MINS TO MU .7li . three candidates but despise and fear the third you can cast a veto for that particular candidate. Again, if all the candidates recieve more vetos than votes, the election is repeated with a new set of candidates. You may think this is a mockery of the elec toral system, but I must state that increasing voter option, hence freedom, is the heart of the democratic process. Voter dissatisfaction is real. I need only point to low voter participation and the number of votes that Snoopy and Speed Racer get in every election. Demand choice. Demand the veto on all ballots. And vote for or against the candidate of your choice. Gregory Turnbull, !)lh-mining engineering and economics Oct. 2!) Empire revisited The common saying that history repeats itself may be proving its validity before our very eyes. The United States seems to taking a course reflective to that of the Roman Empire. Eliminating the constructive compositions of these two societies, we can look at the developmental aspects occurring in each and see clearly that the symptoms which led to the fall of the Roman Empire are now evident here in the United States. These symptoms are moral decline, extreme materialism, brutality of sports, widespread crime and the breakdown of the family system. With a national divorce rate hovering near 50 percent, one can hardly deny an ailing American family. Medicaid and Medicare abuses of the nursing home industry, widespread vandalism, organized crime and the illegal markets of drugs and pornography all convince us of the existence of crime. But when we consider petty thefts, pennies of .unreported income and ordinary traffic violations who can argue its far reaching effects. And who can close their ears to the chants of “kill, kill” in our football stadiums around the country. Surely it was well stated on national mOAg^ \ TV*»rt^C»lltyw\ e>ACKTO THt X>RAvVIINGr board ..* LBVeL_§_ —S THIS WAY^* uSAF television last fall that the National Football Association decision to move the Superhowl to Pasadena was like the Gladiators moving to Athens. It is no wonder that the multitudes are serving the almighty dollar and storing their treasures in earthly vessels when universities are plaguing s.ociely with doctrines such as the Marketing Concept which stales that the economic and social justification for a firm’s existence is consumer wants. This, of course, alleviates all moral basis for determining true societal needs and results in want-based institutions. Is pornographic ex ploitation justified by the lust of the eye or of the flesh? Do addicts and dope justify the drug paraphernalia shops? Can drunkenness possibly be My in time the stills ■bf.'today iwere' illegal,'"theVtelevision shows of today were adult movies oktheipast and the adult movies of the past were unthinkable at the start. Clearly we can see that when we base our decisions on our wants there is no morality. The lessons of history are only beneficial to those people who are wise enough to consider their own vulnerability. The role of the fool is always to return to his folly, and in the case of the people of the United States would be for us to see the lessons of the Roman Empire and to fall into the same trap. If we judge ourselves, then we be not judged, but if we deny that it could ever happen to us then we play the fool. The symptoms of degeneration cannot be denied when locally we have much drunkenness, pornographic sales and crime. We are convinced that we have struck the bottom of the pit when on our campus we publish the work of divinators in the form of the daily horoscope in our student newspaper, we display pornographic pictures in our main library and we bend to the darkness of homosexuality in the HUB. Surely Esaias prophesied well saying, "all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags" when we justify a drunken brawl known as the Phi Psi 500 under the guise of charily donations. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear Joe Gardiner, Kill-management Oct. 27 Sexist ad I sent this letter to SAS in regard to a recent advertisement in your newspaper: Dear SAS International, My Brooks Villanovas just disintegrated after a year of faithful service, so I was recently in the market for a new pair of running shoes. Paging through The Daily Collegian, I spotted your ad for a special Tiger running shoe sale. 1 considered going down to your store to check it out until I read the copy between the bold print: “Sturdy Tiger running shoes for Men Sexy Tigress Joggers for women.” There are two points which I would like to call to your attention: 1. I resent the insinuation that women choose their sports equipment based on whether or not it makes them sexy a matter of little con sequence to me unless I am planning on running through the woods with the men’s track team, and 2. the assumption that men need sturdy shoes for running, whereas women only take their shoes out for an occasional jog around the bl<iek is very wrong. .. Sorry SAS this sexy lit lie jogger look !qer business elsewhere. t* Janet Goochee, Tth-biochcmistry Oct.JO -■1 Speak out | The Daily Collegian encourages cornmergs on news coverage. editorial opinions and {s£- campus or oil-campus al'lairs. Letters should be type-written, double spared and no longer than3olines. - >. s Students' k*tiers should include the authors name ternn nwjoi apd dale vyljkm.tbedellerjfs submitted'Letters must be ae’i.-MH no m-.fr (ban hu> people. . t Bring letters to the Collegian otfice, tfcp Carnot’ic i across Irom Willard iso proper ideiitilication ol the writer can he madj?. Names may he witheld upon request wijh approval of ilieeditonal editor. h The editorial editor reserves the right ui edit letters for grammar or space Ijmitatiofei or to reject them it they are libelous or in po|jc taste. ' . s 4 ! ' .ti Wednesday Nov. 5, 1980 a Page2 Betsy Long Editor BOAKI) OF EDITORS: Managing Editor, Doug Bifl'l: Editorial Editor, Maryann Hakowski; Assistant Editorial Editor, Lisa Morano; News Editors, Paflla Froke, Dave Van Horn: Sports Editor, Denise Baph® man; Assistant Sports Editors, Mike Poorman, T6m Verducci; Arts Editor, P.J. Platz; Assistant Arts Editor, Stuart Austin; Photo Editor, Rick Grarff; Assistant Photo Editor, Betsy Overly; Graphics Editor, Della Hoke; Copy Editors, Jan Corwin, Cirtdy Deskins, Chuck Hall, Andy Linker, Pam MacLe&d, Paddy Patton, Bari Winemiller; Town Editor, FSiil Gutis; Campus Editor, Kathy Hoke; General Assignment and Features Editor, Vicki Assistant General Assignment Editor, Bernadejlte Eyler; Weekly Collegian Editor, Wendy Trilliij£: Assistant Weekly Collegian Editor, Christopher L£e: Office Manager, Elaine Lembo. i'. BOARD OF MANAGERS: Sales Manager, MarcsA. Brownstein, Assistant Sales Manager, Debby fB: Vinokur; Office Manager, Kim Sehiff; Assistant OffH'c Manager, Michelle Forner; Marketing Manager,® Jonathan Sonett; Circulation Manager, Terri Gregps; National Ad Manager, Patt Gallagher; Assistant National Ad Manager, Idelle Davids; Assistant Business Manager, Chris Arnold; Creative Director, MonaSaliba. BUSINESS COORDINATORS: Laymit, Cathy Nonpis, Michelle Forner, Mary Francis, Donna Porhpei. Co>op Advertising, Sue Rochman; Special Projects, Elizabeth Mong, Larry Kerner. ‘rj *' ABOUT THE COLLEGIAN: The Daily Collegian aiid The Weekly Collegian are published by Collegian Incl; a non-profit corporation with a board of directors com posed of students, faculty and professionals. Students of The Pennsylvania State University write and ejjit both papers and solicit advertising material for thtjm. The Daily Collegian is published Monday throifgh Friday and distributed at the University Park campus. The Weekly Collegian is mailed to Commonwealth campus students, parents of students, alumni and subscribers who want to keep abreast of University news. - MSA' i V I *■ * T ' : fij; 1980 Collegian lac, Kathy Matheijjy Business Manager Pay BV CINDY COX , Daily Collegian Staff Writer Women facility members’ salaries are less than men’s salhries on every leyel at the University, according to a 1978-79 American Association , of University salary sur vey. University administrators say men make often make (better salaries than women because women tend to teach in fields that are lower-paying. i« ! ( * The average salary for a male professor at University Park in 1978- 79 was $30,600. (The average female professor made, $27,000, $3,600 less than a male ; professor. Women facility members made an average of $1,750. a year less than men at the same level, for professors, associate and assistant professors and in structors. •' Nationally, the trgnd has also been for Women to make less , than men at ; the same levels, according to a 1 report in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The report said the salary gap between men and women exists at all levels and m ail types of institutions. “In part, the average salary of men and women reflects where thtfy are located in deparments and colleges,” said William W. Asbury, Affirmative Action officer and assistant to the provost. ,“The average salaries for faculty in engineering, science and business are probably higher than the :.»n i, ./»i-il;i' Mon. thru Friv 9-9 Sat. 9-8 Closed Sunday € 15. To be given away Saturday, NovemberB,l9Bo Wilson Lean Sliced Boiled Ham $2.29 lb. Pepperoni $2.99 lb. Long Horn Cheese $1.99 lb. Large Selection of Specialty Cheeses. Party Trays Made To Your Specifications. PRODUCE DEPARTMENT California Celery (Large 24 size) Florida Grapefruit (40 size) Solid Head Cabbage Macintosh Apples (3 ib. bag) Spanish Onions Brussell Sprouts Mushrooms (8 oz. pak) UNIVERSITY PARK PLAZA is lower for female faculty Choice of field, lack of credentials partly responsible Plus $lOO.OO CASH DELI DEPARTMENT average salaries in other colleges. The majority of women who are employed as faculty members are not in those colleges.” Socialization processes do not encourage women to enter fields such as “hard sciences” or fields like engineering, earth and mineral sciences and business, three fields that have the highest average salaries, Asbury said. Historically, women have accepted lower pay because they have been grateful just to have a job, said Kathryn M. Moore, associate professor and research associate. “A lot of times, women in the past have been thankful that they’ve had a job,” Moore said. “The pressure has been on women not to ask questions or to be demanding about salaries if the bottom line is keeping their jobs. Women have been kept in that kind of bondage.” One faculty member, who asked not to be identified because she feared repercussions within her department, said she knows a man in a different department who earns $15,000 a year more than slie does and has roughly the same qualifications. “I think there are only two possible explanations why women make less than men,” she said. “Either they are being discriminated against on the basis of sex or they are inferior. I can’t accept that women are in ferior.” In some cases, women make less because they are new .to their departments, Richard Chait, assistant provost, said. More ex perienced faculty members make better salaries, he said. In the field of athletics, female coaches tend to make less than male coaches because women have not had the chance to establish the same job credentials as men, said Judi Avener, women’s gymnastics coach. “In general, women coaches haven’t had the time to establish themselves because women’s sports haven’t been popular, as long as men’s,” she said. “Also, women haven’t grown up with career ex pectations of being coaches and they’re not preparing themselves.” Faculty women also make less .because salaries are determined on the basis of need, said Audrey T. Rodgers, coordinator of women’s studies. Men make better salaries because they often have families to support and appear to have a need for higher salaries, she said. “The ‘each according to his needs’ theory has governed salaries at Penn State for a long time,” Rodgers said. “They’re not deliberately trying to discriminate; they’re trying to give according to needs. Women often don’t appear to need as much as a 59* Pink or White 5/$l.OO 15* lb. 79* 25* lb. 79° pint 89* FRIENDS OF INDIA celebrates DEEPAWALI (Festival of Lights) on Saturday, Nov. Bth at 6 P.M. in Paul Robeson Cultural Center Program includes: Indian Classical Dance Indian Vegetarian Dinner Tickets: Adults - $4.00 Children - $2.00 Tickets Available at HUB Desk Plus $lOO.OO CASH To be given away Saturday, November 8,1980 “No man who comes to Penn State is ever asked if his wife is working and had his salary lowered ac cordingly. Women are always asked if their husbands work.” Going to Affirmative Action is one way for women to deal with salary problems, Rodgers said. “Women shouldspeak up if they have problems by first going through the channels of their department heads and deans. Then, if there is no satisfaction, they can go to Af firmative Action. I would deal with my colleagues first.” The majority of formal complaints Affirmative Action receives are related to a failure to be hired, or terminations, Asbury said. Most of the formal complaints are not on discrimination in salary on the basis of sex, he said. Faculty members who feel they are being-discriminated against should talk with their immediate supervisor or department head or go to the Af firmative Action for counseling and advice about proceeding with a complaint, Asbury said. Faculty members may file a for mal complaint stating actions which they believe are discriminatory and any remedies they have sought for the problem, he said. They may then follow a complaint procedure outlined in PS-77, he added. MF2ST DFPARTMFNT -" mWm mmmm m I *#*F mmma I ml Isl' ®,W m-mamm mi « > IGA Tablerite Armour 5-Star Quartered Pork Loin Chops $1.39 ID. IGA Tablerite U.S.D.A. Choice Beef,.,. ■ __ „ New York Strip Loins average) I fen Samson B©©f Patty (2 it>. pak) $2.99 IGA Tablerite Fresh _ _ . Sliced Beef Liver 89 c ID. Mr. Turkey Turkey Franks (1 ib.pak) 79* lb. Del Monte Corn (Cream and Whole Kernel) Del Monte Peas Del Monte Green Beans French Cut) Lucky Leaf Cherry Pie Filling <2O 02.) Dowgard Anti Freeze ( ga i.) Stroehmann King Size and Ranch Bread IGA Orange Juice <l6 02.) Lyden Farms French Fries (4it>. bag) Bordens Vanilla Ice Cream (gai.) UNIVERSITY PARK PLAZA Homing in: torpedo patent finally granted By SCOTT lIILEMAN Daily Collegian Staff Writer Many people complain about the slowness of the U.S. Postal Service, but three University scientists had a wait of 25 years with the U.S. Patent Office. Paul M. Kendig, professor emeritus of engineering, James M. Lawther, associate professor of engineering, and Robert G. James, a former researh assistant at the Applied Research Laboratory were recently granted a patent for an invention more than 25 years old. The invention is a torpedo homing device which has never had any prac tical use. Kendig said he helped develop it during the early 1950 s along with Lawther and James. Kendig said the patent took so long to be granted because the homing device was only recently declassified. No patents can be granted on classified information, he said. “You have to remember that although the device has no practical use, the research gained in developing it was used on other projects,” he said. “That’s probably why it was classified for so long.” Kendig said the homing device works similarly to underwater radar, but the sound waves travel much slower. “Sound travels about 500 feet a second Violence in our Community a seminar sponsored by USG Dept, of Minority Affairs ■ Dept, of Women’s Services Race Relations Board Centre County Women’s Resource Center H.O.P.S. Wednesday, November 5, 1980, 7:30 p.m. ’Room 320 HOB R 034 DVERTISEX-7 LasiXHaAOT The Daily Collegian Wednesday Nov. 5,11)80 —:t in water as compared to 186,000 miles a second in air,” he said. Kendig said the device works by tracking a moving vessel’s wake, which is a mixture of air and salt water dif fering in physical properties from those of salt water alone. He said the torpedo can detect the presence of a wake when an acoustic transducer, a device similar to a loud speaker which converts acoustic signals to electrical ones, recognizes changes in acoustical signals. “Should this occur, the invention’s control system moves the torpedo’s rudder, turning the weapon toward the ship causing the wake,” Kendig said. He said the device probably would have been used more if similar devices had not been developed about the same time. “Unfortunately, other methods came along which eliminated the necessity of the device,” he said. Kendig said the two most commonly used methods of detection today include bouncing electrical signals off targets and using the sound from propellers. “But the homing device was not useless,” he said. “At least it provided me with the most unusual of my five patents.” As in the case of the post office: better late than never. 2/51.19 2179* 2179* 2J79* 99^ $3.99 79* $1.49 $2.59
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