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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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■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
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Betsy Long
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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“A lot of times, women in the past
have been thankful that they’ve had a
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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
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One faculty member, who asked
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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
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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
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discriminate; they’re trying to give
according to needs. Women often
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“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.
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mal complaint stating actions which
they believe are discriminatory and
any remedies they have sought for
the problem, he said. They may then
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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
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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.”
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