Women faculty Memers:,..few
Editor's Note: This is the second of a
two-part series on the roles of women on
college faculties. Today's article focuses
on the situation of the University's fe
male faculty members.
By ANDY LINKER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Mary Kummer has been an exception
for most of her professional life.
Thirty years ago she was the only
woman to graduate with a degree in
architectual engineering from the Uni
versity of Kansas. Today, Kummer is
the only full-time female faculty mem
ber of 250 tenure track members in the
College of Engineering at University
Park.
Kummer, who has been teaching at
the University since 1966, said she is
accustomed to being the only woman
faculty member in her department. The
University also employs another full
time female faculty member in engi
neering at its Ogontz campus outside
Philadelphia.
"I don't feel any discrimination or any
loneliness," Kummer said. "I certainly
Mother of
child challenges FBI
By NANCY KENNEY
Associated Pres 4 Writer
ATLANTA (AP) The mother of one
of Atlanta's 25 slain and missing young
blacks challenged the FBI on yesterday
to arrest any parent the bureau feels is
responsible for one of the deaths or to
acknowledge an "error in judgment"
within 24 hours.
FBI agent Mike Twibell told reporters
after addressing a Macon, Ga., civic
group Tuesday "some of these kids were
killed by their parents."
Camille Bell, mother of 9-year-old
victim Yusef Bell and head of the Com
mittee to Stop Children's Murders, said
"As parents and relatives of 25 young
Americans either murdered or missing
in Atlanta for more than 20 months, we
stand united and dedicated to let Al
mighty God alone be our judge."
"For this reason we urge you, based
on alleged available evidence, to place
under arrest immediately those parents
suspected of mercilfssly taking their
babies' lives," she said, reading from a
letter from the committee to FBI Direc
tor William Webster.
If the arrests do not take place within
24 hours, she said, "we ask that you
personally inform the nation of this error
in judgment and miscommunication."
The committee includes many parents
of the 23 young blacks slain in Atlanta
since July 1979. Two black youths are
missing. No arrests have been made,
and a special police task force is hand
ling the inquiry.
Webster sparked controversy Monday
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wish there were more (women), but I
understand why there are not."
Kummer said the University's College
of Engineering lacks women faculty
members because it cannot afford to pay
salaries with those offered by industry.
Women breaking into engineering of
ten receive higher starting salaries than
men, Kummer said.
"The salaries that are available (in
other jobs) to degree candidates are just
fantastic. They run as much as $27,000
. . . with no experience," Kummer said.
"Universities cannot begin to meet that,
and, what's more, the University wants
you to have a Ph.D."
Joan P. Lampman, coordinator of
personnel in the College of Engineering,
said more females will join engineering
faculties in the future because more
women are enrolling in engineering pro
grams around the country.
But Kummer is less optimistic about
the future of women seeking employ
ment at university-level engineering de
partments.
"As there are more and more women
murdered
when he told reporters the FBI had
"substantially solved" three or four
individual cases among the 23 slayings,
but no prosecutions were planned.
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weather
Today will be windy and mild
with considerable cloudiness and
showers likely. Skies should bright
en late this afternoon as tempera
tures reach a high of 65. Partly
cloudy skies and mild tonight with
a low of 45. Some sunshine and
mild tomorrow with a pleasant af
ternoon high of 66. Partly sunny
and continued mild on Sunday with
a high of 65.
U.S. involvement protested,
By ANNE CONNERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
About 75 people participated yesterday in an
on-campus protest march against American
involvement in El Salvador.
The march, sponsored by Friends of Central
American Liberty and the Third World Student
Coalition, began at Fisher Plaza and progressed
down the Mall, onto East College Avenue and up
to the HUB lawn.
"We're concerned about the U.S. involvement
in El Salvador," Raymundo Valdes (graduate
mineral economics) said. "We want to do some
thing this is a way of doing that something."
Participants waved signs which read, "Defend
the children of Atlanta not the El Salvador
junta," and "Haig lies the junta is now a front ,
for the army and they are not moderate."
Brian McNeil, a University graduate, said the
march was planned to increase public awareness
of the situation in El Salvador.
"Social issues are on the back burner of
students' minds," he said. "Their priorities are
focused on something else,"
Allen McLeod, a State College resident and
former Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador,
said Salvadorans support the guerrillas not
the junta. •
"When the guerrillas came into my town, there
was a celebration," he said.
"When the National Guard comes in, little kids
leave, doors close it's like the bubonic
engineers one would suspect there are
more women in the faculty," Kummer
said. "But, until university salaries can
at least approach what a person can get
in industry, I don't think there's much
chance."
Lampman said she agreed.
"Mary Kummer is absolutely right,"
she said. "It's very hard for a university
to compete with private industry."
Lampman said an engineering grad
uate may choose between a career in
industry or a teaching career.
"It depends on a person's goals and
motives in life," she said. "It's really not
a man or woman choice. It's a career
choice."
Robert Kidder, manager of the Uni
versity's employment division, said the
College of Engineering is not alone in its
short supply of women.
Kidder said women represent 397 or
14.2 percent of the 2,790 total full-time
faculty members at University Park and
the University's 19 Commonwealth cam
puses. At University Park, women ac
count for 200 or 11.9 percent of the 1,751
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faculty members, Kidder said.
University administrators and depart
ment officials said discrimination
against women does not exist at Penn
State, especially in the University's hir
ing practices.
George Lane, deputy controller of the
University, said hiring of faculty is
based on qualifications, and the hiring is
delegated to individual departments.
The University, though it imposes broad
guidelines, has little control over which
sex is hired for the job, Lane said.
William Devlin, personnel manager of
the College of Agriculture said when a
faculty member is needed to fill a void in
a department, a search committee is
appointed by the department head and
advertisements are put in national publi
cations such as The Chronicle of Higher
Education.
"The standards are set in terms of
quality from professor to associate pro
fessor on down," Devlin said.
Lane said the difference in the number
of male and female faculty members
may be attributed to the University's
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plague."
McLeod said the people in the village where he
worked were terrified of the army.
"The army kills mothers, friends, lovers and
daughters of anyone it suspects of being affil
iated with the left," he said.
Turmoil in El Salvador was bound to occur
sooner or later because of oppression, McLeod
said.
A FOCAL spokesman, who did not want to be
identified, addressed the demonstrators after
the march.
"The U.S. is supplying aid to a regime which
practices genocide for its own business inter
ests," the spokesman said.
"The rate of killing of civilians in El Salvador
has reached about 30 a day and it's been going at
that rate for two years," he said.
The FOCAL spokesman also said the agrarian
reforms, cited by the Reagan administration as
signs of the junta's progress, are not working.
"The reforms are essentially a farce."
Though President Reagan's mail has been
running 25 to one against U.S. involvement in the
country and letters to congressmen have been
running 10 to one against involvement, the ad
ministration refuses to listen and continues to
lie, he said.
"The State Department exaggerates and fab
ricates the figures of guerrilla activity," he said.
"It's a state of affairs that can't continue.
"You can't be in El Salvador and not see the
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male-dominated colleges like engi
neering and agriculture.
For example, in Fall Term 1973, wom
en accounted for 2.9 percent of the un
dergraduate students majoring in
engineering at the University. However,
there is an increase in the number of
females in the college; women com
posed 16 percent of the engineering
undergraduates at the University in Fall
Term 1980, Lampman said.
However, very few faculty-level wom
en are available and qualified to instruct
in engineering, Lampman said.
"A female graduating in engineering
is the hottest commodity around."
Devlin said the percentage of female
faculty members compared with male
faculty members in the College of Agri
culture is slightly better than the ratio in
the College of Engineering.
Women account for 20 of that college's
334 faculty members, or almost 6 per
cent, Devlin said.
Though women have gained ground in
gaining faculty positions in male-domi
nated colleges like agriculture, they still
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horrors of swollen childreh or the horror of men
disappearing into the night," he said.
Some onlookers heckled or were indifferent to
the marchers. .
"Go to Canada," "Get a job," some students
shouted to the demonstrators.
Another student said the protesters were over
reacting.
"Other than that they were noisy, I don't think
it serves any purpose," Art Krawitz (12th-histo
ry) said. "We're not deeply involved I think
they're jumping the gun a little bit."
FOCAL and the Third World Coalition have
planned several events to educate the public
about the real situation in El Salvador, David
Gaines, a FOCAL member said.
o Leonel Gomez, former chief adviser to the
president of El Salvador's Land Reform Agency,
will speak on "What Kind of Government Are We
Supporting in El Salvador?" at 7:30 p.m. Mon
day in the Wesley Foundation, 256 E. College
Ave.
• FOCAL members will participate in a
march on the Pentagon on May 3, sponsored by
the People's Anti-War Mobilization, to keep
"U.S. Hands off El Salvador."
• FOCAL will participate in a forum, "Mili
tantism in the 'Bos," on May 4 at the Wesley
Foundation.
• Everly Keene, from the Intra-Religious
Taskforce on El Salvador, will speak at 7:30 p.m.
on May 7in the HUB main lounge. See Page 4
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tend to gravitate toward careers in liber
al arts and the social sciences, said
Kathryn M. Moore, associate professor
of education and research associate for
the University's Center for the Study of
Higher Education.
Moore said women account for 103 of
the 200 full-time faculty members in the
University's College of The Liberal Arts.
Departments in that college do not re
quire an extensive background in math
ematics necessary for engineering,
Moore said.
Emily Toth, assistant professor of
English and co-coordinator of the wom
en's studies program at the University,
said two possible reasons for the differ
ence in the numbers between male and
female faculty members at University
Park are, one, women are discriminated
against, and, two, women are considered
inferior.
"More men are more qualified in
higher levels of education and women's
progress in the field of higher education
is relatively new," Lane said.
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