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The Daily Tar Heel
Tuesday. August 29, 1972
Coed admissions rise
Women trail in facility liirin
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by Lynn Lloyd
Staff Writer
Since a S19 billion omnibus education
bill was passed in June, providing for,
among other things, equal opportunity
for women in university admissions and
faculty hiring, questions have been raised
concerning possible discrimination in the
hiring of female faculty members here at
UNC.
UNC was traditionally a men's campus,
not admitting women as freshmen until
1964 when the Consolidated University
of North Carolina was formed. Today
females are accepted at UNC by the same
standards as men and represent a large
portion of this year's entering freshmen.
However, a very small percentage of
female faculty members are employed by
UNC.
In an unofficial and incomplete survey
done by the DTH this summer, it was
found that in 27 of the larger
departments in the College of Arts and
Sciences there are approximately nine
female full professors of a total 227 full
professors. Of the 163 associate
professors in the same departments, eight
are females. The survey excluded
professional schools.
The number of women in these
departments, excluding physical
education, is very small. Fourteen of the
27 departments reported no women as
full or associate professors. Ten of these
27 departments have no women at all on
their teaching staffs.
James Gaskin, new dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the
department of English, thinks universities
are a few years away from "spreading
females out over various fields. You wirf
find more females in the professional
schools right now."
UNC
util
ities employes
uncertain of job future
by Lynn Lloyd
Staff Writer
While an appointed subcommittee
studies the problem of what to do with
the University Service Plants and the
Chapel Hill Telephone Co., 324 UNC
employees await the news concerning the
future of their jobs if the utilities are
sold.
After much controversy in the past few
years over the University's role in public
utilities, Gov. Robert Scott appointed a
study commission to recommend
changes. The commission recommended
that the University dispose of its electric,
water and telephone facilities.
The study commission made its
recommendations to the Board of
Governors of the University of North
Carolina, which then referred the
problem to the Joint Committee of the
Governor and the Trustees earlier this
month. A subcommittee of 10 now has to
wrestle with the problem.
While the question of what to do with
the utilities is the more prominent
problem, 324 utilities employees are
worrying about what will happen to their
jobs and their retirement if the utilities
are sold.
Grey Culbreth, director of the utilities,
said "nothing can be guaranteed" to the
employees. "The law says that the
welfare of the workers must be taken care
of, but we can do nothing until matters
are negotiated between us and the
purchaser.
"It's likely that some will be replaced,
and we will need some of our personnel.
A few will be able to transfer to jobs on
campus, but not many. We don't know if
we can create jobs," he said.
More than 250 employees of utilities
met on Aug. 3 to discuss their worries
with University officials. They were
assured every effort would be made to
"place them with buying companies, with
other state agencies or transfer them to
other University departments."
Culbreth emphasized the fact that
"parties are concerned. It's a big problem
to wrestle with and will take time.
Nothing can be done until the
transactions are made."
Hughes Lloyd, an employee of the
University water department, thinks most
of the employees "will stay where they
are until they can get more information
on what their positions would be if and
when the utilities are sold.
"The big question in retirement plans
is whether the buyer of the utilities is
going to carry over your acquired
working years onto his retirement plan,"
he continued. "You can't predict any of
these things until you find out what the
stipulations are. We have been assured in
meetings that the officials are looking out
for the employees."
Economics of the situation may be
part of the problem.
"We get hundreds of applications from
both men and women. We simply are not
hiring many new professors right now, so
it is very difficult to significantly increase
our number of women," Gaskin said. "We
are in a period of tightening up our staff
instead of expanding it as we did in the
1960's."
Gaskin said 20 to 30 per cent of the
applications in the English department
are females, "but if you look at the
physics or chemistry departments,
probably only six to eight per cent of the
applicants are females."
He said full professors now are people
who started working towards the position
1 2 to 1 5 years ago.
"Here at UNC a professorship involves
teaching, direction of students as
advisors, research and community work.
It's a more complex job than teaching in
a small college.
"I can see the malaise in faculty hiring.
But look at the figures for our freshman
admissions this fall," Gaskin continued.
"I would deny that there is a continued
discrimination against women.
"We have been looking at the problem
for too short of a time to recover fully
from the discrimination in the past. As
assistant professorships are filled with
young female graduates, we will be
getting more female full professors in 10
to 15 years."
In the decade 1960 to 1969, 154,111
doctorate degrees were earned in the
nation in all fields. The total number of
doctorates earned by women during his
period was found to be 17,929 by the
Women's Equity Action League.
Professional doctorate degrees were
excluded.
There are facts that clearly point
toward discrimination in the hiring of
women faculty members, yet there are
also facts that explain the' small
percentage of women professors in
various fields.
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PEACE
Weekly peace vigil
Charlotte Adams is one of several Chapel Hill townspeople and students who hold a
silent peace vigil every Wednesday in front of the downtown Post Office from noon to
1 p.m. The vigil began in January, 1967, by the Chapel Hill Society of Friends, and
will continue until the Vietnam War ends, according to Adams, one of the original
protesters.
Although most of the original protesters return each week, the makeup of the line
changes each Wednesday, the length of which depends on the events, Adams said.
Passersby may join the line and stay for any length of time.
Contributions to the protesters are sent to the American Friends Service Committee
for their work in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam, where they are making artificial arms
and legs for American and South Vietnamese victims of the war.
(Staff Photo by Tom Norby.)
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