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Monday, December 3, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Sciences Opening Doors to Women
BY ALICE COSTELLO Kaman Staff Reporter
Women in the biology department of the University of Kansas are slowly gaining acceptance in a field that has traditionally been scarce, of females.
Six women who specialize in zoology recently expressed varying opinions and reactions to their roles as working women in the sciences.
Two of the women interviewed hold adjunct positions on the University's staff and three are graduate students working on their doctorates. Only one is a full
"God, we're coming around slowly but surely," she said.
treuo, who is married to William E. Duellman, professor of systematics and ecology, was named adjunct curator three years ago and adjunct professor this year. The titles allow her to have attendant staff privileges but no pay or tenure.
ACCORDING TO LINDA TRUEB, adjunct curator in the division of herpetology at the Natural History Museum and adjunct professor of systematics and ecology, the position of women in the sciences is slowly increasing.
Trueb, who has taught at Baker University and the University of Missouri in Kansas City, said that the only alternatives to working as an adjunct professor and curator at KU would be to stay at home and do nothing, or go to another institution.
HER POSITION AS adjunct professor is partially because of the nepotism rule of the University, she said. Trueb teaches two courses to graduate students, works as curator with her husband and edits the magazine, a museum publication, all without pay.
THERE ARE NO institutions near here with graduate students and a herpetological collection, she said. The closest institutions are in Chicago, Ann Arbor, Mich., and New York.
"My being here costs me money," she said. "It would be nice. I were paid. Child labor."
Trueb, whose specialty is the osteology of frog species of Latin America, has helped make the herpetology collection at the museum one of the best in the world. Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles.
Jenkinson said she felt she was lucky in that she and her husband lived a comfy life.
studying arts, she said. She said zoology involved held work, a factor which didn't apply to her.
there was no room for marriage if a woman's career was top-most. However, she said she could see an increase in the number of women pursuing a science
Most women only want to work part-time,
Trueb said.
"Women will encourage other women," she said. "It's a geometric progression of the number of people with psychology and cell biology, said there was no conflict between her job and her family."
"MY HUSBAND IS outstanding in doing home job," she said. "I couldn't be more
When a conflict arises involving choosing
"When a boy asks a question, he's given an answer. When a girl asks a question, she's given a snicker."
life. Dahl is the mother of two small
children, Dennis, is a doctor at the
Student Health Center.
"WOMEN ARE TOLD they're stupid," she said. "When a boy asks a question, he given an answer. When a girl asks a question, she's given a snicker."
Dahl, who is currently researching the nervous system of animals to answer why they die without oxygen, said it was much harder for a woman to become a professional than for a man. It's not special, she said, but the expectations of society.
Dahl said that social and cultural training were to be blamed for the small number of
A man must be a success, she said. A girl can be a success, but she doesn't have to be, and must supply her own motivation, she said.
"Anybody who has children has two jobs," said Dahl. "It doesn't matter if it'a a man or a woman. Any good father also moonlight."
THE ONLY MONKEY on a woman's back is her own, said Dahl.
Dahl was greatly opposed to the neopotamian rules of the University and said they were wrong.
Marion Jenkinson, adjunct curator of ornithology, the study of birds, agreed with Dahl that marriage and a career should be equally important. Jenkinson, who is married to Robert Mengel, professor of systematics and ecology and curator of ornithology, was appointed adjunct curator at the same time as Linda Trueb.
JENKINSON SAID THERE were now many more women in zoology than there were before. This was a reflection of social changes, she said. She too placed the blame on social influences for the few number of women in the sciences.
Many mothers have influenced their daughters and have discouraged them from
between a career and family, she said, the problem is only in the mother's head.
"It's not that the kids aren't being taken care of, but rather that the mother has guilt feelings about working," she said. "A woman's work is a part of her career or a family."
JENKINSON AND HER husband have done an extensive study of the behavior and territoriality of the whip-poor-will and the chuck-will-swidow, two nocturnal birds. They have published three papers on their studies and have two more to write.
CALDWELL, WHOSE SPECIALITY is the ecological research of tree frogs, said that a lot of people didn't take a woman who was pursuing a doctorate seriously. They think that the women are just passing time and are looking for a husband, she said.
Jan Caldwell, assistant director of the State Biological Survey, said there were prejudices against women in the sciences. Caldwell made her final defense for her doctorate degree in systematics and medicine. She will receive the degree in May.
While doing field work in Costa Rica, Caldwell found a very rare specimen of "gilding" tree frog. The frog was the second known specimen in existence.
CALDWELL SAID SHE would place her career first.
"Prejudices bother." Caldwell said. "A woman may be qualified for a job, but she has to prove that she is good at work."
usually gets the job over the wife."
"I wouldn't give up my career to be married," she said. "I would just make me
Caldwell, who doesn't want children, said it would be hard for many women to place their career first. Cultural habits and societal issues are the main reasons for them.
"Women should develop their own interests and have something entirely their own," she said. "They don't develop in the same way that men do, if they love entirely for other people."
SOCIAL CHANGES ARE in favor of women, she said. She said that more women models were needed on the faculty to insure younger women.
Diana Weigman, Baton Rouge, La., graduate student, said zoology wasn't attractive to women because of the way they were raised. Weigman is working on a doctorate in animal ecology with a position in larval amphibians and tadpoles.
"The attitude is that women will get married and forget their career," she said. IT'S HARD TO combine the roles of a woman, she said. A woman zoologist must be able to do rugged field work and still maintain a delicate femininity, she said.
Weigman said that she wasn't promi-
riage and that she didn't think marriage was necessary. She also said she didn't want children.
Marty Crump, Pittsburgh, Pa., graduate student, said she didn't think there was that much discrimination against women in the sciences. Crump will receive her doctorate in May of 1974 in the systematics and ecology of amphibians and reptiles.
"I HAVE NEVER felt any discrimination against me by professors," she said.
This lack of discrimination may change after receiving the degree, she said.
Crump also said the idea on career women getting married and pregnant was
Campaign Bill . . .
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repeatedly cited a need to clear up abuses
scoutlined by the Watergate scandals.
"If Watergate hasn't shown the need for it," Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., said, "I don't know what the hell will."
sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., chairman
of the Watergate Committee and foe of the financing proposal, said it "would bring on the scene 100 different candidates who would get to money out of the federal coffers."
On the cloture vote, only seven
Polecats joined 40 Democrats in voting
to cut off donations.
Charge for Lost Dogs Is Doubled
The charge to pick up a dog from the Lawrence Human Society has rised to $10 from $5, according to Helen Melton, who runs the Human Society along with her
The fee increase resulted from a new animal control ordinance passed last week
by the Lawrence City Commission
The $10 fee is for the first day that a dog is kept by the Humane Society. If the dog is kept two or three days, the owner is charged $2 a day beyond the first day. After three days, Melton said, the dog is put up f- adoption or destroyed.
The ordinance also requires that cats be immunized for rabies and that dogs in the downtown area and on schoolgrounds be kept on a leash. Also, the dogstheater can now pick up loose dogs on private property, the consent of the owner of the property.
IN ADDITION, the city won't issue any
in-MOD dog tags. The dog registration fee has
been abolished, and a veterinarian's var-
ification receipt will be used.
Melton said the Humane Society hadn't yet received more dogs as a result of the war.
"We'll have to wait until warmer weather to see what happens," she said. "Dogs are like people—if they have any place to go, they like to stay in when it's cold. On a bitter cold day, I doubt that the dogcat would pick up a single dog."
She said the number of dogs taken to the Humane Society varied from four to 15 a
MELTON SAID there were usually
between 3 and 40 dogs under the Humane Society's care.
When animals are brought in, the Melts determine which have the best chance of being adopted, and these are kept, she said. A veterinarian determines which sick animals can be saved an which are beyond hope.
Melton said that she thought it was kinder to destroy an animal than to take it out and dump it on a country road as many people did.
McGovern Criticizes Nixon . . .
"We have to put way too many to sleep." she said. "People are breeding too many. These animals are brought into the world and then there is no place for them."
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receive a better response from voters than his effort last year. He said his campaign had shown that a major election could be financed by small contributors and direct-mail solicitation, completely free from large corporations.
"WE RAN a basically honest campaign," he said. "We made mistakes—God knows we made mistakes—but it was an amateur operation, and that's how it should be.
"The people should be able to see the candidate with all his warts and his mistakes before the election. There shouldn't be any cover-up, like the fantastic elaborate effort the White House made to hide the Watergate network."
McGovern suggested that the celebration of America's bicentennial should be a time for re-examination of the ideals upon which the country had been founded.
He said a campaign organization should grow from the people up, not from the people down.
McGovern said he disagreed with proposals for direct governmental involvement in the production and distribution of oil as a possible solution to the energy crisis. He said such a change might eventually be needed if the oil industry and the federal government failed to provide the necessary leadership.
"The next three years should be a time for national discussion and dialogue on the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution," he said, so we see whether our governmental institutions really serve the people effectively."
Melton said that most of the dogs brought in by the dogcatcher were reclaimed by their owners. The dogs that must be put to sleep are usually those from big litters that are brought in by their owners. A very small percentage of these dogs are adopted, she said.
"This is a great university, and I've always been impressed with the KU team."
He said he had been surprised by the
Festival of the Arts
Entries May Be Submitted Feb. 1-25, 1974
announcing the Creative Writing Contest Two Categories: Short Fiction and Poetry Entry Blanks Will Be Available at Spring Semester Enrollment
spirit and enthusiasm shown by KU students at his speech Friday night,
The Department of Painting and Sculpture in cooperation with RMS Electronics and SUA present:
2ND ANNUAL (?) 'ART ESCAPADES' DEC. B
8 p.m. to Midnight—Kansas Union Cafeteria
Have your picture taken in the photo palace. Buy kisses at the kissing booth. All the beer and booie you can tolerate. Music provided by the Otis Brown Band of Columbia, Mo. Sound system by RMS Electronics. Tickets $2.50 at the door or in advance at the SAU office. Put on a formal outfit from any era and get loose.
THE BEST PITCHER NIGHTS are at The Ball Park
80° Pitchers
8-MIDNIGHT MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
also
90° Pitchers
3-5 p.m. Monday thru Friday
Hillcrest Shopping Center
Great Food Too
SUA FILMS SUA FILMS SUA FILMS SUA FILMS SUA
SUA Classical Films
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
directed by Gene Kelley
starring Gene Kelley &
Debbie Reynolds
Wednesday, Dec. 5
7:30 8:15
Woodruff Auditorium
SUA Science Fiction
SUA Popular Films
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Tuesday. Dec. 4
7:30
Woodruff Auditorium
Friday, Dec. 7
7:00-9:30
Saturday, Dec. 8
2:00-4:30-7:00-9:30
5c Wooddur Auditorium
SUA FLMS SUA FLMS SUA FLMS SUA FLMS SUA
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