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Academics need more in science From staff reports Few people know the name of Catherine Green, yet many snap to attention at the mention of Eli Whitney, who is credited with inventing the cotton gin. Actually, Green invented the gin. Whitnev was her employee and hap pened to apply for the patent. Women scientists often get little recognition for their achievements and also earn less than their male counterparts, Dr. Sue Rosser, Women's Studies Program director and associate professor of preventive medicine at USC, said. Rosser is the author of Feminism Within the Science and Health Care Professions: Overcoming Resistance. The book, published by Pergamon, will be available late spring. The book is a collection of articles edited by Rosser, who also wrote several chapters. Contributors include USC professors Joan Altekruse, Joan Gero, Jennie Kronenfield and Suzanne McDermott. "More than any other area, women have had a harder time breaking into the sciences," said Rosser. "Men continue to dominate science in terms of numbers, and female scientists face many barriers." According to the National Science Foundation, women in sciences earn 71 cents for every dolllar earned by men at the same professional level. The NSF also found that women had a harder time plugging into professional networks, are promoted less and suffer higher unemployment rates. Other obstacles include low recognition, failure of schools to interest girls in science and sex-role stereotyping of research topics. Rosser believes it's crucial for society to attack these problems soon. "We're already experiencing a shortage of scientists, and studies show shortages will be even more critical in the 1990s," Rosser said. Some studies show that the United States will have a shortage of 700,000 scientists in the 1990s and that 25 perV I S I 0*N C I Bring this ad to H. Rubin Vi Street location for special vali faculty. 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About one-fourth of the movi< ootage is from USC's Movietonews collection. Students working on the project included mediE rts majors Scott Allen, Carey Ballentine, Sylvia iarnett, Lucia Davis, Lisa Dyar, Don McAllistei nd Lisa Bennet Meuller and journalism majoi .ita Cosby. "When students get a chance to make a film, ou can hardly hold them back," Reg Brasington, ledia arts department chairman, said. Davis, a graduate student from Spartanburg, orked every day the crew filmed in Columbia. Interview, film ch rom staff reports at 9 p.m. She was the archetypal silent film Educatior eroine? the delicate damsel in clips and istress, fainting on the ice floe, Gish's n Dwering before a brutal bounder, mances. inguishing in a garret. Film director Ameria ?.W. Griffith glorified her "ex- series do< uisite, ethereal beauty." She has lives and een called "the first lady of the this cou lent screen." adopted ' She is Lillian Gish, whose career in arts, lms and on stage has spanned the In Lillii )th century. for Me, th In Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life stage debi tr Me, the actress reflects on her life company id work, particularly her years as Gish said le of D.W. Griffith's leading theater, dies. "beautiful The one-hour presentation, airing world." Need /S some extra (J? H 4^. i casft/r: Earn up to $80 in 2 Hyland Plasma I 1620 Gervais Stn Hours MON & THURS 6 am - 3 pm WED 6 am - 1pm TUES & FRI 8:30 am - 6 pm Call today for information l Ask about our cash di ^^^^ C CpCpCpCpCp^CpCpCyCpCpCDCpCpCp jjv, j5CpCpCpCt $ $ This Coupon is woi l $$20.00 DOLU $ $ (One coupon per per <i|)^)t4)*4)<4^i4^<4)y)^i4)i4)<4)<4)^) <4) Cp Cp Cp O CpCp CpCpCp CpCpCP Cp ?F MEU aur ? ^"^pj % D tne of the new submachine guns used in the war against was shot May 15, 1932. Producer Lou Reda will use ilm, The Golden Age of the Gangster, airing nationally in t, helped supervise the script. She and seven other USC rected traffic for the production. 5? ij# **.? tk j ilm uses stu< e "I've never worked this closely he on a big production before. I've worked on some smaller nrivato ? j c>KMiv in , projects, but I've never been able to v* ; get close to the top and see how it tu , works." in ? Lucia Davis x media arts major 1 When an editor had to return to New York, Davis 1?: ; helped supervise the script? identifying which f? ; takes were good, which camera angles were used sc and other bits of information that will be used i when the film is edited. dii i The filmmakers were so impressed with her work Pu that they asked her to come to New York for three ^ weeks as an assistant editor. "I've never worked this closely on a big production before," Davis says. "I've worked on some t^1< smaller, private projects, but I've never been able du to get close to the top and see how it works." The students learned that movie production is to< not glamorous. Besides having to contend with the ips, feature"1ady of i July 11 on South Carolina Gish's film debut came i; lal Television, features film under the direction of D.W. G photographs of some of With her fragile, childlike 1 lost memorable perfor- Gish was the perfect Griffith h starring in a number of the dii in Masters is an anthology best-known films including Th :umentary profiling the ?f a Nation (1915), and Orpt achievements of some of the Storm (1922). ntry's native-born and Gish s memories of workir 'masters" in the creative Griffith paint a vivid picture early days of filmmaking. in Gish: The Actor's Life recalls, "We worked 12 hours e actress recalls making her seven days a week. And we li ut with a travelling road because it was so interesting in 1902 at the age of five. were all one family. We were a I she loved working in one thing? to get whatever tl remembering it as a up on the canvas perfect." 1, kind, generous, unselfish I" the early 1920s, Gish v work for other studios. At MC h) m ( JOLY a-W* G*EE weeks July 6th fiontor .Ink/ 7+1 ?#WII ?WI ?- . J I VI ;et July 8th ? Appointments ? n available but not necessary July 9th J54-2280 July ioti awing!! Ju|y -| 2th ) yP yPvpyPyp ^ yj th s 18+ W IRSSS S Q^|rj son) $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ IN THE BAZAAR AT ? S J * : -gMf Jr '""" ? pF^ A w~j a Mr ?*?/JU^ ^S^zJ^^4W : Kl "~ WiU i?:l: f f "i Si dent heln :at, they encountered various other problems. One morning Davis was responsible for getting 'Neal on location and was told to take Exit 30 off terstate 77. The two became so engrossed in conxsation, though, they ended up at Exit 34. After rning around, they found there was no Exit 30. O'Neal was good-humored about the incident, fact, all the students agree that the entire crew is friendly and helpful, particularly in sharing Ivice about the filmmaking trade. "These fellows have been ip the business for a ng time," Reda said, "and so working with them r one day, two days, five days is like going to hool for a long time." It was Reda's idea to use USC students. "I dn't want to feel like I was coming here just to ill something from the school without giving em something back," he said. Reda intends to use USC's Movietonews collec>n in several TV productions, including one on : golden age of aviation and one on Hollywood ring the war years. He plans to use students in these productions, 3. "Any time we do a production down here," said, "we'll definitely use them." the silent screen'9 n 1913 starred in and made substantial iriffith. creative contributions to La Boheme beauty, (1926), The Scarlet Letter (1926), and eroine, The Wind (1928). ector s Differences with the studio prote Birth mpteci her to return to the stage, ians of although she periodically returned to Hollywood films, appearing as ig with recently as 1987 in the Whales of 0f August. Gish a day, Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for iked it, Me is a co-production of the ... We American Film Foundation and ill after American Masters. The Film was lat was directed by Terry Sanders and is a presentation of WNET, New York, /ent to Executive producer for American }M she Masters is Susan Lacy. 'S HOT fiT V iNSTREETS ? The Tailgaters k 1 M I* M \M il?MI il ? jvilli muvi Dreams So Real & fl. Bachelors of Art - Lylei Creel Bond i ? The Elements ? The Living End elcome - We ID \J>/FIVE POINTS 779-8252 ? S