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"(Baifaclt Serving (JSC Since 1908 J.T. Wagenbeim, Editor in Chief Shayla Stutts, Viewpoints Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Jay King, Gordon Mantler, Rob Rodusky, Lee Clontz, Carson Henderson Gender bias USC activates task force to study inequities in female faculty's salary This past week, a task force study of USC professors' salaries revealed that inequities exist. In other Words, men are get ung paiu lllOie limn wumcii. Women are no longer cast in a traditional role. This is a relatively new trend to the 20th century. Women appear content with certain freedoms and opportunities, appear to be on equal standing with men. The truth is women's salaries reveal otherwise. We must decipher the secrets behind the numbers, though. According to the Professional Women on Campus, 32 of the 207 ranked faculty women make more than $50,000 a year. However, 280 of the 691 men working on a nine-month contract without administrative duties make more than $50,000. These numbers raise the issue of exactly what types of jobs these salaries are related to. And why are there so many fewer ranked faculty women? How much professional and educational experience do the men versus the women have under their belts? Women's emergence since the days of the American Dream has ?1 4l-:- ?xfnKili^inn fho ctnir?tnr?? \X/nmf?r? ctill llllL'U 11115 5UUlCiy ill I1CU U1 Siaumtllig U1V ouunuiv. TIU111M1 have many miles to cover before society recognizes them for their potential. No one said it would be a simple task to cut through the entanglements of a ready-made structure where men make key decisions. This would be simple if women were happy with a slightly lower salary than their male colleagues. However, as women continue to stand up taller, their heads keep bumping into the glass ceiling. What contributes to this problem? Many male professors have been teaching at this school for years, long before the presence of women in USC's academic system. Experience alone creates higher earning potential. Those who have been here since the '50s don't change the fact that everybody is struggling to keep up in 1993. The cost of living is skyrocketing. If you think women have it easier today simply because they've seized the challenge of working alongside men, think again. The type of oppression women receive now is a bigger blow to confidence and sense of self, especially when it happens in the academic world. It's absolutely unfair that women who have as equally high merit and intelligence as men are making less money. Take Nora Bell for example. This leader in bioethics left USC this summer to become a dean at the University of North Texas. She was not offered more money as an incentive to stay at USC. The USC administration allowed yet another asset, who just happened to be a woman, to slip through its fingers. A culturally progressive school only diminishes its power when it allows quality employees to depart frustrated and disappointed for not receiving the treatment they deserve. Women should actively seek positions where key decisions are * * " 4 "*- * ? ? 12?-- vtnhlM/* Hnu iirAman iimII maae in administration aitu puucy muMiig. uuc uay, wumwi nm face more competition with each other rather than constantly battling their male colleagues. Meanwhile, USC, the principle academic source in the Columbia community, must face the music. To those women who have earned it, USC owes them pay equal to that of their male counterparts. No constitutional basis for women in Citadel Corps of Cadets The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of _ Appeals will meet in Richmond, L Va., today to consider whether I Susan Faulkner was denied her BI. W constitutional rights by The Citadel, which is a state-support- lk?igL ed school. Faulkner was accepted to the all-male military institute I earlier this year and was later f? denied admission after the administration learned of her gender. TTie court will review the widesnread accusation that the S.C. school offers men better educational opportunities than concerned. If this amendment women. was law and Faulkner was denied I don't wish to tackle the issue admission to The Citadel, then of allowing women to be a part she could argue that her constituof the Corps of Cadets. Rather, I tional rights were violated. To would like to address two other say that women are being denied ideas that came to my mind when an "inalienable" right in this case I learned of this latest event in is an unfair statement, the ongoing battle of The Citadel The argument that The Citadel v. All Women. should automatically admit How can Faulkner's constitu- women because it receives state tional rights be violated when the ending neeas ciarincation. io Constitution doesn't guarantee knowledge, there are only a anyone the right to an education? handful of schools in the nation, I realize that a strict interprets Pnv,ate ^ state-supported, lion of the 14th Amendment 5 Publlc , . . ??or funding. Columbia College is an mandates that everyone is guar- all.fema|e sc|)oo| ^ is?consid. anteed an equal opportunity for ered prjva|e Whi)e Co|umbja education. College doesn't receive as much Women are now allowed to pubHc money as usc u does enroll in night classes that are receive limited public funding. comparable to the day classes nas it been forced by a federal that men take at The Citadel. court to admit men? Has Therefore, I assert that women Converse? How about Hood or are absolutely guaranteed the Mount Holyoke? I don't think so. same education as men at The Again, I don't want to opine Citadel. Just because women on the issue of women being aren't allowed to be a part of the allowed to join the Corps of Corps of Cadets doesn't neces- Cadets. I just think the arguments sarily mean that their constitu- surrounding the debate need tional rights to an education are some fine-tuning before a fair being violated, since the concept decision can be made. of "education" isn't mentioned once in the Constitution. Wagenheim is editor in chief The proposed Equal Rights of The Gamecock. His column Amendment would mandate that appears every other Monday. gender shouldn't be a consideration when college admissions are What contributes to * "Women * are still "I reall; underpaid in society, stand even though it has can rrn gotten better." men if mm . ,, the sam Maceo Mitchell Business senior tney cioninQt CI i The -reason uhh v I SEEM To BE S1 Extremists create i "Don't accuse me of your crimes, Hewlett. I didn't commit them." Pretty strong words by journalism junior Bill Blume in his letter to the editor in Wednesday's issue of The Gamecock. Can anybody blame him? I've never been one for generalizations, and apparently, Blume never has been either. That's what I believe I've been witnessing these past few weeks after Melinda Hewlett's letter to the editor. I must admit it disturbs me greatly. Now, it is true that in the past, fundamental Ca Christians and I have rarely seen eye to eye, but 1 I feel compelled at this time to stick my neck out for these people. Ch Rpinn Q Rnman Pothnlif irk (hp dppn Qfkiilh I alt! can relate to Blume and others like him for, on Sel several occasions, I have been subject to the generalizations and misinterpretations of ua] We Want To Does something really get under ; everyone know about! The Gamec words, include your phone numb newsroom, Russell House room 32 salary inequality amoi *m > yS/ f it*. y I* y don't under- "Men seem to h how women more authority, tke less than they shouldn't c they're doing criminate agai ie thing. Don't women just beca have laws they're women." lhls?" Tricia Mr Brian IVIay Education sophor tiemistry graduate SC's SALARi BIAS 'uck IN THE SforJE/ Know What ^our skin. Maybe an editorial, colu ock welcomes letters to the editor i er and local address and submit i 1. We'll do our best to print it. Don't B.C. " 0IOLo&/< raise image of C tholicism by other Christians. Mow, the shoe is on the other foot. I've been involved in Campus Crusade for rist at times, and I can honestly say that, hough I disagree with certain aspects of evan lical and fundamental Christian doctrine, I ye never heard one of them say that homosex1s or abortion doctors should be killed. Most MM* _ ~ 7 DM? MOW DO I *XI$patWV.7 r ig women faculty? ave "In a lot of fields, f but women are qualified, lis- but (employers) take nst the man's perspecuse tive. They feel like a man'c Hporf^P ic nf )Ser higher status." nore LaTasha Anderson Engineering freshman /PROGRESS j dusf SHOT 4 IfsafltfftE ^-, Foot. Christian doctrine of these types of Christians believe in the philosophy of loving the sinner but hating the sin. When one hears about the disturbing propaganda of these extremist groups, one can be rather quick to clump these David Koresh-type organizations with what we know as the mainstream. We as students on a campus that recently held a Diversity Week need to be a bit more knowledgeable before judging people as a whole. Remember it's always best not to judge at all. As far as extremist groups go, they should be avoided at all costs. They are nothing but trou ble. They are characterized by hate, malice and inability to understand sacred writings. However, let's keep these groups separated from those who have nothing to do with them. Jay Tilley is a columnist for The Gamecock ) I ?VVMab:- lsaed You Think! mn or any sort of concern. Let ill the time. Just keep it to 250 X in person to The Gamecock keep those thoughts bottled up.