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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Go.
Vol.90 No. 126
Thursday, Aug. 11, 1983
News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1 791
Women professors still paid less than men
Paul Kelly
By GARY PAYNE and BRAD C WOODARI)
Krd and Mark staff W rllrn
Women comprise only 17 percent of the Univer
sity's full time faculty members, according to the
American Association of University Professors'
Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Pro
fession
The report also shows that women are paid
$1,000 less than men at the assistant and associate
professorial levels, and $3,790 less at the full pro
fessorial level
The report, which surveyed the salaries of col
lege teachers across the nation, was published in
the July August issue of Academe, the AAUP's of
ficial magazine
Uocal AAUP President Paul Kelly said caution
was necessary when dealing with the averages
"It (pay discrimination! has historically been
the case.” he said "Personally I feel that men and
women of equal qualifications should receive the
same salary, and I think this will increasingly be
the case in the future Women are becoming more
willing’ to take their employers to court over such
discrimination "
But Ellen Mattingly, a former zoology associate
professor and former local AAUP president, said
discrimination against women at the University
has gotten worse
"You can starve to death if you're a woman at
the University of Georgia." she said
Mattingly said the College of Arts and Sciences,
which is perhaps one of the oldest schools in the
nation, has promoted only two females to full pro
fessorship
"Thai s a disgrace," she said
Mattingly, who has taken a full professorship at
a university in Florida, said there was a long
history of overt discrimination against women at
the University.
On the average, real salaries for college and
university faculties rose 2 percent last year, which
is the highest increase in over a decade, according
to the report
The percentage increase in nominal salary,
however, dropped from 9 percent last year to 6 4
percent this year, due to a delayed reaction to the
slowing inflation rate
The report said this year's increase in real
salaries, which was adjusted to the percentage in
crease of the consumer price index, may be a one
time occurrence due to tightening of state
budgets, the stability of consumer prices and the
slowing inflation rate.
The report also said the real salaries of college
and university faculties in all institutional areas
have fallen by almost 17 percent in the last
decade, while salaries in the private sector have
eroded only 4.3 percent in the same period
Although the AAUP report showed that the
University's average faculty salary of $30,500 is
$240 above the national average for public doc
torate level institutions, the average compensa
tion salary, which includes fringe benefits, is
$3,000 lower than the national average.
Kelly said he felt the statistic was not necessari
ly representative.
"It is hard to deal with averages," he said, “I
think you have to compare comparable people in
order to get a representative number "
Mattingly said although the average faculty
salary at the University was above the national
average, the total salary, which included retire
ment benefits, was among the lowest in the nation
"An enormous number of the faculty doesn’t
have a clue of how dismal the retirement benefits
are at the University,” she said.
Mattingly said the overall quality of life for
University faculty members was going to
deteriorate
"I think the University of Georgia is falling on
financial hard times,” she said
The report also showed, for the third straight
year, that salaries were rising faster at private
and church- related schools than they were at
public schools with limited funds Salaries rose 8.3
percent at private institutions, 7 percent at
church- related institutions and only 5 9 percent in
public institutions.
The report also expressed concern over the
trend for talented teachers from public colleges
and universities to migrate to the private schools
However, Kelly said he did not necessarily see
this trend as a significant problem for the Univer
sity
"People who are in demand in the public non-
academic sector are those who would demand
higher leaching salaries,” he said. "The demand
for an English professor, for example, is not as
great as that for a management professor."
Insect delicacies
a food alternative?
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Grad student
says bugs
could solve
food shortage
By K ATIIY SC OTT
KhI and Hla< t> • MMrtbwMni Hr Her
Rachid Cherif s existence revolves
around insects He collects insects He
studies insects He draws insects He
even eats insects
Uherif believes that in the future
insects will be a major food source
A University graduate student in the
entomology department. Cherif is
currently in Savannah where he is
researching his thesis
He first experimented with eating
insects when he was 15
“I discovered that insects were ar
thropods, like crayfish and lobsters,
and wondered why we didn't eat them
as well,” he says
His favorite insect delicacy is fried
grasshoppers
"Female grasshoppers are the best
since they are chewy like shrimp and
because they contain extra protein rich
eggs. " he says
Preparation of insects for eating is so
easy that even the novice can do it
Cherif says
"Just pull off the head, wings, and
legs and saute the body in a butter
sauce with seasonings," he said
"Cooking time can vary and depands on
if the person likes his food rare or well
done "
"Today many countries eat insects,"
he adds "In Kenya and other African
countries they eat termites and locusts
Mexico processes caterpillars and sells
them, canned, in its markets."
Cherif has prepared and eaten othet
exotic recipes, such as fudgehoppers.
from Norman Myers hook. “En
tertaining with Insects " He believes
insects will soon be part of the fast-food
market
"Why not’," he asks "Some insects
have more protein than beef ”
He agrees that people must overcome
the psychological problem ol insect
eating before franchising can take
place in the United States
"Nobody likes the idea of eating
roaches or ants." he admits
Cherif boasts of another unorthodox
accomplishment a butterfly collection
with 150 butterflies from North and
South America. Africa, Asia and
Europe
His favorite butterfly, a black and
orange Monarch, has a wing span of
about 3 inches
"Butterflies are an art form,” he
says “I collect them for their beauty
and to understand the evolution of in
sects through the various species."
Collecting insects as a hobby con
vinced Cherif to make them his career
"Insects are my food, my light," he
says "They are what I live for "
Merger of black schools
needed to desegregate
Not the typical Joe College. Cherif
comes from Tunisia in North Africa
with a French accent straight from the
Meidterranean Gulf He says he can
trace his heritage back to the ancient
Homan and Byzantine cultures in
Carthage and to the famous ride of
Hannibal with his elephants over the
Alps
”1 came to the United States to study
entomology and to find a solution to the
world problem of food contamination,"
he says
“I'm interested in stored food
products like wheat, pasta, and
semolina and how insects produce toxic
excrements and inject them into the
food Most of my studies will tie in
Georgia and the Middle West because
60 percent of the advanced,
technological studies with stored
products are done here "
Besides collecting and eating insects,
Cherif is known in the entomology
dc|>armcnt for creating insect designer
T-shirts
"I like drawing and wanted to try a
different medium to express my
emotions." he says. "I also wanted an
advertisement for entomology because
many people don't know what is. A
butterfly on a shirt with the word
entomology' Is an easy association
< 'herif sees his T shirts as the perfect
union o his Tunisian and American
influences and claims he will always
use his beloved insects as a source of
inspiration His American friends
agree They wear his T-shirts, but hold
off when he passes the fried
grasshoppers
Blaubergs fights University alone
By USA PRITCHETT
Hrd a Ml Slack Malt WrtWr
Maija Blaubergs' sex discrimination
lawsuit against the University won't
have an effect on other non tenured
University female faculty members,
after a recent decision by a federal
judge
The order, recently handed down by
U S District Judge Robert Elliott, said
the lawsuit failed to meet the condi-
no longer a faculty member at the time
the class action amendment was
tendered and was, therefore, not a
member of the class referred to."
Blaubergs is now a University law
school graduate and a practicing at
torney in New Orleans
The order further explained that the
class to be represented in the case had
to be more adequately defined
Because each of the 12 schools in the
University may develop specific stan
sion denying class action
“I have no idea when they will have a
heard." Marshall said "I gave up a
long time ago trying to predict when
this case will be heard "
Judge Elliott called Blaubergs’ definition of
class for the suit ‘overbroad. ’
tions that would apply the suit's out
come to all other non-tenured Universi
ty female faculty
Blaubergs. a former University assis
tant professor of education psychology ,
filed a request for a class action suit in
1980 to represent all females who have
held faculty positions at the University
since Nov. 20.1978
The previous year she filed a suit on
behalf of herself against officials in the
College of Education, alleging she was
denied tenure because of her sex and
her involvement in the Women's
Studies Program and the women's
rights movement
Elliott said in the order that
Blaubergs' class definition is "over
broad” because a defendant named in
the case is Virginia Trotter, vice presi
dent for Academic Affairs, as welt as
other female University administrators
and faculty who are not accusing the
University of discrimination
The order also said Blaubergs "was
dards for promotion and tenure. Elliott
said, "a common question of law regar
ding promotion or tenure granting
practices would exist at best only
within a particular school or college
where there could be some assurance
that female faculty members were sub
ject to the same procedures, criteria
and rates of availability."
Elliott refused any further comment
on the case
Although Blaubergs' class action suit
is dead, the suit she originally filed on
behalf of herself is still alive and
waiting to be heard
Andrew Marshall. Blaubergs' at
torney in Athens, said the refused re
quest for class action treatment will not
influence the case
The case, which U S District Court
Judge Wilbur Owens refused to hear for
personal reasons was passed to Elliott
six months ago. Marshall said He add
ed he had not heard anything from
Elliott since then except for the deci-
By FRANt'INK WII.SON
Krd and Hlark Slaff Writer
The proposed merger of Georgia's
traditionally black colleges would
enhance Systemwide recruitment of
minority students, a University Af
firmative Action officer said Wednes
day
"There is a certain logic in the pro
posal that's unassailable," said Uen
Davis, University Equal Employment
Opportunity Officer. "If only a certain
number of black students are pursuing
a higher education, and there are a ma
jority of these students going to tradi
tionally black institutions, then it’s
hard for the University to compete for
these students '
Gov. Joe Frank Harris said in a letter
to the U S Department of Education
last week that the state may have to
merge the two colleges in Savannah in
to one and the two colleges in Albany in
to one to "facilitate racial integration of
the student population within the
University System."
Gov. Harris sent the letter to the DDE
in response to a request for more detail
ed information about Georgia's
desegregation plan
“It is paradoxical to strive for the
goal of maximum racial balance within
the University System while at the
same time maintaining three institu
tions that appeal primarily to minority
students,” Harris said in the letter
"The goals for minority presence as
dictated by federal guidelines liecome
unrealistic and out of range of possibili
ty under these conditions "
Georgia is one of several Southern
states required to submit acceptable
desegregation plans lor its schools or
risk losing federal funds under a
federal court order last March The
plans must be accepted by the DOE by
Sept 15
Barbara Morgan. Harris' press
secretary, said she though the
desegretaion plan would be accepted
“It’s very realistic and achievable,"
she said. "Considerable efforts have
gone into measures of increases in
minority students, staff and faculty ."
Board of Regents member Eldridge
McMillan, however, said Tuesday the
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merger proposal would hurt minority
students
"They assume that the traditionally
black institutions are the problem,"
McMillan told the Associated Press
Tuesday. "They overlook the reality of
current efforts by traditionally black
institutions at faculty and student
desegregation.”
Regents chairman Marie Dodd said
she though the presidents of University
System schools were "KKI percent
behind the desegregation proposals we
submitted."
Other revisions to Georgia's
desegregation plan included in Harris’
letter were:
• Allocating an extra $17 6 million to
the Tuition Equalization Grant Pro
gram, which gives $700 a year to
minority students attending private
schools
Gov. Harris said he liked the idea of
giving minority students a chance to at
tend quality private schools, but added
that the program would not help
Georgia desegregate its public col
leges
• Upholding the regents test as a re
quirement for graduation Critics of the
test say it discriminates against
minorities
• Drafting more detailed recruit
ment plans for each University System
school.
Davis said the revisions were
satisfactory, but added he though the
same thing of the original desegrega
tion plan
Shock treatment
Motorists approaching Athens on Broad Street were greeted with this warn
ing Tuesday morning < right). The sign was one of It put up by member* of
the Northeast Georgia ( ampaign for a Nuclear Weapon Freeze to com
memorate the atomic bomb blast at Nagasaki. If a Nagasaki-sized atomic
bomb had been dropped on College Square, everything from there to the
perimeter formed by the signs nould be completely obliterated. The group
concluded its commemoration Tuesday with readings at College Square of
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