ey | Campus Clips Because of the propaganda barrage constantly leveled at by Craig Nelson A recent lecturer from Ohio State University told educators that work has no sex and women ought to be able to pursue the career of their choice. Dr. James Knight, assistant professor of agriculture at OSU, who also serves on a state-wide committee for sex equity, told vocational education professors _ during a workshop sponsored by the Office of Vocational Education that a goal of sex equity is to make it possible for woman to work in traditionally non-female type jobs. ‘‘What we want to do here is not to achieve a 50/50 ratio,’ Knight said, ‘‘but to open the door and let water seek its own level.” Knight cited studies that show an average woman will work 15 to 25 years of her life. Up to 90 . percent of all women will be in the him, the average Soviet citizen sees his American counterpart as a dangerous person anxious to conquer and smash the communistic system, Edward Kuznetsov, Russian dissident who spent 16 years in prison campus, told a WSC convocation audience. Mr. Kuznetsov was one of the two Jews and three non-Jews who were swapped last year for two Soviet citizens convicted in ‘New Jersey for spying for the USSR. The typical Soviet citizen is more or less satisfied with his lot in life because he reasons that while things are hard enough for him, they are likely even worse in the U.S. and the other western nations. He mixed comments on the Soviet system as a whole with a and prison life, saying that the “These people ought to be able to choose an area that they have interest, ability, and aptitude for,” he said. ‘‘Work,”’ he added, “has no USSR badly needs western technology. That opens one gender. Welding is not male or Probably our most effective weapons against the Russians, female it’s just welding.”’ Knight told the professors that day biases have made society feel the way it does about women in certain types of jobs. “Biases say that we make career decisions for other people, and that’s not right.’’ He continued, ‘I know a woman with two children who makes $510 a month. She’s trapped in that job because of society. That’s not fair.”’ Knight said he believes the movement to let women work in non-traditional areas is a positive one that does not disrupt home and family life. avenue which can be used to exert pressures for arms control and a cooling of tensions between the two superpowers. short of war, is the embargo, particularly on foodstuffs. He says there is a popular saying among Russian citizens that « Russia very likely could conquer the world, but then would have no place to buy grain. “2 The concept that blacks in this country have been parasites on the white culture for centuries is strictly a myth because they have been building and defending it since the first small group of slaves arrived in 1619, Mrs. Betty Gillespie, equal Providing a woman with a challenging career lessens the contention in the marital relationship, he said. ‘“‘Men working against women is not the tradition passed down to employment opportunity officer at Hill Air Force Base, declared at WSC. Mrs. Gillespie, who is a us. Instead it’s men working side by side with women.” member of the University of Knight poirited out the difference between men and women in the active in local, state and national organizations such as the NAACP and the PTA, spoke as part of National Black History Month. Slave labor built the South, and was a principal source of its working field by citing a report that shows women earn 53 cents for every dollar a man earns. ‘‘Forty percent of the working women are employed in only seven different types of jobs,”’ he said. “But sex equity is not just a woman’s issue,’’ he continues. ‘“‘It’s a people issue. This year we’re beginning to look at males in non-traditional jobs.” Knight reported that political leanings are not involved in this problem. ‘‘Being conservative has nothing to do with this,’’ he stated. He told the educators that the goal they should work toward is ‘providing people with the information they need to make intelligent choices.”’ — Page & i0Fr report on his dissident activities work force at some time during their life. modern © Good company - "on the road again” The ‘“‘down home”’ spirit of the Weber State College Good Company performing group is probably the main reason they have been so popula with military personnel and they are going on another tour. ‘We are actually competing with professional companies from the United States but have been on ‘demand’ to return,” said Program Bureau Director Dick Davis. The company will tour Europe with the Department of Defense USO shows from June 2 to July 18. They will perform on military bases to © audiences ranging in size from 15 to 1500, throughout Germany, Belgiti England and Iceland. All flights from the United States and European travel, plus room and board, will be paid by the Department of Defense. The show consists of pop, rock, country and soul with a wide range ol variety and a back-log of experience. The current group has been togeth for one and one-half years and performed at Lagoon all last summer. Three of the members have been on previous USO tours and this will be the fifth Good Company tour. One tour was to the Pacific, one to Alask and this is the third one to Europe. “On the last Good Company tour to Finland one performance was before an audience of 225,000 at a big airport celebration. They were als s military television and broadcast to several of the bases,’’ said Ms. avis. Performers in this year’s tour group are: front, left to right, Laurie Walker, Beth Halpin, and Janet Gygi. Back row, David E. Waller, Gan W. Toyn, James Harvey, Ronald Kelly Nelson and Gilbert Rodriquez.” Utah Institutional Council and prosperity before the Civil War, she said. From the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War, blacks have fought and died alongside the whites, and have earned and deserve their respect, Mrs. Gillespie said. The concept of freedom and equality is a basic part of the American philosophy and history, and should not be set aside on the basis of race or sex, she said. ees, Class reunions for October Homecoming Weber State College classes of 1941, 1951, 1961, 1971 will have reunions the week of October 18-24 in conjunction with Homecoming, 1981, Kent Petersen, President of the Associated Alumni announced. Chairing the 1941 class reunion will be Keith Wilcox. The 1951 class will gather under the chairmanship of Dale Gardner. Chairpersons for the classes of 1961 and 1971 have yet to be selected, Mr. Petersen said. During the summer committees will be formed from each of these classes to help find their classmates and to organize activities during homecoming week. Members of the classes of 1941, 1951, 1961, 1971 who woul like to help with the reunions até asked to call the Weber State College Alumni Office at 626-606 If you know the whereabouts! any of your classmates, please & their current address to the Alu Office so they can be contacted about the reunion, Mr. Petersen asked. 4 Homecoming can be an excitif time, and it is even more exciting when old classmates get together We urge all members of the four classes to participate and to “con home”’ to Weber in October for great time, the Alumni President said. )