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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday. October 16. 1985 Marine of year Gay faces possible trial spa. Rolf i in Chilom holds a plaque auard cd to him As Marine of the year in front of the i a. Natal and Marine corps Reserve Center at c Hau / rating in and Jelev. , 25, recently disclosed he i a homosexual and wants to be honorable discharged from lie Marine corps but military of Fie i is Hunt proof. Foj Mamom says the marines May instruct his discharge with a court martial. Skaggs crowned entertainer of the year in country music Nash huh term. A country boy Ricky Skaggs. Who dethroned Alabama As country music association entertainer of the year choked Back sobs and said. It s everything i be Ever worked  Scaggs 31. We in for god bless the  stateside Johns Hopkins University still male institution report says Baltimore Ai Lulzim Hopkins University re rain a Mulc institution i 5  after it began admit Ting women As undergraduates according to a report by a special University committee. La has an atmosphere  a i Best indifferent and at worst hostile to the concerns in Mimi said the report by the and hoc committee on tin  of women. The i 7-member committee made up of students a Dnnnis travors. Faculty members and Scalf. Also found 7 percent of the tenured and tic tenure track faculty at Theunis Cisily s Home  Campus were female  with a i it percent aver age a i the top w institutions in the nation. Many to inn faculty feel Thoj constitute a Small in influential and isolated minority while students both Mcnancy women Are hampered by the Lack of female role models and the Lack of attention to women s  the report said Ohio state University official named president of Clemson c . . A Clemson University has selected the head of Ohio state University s agriculture department As its new president less than four months alter Bill Atchly left the Post amid controversy Over inc role of athletics at the school. Trustees voted unanimously in closed session for Max la Fanon. Vice president for agricultural administration and executive Dean for agriculture Home economics and Natu ral resources at Ohio stale said Board of trustees chair Man  a Tenn. , 45, who earned his Bachelor s degree and doctorate degrees from Nolb Carolina state University said he expected to begin his new Job after Jan. I. Series of leaks found in tube at three mile Island nuke Plant Middletown. A. Ala tube that drains non radioactive steam from the Turbine system at the three mile Island nuclear Power Plant has sprung a series of leaks a Tim spokesman said. Problems with the a Inch Metal tube that takes the steam from a line coming out of the reactor s Turbine unit began when workers repaired an earlier leak. Tim spokes Man Gordon Tomb said. Another leak in the same line was found later. Tomb said. Tim officials decided to lower Power to 5 percent and replace the entire line. Ohio convicts free hostages after demands read on radio 1.ucasvil1.e, Ohio five inmates who held two guards hostage for 15 hours at a maximum Security prison released them unharmed and surrendered after their demands were read Over radio prison spokesman Robert Pioss Craid. Pro scr said Cellblock where the drama took place houses some of Southern Ohio correctional facility s mos dangerous inmates. The peaceful settlement of the incident was reached after members of a special weapons and tactics team that provided Security during negotiations with the prison cars left the compound. The convicts demands included additional commissary privileges increased availability of soap and other toiletries radios for their Cellblock better medical treatment and a wider Range of Reading materials. Women our a Isis paid less than male counterparts Washington a most female journalists arc paid less than their male colleagues and have less Job satisfaction according to a University of Maryland study. The report based on interviews with Maryland journalism graduates from 1951 to 1981 said nearly 75 percent of the male journalists said they arc extremely or very satisfied with their jobs com pared with 63 percent of the women. Ninety five percent of those earning an Nual salaries Over $45.000 arc men. 70 per cent with incomes Balw econ s35.000 and 545,000 arc men and 61 percent malting $25,000 to $35.000 arc men the Survey said. In the lower ranges 64 percent of journalists earning is 5,000 to $25,000 Are women and 77 percent earning $10,000 to $15,000 arc women. Male employers in news organizations give women lower Job performance ratings than they give men while female employers rank women workers significantly higher than did male employers the study said. Female and male supervisors rated male workers evenly. The study says 59 percent of the journal ism school population is female. Nevertheless women graduates have had More difficulty than men graduates in moving ahead in the Field of journalism Maurine h. Beasley a University of Maryland associate professor and director of the study said. She said Low journalism salaries May account for inc decline in males being attracted to the profession. I think the Industry has traded for years and years on Romance she said. But the lure of fun and Challenge can lose out to financial considerations she said. She also asserted that an increase in the number of women journalists could change the nature of news coverage with a greater emphasis on reporting social issues and a possible lessening of what she termed the watchdog function. Journalism schools and management of news organizations must change course to prevent the Field from following such female dominated professions As nursing so Cial work Library work and teaching jobs that pay lower salaries than male dominated jobs such As mailman meat Cutler and plumber Beasley said. Jack Nelson. Washington Bureau chief for the los Angeles times and a member of inc journalism school s Board said he did not expect journalism to be Hurt by the increasing number of female journalists. I Don t think women becoming a majority in journalism will in any Way lower the standards or have the effect of encouraging lower  he said in an interview. My impression is that it will be the opposite that the women s movement will raise salaries generally at smaller news or a animations. Which i think would be a Good  Nelson said. You can t drag the salaries Down any More than they   
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