deol. Woon btbeie Mab bsae see Masts! AUN cline eel) me oasnei emtivcrine occ temensonnucan cel AMAIA UU SAL LL A BI LPAI SO LL le | : | tes i tet Reg, phn norma: at SG1I FG PONSTEL REIS PERNT RT ERNE Ey Si cai sin sina thin Nie i an bao on REE. Be BE La Se, Be clei THE SEXES the “old-boy net” system of hiring, in which department heads (invariably male) ask other department heads for - recommendations. A study by a man- agement consultant firm, commissioned by the administration, found major dis- crimination against women (70% of those with salaries below the minimum sct for their category by the consultant firm were women), and recommended pay increases that would amount to $350,000,. if and when implemented. (“Soon,” promises the university.) Myths. Trouble is, say the women at U. of M., even. those innovations are often sidestepped by a recalcitrant ad- ministration. Grievance procedures are slow and cumbersome, and women find it extremely difficult to get the neces- sary data (such as salary figures) to sup- port their cases. Despite promises to do so, the university has granted back pay because of discrimination in only one case, Although the school will make an effort to determine whether some fac- ulty women are still underpaid for their present rank, it still refuses to consider whether they are underranked because of their sex. The biggest stumbling block, the women contend, is the sometimes un- conscious discrimination evident in male attitudes. Now, when they think they find that kind of discrimination, the U. of M. women immediately challenge it. Part-Time Student Claire Jeannette, appointed to the university staff as “women’s advocate,” was ina classroom when a professor, in speaking of “the face that launched a thousand ships,” commented, “Personally, [ve never seen a piece of stuff that looked that good.” Jeannette objected to the remark and the professor conceded, “You're right. 'm sorry, dear.” (“I should have answered, “Thanks, darling,” says Jeannette.) When an economics profes- sor said, “Men work overtime because women make them,” she demanded documentation, adding: “I suggest that you don’t perpetuate myths unless you have the facts to back them up.” ‘ ‘The battle has even been carried to the pages of the University Record, the official news. organ of the university, which recently printed a poem submit- ted by James Crump Jr. of the Far East- ern Languages department: I think thatl prefer to see A chairperson who ts womanly And, if the choice were up to me, A freshpersou who's a comely she. Replied Méfyl Johnson, a female re- search curator at Michigan's Kelsey Museum: Indeed we share Your appetite for golden hair Aud shapely figures slim and trim And do admire a comely him, But keep our minds upon our work And folerate cach shapeless jerk Outranking us in pay and powers Who would demand we all be flowers. 110 Approved For Release Ee RRS TBP RE ABN TTT GAR AOE Ste RETR 003/09/10 : The Magician And the Think Tank Sprawling over 70 acres of Menlo Park, Calif,, the Stanford Research In- stitute is one of America’s largest and best-known think tanks. Its staff of 2,600 highly trained specialists solves problems and does research in nearly every field of human endeavor for both Government and private industry. SRI also does highly classified research for the military, and has worked on coun- terinsurgency programs in Southeast Asia, explosives technology, chemical and bacteriological warfare and anti- ballistic-missile systems. For its ser- ROSENBLUM——STARPHOT i \ cee ABBA EBAN & GELLER Under a cloud. £ $ ‘s ES vices, SRI last year carned revenues of $70 million. Last week it became ap- parent that in addition to its other proj- ects, the institute has been seriously in- vestigating the so-called psychic powers of a questionable nightclub magician. SRI is not alone in investigating psy- chic phenomena. Indeed, the persis- tence and growth of that search in an age of science is testimony to the vi- tality of the concept. But until psychic researchers produce something more than nebulous evidence, skeptics will continue to scoff, That is precisely what they did when rumors began to emanate from Menlo Park Jast December, Two men, it scems, had been demonstrating strange and wondrous powers for SRI researchers. One of the men, a 25-year-old Isracli named Uri Geller, was apparently able to communicate by telepathy, detect and describe objects completely hidden from view, and distort metal imple- ments with his psychic energy. The word among staff members was that SRI EOE RES TERE A-RDP9 0079 0 . Alravr Se i a Se 0400100023}4 . ; o SG1I Reed ade, President Charles Anderson, who at first had opposed the project, changed his mind after witnessing demonstrations by Geller. Later in December, an SRI physicist, Russcll Targ, sent a letter to one of the foremost U.S. scientific journals proposing an article on the work of an SRI team engaged in psychic re- search. Targ said that the subjects with whom he had been working had ef- fected physical changes in laboratory instruments without touching them. Presumably, Targ was referring to such changes as increases in magnetometer readings and the disturbance of clec- tronic systems—-all reported to TIME by a team member, The research sub- jects had also demonstrated remark- able perceptual skills, including te- lepathy. Working further with these men, Targ suggested, would cnable SRI to understand psychical phenom- ena. Written on SRI stationery, the letter also bore the names of the other members of the investigating team: SRI Physicist Harold Puthoff, Kent State University Physics Pro- fessor William Franklin and former Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Mitchell, who has retired from the astronaut corps and set up his own foundation to investigate psy- chic phenomena, eagerly confirmed some of the rumors during an inter- view last month with TIME. “I can as- sure you,” he said, “that from [Charles] Anderson down, SRI views Uri Geller as legitimate. They find the results valid and are ready to stand on them.” Said President An- derson Jast week: “Mr. Mitchell does not speak for SRI, and indeed the statement is misleading. Mr. Geller was provided to us as a subject for experimentation, Measurements were made in our laboratories, and the work will stand on its merits.” News of the unusual activity at Menlo Park reached the Department of Defense, and investigators were soon on the scene. One of them was Ray Hy- man, a psychology professor from the University of Oregon who is used fre- quently by DOD as a consultant. Anoth- er was George Lawrence, DOD projects manager for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). He was accom- panied to SRI by Robert Van de Castle, a University of Virginia psychologist and longtime researcher in parapsy- chology. Van de Castle decided that Geller was “an interesting subject for further study,” but neither Lawrence nor Hyman was impressed. After spend- ing a day with Geller and Physicists Targ and Puthoff, Hyman was, in fact, incredulous. As Geller demonstrated ESP and psychokinesis (ability to. move or bend objects without touching them) to the delight and excitement of Larg and TIME, MARCH 72, 1973 Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400100023-4 i ees aed | nine at Aleman ps ines ta