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Peace 2 Hours 0 0 0 f Jews, Southern Baptists Push SPECIAL OFFER 4a: 353-9000 peace and reconciliation be- tween Israel and Egypt and the other Arab countries through face-to-face nego- tiations." The resolution said, "We urge our government not to be deterred from its recon- ciling role as peace-maker by those who .would repu- diate the ideals of peaceful co-existence in a pluralistic Middle East." The resolution was signed by the Rev. Jimmy Allen, of San Antonio, president of the 13 million-member Southern Baptist Convention and Rabbi Marc H. Tan- enbaum, national inter- religious affairs director of the American Jewish Com- mittee. Wright (D- Rep. James `A Tex. ), the House Majority Leader who addressed the conference, deplored the ha- tred and hostility of the re- jectionist Arab states at Tri- poli, saying that "they are not the wave of the future, they are the ebb tide of the past." The conference issued a statement affirming that Baptists and Jews "will seek to strengthen human rights in this country and abroad through our firm support of both political and civil liberties as well as economic justice." The statement expressed the sol- idarity of Baptists and Jews "in the common effort to assure the human rights of our brethren in the Soviet Union." The conference, held at the Southern Methodist Uni- versity, was sponsored jointly by the AJCom- mittee's Interreligious Af- fairs Department and the Christian Life Commission of the Texas Baptist Con- vention, the largest Baptist Convention in the country. Its theme was "Agenda for Tomorrow—Baptists and Jews Face the Future." Senate Presented Energy Research WASHINGTON (JTA)- Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) has provided the Senate with the texts of the "hard hitting, practical pa- pers" presented on energy conservation at the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds last month. In a floor speech, the Sen- ator hoped "other will ben- efit from this fine work." He pointed to their "prac- tical solutions" to meet the "crucial" energy situation. The papers were by gr. William Rice of Washing- ton, Billie Tisch and Rachel Lieberman of New York, and Harry Rosen, director of the Jewish Community Center in Dallas where the CJF Assembly was held. The very world rests on the breath of children in the schoolhouse. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) AMONG JEWISH PROFESSORS: Some 10 years ago the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education reported that there were approximately 40,000 Jewish professors in American institutions of higher learning. They constituted at that time about 8.7 percent of the total number of professors in colleges and universities. About five years later the number of Jewish professors was estimated at 50,000 the majority of them below the ag of 45. In 17 of the most prestigious universities they made up 17 percent of the total faculty. In some universities there were 300 or more Jewish professors. The situation is much different today. Jewish faculty population has perhaps not decreased, but it has also not increased during the last years. There are several reasons for this "freeze." One of the major reasons is the priority which colleges and universities must now accord to Black applicants--and also to women--when engaging new teach- ing personnel. This priority system, imposed upon in- stitutions of higher education, is sarcastically termed in the academic world as "reverse discrimination." It affects not only Jews but- all the "white"--members in the teaching profession. Among the other impediments for young Jewish profes- sors to find themselves on the staff of colleges and universities is the curtailing of academic appointments in general because of reductions in the faculty budget. A contributing factor is also the decrease in enrollments as a result of declining birth rate. Young Jewish professors who had joined small univer- sities, hoping to make these a bridge to appointments in larger universities, are now only too glad to hold down their positions. - THE BROKEN BARRIERS: The rise in the number of Jewish professors came after World War II. Some 50 years ago it was rare to find a Jewish professor on the faculty of an American school of higher learning. This was due mainly to the fact that the great majority of the Jewish population consisted of immigrants whose children began to attend college in large numbers only about 50 years ago. Partly it was due also to anti-Jewish prejudice. City College of New York was one of the first institutions of higher learning that opened its gates to Jewish professors. But even City College, which had many thousands of Jewish students, was accused 40 years ago of having only five Jewish professors on its faculty. The late Lionel Trilling recalled that he was the first Jew appointed to the English department at Columbia University. The Harvard Law School did not appoint another Jew to professorship until 1939 after Felix Frankfurter left the faculty to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. In order to attain professorships, Jews had to achieve distinction in their respective fields of national and international character. Today, some 25 percent of the Jewish professors are teaching law, while more than 22 percent are teaching medicine. About 20 percent are in the field of biochemistry, 14 percent in bacteriology. Jewish professors who teach psychology, economics and social work are 15-20 percent of the total number of Jewish academicians. The percentage is less is physics, mathematics and chemistry, and much less in the humanities. LOW PROFILE JEWISHNESS: The 50,000 Jewish pro- fessors constitute a tremendous intellectual force. How- ever, the great majority of them are not interested in Jewish affairs. The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds has been attempting during the last few years to stimulate interest among them to Jewish communal activities in the communities where their campuses are located. However, very few are responsive. The United Jewish Appeal has a Faculty Advisory Cabinet to assist in the planning and organization of faculty fund-raising campaigns on campus- es. But such campaigns are being conducted in only 32 colleges and universities. Faculty activity on behalf of Soviet Jewry is not perceived as an on-going project at very many schools, although special campaigns on behalf of individual Soviet Jewish academicians are not unusual. Almost all of the smaller campuses report an up-hill struggle to involve Jewish faculty in the work of Hillel Foundations or any other type of Jewish program. Most of the faculty are low-profile concerning their Jewishness on campus. Some are married to non-Jews and are not interested in participating in Jewish programs. In the larger universities, some Jewish faculty members contrib- - nrograms as wiliest sneakers