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FAMILY QUARRELS    | Daniel Schalz. The reduction of the regional and national higher education budget does not only hit teachers and students. At the Humboldt University in Berlin even the women’s representative Marianne Kriszio sees her work endangered by the plans of the academic senate to withdraw one of her very closest employees — her secretary. While other departments such as the library are facing cuts in more than 19 cases, the comparably small incision has desastrous effects! In a special session of the academic senate in April Mrs. Kriszio adressed the president of the University expressing her anger by saying, that she had never expected to get “the rug pulled from under her feet” like this. Her sub-agent Angelika Keune even went further by saying, that their department faces now the state of being “paralised”. Since equality in the academic area is nowadays one of the most discussed and propagated issues on the politic agendas, the president Mr. Mlynek may have the forbearance to sacrifice one of his three secretaries in favor of the imperiled women’s office. Otherwise there will be a long line of people in front of closed doors, when, for instance, Mrs. Kriszio has an appointment at one of the other panels she is active on — such as the “commission of advancement of womankind” or the “national comittee of women’s representatives at higher education institutions”. Hopefully the press office of the HU will be the last department to be diminished so the news about her efforts and the marvellous unique state of gender equality she created at the HU Berlin can be promoted even though she is helplessly overwhelmed by piles of paper on her desk.