Toward ending discrimination
Leo Laurence begins ‘money’
strategy
Oct. 15 anti-discrimination program.
ow wants to form a new coalition of
groups in Eugene, “each group main
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But he
rd the same thing: revision of that program.’
^Laurence is no longer trying to work with
i*sity administrators. He is communicating
rtiv with the agency responsible for en
ment of federal anti-discrimination orders:
US Department of Health Education and
'are.
Laurence has written the regional Office of
Rights, HEW. in Seattle, several times during
past three weeks, asking HEW to reject the
nersity’s anti-discrimination program.
And if HEW rejects the program, about $17
ion in annual federal money given to the
fersity is put in jeopardy.
■We have to realize that money is powerful,” he
“So the tactic now is to stop $17 million from
"ing here to the University, thus forcing the
versify to deal with minorities.”
Laurence, 38, has run a private consulting
ncyin Eugene since mid-August. Before coming
Cugene, he says he was (for varied lengths of
>) a journalist, a Methodist minister, a deputy
iff, a legislative lobbyist and a public relations
sctor.
His most recent letter to HEW says his agency
s received documentation which seems to
vide an evidenciary foundation to substantiate
r denial’’ of the anti-discrimination program.
Laurence’s letter, dated Nov. 20, concludes that
sal funds should be denied the University
juse it is not trying to “aggressively add”
minorities to its staff. Enclosed with his letter is a
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says 0131 confronting HEW is his
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administration has become unresponsive Clark
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The University made a very strategic blunder
when they refused to even discuss this issue ”
Laurence says about Clark’s letter.
“T^d Wlil take this t0 our advantage
l he affirmative action program has got to be a
bummer, especially in enforcement. There is no
real part in enforcement from the minority com
munities. The whole thing has got to be rewritten.”
Everything I’ve done is to stop that federal
money from coming to the University. And we need
to find more blatant areas of discrimination The
most effective way doing this is to form a coalition ”
“When Clark sent me that letter,” Laurence
says, I didn’t realize that we had a gold mine. The
public didn t believe it. The public is ready for this
issue. It is a clean issue—equal employment op
portunity.” y
“When the University said (through Claris's
letter) that it didn’t include gay persons in the
program, it hung up the flag that said ‘We are
against you.’ ”
What if HEW approves of the University’s anti
discrimination program?
It appears,” he says, “that there is no question
it will have to go into court.”
Leo Laurence
ourse changes made
y Liberal Arts faculty
The political science department will decrease its total hours by
hours next school year with the reduction of many five hour
nes to three hour courses.
Hie action was approved at Monday’s meeting of the College of
eral Arts faculty Also approved were additions and changes in all
ir departments of the College.
According to Political Science department head James Klonoski,
return to the 3 hour system came about because of no College
e shift to five hours. In a memo to the College Course Committee
charge of developing curricular changes), Klonoski said that
lough the experiment proved “more successful than un
cessful, he was recommending reversion to the three hour system
ause there had been no indication of a College-wide move in that
ction.
The political science courses with hour reductions range from PS
toerican Governments: Concepts and Institutions to PS 509
ching Practicum.
The department is also dropping eight courses and adding seven,
of the additions, PS 210 Practical Law for Non-lawyers, taught by
i® Levine, inspired some discussion at the meeting.
A faculty member questioned whether the course was a
ica ionof one (L 430 Law, Its Proccesses and Functions) already
ht in the Law School.
^vme argued that his course was not a duplication, but intended
vi erudimentary knowledge of law to undergraduates. “To my
geno where else in the University do undergraduates have the
uni y to get broad-based knowledge about the law,” he said.
® a "eed to fill the gap.”
^at his course will deal with the substance of law while
lowpri 00 ?,c*ea*smore with process. “I want to get it to people at
m w?’ Devine said. “Frankly I think this course should be
Pt in high school.”
idy
David Jscuss'on at the meeting concerned two motions presented
fC r„f. °i1I?und head of the Computer science department. Both
^ed back to the College Curriculum Committee for further
1Iru,. er ^ en Starlin, professor of speech, said the Curriculum
Moursn'!iaS wor^m8 to do away with cross-listing,
stion h that his motion was really part of a larger
puter S3IC^ d 63°h department started teaching their own
lversitv C(?nCe courses> the result would be that the “understaffed”
lartrrw HJPttthig department would become more of a service
ment rather than grow professionally.
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