| ASUO fiscal group
begins review
\ By STEPHEN VAJDA
Of the Emerald
Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group
I (OSPIRG) State head Stephen McCarthy and other key
members of OSPIRG gave a brief rundown of that
organization’s past and present activities at the Tuesday
night meeting of the ASUO Fiscal Affairs Committee.
OSPIRG’s appearance was the first in a series of
program reviews slated to be heard by the fiscal committee
\ this term. The program reviews are intended to serve as a
preliminary to the budget hearings in order to provide Fiscal
committee members with as much information as possible in
making budget recommendations.
McCarthy began his presentation by telling committee
members that the University was the first to fund OSPIRG
and that he was glad to be able to return to the Fiscal
Committee with a favorable report of OSPIRG’s activities.
OSPIRG Environmental studies director Peter Sorenson
\ said he thought the greatest benefit OSPIRG offered was its
\ ability “to bring talent to bear on the problems.” He cited
i environmental problems in particular.
OSPIRG Board Chairer Robin Grove then listed
\ programs underway. The included programs involve the
\ Portland General Electric rate structure, retail loan ob
\ stacles to women, reforestation problems, inadequate
j consumer protection policies, Bell telephone rate increases,
\ the Rock Mesa dispute over open pit mining, and others.
•: OSPIRG moves into an area and accomplishes things
||:: like no other group can, McCarthy said. 'Hie expertise of
OSPIRG’s members is equal to that of government con
sultants, and their academic backgrounds are equal, he said.
Following the presentation committee members asked
questions on such topics as the Newbry amendment, student
involvement in OSPIRG, and others. OSPIRG will appear
again before the Fiscal committee at the budget bearings for
( more detailed scrutiny of its budget requests.
SEARCH representatives Jody Ruff and Gordon King
then requested transportation costs to attend the National
Symposium on Experimental Higher Education at Johnston
College in Redlands, California on Jan. 25.
King told members that the symposium would enable
SEARCH to experience new forms of experimental education
and offer opportunity to make contact with educators in that
field. Committee member Mike Marsh suggested that
\ SEARCH’S trip should be funded because he said it was
f “beneficial” and “one of those groups to which funds should
\ be allocated.”
SEARCH received the budget recommendation of $211.
This fee was agreed upon after consultation with established
travel allocation guidelines.
Canterbury Center’s Christine Coleman then requested
$250 for the printing of 2500 Community Service Handbooks.
The sale of these would pay Canterbury Center’s rent and
phone bill for a year, she said.
Committee member Mike Marsh said, however, the last
year the center had printed up the handbooks but had not
even been able to give all of them away and that it
j seems unlikely that the eenter could sell 2500 this year.
Committee Chairer Peggy O’Farrell moved that the budget ]
recommendation be $100 and that motion was passed.
The last item on the agenda was a request by Russell
Pate, a graduate student in the P.E. Department, for tran
sportation funds to attend a meeting of the Scientific Section
of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in Las
Vegas.
Pate said he was invited to present his master’s thesis,
“Biomechanics of Running — An Analysis Using the Har
monics of Motion” at the meeting.
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In women's reclassification delay
OSEA charges discrimination
By KATHLEEN GLANVILLE
Of the Emerald
The Oregon State Employes
Association (OSEA) has charged
the State Personnel Division with
perpetuating sexual
discrimination by delaying the
reclassification of domestic
workers.
OSEA made that charge at a
strategy meeting held Tuesday
evening on the OSU campus. The
meeting was attended by more
than 90 domestic Workers, most
of them women, who wish to be
reclassified as custodial workers.
Fifteen women employed by the
University were present
Les Strickler, vice president of
OSEA Chapter 29, announced
that a House Joint Resolution
would be submitted to the
legislature sometime in the next
few weeks. If passed, the
resolution would force the Per
sonnel Division to review all job
classifications and revise them so
that all arbitrary barriers to
equal employment are
eliminated.
Domestic workers are
presently paid an average of $100
less than custodial workers who
are predominantly male. Studies
performed by the Office of Civil
Rights have found no significant
differences in the duties per
formed by domestic and
custodial workers. A comparison
of tasks performed did not justify
the difference in pay scale, be
said.
This practice has not yet been
corrected by the State Personel
division and classification
proposals made by the State
Personnel Division drew heavy
criticism at Tuesday’s meeting.
“We propose that the Per
sonnel Division’s proposal is a
continuation of sex
discrimination in which men and
women perform much the same
work at different scales of pay,”
stated Everett Stiles, OSEA’s
Assistant Executive Secretary.
The Personnel Division’s
proposal failed to eliminate pay
differences based on light and
heavy work which tend to divide
men and women into separate
classes, said Stiles.
Strickler said that if there is to
be equal pay for equal work there
can be no distinction between
light and heavy work.
Several women expressed
concern over having to do heavy
lifting in order to receive equal,
pay. Other women stated that
they already are performing the
same labor men perform at the
lower pay scale of Domestic
Workers.
Cheryl Williams, OSEA salary
analyst, briefly compared
OSEA’s proposed revision of
class specifications with those
proposed by the Personnel
Division.
Williams said that the OSEA
proposal offers adequate pay.
(The Personnel Division offered
approximately $100 less per class
category than OSEA.) She also
said that their proposal offers
opportunities for promotion.
•“Presently there is very little
opportunity for promotion
because the present basis for
distinguishing class is the type of
labor performed.”
Visiting scholar finishes
religious talks tonight
By KATHY O'GRADY
Of the Emerald
“It’s a beautiful piece of mother earth”, said Alfonso Ortiz, an
associate anthropology professor frbm Princeton University. Ortiz
was commenting on his first impression of the Willamette Valley.
The University’s Department of Religious Studies annually bring*
a distinguished scholar to the University as part of its Distinguished
Visiting Lecturers Program. Ortiz was this years choice to present a
series of three lectures dealing with the “Native American Vision of
Life”.
Ortiz, a Native American Indian of the Tewa Tribe of the Pueblos,
is an expel of Native American Religions and his lecture will center
around the Native American faith and view of life.
Today will be Ortiz’s last day on campus. He will be at the
Koinonia Center, 1414 Kincaid, for a conversation period at 3:30 p.m.
University students, faculty and friends are invited to meet Ortiz and
speak with him at that time.
The last of the three lectures, tonight, will be “To Carry Forth the
Vine; The Power of an Oral Tradition” and will be in the EMU
Ballroom as have the previous two lectures. The lecture will begin at
7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Ortiz’s opening lecture Tuesday night had “Look to the Moun
tain top: Native American Visions of Life” as its topic. Ortiz began
with a half hour slide show of Southwestern United States which gave
his audience a little insight into the area of the country which the
Native Americans his lectures would center around inha hit New
Mexico and Arizona are the homeland for the Tewa and other Pueblo
Tribes.
Mountains, according to Ortiz, are very important to Native
Americans, “mountains are alternate symbols and metaphors of
Indian’s greatest accomplishments and deepest beliefs.”
“Look to the Mounta intop also means look to the North . . . the
beginning of the beginning of all beginnings, for we began life in the
North,” said Ortiz.
Wednesday’s lecture topic was “Pueblo Indian Ritual Drama:
Some Roots of Faith”.
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