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anti-discrimination guidelines.
Board member Edward Harms
argued that the board had to
accept the present
recommendations on the basis of
expediency.
“I see the necessity for action
rather than messing around with
rules for the next nine months," he
said.
Despite Pauliss testimony, the
board accepted the committee
recommendations with some
amendments. Board member
Philip McLaurin suggested that
the hearings officer in each
discrimination case be required to
submit his or her findings to the
state director of Affirmative
Action, an amendment which the
board passed unanimously
In his morning report to the
board, Lieuallen recommended
that "the board re-examine its
relationship to the intercollegiate
athletic program.”
The chancellor also
recommended that the board
consider at least three basic
issues:
•Whether the institutions
should continue competitive
intercollegiate athletics and, if so,
at what level of competition.
•Whether the current method of
funding is appropriate, or whether
some state tax funds should be
sought to assist the three
universities with their athletic
programs.
•Whether changes are needed
to accommodate athletics to the
Redden wants to exempt
pensions from bargaining
State Treasurer Jim Redden
has called for changes in Oregon
law to insure that pension benefits
continue to be exempt from
collective bargaining by public
employes.
Redden, a candidate for
attorney general, said he will ask
the 1977 Legislature to amend the
Public Employe Collective
Bargaining Act to specifically
exclude pension benefits as a
negotiable item.
Redden drafted the act while
serving as chairer of the
Governors Task Force on
Collective Bargaining and worked
for its passage by the 1973
Legislature
Although public employes have
not yet attempted to include
pension benefits in negotiations,
according to Redden, there is
nothing in present law preventing
them from doing so in the future.
We need cnly look to New York
r
City and New York State where
pension benefits are negotiable
items, to appreciate the necessity
for the amendment in Oregon
law, Redden said. New York
City, by allowing full retirement
after 20 years, based on the last
year s salary and buttressed in
that last year by overtime, has
created pension obligations that
will bring the system down around
its ears. A pension that allows
virtual full pay at 40 is absolutely
worthless if the check doesn't
come in.
Nearly all public employes in
Oregon, including most teachers,
are included in the Public
Employe Retirement System.
Pension benefits are upgraded
biennially by the Legislature
“We should continue our drive
for a single system run by a citizen
board and supervised by the
Legislature,” Redden said It s
one of our state s strengths.”
“Scientists do not
universally support
evolution”
The area of origins has long been controversial. It is
now assumed by most people that evolution is a fact and
that the Biblical view of creation is acceptable only by
blind faith.
By its very nature, however, no theory of ongins can be scientifically
proved The earth s ongm is nonrepeatable and nonobservable We are left with
the formation of models that attempt to explain how the earth began, taking in
to account all the known facts and laws of natural science and the discoveries of
archeology
Scientists do not universally support evolution. In fact, hundreds of well
qualified scientists are convinced that the creation model fits the facts of science
better than the evolution model One reason is the implications of the two Laws
of Thermodynamics
The first law states that matter is now being neither created nor destroyed.
The second law states that every system, left to its own devices, always tends to
move from order to disorder Its energy tends to be constantly transformed into
lower levels of availability, ultimately reaching complete randomness.
The second law means that the universe had to have a beginning, since
energy is constantly decaying But the first law means that the universe could not
have onginated itself
Therefore, some outside cuase must have originated the universe Nothing
we can observe is an adequate cause, so the cause must be either an evolutio
nary process beyond observable space or prior to observable time, or else a
creative process which brought space, matter and time all into being at once.
Two theories are suggested by evolutionists to explain the cause. The
steady-state theory suggests that new matter is continually evolving into exis
tence out of nothing somewhere out in space The tug-bang theory suggests that
matter was converted from energy by a pnmeval explosion of some kind
It is obvious that neither theory has any observable basis In fact, they
contradict both laws of thermodynamics. Therefore, they are philosophical
speculations, not science.
The creation model, on the other hand, in effect predicts the two laws A
special creation by an infinite-personal Creator is the only logical conclusion to
be drawn from the two most certain and universal laws in science.
We would hope that from this discussion some questions have been raised
in your mind about blind, unquestioning acceptance of the theory of evolu
tion.
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requirements of anti-sex
discrimination requirements in the
new Title IX federal rule.
The board also approved
formally the recent action of the
chancellor to lower admissions
requirements for out-of-state
students transferring to Oregon
colleges. The action enables
students to transfer to Oregon
colleges and universities with a
2.0 college grade average.
Previously the University of
Oregon, Oregon State University
and Portland State University
required transfer students to have
a 2.25 college average.
Athletics booms for lady jocks
as Title IX scholarships open
(CPS) — While some schools dig in for battle over compliance with
Title IX regulations requiring equal sports facilities for men and women,
other schools have jumped the gun. As a result, increasing numbers of
women are receiving athletic scholarships.
Nine women at Stanford University were recently awarded
scholarships totaling over $30,000 while UCLA is forking over $57,000
to help 49 women in nine sports this year. Penn State University will
raise its total number of free rides from 18 to 30 in 1976 and the
University of Texas is also planning to expand its scholarship program
for female athletes.
Although the Title IX guidelines do not take full effect until July,
1978, the University of Miami started offering scholarships to women in
1973. Since then, its women’s swimming team has jumped from 18th
place to first in national championships.
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