Oregon daily emerald., March 29, 1978, Image 1

I Vol. 79, No. 121
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Wednesday, March 29, 1978
Budgie’s beauty beguiles the birds
Budgie the Scarecrow is ready to scare off birds and other undesirables as planting season nears. It
lives at 15th Avenue and Hilyard Street, and was conceived by Joshua Stein and Sam Rainey. Can
Budgie do the job? That remains to be seen.
Anti-sex rules
not violated
Lieuallen refutes charges
By RICHARD SEVEN
Of the Emerald
4The University’s collegiate athletic program does not violate the
state’s anti-sex discrimination law as charged in a complaint filed a year
ago, Roy Lieuallen, chancellor of higher education ruled Tuesday.
Last March a Salem couple, Robert and Barbara Aikens, charged
the University with failing to offer equal athletic opportunities in transpor
tation, officiating coaching staffs and over-all competative athletic prog
rams.
At the time of the suit, the Aikens had two daughters playing
basketball at the University.
Lieuallen said a Department of Higher Education rule permits state
system institutions to follow federal regulations implementing Title IX, in
a federal anti-discrimination amendment assessing equal opportunity.
Title IX gives institutions until July 21 of this year to provide equal
opportunity for women's athletics.
“It would be unreasonable,’’ Lieuallen said, “to use similar
guidelines in seeking to comply with both state and federal law, but at
the same time use widely divergent timetables."
Lieuallen responded to all of the four specific charges filed against
the University:
• Transportation: ‘The University has implemented a policy which
establishes a non-sex-related criteria for assignment of transportation
to teams,” the chancellor said. “Decisions of the mode of transportation
for all teams is made centrally, taking into consideration comparable
transportation for comparable sports.”
• Officiating: The chancellor said the amount of payment to officials
does not reflect the level of service to the respective programs.
“The University must provide officiating, which meets the need of
the program regardless of the cost and should help develop standard
non-sex-related criteria to evaluate the adequacy of the officiating pro
vided to any one sport,” Lieuallen said.
• Coaching salary: “The salary level of coaches can not be the sole
determinant of the adequacy of the coaching level,” said Lieuallen.
“Once factors have been established to determine the level of coaches,
they should be applied to all coaches. Salaries should be comparable
for comparable positions.”
• Differences in the women's and men’s programs: The chancellor
said there is no requirement for an institution to provide identical prog
rams for men and women. Instead, under the guidelines of Title IX, the
University must continue assured equity proportionate to the interests
and participation of women athletes.
On March 7, Hearings Officer Neva Elliot concluded the Universiy
was in violation of state requirements as of March 1977, because it did
not provide equal opportunity in all areas.
However, she also said the University was not in violation of Title IX
because compliance date for the federal regulation will not occur until
July of this year.
The chancellor said he is ordering the University to continue to
work for total Title 'X compliance.
He said that although “substantial differences exist within men and
women's athletic programs, due primarily to the long-standing goals
and objectives of the programs as well as to the history and development
of men s and women’s athletics,’’ the University is still responsible for
seeking equity.
Lieuallen's order is the final process in the Department of Higher
Education's grievance procedure. Any appeal would have to be taken to
the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare or to the courts.
Classes offered for non-traditional students
The Community Education Program
(CEP) is offering several courses designed
for non-traditional students spring term.
All of the courses through CEP are regu
lar University classes. The program high
lights those topics that members of the
community may be interested in.
The program allows persons not formally
admitted to the University to take up to six
hours of course work per term at reduced
fees. The work can later be used for transfer
credit, but it does not satisfy University resi
dence requirements toward a degree.
Spring term, the College cf Education is
premiering eight courses that have been
designed especially for parents and
teachers. These courses focus on some
aspect of childhood that is of common con
cern to both parents and teachers.
Dick Hersh, associate dean for teacher
education, says the courses have been de
veloped because there is not enough
parent-teacher communication about major
educational issues.
Courses include: Teacher and Parent Ef
fectiveness Training. Behavior Manage
ment of Children. The Growing Child, Val
ues and Moral Education. Developing
Creative Climates for Reading. Children's
Literature for Parents, Children Talking,
and Education Rights of Handicapped.
Children.
The business school is implementing
evening courses which have been designed
to help people deal with routine, sometimes
perplexing chores, like preparation of tax
returns and financial planning.
Courses will include Dealing with your
Taxes. Personal Economics and Financial
Planning, The Stock Market and Investing,
Survey of Real Estate, and more.
Persons who have not pre-registered in
the Community Education program can
take advantage of a CEP registration ses
sion, which will be held in Mac Court from
6:30 to 8 tonight.