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Oregon Coast Line offers free round trip transportation to those who donate $5 to help feed the
hungry in Lane County.
Free bus trips offered
The Oregon Coast Lines, a non-profit bus
line headquartered in Eugene, is offering free
round-trip transportation to the coast through
the month of March for those who donate $5 or
more worth of food to the Fish organization to
help feed the hungry in Lane County.
When it opened for business in the sum
mer of 1982, Oregon Coast Lines became the
first bus line in four years to offer regular
service from Eugene to the coast. On Thanks
giving Day, the company offered free bus
service to those who could not otherwise
afford it.
Oregon Coast Lines has buses leaving
Eugene at 6 p.m each Thursday and Friday,
and at 9:30 a m. on Saturday and Sunday. The
bus stops in Mapleton, Walton, Noti and Vene
ta on the way to Florence Some tours from
November through April feature whale watch
ing along the coast, while destinations include
the Oregon Dunes, Sea Lion Caves, Heceta
Head and Lighthouse, Cape Perpetua and
Strawberry Hill Wayside, where tourists can
observe harbor seals in their natural habitat.
The line uses a rebuilt 1964 school bus,
with enough room for 24 passengers, 12 bicy
cles, and a restroom. The company also oper
ates a 14-passenger air-conditioned Maxi-Van.
Buses leave from 10th Avenue and Charnelton
Street. For more information, contact John
McCaffrey at the Oregon Coast Line office at
683-4060
Mortar board picks
Hovet January’s best
Political science Prof. Tom
Hovet has been chosen Jan
uary’s Professor of the Month by
Mortar Board, the senior honor
society.
Hovet received an ’’over
whelming” number of nomina
tions for the award, said Samer
Ramadan, selection committee
co-chairer. The board sent
representatives to evaluate the
professor and obtain evalua
tions from students in Hovet’s
classes, he said.
Hovet’s students said he was
“one of the University’s most
valuable resources," Ramadan
said. Students also noted his
willingness to help students, in
cluding encouraging them to
call him collect when they need
help, he said.
Hovet has taught at the
University since 1966 and is a
recipient of the Ersted Award,
which recognizes distinguished
teaching by one or two profes
sors a year
He teaches courses such as
international law, international
relations, human rights and
ocean politics
Hovet says his teaching
philosophy is that students
learn best by doing He assigns
projects that have students deal
with real-world problems.
“I want to use these real
world problems as illustrations
of principles we re dealing
with,” Hovet says. There is no
correct answer to the problems,
he says.
Hovet says students consider
him a “valuable resource”
because he has worked as a
consultant to the United Na
tions. The U S. government and
other governments also have
consulted him on international
organization.
Class explains how
U.S. Senate works
If you’ve ever wondered how
the U S. Senate operates and
how senators make the deci
sions that affect your life, the
Mock United States Senate
course is for you
The class lets students learn
about the Senate by role-play
ing a senator, lobbyist or
member of the executive
branch, says Tom Birkland,
student coordinator of the
course
Senators attend committee
meetings, introduce bills and
learn to wheel-and-deal like the
big boys, he says. The course
climaxes with a weekend
simulation of the full senate in
late May.
The course is being spon
sored by the Political Science
Student Union for the second
consecutive year. There are no
prerequisites, and all majors are
encouraged to take the course,
says Birkland. The course will
meet at 2:30 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday and Friday in Room
221, Allen
For more information, contact
the PSSU, Room 823, PLC, at
686-4890
Bias suit against state board goes to court
By Doug Levy
Of th* Emerald
A discrimination suit involving a black man and the
State Board of Higher Education is scheduled to go to
U S. District Court in Portland for briefings M?- jh 21.
In 1976 Lewis Peters sued forme; state system
Chancellor Roy Lieuallen and the state board with
discrimination after he wasn't chosen from among nine
candidates for a compliance officer position
Charging the board with racial discrimination and
violation of his civil rights, Peters sought $400,000 and a
court order giving him the job Dut U S District Court
Judge Owen Panner denied his charge in a May 1980
decision.
Peters and his attorney, Curtis Oler of San Fran
cisco, appealed the ruling
But both Oler and Jerry Casby, the state board's
attorney, have issued statements saying it’s unknown
when oral arguments will be presented
In the 1980 court case. Peters charged the depart
ment of higher education's search committee with
violating his Title VII rights. He also said the committee
was guilty of disparate impact and disparate treatment.
Bill Lemman, state board vice chancellor, says Title
VII is part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lemman describes disparate impact as ‘‘con
structing qualifications for something that rules out a
large number of people" and disparate treatment as
"treating one individual differently than another,"
Peters said the four-person search committee,
which included Lieuallen and Lemman, didn't value
experience enough and overly criticized his commun
ication skills.
But Lemman says, "In my opinion, he was not
qualified for the job."
John Richardson, another committee member now
working in South Dakota, testified that Peters was
"inappropriately dressed — not wearing a suit or a tie,"
and "he consistently misspoke the English language "
However, Peters charged that he was not chosen
for the job because he was a black man, although two
blacks and one Hispanic were among the five finalists
selected for the compliance officer position Peters was
not among the five finalists chosen.
Ultimately, the job went to Melinda Grier, a white
woman who is still at the University.
Grier says the search committee's interview was
fair "as far as I can remember. It's been six years — and
it's hard to remember much of something from that long
ago "
But Steve Faustina, one of the black finalists who
now works in a similar position at San Jose State
Universi^, testified in Peters' behalf He said questions
about experience were “conspicuously absent" during
the interview
Lemman, who chaired the search committee, says
the case is not worthy of further discussion When
asked if the search committee had acted fairly, he
responded, "certainly ”
Discrimination suits also have been common at the
University, Lemman says.
"These things happen all the time Interestingly
enough, when we had a temporary opening for the
position, we filled it with a black man, and a white
woman filed a suit. So who's to say what’s right?"
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