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World news Court to reconsider Penk case PORTLAND (AP) - Faculty women who lost ■ mx discrimination case against Oregon’s state colleges and universities last year con tend on appeal that a federal fudge misinter preted evidence and denied them a fair trial. Attorneys for the Mate, meanwhile, main tain the evidence supports the conclusions made by U S District judge Helen Frye and that it would be a waste of time and money to retry the massive case known as Fenk vs. Oregon State Board of Higher Education. Briefs describing in detail the appellate arguments of both sides have been filed with the U S. Oth Circuit Court of Appeals A date for arguing the case has not been set. Frye in February teas concluded there was no pattern of am discrimination against woman faculty members at Oregon’s eight public colleges and universities, except for three individual claims involving woman at Western Oregon State College. An original class of 2.ZOO women faculty members had sought damages totaling *33 million for alleged discrimination in hiring. pay, promotion and tenure decisions, Portland attorney Don Willner, chief at* torney for the faculty women, alleged on ap> peal that Frye denied the women a fair trial by excluding testimony from two expert witnesses who would have been called to rebut statistical analyses performed by the state. Willner also alleged that Frye rred by restricting time fcr rebuttal, and by sr ng the size of class of women by about half A brief filed on behalf of Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer contends Frye pro perly refused to accept the testimonv of the rebuttal witnesses because Willner feiwd to give notice of the experts' names in time to allow the state lo prepare cross-examination. Willner's brief indicated that failure to meet the court's deadline waa inadvertent. If the appellate court fails to reverse Frye on state liability, Willner asks that the class ac tion and the individual claims be sent beck to a different fudge for retrial. Washington prepares for possible fallout OLYMPIA, Wash(AP) Washington on Tuesday braced itself for possible fallout from the nuclear accident'in the Soviet .Union, but officials said the radioactivity probably would pose no heailth'.threat; ,. ;v < '.'"1 Gov., Booth Gardner met with.officials from the 'state' departments ‘of. Ecology. Social and Health Services and Emergency Management to review stepsthn state could take in the event ab normally high radiation . .ievels reach the North west '■ p.;. ~ -V vV Charlie Porter, director of the Astern En vironmental Radiation Facility in Montgomery, Ala., said fallout detection stations in all 50 states will deliver data to his station.1 The agency is an \ arm of the federal ^Knivommental Protection Agency p;.-:- , . •/».r: .• ■ ti (iardner said.feadings at several monitoring - stations around. Washington state showed only normal background radiation. . ' * Terry Frazeeofthe state radiation control of- - ficesaid there are no plans to test milk or water for radiation. '’. '. - • p "Air is more sensitive (to radiation), and we won't be testing milk unless there is increased radiation levels.in the airjV Frazee said. Filters on radiation monitors at the capital in Olympia, at Spokane and at the Hanford nuclear reservation in eastern Washington were ordered changed daily. Normally they are changed once a week, officials said. ° ■ • '"There is nothing to-be worried about in the Northwest at this point, but we wilt maintain con tinuous monitoring of the situation," said Gard ner press aide Jim Rneeland. Kneeland said state government will "use the situation as a vehicle to make sure our skills art? up to handling any situation and for taking a look at what kind of a response we should have " Federal officials have said if the radioactive cloud from the* accident at the Soviet nuclear power plant at Chernobyl ascends to 15,000 feet . or higher, it probably would pass over the polar ice cap, move across Canada and into the nor thwestern United States. • However, it is estimated that fallout, if any, wouldn't reach Washington until Saturday at the earliest. ~ Specialty Drink of tho Month* Cappuccino 75< - with coupon Good thru April 30, 1986 860 E 13th 344-7894 AT THE UO BOOKSTORE ■ ' : . AGES 3-6 II 00 IN THE GENERAL BOOK DEPT. 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