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Oregon Daily 151 M This is the first ot a senes about a woman who is suing the University, a professor and a stu dent for stripping her of her rights under Ti«e IX of the Federal Cnnl Rights Act of 1964 The woman, Devon Gray, claims she was sexu ally harassed, and that the | University has implied she is unreasonable because of a deci sion allegedly made by the j Affirmative Action Advisory Committee The decision was that no discrimination had taken place Title IX can be grounds lor a law surt and was enacted to assure that women and girls would not t» discriminated against in education TODAY: Details Gray's account ot the incident when the alleged harassment occurred THURSDAY: Devon Gray s "slow, painful process" of taking her gnevance to many University channels, which left her unsatis tied She quit the University and then decided to sue it, along with George Kokis and the lion student "Eric.'' who has left the University Student still fighting University Lawsuit: bray charges classmate, professor with sexual harassment By Lla Salctccta Oregon Om\ f meting Devon Gray, 40. a former fine arts student at the University, has only made one drawing situ e last spring Compared to the nlaftorate art she had made in the past, the picture of the angel fighting a huge lion-head serpent was small and unremarkable Hut that drawing came to symbolize her ••I fori s in fighting tmi k against whnt sin* i a I loti mi m l of sexual harassment perpetrated t»v « student iirui n professor Iteiauxe of what hap|>ened in a i lavs one day Iasi visit tlrav has dropped out of s< hool Shu had plannnd to oarn a bachelor's and master's dugruu in finn arts, but now slm is in tho pre liminary stagus of a lawsuit against tho Uni versity. tin* professor and the student who she vud had harassed her It was April Fool's Day Spring term had Into to HARASSMENT, P.kjo -1 MK,MAl l SJHNfH t Ilf•• *».!»> Eric Abrassart draws a pint of beer tor a customer at High Street Brewery. Small pubs brew recipe for success Beer: tugene will add more microbreweries By Kim Challis-Roth For tfw Qmgan fWy f tnotaxl Upstairs in the old house at 12-Ct High St. in Kugene groups of men and women enjoy a pleas ant laughter-filled evening, unaware of what's brewing below. Downstairs. Terminator Stout and Hammerhead lurk in the i ool. dark basement. Hut so do Ruby and Cascade Ale And Hobbit Habit Ale. All are beers brewed at McMe namin's High Street Brewery and Cafe, one of many local restau rants now brewing beer on-site. List year 5 percent of all beer sales were made at small, local ized pubs called microbreweries. Oregon currently has ,18 hrew pubs, ranking second only to Cal ifornia, which has 80 Next year microbrew sales are projected to reach Si billion. Ami Northwest brewers are happy. Steve van Rossem. a brewer at McMenamin’s, said the avail ability of hops and malt make Oregon. Washington and Cali fornia popular places for brew ers And the taste of recently fermented beer ts the main rea son beer drinkers are switching from traditional bottled beers to micros, \an Rossem said. "This beer is a live product," van Rossem said. "We serve it fresh. It takes from five to seven days to ferment, and it’s ready to serve in as little as a week We don't filter our beer, so it has a Turn to MICROBREW, Page 6 MCKACL "jtiiNtx ( Beer starts here. The brewing process begins with the selection ot the grain, svch as the Crystal malt shown above. high 55° w GOOD MORNING ► The Ducks on a Roll Basket ball Contest will take place Thursday at McArthur Court at 7 p.m. The event features the Univer sity men';, and women’s basket ball teams. Sacred Heart's Oregon Rehabilitation Center All Stars, and University and local media representatives, accord iruj to information from the reha hilitation center Tickets, which cost S3 tor adults and S? for students, are available at Mac Court and the Casanova Ticket Offices, the Oregon Rehabilitation Reception Area and Sacred Heart's volun leer office For more information, contact Susan Solan at ■58-190/6 ► Tuesday morning University President Myles Brand folded his lanky frame into a wheelchair and took a spin around campus He tourer) the areas tretween Johnson Hail. Alton Hall and Deady Hall as part of Disability Awareness Week. Kelly Conely. a wheelchair user who tourer) along with Brand, said that she hoped this kind o( event would draw atten lion to both the areas o( campus that are accessible to physically challenged people and the areas that still need to be made acces sible. "In the chair. President Brand realized how difficult opening doors is and how the cracks in the sidewalk feel," she said. "It opened his eyes a little more.” Another event intended to increase awareness was Physi cal Challenge, a disability simu lation. Students used wheelchairs, crutches and canes to gel from one residence hall to another The fourth person on each team had a simulated learning disability "It gave a little insight into the difficulties that other people go through who are disabled," said sophomore Gretchen See "I wanted to understand more about their lives." Today campus fraternities and sororities will be sponsoring information tables in the FIMU.
