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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
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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
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Beer starts here. The brewing process begins with the selection ot
the grain, svch as the Crystal malt shown above.
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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.