GRAY
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and Equal Opportunity on April
ifi, 1993. Gray said she spoke
with Everett Wells, who told her
that there was nothing the office
could do for her
Gray said Wells did not inform
her of the proceedings for filing
,) formal grievanc e with Affirma
tive! Action and did not mention
the 180-day deadline for filing
formal grievances If this is true.
Wells did not act in a< cordani e
with the policies of the Of fit e of
Affirmative Action
Wells could not lie reached for
comment He left his post at the
University in September 1093,
said Linda Ling, chairwoman of
the Affirmative Action Advisory
Committee He is not listed in the
Eugene-Springfield phone hook
Because of strict University
ulationa. administrators i ouid not
comment on specifics of Grav's
case, even with a waiver of con
fidentiality presented by Grav
Commenting on how her case
was decided would breach con
fidentiality regulations designed
to protect Gray.
However, administrators could
comment on procedures, such as
how cases like Gray's are usual
ly decided.
Ken Lehrman. director of the
Office of Affirmative Action, said
he finds it "extremely unlikely
that anyone would say on the
phone that there's nothing they
could do. Is it possible? I suppose
it's possible, but I'll stand by
extremely unlikely."
1 can't think of another
instance where someone wasn't
told," I .eh r man said in response
to ('.ray's claims However, he
also said he's "the last person to
say there s any such thing as a
failsafe system."
Lehrman said that when some
one involved with the Universi
ty has a grievatn e of
discrimination with another |>er
son at the University, there are
several options available through
the Offii e of Affirmative Action
When a grievant first phones
the office. I.ehrman said, the
r»< eptionist w ill forward the call
to one of two intake officers
Wells, who allegedly told t.rav
there was "nothing they could
do." formerly held that position
The intake officers try to coax
the grievant into coming into the
offii e to tell his or her story in
person Then, the grievant
decides whether to file a formal
complaint (a complaint that yvill
he investigated, where the
respondent yvill learn the grim
ant's name) or an informal com
plaint (one that will t«> put into
a file until a sis ond |>erson comes
forward with a similar grievam e
against the same person)
Gray said if she had las-n prop
erly informed of the pnx ess, she
would have filed a formal i out
plaint.
Lehrman said that if a formal
complaint is made, a "fact-find
er's report" is written by the
office's human rights investiga
tor Then a seven-member Affir
mative Action Advisory
Committee reviews the report
The committee cannot carry out
punishments against alleged
offenders (respondents).
Instead of this relatively
straightforward process. Gray
said she went through a bureau
cratic roller-coaster whore she
vtid she wasn't ever quite sure of
her rights and of what was going
on with her i ase
On April 17. Gray called the
Kaj>e Crisis Hotline and told her
story to a dispati her At the dis
patcher's advice. Gray called the
police to report the ini ident as
harassment ('.ray said a woman
officer told her that the April
Fool’s Day incident was indeed
an illegal act of harassment and
advised her to call the Univorsi
tv Office of Public Safety
Gray took the advice of the
police officer and gave a report
to Marge Bigelow of OPS
Bigelow dei lined an interview
with the Kmrmhi
Meanwhile. Gray plunged
deeper into depression The
memories of assault and abuse
that had resurfaced during the
April Fool's Day incident were
ones that Gray said she was not
ready to face, yet they began to
haunt her during her everyday
routine
Gray read a hook i ailed Tmn
/tin and Wertnery. the same tiook
she would make Kokis read lat
er Gray said she tiegan to i hain
smoke and w rite down her expo
notices that liegun with the April
Fool's Day ini.ident The writings
eventually grew into a 60-page
in ( mint, who h Gray titled The
I.ion-hoad Serpent
Soon, thi* writings were all
Gray could concentrate upon
Next. Gray roillac ted |acque
line Gibson. University media
tion director Gray wrote in her
account that Gibson responded
to tin* phono * all t>v contacting
kokis and tho "lion" student
Gray sent "the I.ion-head Ser
pont" to kokis. who responded
with a request for a mediation
meeting Tlio meeting consisted
of (inn . Gihson. Kokis and Grays
counselor In her act ount, Gray
wrote that at the meeting.
"George re-victimized me he
said that I put myself in that jaisi
Mon to he attacked hy straying
from the others in the class that
day."
Gray said kokis told her. dur
ing mediation, that the lion had
informed him he had attacked a
woman whom he did not Iwlieve
was in the < lass
"George knew a woman had
(men attai kml and that she was
angry and upset, but he didn't
i hot k on her." Gray said lie
t hose instead to continue the
exercise
“He tried to dismiss my nun
plaint hy using statistu s." Gray
wrote, saying that the class had
been held for 1r* years and that
this sort of thing had never hap
pened lie said that every year he
sands a lion out to harass stu
dents "
During mediation, Kokis
agnssl with Gray's rwpiest to nvtd
Trauma ami Hrcavrrv and to
write Gray a letter telling her
what he had learned Gray
desi ribed her behavior during
mediation as hysterical
Gibson declined comment
bet a use the rules prohibit her
from disi ussing what took place
during a mediation meeting.
Kokis dts lined ( omment also,
"1 don't want toiontribute any
thing mom to the stor\ It's bewi
going on for U) months," Kokis
said
Kokis did submit to the h'amr
al<l a paper describing the ere
alive and in ademii processes he
had undergone in order to create
the i nurse. " Hie (irigins of Mark
and Image Making " fhe paper
stated that by putting oneself in
the mind set ot a primitive per
son and leaving tin’ studio, a stu
dent i an gain new awareness and
learn to upprei iate the techno
logli ill pros esses that led to the
modern ceramic s studio
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