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Workshop fee: S40.00 • Saturday lunch provided Sponsored by Planned Puirntliood of South Western Oregon and wCi l of () Student Health Services > r SMC ► l-O Student Health ('enter Iti-ohh l.du tiium I'n'xram RIGHT ON TARGET k Emerald V CALL OUR ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT 346-3712 DIVISION Continued from Pago i affirmative .mion program and Mouse Shaker Newt Gingrich announced shat similar programs would lie KVilmtwi a* soon as tht "Conlnd With Atner H Jt " w as completed Key Republican politicians arm also joining the growing group of people who arc unsatisfied with She way affirmative action affects hiring .Senate Majority leader Hob !><il>*. R Kan.. and Sen Phil Gramm. R-Tesas. am focusing on affirmative ait ion ns the io<w> presidential election approaches In (California a group of t iti/ens. supported by CaliforniaGov Pete Wilson, have written a propo sition for the i<WH> ballot that would ban preferen tial treatment based on r«< e or gender in state government hiring, education or (ontmcting College Republicans at the University support the rei ant attai k. on affirmative action "It s about time it came to the forefront." said Mark Numamvtlle vu »• i hairman of Colluge Repub tic ans "It has taken .10 years to dist over the true nature of affirmative miion It doesn’t heal nee rela tions " Some feel that affirinatise action plans create a reverse discrimination situation where qualified white males an* posted over for promotion or a job Im-i atise women or memliers of a minority have applied f..r the sans*' |nb I be woin.m or the minor ity is hired not because they are qualified, these critics say. but because of affirmative ai tiori ore ol the Republic an beliefs < on< erning hiring and of others who oppose affirmative action is that everything should Is* based on mer it. I vnt h said H<-< ause the government will n<>\ **r Is* able to legislate discrimination out of existeno*. he s.nd the affirmative action program should be "scrapped " There are plenty of other regulations in place that could stop dist rimination. he said, ■ , based system does not provide fair application firm esses for everyone Hut Oregon Affirmative Action Director Prince Washington said the affirmative action plans are not quola biised I edera! regulations require that any institution doing $50,000 of business with the federal govern ment. which would include the University, is required to file a written affirmative action plan outlining goals and timetables for ex [landed hiring of women and minorities There are at least ino federal laws, regulations and exit utive orders that grant legal preferences to racial minorities and women and make up what is known is affirmative action, a< cording to the Con gressional Research Servo Title VU of the 1904 f-ivil Rights Act requires any employer with 15 or more employees to follow a code of equal employ ment opportunity regulations But problems have developed over the years I’oo ple all over the country question the validity of the plans "SThe problem | is rv a bit mg with the polariza tion of many protected classes that don't think it is accomplishing what it was meant to at < omplish," W ashington said But he does not believe that if the affirmative action programs were cut, jieople would do the right thing Diversity m.iv suffer, he said "If wo are nol c areful we will repeat the same thing* we have already been through." he said. vug gesting that the Ix-st way to deal with the problem* and questions is to begin an open dialogue Lynch agreed that it i* time to reevaluate the pro gram It is i ausing resentment in some vectors of siK.ii'tv. he said Some people, including white males and Asian students, feel that the affirma tive ac tion plans c reate a situation vs here mg every - one! is given a fair c ham e. he said Lynch said when he was looking into military flight school, he was told that unless he was hlac k. there wasn 't much of a c fiance he would be accept ed When he told the recruiter he was part (ihilean. he w as told he had a better chance at the position. These types of quotas are dangerous and hurt many people. Lynch said But Lehrman says the problems stem from the fiu t that the media are distorting the fac is in the issues Several myths surround the debate, he said Affir mative action is not a quota-based system — quo tas an* illegal. Ijehmian said — and it is also not the elevation of or preference for less qualified appli cants Affirmative action is an effort, in this r ase by the federal government, to institute a plan for making good faith, pro-active efforts to recruit, employ and retain women, minorities, people with disabili ties and Vietnam veterans. Lehrman said. The goal for the University is to make sure as many people an* made aware of job openings as pos sible to ensure that the applicant pool is reflec tive of the number of people who are qualified To accomplish this search committees place advertisements in several types of journals, inc hid ing journals (or women and minorities. "We try to ensure that the search committee casts the net broadly as possible " he said "We will then look at the pool of applicants and ask whether the pool is reflective of the availability of women and minorities " The affirmative action program at the Universi ty is monitored hy the federal government. Lehnnan must prepare a yearly report that details applicant flow for each position. "Sometimes the pool isn't what it ought to be and sometimes it is better.” he said If among a list of finalists for a job there is a woman or a minority candidate, that candidate shall lx* chosen unless another candidate is demonstra bly tsitter qualified, according to the University pol icy. "II the female is equally qualified then as an affir mative ac tion effort we should hire the woman," he said "This is not preferential treatment.” Unfortunately, Lehrman said, that is the way it has been portrayed The media look at the one or two incidents over the course of a few years and it seems there is "reverse discrimination" going on. "That is hardly a basis for throwing out tin* whole program," he said However, l-ehrman admits there c ould lx* some improvements made in the program The amount of paperwork that is assoc iated with affirmative ac 11on c rvates a stigma for people who deal with it, he said, hut it is nw essary to assess whether progress Is lieing made HOLOCAUST Continued from Page 1 Out lew* will hr shown in the KMU Fir Room today Other activities included a showing of the Holoi aust filtn Schindlvr's Us t Remembering the Hot<« aust is 'mostly to Irani and under stand the refrain which is so common in post-Holocaust Judaism, which is Never Again.'" Hochstadt said. Members of University stu dent groups, the ASUO Student Senate, the ASUO Executive, community groups, ASUO President l-eslie Warren, ASUO Vue President Mark Khmard Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands Hankin of Temple Beth Israel and University faculty mem bers will join the JSU and the Hitlel House in reading the names of Holocaust victims. The University of Arizona Hi I lei House provided the list of 7,(MH) Holocaust victims. Those readers who have fam ily members who were Holocaust victims or survivors will talk about their relatives lx*fore con tinuing to read the list. Hochstadt is one of several readers whose families fell vic tim to the Nazis wide spread massacre of the Jew* in the t't tOs His grandfather. Vilu, lived in Transylvania, between Hungary and Rumania before Hitler invaded Hungary Vilu Hochstadf went to Mexico, where he married his second cousin in order to gain United States citizenship. Hochstadt, his brother and a nephew are the only members of his family to survive the Holo caust Tonight's vigil will include poetry readings and songs that deal with reactions and respons es to the Holocaust. Hochstudt said. It will lie a "cultural and his torical remembrance," he said. "Rebirth is the idea," he said. "After you've spent all this time remembering you move on and learn the lesson." The lesson, he said, is that President Kennedy was right when he said that those who do mg remember history are doomed to repeat it "There are an alarming num ber of people that deny the Holo caust happened." he said. “We've seen propositions bring back some of the same types of xenophobia that was going on in Germany during World War II." he s.nd. referring to Measure 1H7 in California, which would deny illegal immigrants certain social services Students are encouraged to wear yellow' lags the JSIJ printed in rernembrani e of Holocaust vic tims. and the 194 i edict, who h said Jews must wear yellow stars of David on their clothing. The yellow tags have a star which reads, instead of "Jew," "6 Million," commemorating those who died during the Holocaust "In response to this edict (that Jews must wear the stars), King Christian of Denmark, along with the entire popula tion of his country donned the stars to show solidarity with those who were being persecut ed," in the yellow tag states he said "Today, we do the same while remembering those who did not survive " Jews are not the only ones who have had experiences with per secution, Hochstadt said. The other ethnic student unions participating in the event can say similar things have hap pened in their history also, he satd. "It's not just our history," he said. “Other ethnic student groups, such as the African Stu dent Association, i^n talk alniut their history as well,"
