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■mm —Q—□-Lb e w r h www.dailyemerald.com An independent newspaper Making history » Chalise Baysa sets the Oregon soccer scoring record as the Ducks take care of Arizona PAGE 7 A legislative trap Measure 97 has animal rights activists and ranchers debating the issue of pest control PAGES Monday October 9,2000 Volume 102, Issue29 Weather TODAY high 60, low 47 Sexual Harassment Informal Grievances TOTAL: 20 2000,0 Formal Grievances TOTAL: 25 SOURCE: Office of Affirmative Action Katie Miller Fmerald Education is key for case decline Student advocates cite a host of factors aimed at keeping the University campus free from incidents of unwanted sexual harassment By Ben Romano Oregon Daily Emerald While a noticeable decrease in incidents of sexual harass ment at the University vali dates continued efforts to edu cate faculty and staff, most experts say the majority of cas es still go unreported. Sid Moore, a human rights investigator for the office of af firmative action, said represen tatives from his office try to at tend as many individual department meetings as possi ble to answer questions and clarify University, state and federal sexual harassment laws and policies. He makes efforts to talk to Graduate Teaching Fellows in each department, too. He said educational efforts such as these are in part re sponsible for the decline in re ported sexual harassment cas es over the last six years. He also attributes the decline to “several high-profile cases that have resulted in people — in cluding tenured faculty mem bers and high-level administra tors — being terminated.’’ One such case was filed against former Vice Provost Gerry Moseley and the Univer sity in September 1995. David Reed, who was a 22-year-old undergraduate at the time, ac cused Moseley of making “un wanted sexual contact” with him in December 1994 at the vice provost’s rental property in Florence, where Reed was doing maintenance work. A settlement was reached in January 1996, but court records were sealed at Reed’s request. Moseley is no longer an employee at the University. News of this case became available only because Reed filed a lawsuit in Lane County Circuit Court. Normally, sexu al harassment grievances are handled within the Universi ty’s grievance process, which is strictly confidential. Only a few administrators are even notified when a formal griev ance is filed. Any sanctions imposed on a faculty member for sexual harassment are also kept under wraps. Sanctions, which can range from proba tion to termination, become Turn to Harassment, page 6 Schorr keynote highlights UO Convocation ■Veteran newsman Daniel Schorr will ask the public to ‘Forgive us our press passes’ Tuesday By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald Most journalists just report the news. But at times, Daniel Schorr has become the news. Now 84 years old, the senior news analyst for National Public Radio and the keynote speaker at University Con vocation on Tuesday, Schorr has cov ered the Joseph McCarthy hearings, Watergate and the President Clinton impeachment process. He reported in the middle of the night as Germany built the Berlin Wall and he scored the first exclusive television interview with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. But as he went looking for the head line, he also became the headline, as Schorr described it. Richard Nixon put him on his “enemies list,” and had the FBI investigate him — supposedly for a job in Nixon’s office, a claim the for mer president stuck to when he and Schorr met about two years before Nixon died. The Khrushchev interview broke so many Russian censorship laws that the KGB arrested him and barred him from the Soviet Union. All in a day's work for a man who got his start in journalism at the age of 12 when he watched a man commit suicide by jumping from the roof of his Bronx apartment complex. “The New York Times was paying $5 for news tips at the time,” he said. So he called the paper, took notes and said that, without making a conscious deci sion, he has been a newsman since that day. His first real reporting experience came after three years in the Army dur Turn to Schorr, page 4A SCHORR ii The residue of mistrust goes very deep now. We no longer auto matically trust our ■* leaders. Daniel Schorr news analyst National Public Radio yy Alumni Association elects Perry to top position on board The 16,000 member organization selects a new president to head its Board of Directors for the 2000-01 school year By Brooke Ross Oregon Daily Emerald The University Alumni Associ ation, a nonprofit corporation that provides graduates the opportuni ty to give back to their alma mater, has elected a new president for the next year. Jim Perry of Salem recently as sumed the presidency of the Alumni Association’s Board of Di rectors for 2000-2001. “The University means a great deal to me,” Perry said. “It has en abled me to have a wonderful ca reer, and now I want to give some thing back.” Perry, an attorney with Saal field, Griggs, Gorsuch, Alexander and Emerick, said the Alumni As sociation has several goals for this year. The group plans to increase scholarship support, encourage the University’s recruitment process and try to become more involved in higher education is sues, such as school funding. Perry is also determined to see the Alumni Association become better organized so the group can give input in the University’s de cision-making process. John Halgren, immediate past president of the Alumni Associa tion’s Board of Directors, said there are currently nearly 16,000 members in the Alumni Associa tion. Halgren, who will remain on the board until next summer, graduated from the University in 1968 and has been a member of the Alumni Association for more than 10 years. He is now a retired Springfield elementary school principal. Bob Fentstermacher, the Alum ni Association treasurer, has been a member of the group for eight years, and said he enjoys staying involved. “I think the most important thing to me is to give back to the University. It’s a way to stay con nected,” he said. Fentstermacher, a 1972 Univer sity graduate, hopes to see an in crease in membership within the Alumni Association, while also establishing closer connections with other colleges and Universi ty students. In addition to the newly elect ed officers, the board has also ac cepted seven new members to serve three-year terms on the as sociation board during 2000 2001. PERRY
