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Monday
October 9,2000
Volume 102, Issue29
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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