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University of Delaware, Newark, Delawar~ Tuesday, October 12, 1976 Harassment Claims Hard to Verify Commission Pressures Administration for Grievance Procedure By TOM BIDGOOD spoke before the Faculty who has the same type of "It is very difficult" to Senate last week and alleged "authoritarian" relationship legally substantiate that "30 or 40 instances of with a superior. anonymous letters or phone sexual harassment" have He said these relationships calls that complain of sexual occurred between students can be between secretaries harassment, said Dr. John and faculty in the past year. and faculty or Worthen, vice president for Trabant disclosed these administrators, teaching ( student affairs and incidents as an example of assistants and faculty, and administration. the "authoritarian" junior faculty and senior Therefore, in those cases relationship existing between faculty. reported anonymously, students and faculty which When complaints of these "extensive documentation to he testified about at the trial incidents arose in the past determine the truth of such of former theatre director Worthen said he believed complaints is nearly Richard Aumiller. "that the administration has impossible," Worthen said. Saturday, Worthen dealt with them quietly, Worthen made these expanded the sexual effectively, and statements in response to harassment issue to include straightforwardly." questions generated when not only students and faculty, He said actions which may President E.A. Trabant but any university employee and have been taken when complaints of sexual harassment are brought UDCC Candidates Elected; against university staff, range from clearing the accused of charges to issuing Ten Per Cent Cast Ballots a reprimand, or if Ten per cent of the eligible undergraduate students voted in circumstances dictate, the . last week's elections for 10 University of Delaware firing of the employee . Coordinating Council (UDCC) at-large members and two Worthen would not Faculty Senate members. comment on whether any· Bob Crowley, Jo Ellen Collins, and Joan Sorbello won the professor has been fired in freshman at-large positions. The candidates received 939,678 the past eight years because and 621 votes respectively. of sexual harrassment. The three sophomore at-large posts were awarded to According to Worthen, the Brenda Conklin, Mark Cavanaugh, and Tom Griffith. These administration has been candidates were uncontested. Conklin received 788 votes; under increased pressure from the Commission on the Cavanaugh, 943; and Griffith, 930. Photo by Jeff Otto The four junior and senior at-large positio_ns were taken by Status of Women to air the issue publicly. THIS WOMAN LOOKS out from the doorway of her shop Fred Crowley, who received 618 votes; Dave Ferretti with 577 onto historic Williamsburg. Hundreds of Blue Hen football votes; Steve Brackin, 311 votes; and Abbe Haftel, who Mae Carter, chairwoman received 348 votes. of the commission said it was fans in the city for the William & Mary contest toured the restored 18th century capital of Virginia. Bob Cook and William Hyncik were elected to the Faculty . (Continued to Page 21 - Senate with vote totals of 485 and 573 respectively. No write-in candidate received more than three votes for any posts and elections were not contested. According to Maureen McDermitt, Election Committee Chairwoman, an estimated 1,400 students who were eligible to Computer Access to Dining Halls vote took part in the UDCC elections. This figure represents 10 per cent of the undergraduate voters. UDCC is the campus-wide student government. Many students didn't vote because they felt student Delayed by Technical Difficulties government didn't affect them, McDermitt said, but many By TINA PERRINE others were "very interested but didn't know the older, cracked and damaged fix as many of the candidates." McDermitt attributed this to small amount of The computer access ID cards were put into the unworkable ID cards as campaigning. control system which was to readers. According to possible. Cards will be be installed in dining halls by Ferguson, the message that a resealed and validation Oct. 1, will not be card was being read was not stickers will be replaced with implemented for another getting through to the main a current validation sticker. month, according to John P. computer. "For the most Besides facilitating dining Ferguson, assistant to the part, the new ID cards seem hall access control, the new vice president for Student to work," he said, adding system is designed to record Affairs and Administration. that modifications must he meal participation, update Ferguson said complications made both on the old ID inventory, and make general resulted when they were first cards and in the design of the dining hall management tested in Russell dining hall machine. more efficient. two weeks ago. At that time, The major holdups to the These advantages should it was discovered that the implementation of the ultimately reduce overall computer.s were misreading system, are finding the costs, Ferguson said. student ID cards. Ferguson solutions to the design said that the machines which problem and the final testing The primary start-up costs are designed to phase out the of the system. Only after the of $85,792 for the computer old system of punching meal system has been fully tested access control system will be tickets, are now being will the paper meal ticket be covered by the ·Food Service altered so the system can be phased out and replaced by reserve account. Food fully implemented. Twelve the ID card alone. Service expects to recover badge readers are currently The second test version, over $15,000 a year from ready to be put into with the design change, is reduced labor costs and fewer operation, but will not be expected to arrive soon and students "beating the Stafl~by Gail Lupton installed until the problems will be tested over a period of ANOTHER EXCITING DAY at the polls. Dave system," Ferguson said are solved. about two weeks. During this Each badge reader is Poffenberger could not contain his enthusiasm, nor could The majority of the test period, persons will be expected to have a useful life the 90 per cent of the student body who neglected to vote. problems arose when the available in the dining hall to of over five years. Poge2 REV1EW, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware October 12, 1976 ...........................................-.-.--..---...-.-... · ... Sexual Harassment Claim~ Hard to Verify. (Contrnuedtrom"- 11 facts may involve a loss of Committee on Academic COMMUNITY in the preliminary stages of confidentiality, she said. Freedom will tr.y to obtain a developing a plan of action The commission has "case by case" analysis of for the entire university considered solving the the complaints, he said. BUSINESS MACHINES people. problem through the use of a pi k u l ski said the TYPEWRITERS CA~CULA TORS Carter said the problem in third party or counselor in magnitude of the problem dealing with the issue is how whom someone can have may be overstated. Multiple TI-Scientific Calculator Tl-30 to develop a procedure which complete trust. complaints may have been would allow the facts and Dr. John Pikulski, lodged against a single 24e95 merits of sexual harassment president of the Faculty professor, he said, or .50¢ Off All Ribbons cases to be judged and at the Senate, said the faculty is students may e ven same time protect the rights "very concerned" with the "fantasize" a relationship *Tom McKenney* and confidentiality of all charges and is attempting to with a professor. parties involved. get a "more complete and Sherman Webb, executive 453-1159 The two parts of the issue thorough picture" of the assistant to Gov. Sherman may seem contradictory scope of the problem. Tribbitt said Friday that because any judgment of The Faculty Senate's these allegations " don't do a thing to help the stature of Trabant" but he added that he doubted it would affect state to the '"""' ~PO~g"• ~.,} ~: IO TH~g~~~ WllM .. 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