MADISON MEMORIAL LIBRARY Hiring bias case set for Sept trial By IIWAVNK YANIKY that Poddar does not have the We ^Bteeze A $I.H million lawsuit funds to travel to Virginia charging James Madison twice once for depositions \»\ I.M James Madison University ^eSmnSky^ufy^^m University with racially and a second time for the trial No. • discriminatory hiring prac- Poddar "is. currently tices has been set tor trial unemployed and has been September 28. unemployed for some time" Dr. BhagwatiP K. Poddar, and cannot afford to make two a professor born in India and cross-country trips, according now an America n citizen, filed to papers Read filed in the suil in U.S. District Court in US. District Court Clerk's Harrisonburg last summer office. alleging that JMU did not hire "The sole purpose o/ him to fill a vacancy in the «JMU) in requiring these two sociology department because trips to Virginia is to oppress of his national origin. (Poddar) and to take ad- JMU has claimed he was vantage of his lack of finan- rejected in favor of better ces," the papers state. qualified applicants. Read had asked the court to At a pre-trial conference set the depositions "a few July 12 Poddar, who lives in days prior to the trial date" so Oregon, was ordered to ap- that his client would hdte to pear at JMU August 15 so the make only one trip. university can take his A spokesman for the At- deposition. A deposition is torney General's office in sworn testimony given under Richmond. which is examination by an attorney, representing JMU, said in this case, the opposing Monday that they needed the party's counsel, for use as depositions set "sufficiently evidence at trial, to help prior to trial" to adequately ' narrow the points at issue or prepare for the case. to obtain more information. "There is too much Judge James Turk rejected likelihood of a surprise wit- a motion by Poddar's at- ness that we wouldn't be able torney. Beverley Read of to prepare for" or other Lexington, to quash to surprise testimony if depositions on the grounds (Continued on Page 7) Two students nabbed in major drug raid Two James Madison University students, including a former Honor Council prosecutor, were among 13 persons arrested in coordinated raids in Harrisonburg and Richmond last week that netted nearly a dozen stolen cars, stolen guns and about $100 000 in drugs. Students William McKay and Steve Driebe. an Honor Council coordinator (prosecutor) in 1976-77 and Jeffery Miller of Fairfax were arrested in the first series of raids Thursday night at Shank Apartments in which $10,000 worth of drugs and $5,000 in cash were seized. On Friday ten people were arrested in raids in and around Richmond on charges of grand larceny, auto theft and possession of drugs. State police in Richmond said Monday that there may be several other arrests and additional charges. A spokesman said they were also checking to see if a cache of firearms seized in the raid were stolen. The Harrisonburg and Richmond raids climaxed a six-month undercover investigation by a state police officer Police reported finding marijuana, cocaine, LSD and hashish oil in the Harrisonburg raid. One of the three men arrested reportedly sold $4,000 worth of LSD to an undercover agent. In addition to narcotics, ten stolen cars, a $40,000 stolen mobile construction crane and several stolen guns in addition to the cache of firearms were recovered in the Richmond part of the raid. Police estimated the value of the drugs seized in the entire operation at about $100,000. Forty pounds of marijuana-several thousand doses of LSD and a half-ounce of cocaine were found W III \ ITS OVKN !H. DhiiRkkK in Ihr shad, people visited the Third Annual IVKC'Y Super McKay was charged with five counts of distributing a con- uml IIH-I'<- is no shade, almost iinvthing will lilanl Yard Sale I or more photos and slorv. trolled substance and four counts of possessing a controlled suffice i-ven »ai|H-i samples and quarter Photo by Lawrence Emerson substance. Miller was charged with three counts of leimmariV |M spite of the heal, over iVU.MM) (Continued on Page >) mean By STkYk S.NVDhK Will the birth of your goal be the death of your concept of business changed from autocratic to team of motivation for a long time," Fowler stated concept." MacGregor s book. "The Human Side of En- Prior to the late 1950s, businessmen were depicted «,Pis question, taken from the lyrics of a Joe terprise, dealt with two theories, x and y Theorv x Williams composition, formed the basis for a guest as cold-blooded, calculated men. obsessed with doing was an autocratic view of business and "probably lecture Friday by Jim Fowler in Dr Bob Haskins' whatever they had to to get to the top of their existed in a lot of first and second generation com- profession. This also began to change with the panies, where the original family was still heavily knglish class, on "The Role of the Businessman in realization that corporations could mold executives involved. ' Literature " Fowler, a New Jersey resident, com- to fit their style. mutes to New York daily where he is vice-president It offered that n individuals dislike work 2) in- of marketing for Curtain and Peas, a division of the "With this realization, corporations began to dividuals should be coerced to work with fear and 3) concentrate on molding individuals who were individuals avoid responsibility, whenever possible Penton-IPC Publishing Company. responsible and efficient, and totally concerned with A more appropriate title for the lecture would «»Ji^ThV'f8 the ?ppo?ite end * °* spectrum; have been The Depiction of the Businessman in interacting in a positive manner with all their fellow stating that U work is a natural inclination workers." said Fowler. "They were expected to be wa a r and Literature " Using references to three books dealing good family men. respected in the community, and ™f^'^? f .P°° certainly not the only with the psychology of businessmen. Fowler method of motivation and 3) committment to com- totally dedicated to projecting this perfect kind of pleting an objective was good for ego satisfaction. discussed changing literary attitudes toward image." businessmen as they relate to technological growth Fowler stated that "MacGregors objective was to within corporations in the past 20 years. Two books, written by industrial psychologists get industry to fall somewhere in the middle of his Doug MacGregor and Abraham Maslow in the late ies His book was in the late 195ns and early 1960s, corporations 2 » ^ Poached as the gospel, 1960s, dealt with the theories of motivation for and MacGregor was brought in by many corporations negan to change as technology became more ad- businessmen. These books "really permeated as a special advisor." ,\W.ed,,,re,vea|eA Fpwder,, v A*, this atairtdv,ft*v /business thinking And became corporation guidelines. ;. ...JVwMwrt pp.P»ge^; Page 2. TIIK ItKKKZK. Wednesday. July 26. 197K 9 'Does birth of your goal mean death of soul? *
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§ide§tl€W. AltS. I « 4 I l< Bus Stop: A romantic and Divine Comedy 'The play features a strong script, talented friend Tennessee6 Williams. Bus Stop employees are year after the major English By DWAYNE YANCKYVANCEY talented veterans and The"^ "' Grace < Stephanie Harper on Summer productions are promising newcomers as well The character Lyman is translation of "Divine sometimes notorious as having a strong script in believed - to represent Thursday and Friday, Kim Ellis Comedy." examples of mediocrity, the William Inge's "Bus Stop." Williams himself. on Saturday and Sunday), All names in the play are result of casts that are dif- Consequently, it could be one In the dead of a Midwestern Elma Duckworth (Pam metaphorical, Arthur said. ficult to fill and shows too of the best main stage shows blizzard, a bus becomes Amos) and Sheriff _Will Grace, for example has weak to be presented during in 1978. snowbound at a small town Masters (Dave Snortum). obvious religious conotations, the regular term but not quite Playwright Inge is noted bus stop. The passengers are "Bus Stop" is a play about Elma Duckworth is the uely so worthless as to abandon for "Come Back, Little a typical assortment of the love, noted director Arthur, duckling who proves to be a altogether. Sheeba." "The Dark At the characters one finds on a bus, "There isn't a character in it person of worth. Lyman is a With the dinner theatre Top of the Stairs." and the an Eastern intellectual, Dr. who isn't in love except maybe "lieing man," Bo Decker drawing away personnel, this Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Gerald Lyman (T.P. Hern on the sheriff, who may be in love "hits the deck," and Will summer's James Madison "Picnic." Thursday and Friday, Robert with Grace, and Elma, who is Masters "has the will, and University Latimer-Shaeffer A Broadway hit when it Hickman on Saturday and certainly curious about love." masters." The most in- theatre production, which opened in 1955. "Bus Stop" Sunday), a quiet but solid The play features a curious teresting is Virgil Blessing- runs Thursday through was once described as "a cowboy, Virgil Blessing (Rick role reversal in that it is the Virgil is Dante's guide in Sunday at 8 p.m., would seem major play about all minor Chapman), his mean and males who are anxious for "Divine Comedy" and just as to be a prime candidate for characters." Like many of ornery companion, Bo Decker marriage while the females Virgil can go no further than this malady Inge's plays, it is set in his (Steve Snyder), and Bo's are promiscuous and don't purgatory, so too does Inge's Instead Dr. Thomas Arthur native Kansas and has many unwilling lover, Cherie (Mary want to settle down. Virgil stop short of true love, has assembled a cast of influences from his close Ruberry). in addition to Carl Although Arthur admitted but he gives his blessing to the driver (Warner Crocker to having never "read one bit others. of criticism to make the Assistant directors are connection." he has found Dqttie Kassem, Karen Ker- overtones of Dante's "Divine wath and Brenda Burtner. Comedy'' throughout the Arthur noted that they have script and used this in his run many of the rehersals by directing. themselves. Kassem will be The first lines of the leaving before opening night medieval poem reflect the to start a job as box office state of the characters, he mistress with the Virginia said, and the progression of Museum of Fine Arts in Rich- Dante through hell and mond. purgatory and finally into The show includes an heaven where he is shown true original song written by Rick love matches the action of Chapman. Other personnel "Bus Stop." include: lights (Steve Interesting enough, "Bus Wagner), sound (Phil Stop" was written just one Grayson) and set < Deb Stefan) Spider-Man novel lacking in finesse By PIERCE ASK hi.KEN I suppose it had to happen, but I wish it hadn't. Someone at Marvel, Stan Lee most likely, decided that Spider-Man's popularity was great enough to merit an original paperback novel. (In this case, "original" means that it's new. That's all.) Marvel has fooled around with this sort of thing in the past, wild i'i Kl l> M.I. u\ I i; rill- I > man (Rob flick man) givr* un impromptu issuing a Captain America novel, "The Great Gold Steal," in the i!\( MIOl SI- .?•" demands (ail I In- l»ns driver rcadinnol Ihc balcom scriu'from 'lUmroand late sixties, which they soon followed with one starring The tWarner I rocki'i. iilmti'1 in ••Jtus Slop" which .lulirl" while I lierie t Vlar\ Kuberrv > and Avengers, titled "The Avengers Battle The Earth Wrecker." |ila>s at l.alimer -Shadier Theatre Thursday I- Ima Huekwortli I Pa ill \inosi look on The problem is that these two books were written by men who IhrotiiJi Sunday al \ p m itelow.lH- lierald Photo» by Mork Thompson know how to write straight prose, Ted White and Otto Binder, respectively. White is a science fiction writer of some repute, who managed to turn out a respectable thriller; Binder was a well known science fiction and comics writer. Neither Wein nor Wolf man has this sort of solid background in prose technique. Of the two, only Wolf man has published another book, "The Oz Encounter,'" in which he managed to totally destroy a Ted White character, Doc Phoenix. The result is that "Mayhem in Manhattan" is lacking in descriptive finesse, as might be expected from a team of two comic writers. Dialogue that might sound crisp and dynamic in a comic book context comes off as flat and plastic. Incredibly slipshod elements are . introduced, as when a character named Cindy Sayers is billed a J. Jonah Jameson's niece, and is responsible for some major plot developments, but never appears! The element of conflict she is supposed to introduce is almost totally eliminated. The plot suffers from similar shortcomings. Dr. Octopus, Spider-Man's nemesis, is involved in a rather nebulous plot to extort money from the nation's leading oil companies. Again, his scheme and his techniques are never fully realized, and the authors generate a lot of false suspense by attempting to keep the villain's rather obvious identity a secret. The so-called twist ending is unbelievable. Again, this might have worked in the context of a comic book, where words and pictures compliment each other to create a kind of special reality. Wein and Wolfman, evidently aware of this, chose to pad out the book with a number of sequences plagiarized from classic issues of the comic, perhaps hoping to generate the suspense that was present in the original versions. The superhero is a child of the comic book, and the comic book seems to be the best medium for communicating his special appeal. It is possible to transfer that appeal to the printed page, as with the Captain America novel, or to the screen, as was proved by a number of movie serials. The problem is that the effort more often fails, because writers are unwilling to learn either the strengths and weaknesses of the character, 'as hap- pened with the Batman TV show, or because they choose not to familiarize themselves with the nature of the medium, as with this rtovel. "1*"W. Page 4. TIIK BREEZE, Wednesday. July 26. 197H 'Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sur ... and yard sale fanaties a crowd And. as the saying Kv IM'AYNE YANCEY "We took the idea from "Mad dogs and WBT in Charlotte (North goes, there's one in every Carolina i which did crowd. Englishmen go out in the No matter what type of midday sun " And yard sale something different and changed it to fit us." said WK junk, or what sort of odds and fanatics. ends, somewhere in that And when the yard sale is CY's Tom Maniey. as he paused by his remote unit sweaty crowd someone either perhaps the largest in the wants'to buy one or has one to country, not even tern between interviews. "The peratures in excess of 90 yard sale was begun to show sell. our appreciation for the Carolyn Shepherd of degrees, with the air moving Harrisonburg wanted to make only enough to remind community and our listeners k everyone just how miserable It was also started as a public sure she had the best location relations gesture for the to sell from, so she arrived at it really was, could stop them the fair grounds at the Over 50.(MM> people-some station." confirmed yard sale addicts, The first year 20.000 people unheard of hour of 2 a.m.-four showed up. Last year it was hours before the yard sale as others merely curious- scheduled to start She wasn't ignored the heat and crowded 40.000. This time. Maniey into the Rockingham County estimated that over 50.000 the first one there. She was people-some from as far number six. One man had Fair Grounds, just north of pulled up to the gates at K p.m. Harrisonburg. Saturday for away as Maryland-visited the veard sale the night before and had nine hours of buying, selling, camped out to guarantee trading and browsing in the WKCY has the satisfaction of knowing that they are all himself a good place. Third Annual WKCY Super The first batch of bar Giant Yard Sale. "Colorful KC " listeners Originally begun as a because, other than by word of becuers for the assorted mouth, there's no other place concession stands arrived at community service and three By 5:30 a.m.. when the promotional project by they could have heard about it moon was still lighting up the Harrisonburg'country music twilight hills, the line of car's station WKCY. the yard sale As Maniey noted. "Another benefit of the yard sale, one was three quarters of a mile has become the largest single long. It took over an hour for event held in "Rockingham that wasn't in our original County, topping even the thinking, is that it is concrete the cars, which eventually evidence for our sponsors of were backed up over a mile to annual county fair. It is the city limits, to get into the believed to be the largest yard what (advertising on WKCY) sale-flea market in the can do. " fair grounds. country and. who knows, Yard sales are a kind of When the wet and clinging maybe even the world. hobby for some people. They early morning fog finally For such a large event, it is see treasure in other people's lifted, it found a world already almost shockingly simple. P junk, they find uses for useless a buzz with activity. In all, WKCY rents the fair grounds, things, they are fascinated by approximately 7(H) separate arranges for parking at- what others would gladly yard sales were taking place tendents. and the rest is up to throw away if it weren't for on the fair grounds. Some a the public. Sellers can drive the slim chance that someone folks had their displays set up into the fair grounds' main might buy it. on a table or under a tent, exhibit area and sell directly For both seller and buyer others just spread out on the Sometime§ you just from their vehicles, while alike. WKCY's yard sale is a grass, or sold from the backs WKCY holds remote broad- bonanza After months of of pick-up trucks or cars. have to make do. casts all day. interviewing holding yard sales that not Some were even willing to sell even the neighbors attend, participants and on-lookers. those. well-meaning but misguided sharp squeals of babies not as There is no commission fee. after having people pick While most of the par- excited by it all as their through displays only to aurrt. Old Donnie and Marie no admission charge, no ticipants were local, some records were going at cut rate mothers. Some simply gave parking price. It's all ab- decide they really don't need had heard about the yard sale up and went to sleep. Babies, another broken toaster or a prices For a few bucks, a solutely free. The only on WKCY while driving person could start a collection that it is. restriction is on concession stuffed frog with only one eye through the area and returned But. it was. after all. a yard or every McCall's magazine of old Virginia license plates. stands, which are limited to to either sell or just see what it Dutch Foods Farm Market sale and there were some church groups and service published since "the war." was all about. persons who needed to be sellers are finally guaranteed in Dayton had a 513 pound organizations. What they found was the cheese which they cut using a restrained result of community-wide piano wire with blocks of "Where's my mother?," attic rummages, basement wood tied on the ends. They moaned Linda Turner of clean-outs and garage sold over 100 pounds in the McGaheysville. "She just straightening-up. There were first 15 minutes that "the big goes crazy at these things. only a scant few merchants cheese" was on display. I've got to stop her There she represented-a truckload of One man had a pick-up load is. gotta go. bye." new furniture, an extensive of watermelons while others For devoted yard sale art collection and more plants brought the harvest of the day fanatics, like Mrs. Turner and and hanging baskets than one before from the garden. the many others like her, could need or imagine, but the Toys, anyone? There were there was one piece of mer- rest of those hawking and all kinds of games, a zoo of chandise not to be missed. bargaining were from the stuffed animals and at least Every yard sale has one and great unheralded masses-one five ouija boards. And WKCY's had certainly more day and 100 acres dedicated to jewelry. And tires And than enough. populist free enterprise. furniture. And. well, almost It was a box of "things." Like all yard sales, this everything in the whole wide Fori only a nickel one could mid-summer cleaning yielded world become the proud owner of a literally tons of worthless and Commerce, though, often box that included cups and useless items, but it also got sidetracked by reunions or saucers that didn't match, a turned up some good buys. old time gossip sessions. toy sheriff's badge, tiny A little boy held up a stereo There was some impromptu medicine bottles, an old belt speaker nearly as big as he bluegrass by several mem- buckle, a piece of pipe and was "Paid two dollars for bers of Hanky Mountain something red and plastic. it." he beamed "Ain't bad is Express and one could rarely The irony of a yard sale has it?" get out of range of radios always been what happens if More than one person sold tuned to WKCY-there was no one buys anything or if that everything he brought and Loretta Lynn by the rack of box of "things" turns out to be went home for more maternity clothes Willie worthless after all? Now. At times, the yard sale took Nelson at a bottle display WKCY has provided an an- on the appearance of a giant The meaty smell of hot swer swap shop-some people dogs drjfted through the "Bring it back and try to seemed to leave with just as sweltering crowd, as did the sell it next year." much as they brought with them There were clothes, there were books, there was glassware, there were guns and knives, there were things Photos by no one could begin to describe, much less classify Fifty cents could buy a Lawrence Emerson gargoyle hmp that looked suspiciously like an an- A mo-cone to ea§e the heat. niversary present from some TIIK liKKKZK. Wednesday, July 26, 1978, Page 5
Waithg patiently for customers in the dead of a midsummer's day.
'It was the result of community-wide attic rummages, basement clean-outs and garage straightening-up. There were only a scant few merchants represented. Most of those hawking and bargaining were from the great unheralded masses — one day and 100 acres dedicated to populist free enterprise/
The scramble for those nickel bargains. Sports Festival held for Olympic athletes Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, Over 2.000 potential Olympic contenders will was one of six women chosen gather in Colorado Springs at the Eastern Regional Trials this week to participate in the to go to the festival where first National Sports Festival the United States team will sponsored by the United be named. States Olympic Committee. McCullough won the The idea of the festival is to national junior archery recognize youngsters in the championship in 1973 and 74 so called 'emerging sports' and is the only individual from like canoeing, kayaking, JMU. who was invited to the rowing, volleyball, water polo, sports festival. She also weightlifting and wrestling, finished ninth at the 1978 U.S. said director of publicity Mike Indoor Archery Cham- Moran in an Associated Press pionships. article. One athlete invited to Top amateur athletes in attend is Janet McCullough. basketball, boxing, cycling, who will be a freshman at diving, fencing, field hockey, James Madison Univerisity gymnastics, judo, pentathlon, THE \IM»\l.\t III \N Tit Ml. runs Ihrmiuh llii- iM'Ulltiflll Blur Huli'.r Mountains ami |iro\idi's this fall The archer, from shooting, soccer, softball. rtato a I ion and «'M ilniirn who cross ils palli Photo by Gary Reed swimming, team handball and track and field have also been invited to participate in the festival, which will be held at the new Olympic Training Page 6, THE BREEZE, Wednesday, July 26, 1978 Center. Sports "When Olympic years come around we always suddenly realize that we need to find athletes to represent us in these sports and we don't have ma ny good ones to Appalachian Trail rough, but scenic choose from." explained Moran. "That is one of the By HOLLY WOOLARI) bag. I brought along a cotton as I rose and encouraged me heard cars in the distance and purposes of the festival-to Atop the picturesque Blue bag that rolled up. to continue when I was tired. followed the noise. encourage and develop Ridge Mountains winds a As I met others on the trail, The physical exhaustion, Two miles later I crossed a athletes in these sports." narrow, but widely traveled I began to feel like a pre however, was handled" easier familar intersection of paths, footpath. Many adventerous beginner backpacker Not than loneliness by this hiker. only to realize I was hiking in The festival is not des igned nature lovers come from all only did I forget to bring a Grandma Gatewood had a circle. I knew it wouldn't be to replace Olympic trials, but over the country tp accept the canteen, but I didn't have trail traveled over 2000 miles alone hard »o get lost, so grudgingly it will provide competition in challenge of backpacking on guidebooks or maps and I and I was complaining I continued on the trail. non-Olympic years. this byway in the wilderness. wore work boots instead of because I hadn't talked to It was another day before I "1 think this festival is The Appalachian Trail runs hiking boots with three-inch someone in two days. reached signs of civilization, going to achieve a great 2,034 miles from Maine's soles. I did sense the power of God but I did have company for deal." said I'SOC president One middle-aged hiker, and we communed the entire Robert Kane to a United Springer Mountain to Mount dinner that evening. A deer Katahdin of Georgia. It is the who had five children, shared trip, as I sang along the trail. Press International reporter. tales of Grandma Gate wood Old Baptist hymns such as "It walked right up to my camp- "It provides a focus for all our longest marked path in the site and stared jealously while world and is more than just a with me over breakfast one is Well With My Soul" and sports to be working toward morning. Through these "How Great Thou Art" ex- I ate in the summer months." nature hike. I was almost finished my The footpath parallels the stories I began to see that pressed my gratitude to the For team sports com- Appalachian Mountain ideal food and equipment was Lord for creating the canned lasagna. but I did offer ivtition. four squads from whatever satisfied thejjjkws mountains and me. the deer a peanut butter various geographical System, touching the crests of cracker After she curiously the highest elevated areas on needs. \ The freedom of back- locations have been selected the east coast. Passing Grandma Gatewood was 67 packing alone on the Ap- sniffed it. the cracker was to participate In individual through 14 states, the trail before she got into the back- palachian Trail was gobbled down immediately. sports such as boxing and provides excitement, packing scene. After bearing everything I expected it to be. Seconds later she was gone cycling, four competitors in recreation and a primeval II children, she became the I rested when I needed to, with a few quick leaps each class have been invited environment for anyone who first woman to hike the entire walked as fast as I wanted and The mysteries of the Ap- to the festival. dares to cross it's path. Appalachian Trail alone. Two paused often to admire the palachian Trail, created by ' 'Some of the sports ha ve no sites I had dreamed of. my own mind, were made competitons at all in the One thing I didn't dream plain by my backpacking trip. summer." said Kane. "Our about the was the mice in- All that I had heard about the best athletes in popular sports fested shelters. My first night challenge of hiking the trail like track and swimming go to on the trail was fortunately was true. The satisfaction of Europe." spent with other hikers, but it climbing to the top of some of "We just have to was the evenings alone which the highest peaks on the east have more competitions." proved my cowardice. coast was experienced Kane said. While laying in my sleeping bag. I heard a large creature ripping into my pack. Since the pack wasn't mine. I Appalachian Trail Crossings on the Skyline had to stop the unknown animal from tearing it to Drive pieces. I quickly grabbed my (North to South) flashlight and shined it in the area of my pack. Seeing no Thornton Gap large creature, I spotted a two-inch mouse scampering near junction of Skyline Drive and U.S. away. After chasing the mouse for in minutes around Route 211-milepost 31 the shelter. I laughed myself back to sleep. Big Meadows This summer 1 decided to years later she became the This incident made me 100 feet on dirt road to the left accept the challenge of a first man or woman to hike the realize how Grandma backpacking trip on the entire trail twice. Gatewood could consider mice milepost 51 Appalachian Trail. I knew A woolen blanket, a rain amusement and company, there would be moments of cape, a shower curtain used as instead of annoyances. Swift Run weariness and frustration, but a tarp and baby bottles which There are few annoyances I was assured the beautiful contained water, were most of on the trail and Congress has near U.S. 33 - milepost 65.7 countryside would provide the articles carried by passed laws to protect the Loft Mountain more pleasure than pain. Grandma Gatewood in her stretch of wilderness. No Although 1 had looked homemade denim shoulder motor vehicles or horses are milepost 78.7 forward to the trip for awhile. bag. On her feet were men's allowed and the trail on I did not plan as extensively as tennis shoes because women's national property is protected Black Rock Gap necessary. Instead of were not as sturdy. by a mile zone on each- side carrying evaporated milk, I could actually picture this Alter hiking for 4H hours milepost 87.4 oatmeal and dried fruit. I woman, who was full of life without talking to anyone, Rockfish Gap packed cans of lasagna. and always ready to enjoy it. except God. 1 decided to find corned beef hash and beans. The tale of Grandma the nearest road and hitchhike milepost D5.5 Instead of carrying an ideal Gatewood's travel increased to a store in hopes. of com-. dowrt or polyester sleeping my expectations of each day municating with anyone. I |-|, m . # _ THE...... imhKZk. AI., Wednesday.weunesaay. July 26.26, 11978. Page 7 Hiring bias lawsuit set for September 28 trial II Mill illlll.fl I l-l.m I. .... -*- << »iiliniicd (loin l'iig«> |) that Poddar could not afford depositions were not taken professor and two instructors to travel twice. in a sociology journal and was Poddar claims that the persons of different national until immediately before the Instead. Tu«k denied the position was not filled until trial, the spokesman said. rejected in March 1973. origins or race receiving motion and agreed only to His suit claims that a letter July 1973 when a white woman dissimilar treatment, in the Head stated in the court postpone depositions from was selected He filed charges papers that Judge Turk gave from Dr. Robert Guthrie. then absence of an accompanying July 25 at 10 a.m. in President head of the sociology " of racial discrimination with explanation, it is (sic) the impression at a hearing Konald Carrier's office to the Equal Employment Op- May 16 that he would sustain a department, indicated that his reasonable to infer that August 15. application would be kept on portunity Commission national origin was a factor in motion to quash the Poddar responded to a (EEOCi in Washington which the dissimiliar treatment," depositions on the grounds JMU ad for an associate In May 1973 Poddar placed issued a "determination" that Phillips stated. an anonymous ad in the there was "reasonable cause Poddar was rejected ame journal, listing his to believe" that the university because there were more qualifications and had engaged in "unlawful qualified applicants and specializations. He received employment practices." because his specializations another letter from Guthrie • A report by EEOC director did not match those needed by May IK. 1973, requesting his Treadwell Phillips, included the JMU sociology depart- transcripts and a leAer of in the suit as evidence, stated ment. Dr. Robert Williams, recommendation, according that Poddar was "at least as current sociology department to the suit. qualified" as the white woman head. stated in in- Poddar sent them but said hired and "was more qualified terrogatories. that he received a second than the other three Caucasion instructors hired in , "Dr. Poddar's expertise rejection letter from Guthrie 1973." does not lie in any direction in June. 1973 stating that the that this department has JP // position had already been The Commission has held that these similiarly situated moved or sees itself as filled moving." Williams said, adding that of Poddar's specializations, none were taught here in 1973 and only one is now. The JMU department is "Generalist" but Poddar was a specialist, Williams said The EEOC attempted to BUS STOP settle the dispute but "was unable to do so." according to the suit. Poddar filed suit against JMU in Oregon in January 1977 but the suit was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. He then brought A Romantic Comedy by William Inge suit in Virginia. His suit names as JMU Theatre defendants James July 27, 28, 29, 30 Madison University, President Carrier, the Board 8 p.m. of Visitors as well as each Latlmer-Shaeffer Theatre individual member of the board and the past and Reservations: 433-6260 present head of the sociology department. Poddar alleges that JMU's hiring practices were a 'Willful, deliberate and malicious violation" of his civil rights. The September 28 trial will be a jury trial.
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