Montana Kaimin, January 11, 1978 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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Student wins cash settlement in food service nepotism case By DAVID UTTLE 27 letter to Mills that he had not "would redress in part the injurious Montana Kalmln Reporter been illegally discriminated impression" Mills had that his against because of race, religion, application for the job "was not A University of Montana student sex or any handicap. treated in a fair and evenhanded who filed a complaint of illegal Mills then filed a complaint with manner." hiring practices by the UM Food the University of Montana Discrim The committee also instructed Service with Commissioner of ination Grievance Committee. the food service “to clarify min Higher Education Lawrence Pettit The committee met on Aug. 16 imum qualifications" and to adver has accepted a settlement offer of with Mills. Also present at the tise future openings as required by almost $400 from the commission formal hearing were Carson Vehrs, guidelines in the Work-Study and er's office. who was food service director at Student Employment manual. Late last spring, Randall Mills, the time of the alleged discrimina The committee also recom senior in journalism, charged the tion; John Piquette, the Lodge mended that EEO Officer Lynda food service with nepotism and food service manager responsible Brown review the food service's illegal advertising practices be for hiring Swanson, and George student employment practices by cause Doug Swanson, then a Mitchell, UM legal counsel, who the end of the year. freshman in general studies, was served as counsel for the commit hired as a food service student, tee. Bowers Compiled manager. Bowers complied with the com Mills alleged that Swanson was Send Letters mittee's recommendations and hired because he was the brother After hearing from Mills, Vehrs also requested that Brown look of another food service student and Piquette, the committee re into the food service's student manager, and that Mills himself commended that UM President employment practices. should have been hired for the job Richard Bowers and Vehrs send But apparently these measures because of his qualifications and letters of appreciation to Mills for did not satisfy Mills, who had quit prior service in the food service. calling attention to a "hiring prac his job as pizza service manager in tice that evidences inadequate protest. Because of that, Mills said A UM STUDENT boards one of the buses in Missoula’s new transit Filed Charges regard for the necessity of uni he could not afford to pay his system at the comer ot University and Arthur avenues. See story and Mills, initially filed charges with formly applying ascertainable tuition and wrote to Pettit in schedules, pages 4 and 5. (Staff photo by Mark Scharfenaker.) Kathleen Holden, former UM standards for recruitment and em September seeking “financial rec Equal Employment Opportunity ployment." overy”. He pointed out that the (EEO) officer. Holden said in a May The committee said the letters letters from Bowers and Vehrs would redress “in part" the "injur Report recommends ious impression" held by him. Mills ■ montana added, “I want the other part, too.” After waiting three months with 3 cuts in library staff no reply, the Financial Aids Office told Mills that a check for $383 was By STEVE STOVALL In taking over the responsibili waiting for him. He received the Montana Kalmln Raportar ties of the acquisitions librarian, - k a i m i n check after signing an agreement the director must coordinate the releasing UM from further liability. In its report released Monday, library's acquisitions, making sure University of Montana • Student Newspaper the Library Review Committee the faculty has essential research Mills owed UM $383 in outstand- recommended to University of and teaching materials at hand. In Wednesday, January 11, 1978 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 80, No. 44 • Cont. on p. 6. Montana President Richard addition, the director would also Bowers that three academic be the university bibliographer, positions be cut from the library according to the report. staff. Being the university’s chief Court rejects Black appeal The UM Library's Director of bibliographer Is a "very ambitious Public Services Erling Oelz said responsibility," Oelz said. This, in By DEB McKINNEY sion to the Montana Supreme witnesses to prove his innocence. the recommended staff cuts are addition to handling his regular Montana Kaimin Raportar Court in Helena. He called only one witness, Moun "drastic" and may hamper the and acquisitions librarian duties is In his closing arguments, which tain Life Community member ability of the library staff to spreading the individual “quite A seven-man, five-woman jury were interrupted four times by the Nancy Dunne, to the stand. “effectively improve upon the thin," Oelz said. It is probably found Bryan Black, assistant pro judge and prosecution for what The prosecution called several services of the library." But, he possible for the director to hdhdle fessor of philosophy at the Univer they called straying from the witnesses, including Missoula continued, because of UM's all these duties Oelz admitted, but sity of Montana, guilty of criminal evidence, Black blasted the court County Sheriff John Moe, who financial crisis, the library has to it's going to require an extra effort. mischief last night in an appeals for depriving him of his lawyer. He testifed that Black and several expect to function with fewer staff The committee recommended trial in Missoula District Court. admitted that his defense was members of the Mountain Life members. cutting two positions in the Black was found guilty of aiding weak but said when faced with the Community were in the sheriff's The holders of an academic cataloging department because it in the Feb. 4, 1977 digging of a option of hiring another lawyer at office waiting room visiting a jailed position must have a master's said that department is symbolic grave in the Missoula $1,500, he was forced to defend friend immediately before the degree in library science, whereas overstaffed. The report said that County Courthouse lawn. Sen himself. digging incident occurred. the non-academic positions adopting the Library of Congress tencing was set by Judge Jack Black's defense was based heav The prosecutor, Deputy County generally are held by persons with classification system and an Green for Jan. 18 at 9 a.m. ily on his belief that he should not bachelor's degrees in other fields. automated cataloging system will Three members of the Mountain have to present a “parade” of • Cont. on p. 6. The report also recommended justify these reductions. Life Community, of which Black is that the library redefine the duties Accompanying the cuts was a a member, were also arrested in and responsibilities of the Director recommendation by the commit the incident. Mountain Life Com of Technical Services and the tee that the department use more munity is a non-violent, pro Director of Public Service; change non-professional staff members to disarmament activist group. The Fritz to blitz from the Dewey Decimal to the perform some of the duties in the group has been involved in three Library of Congress classification cataloging department. “grave digging” incidents since system; join an automated system The committee also recom October 1976. Electric City today of cataloging; reorganize the mended the addition of a library The jury deliberated about 40 structure of the circulation clerk to Public Services to relieve GREAT FALLS (AP) — More than 200 persons are expected to minutes before reaching the guilty department; declassify all bound the administrator of clerical duties hear or question Vice President Walter Mondale and two other verdict in the trial which began and unbound books; substantially and the addition of a professional top Carter administration officials when they come to Great yesterday morning. increase funds for student help, librarian to the circulation Falls Wednesday evening. Black was appealing a guilty and redesignate the titles of the department. The gathering avowedly is part of the administration's effort to verdict handed down in a justice of divisional librarians. In calling for the change from plow through the problems of American farmers in the midst of a the peace court last March in The main library administration the Dewey Decimal to the Library nationwide agricultural strike. which he was sentenced to serve offices include Library Services, of Congress classification system, Mondale will spend an expected 90 minutes in Montana, one 60 days in the Missoula County Technical Services and Public the report said the change will stop on his current seven-state western tour. Accompanying Jail. Services. The recommended cuts save time and money in cataloging him here will be Cecil Andrus, secretary of of the interior, and of the acquisitions librarian and and classifying materials. The Bob Bergland, secretary of agriculture. Presented Own Defense two professional catalogers will change would add another The meeting will be held at the Heritage Inn, beginning about The clean-shaven Black, who come from Technical Services.

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