The New Hampshire, Vol. 71, No. 31
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. ' . The New Hampshire Bulk Rate ll.S. Postage Paid Vol. 71 No. 31 University of New Hampshire -·- . TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IO, 1981 862-1490 Durham. N.H. Permit #30 Sexual harassment addressed Grievance system proposed By Greg Flemming must file a response to the decision to the president, who will Students who are sexually complaint with the Dean of hear the case, or appoint a hearing harassed will be able to file Students. board to do so. grievances against UNH faculty, If this step fails, the student may Penalty _for sexual harrassment staff members, and administra present another complaint to the ranges from a letter of reprimand tors, if the proposed Student involved person, along with his or to termination· of employment. Grievance Procedure is approved. her superiors as specified by the. Though the procedure is Unlike previous years, the procedure. After a second meeting, intended to apply to all students, it procedure lists sexual harrassment the superior will render a decision. will apply mostly to women, as a legitimate grievance, and lists The student may appeal this . Sanb-orn said. penalties for offenders. UNH is one of the first second:.lry schook in the country to institute this. This action resulted from increased national concern over Search committee sexual harrassment in secondary schools, according to Gregg Sanborn, Vice President of Student Affairs. changes ·suggested "There has been a lot of - discussion about sexual harrassment," Sanborn told the By Jeffrey Tyler Stud~nt Senate Sunday night The process for selecting by the tacutty of the college at before'they unanimously adopted members of dean search large. the proposal. It must now be committees will be reorganized if Haaland's proposal has the Vice approved by President Handlei;-. the changes proposed at the President select the faculty The President is .. very -Faculty Caucus meeting last night members from a pool nominated supportive" ot the procedure, are accepted. by the department but does not according to John Hose, her Presently the Vice-President for state that choices be made after executive assistant. Academic Affairs is responsible consultation with a faculty In addition to sexual for choosing the search committee. harrassment, the procedure committees and the present Vice Haaland said he would not go so recognizes that grievances may President, Gordon Haaland, said far as to have the faculty members arise over alleged discimination that the faculty members were elected by the department because because of race, color, religion, always chosen in "consultation of a "need for balance" between veterans status, sex, age, national with several members of the different types of faculty members UNH research-team prepares to enter water from research vessel origin, or handicap. department." such as those involved with Jere A. Chase. (Marine program photo) The procedure urges that all If the proposal is accepted at the teaching and those in research. conflicts be resolved informally. If next meeting two weeks from now, . After lengthy discussion, the this fails, the aggrieved student it will have the Vice President compromise was made between qiay take formal action. ..after consultation with an rhose supporting Haaland 's Jere A.Chase boat First the student notifies the. appropriate .faculty committee" proposal and faculty m~mb~rs person with a written summary of within the college, choose the who wanted more say m the the complaint, and the !~9 faculty members from a pool choosing of search committee discuss the problem. All parties nominated by that department: members. explores the seas· should make a "good-faith effort The original proposal discussed The Caucus also voted on an to resolve the matter" at that time, by the Caucus came from amendment by the Professional "Akpatok" for the marine By Kathi Scrizzi the procedure states. Haaland. He developed it after Standards Committee on program. It was re-christened the The "Jere A. Chase" has been Because of "emotional and considering a report on the process .. Conflict of Interest." ••Jere A. Chase", after the man who called the "flagship of the UNH moral complexities" surrounding from a committee' headed by Dr. Jeffrey Diefendorf, Chairman of has twice been UN H's interim fleet". sexual harrassment cases, a third Robert Dishman of the Political the Economic Welfare Committee, President, and was Vice President Many students have never heard party from a campus panel of Science department. said that profes so rs will have 27 time the boat was acquired. of the boat's existence, much less at the mediators may attend these ·The results of the report instead of 26 payments on their W- "Jere Chase had a lot to-Oo with the fact that UNH has a "fleet". meetings, after 'which, the faculty, suggested that the faculty members 2 forms. This might put sqme getting UNH started in marine But U NH has 14 boats docked at staff member. or administrator of the search committees be elected CAUCUS, Page 11 various points around New JERE CHASE, page ten Hampshire. The "Jere A. Chase''is the largest at 45 feet in length. It is the Marine Program's research "workhorse", equipped for a variety of scientific experiments. The boat is usually docked at the ConCon ·would ban legal abortion· commercial fishing pier in Portsmouth Harbor or at the Jackson Estuarine Lab in Great By Mary Ellersick next states targeted by the anti been a dramatic turnaround in the out of committee. Bay. It is in great demand during Legal abortions may soon be a abortion forces, according to ideological bent of Congress. The Senator Edward Kennedy (D the late spring and summer, but thing of the past if the conservative Cindy Fox. Fox is the director of conservative forces now have the Mass)and Senator Birch Bayh (D even now. in the middle of winter, pro-life forces in the country have the National Abortion Rights momentum, according to Fox. Ind) have been replaced by researchers take the boat to sea their way. Action League (NARAL) in New Amendments similar to the conservative- Republican Senators several times a week. The Seacoast Citizens for Hampshire. proposed Human Life Amend Strom Thurmond and Orrin The "Jere A. Chase" was built in Choice expressed their concern Fox, one of four panelists who ment have been introduced in Hatch as chairman of the Judiciarv Southwest Harbor, Maine in 1964 about the accelerating-campaign to spoke at the meeting, said that she every recent session of Congress, Committee and the Subcommittee as the "Akpatok". It was originally outlaw abortions at an educational was very frightened. Since the but under liberal Democratic intended to be used for arctic meeting in Portsmouth on Friday November ·elections, there has leadership, they ~ever got reported ABORTION, page seven research, and was taken as far February 6. north as Labrador. according to The meeting focused on the call U~H Director of Marine for a Constitutional Convention Operations. Gene Allmendinger. (ConCon) in order to insert an "It's an extremely seaworthy amendment into the Constitution vessel." Allmendinger said. "But establishing the instant of it's a little small to go in to the conception as the beginning oflife. North Atlantic in typical \\inter If the measure is enacted, weather.·· anything halting a pregnancy after So in 1968. U, ' H (a little farther· conception would be classified as south. than Labrador) bought the murder. This includes cases of rape, incest. or direct threat to the mother's life. IU D's would be illegal as well because they allow the egg to be Inside fertilized. but prevent the zygote from attaching itself to the uterine wall. Campus Cdlendar ............... page 7 The New Hampshire State Clas~ Ad-.. .......... .... ... ........... page 2 l legislature will soon begin to Editonab ............. ........ page. 12-13 consider this question. lf 34 states Feature'\ ............ .......... .. pages 15-l' request a ConCon. Congress must '\ot1ce' ................................ page 8 call one. Nineteen states already Sports_ ........................ pages 21-24 have. New Hampshire is one of the J. Lovering, Cindy Fox, and Cindy McGovern of Seacoast Citizens for Choice. (Jackie Horn photo) .. ......... ~ . '. peace -. t:Orps·: 'WO~kiD.g . hard to aid Africa By Maria Horn camping trip and given live fowl we Nearly halfway around the •· had to kill and eat ourselves. We world, on the "dark continent" of : also did Air Force calisthenics Africa, sometimes without : every day." electricity or running water, two Mello soent his training Peace Corps volunteers came to months in the Malian capital of love and respect a different culture Bamako learning about the Silage and people. _ Project and Bambara, the This year wilt be .the twentieth principle dialect of Mali. anniversary of the Peace Corps . Mello flew from Boston in and this story will profile two March of 1976 and landed in people and their experiences as Bamako at the beginning of the hot part of this volunteer program. sea.son. It was 110 degrees and "the UNH MBA grad student John contrast was jarring. Everything Mello worked in Mali, Africa from was new and very fascinating. The 1974-76 on the Silage Project capital is a mixture of new modern which teaches the Malian villages buildings and old French colonial how to build silos for storing food buildings. What stuck out was the w feta Lheir canle <luring cht: u ry dothing-~u \..ulu1 ful a n u season. loosefitting. And millions of little He went from village to village kids everywhere." in a Landrover with two Malian Diamond · learned about veterinary co-workers, covering a T ogoles~ customs whenever she zone of 40,000 square miles. walked or bicycled. Little kids "I would work flat out for 21-28 would come running.out and shout days because it was a seasonal at her.