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Those girls
are sweet

I Are girls sweeter
than boys? Insects
seem to think so.
Scientists have
discovered that bees.
mosquitoes. wasps
and other stinging
insects prefer girls to
boys. Maybe the
rhyme that goes.
"Girls are made of
sugar and spice and
everything nice" is
true after all.

0 In Tibet, sticking your
tongue out at guests
is good manners. If
you invite an Arab
family to dine with
you, do not be
surprised if they
burp loudly after the
meal - they are only
being polite and
showing you how
much they enjoyed
the food.

G Although they lived in
a natural freezer,
Eskimos use
refrigerators to store
their food. The catch
is, it's not to keep
their food cold, but
to prevent it from
freezing up.

0 When they reach
puberty. Omagua
Indian girls in Peru
are sewn into
hammocks and
suspended from the
ceiling of their huts.
That's where they
stay for the next
eight days.
remaining
motionless
throughout the
entire period. They
are given only a
little food and water
once a day.

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Walking on
teeth and
boxing

shrimp

9 Did you know that a
sea urchin walks on
the tips of its teeth?

Ci Believe it or not,
although most
starfish have five
arms, some kinds
have as many as 50.

ii The mantis shrimp is
the boxing champion
of the ocean. It has
an extending claw
with which it can
punch a hole through
a glass jar.

4! How much weight do
you put on in one
day? Well, the blue
whale in its infancy
grows rapidly and
gains weight at the
rate of 10 pounds per
houn

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animals.html

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Smgcuirsone: More gay rights

Former State senator speaks at UK
Lambda meeting to raise awareness

in Chyrlca Banks

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Former State Sen.
Ernesto Scorsone came to
UK Thursday night to talk
about the controversial «
and recently political w
subject of gay rights.

Beside voicing his own
opinions on the subject.
Scorsone spoke about the
legal issues many gays face.

He began his speech by
mentioning the Fairness

Ordinance. a bill prohibit
ing discrimination based
on sexual preference that
passed in Louisville last
Tuesday.

Speaking at a UK
Lambda meeting. Scorsone
also discussed the related
crime bill to enhance penal-
ties for hate crimes involv-
ing sexual orientation.

The Fairness Ordi-
nance and the hate crime
bill mark major changes in
Kentucky. he said.

“There (is) still a lot of
prejudice and hatred in
Kentucky." he said.

Issues such as domestic
violence. right to privacy
and equal protection. Scor—
sone said. have not been ob-
tained.

“Whenever a heterosex-
ual couple marries. our gov“
ernment provides them
with tax breaks and spousal
benefits." said Greg Lane. a
business administration
sophomore at Transylvania
University.

These ”special rights."
as Lane calls them. have
not yet been granted to
same-sex couples.

“We are not necessari-
ly pursuing special privi-
leges. all we want are the
same benefits and rights as
our counterparts." Lane
said.

Scorsone echoed Lane‘s
sentiments.

“You do not just make
right to privacy and equal
protection legal for hetero
sexuals and illegal for ho-
mosexuals,” Scorsone said.

Scorsone refers to him»
self as an ally for gay rights.

“There is no place for
hatred." he said.

"My job as an attorney
and a legislature is to fight
hatred."

Alysia Robben. an un
declared freshman. said she
believes gay rights are mak-
ing progress both socially
and politically.

“There needs to be
changes in peoples' mind-
sets about homosexuals."
Robben said.

Scorsone encouraged
the group never to give up
even if they can‘t get what
they want. and to get in-
\ olved in campaigns to help
elect the right officials.

Scorsone‘s visit left a
positive outlook for the fu-
ture of gay and lesbian
rights.

Meetings such as these

and the involvement of
politicians such as Scor-
sone are critical to the suc-
cess of such an issue as
gay and lesbian rights. l'K
law student Chris Hargis
said.

“Steps such as these
are not only important for
UK‘s gay and lesbian stu
dent population but also for
interested individuals with
gay and lesbian family
members and friends." Har-
gis said.

“Hopefully this indi-
cates an increased dialogue
between the gay communi-
ty. its supporters. and local
and state politicians."

 

 

 

 

 

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Group
donates
serv1ce

By Amber Scott
surr WRITER V

The Angel's Social Club. a student-
created community service organization.
could possibly have been sent straight
down from heaven to help the communi~
ty.

The group. which currently has nine
members. raised more than $100 with a
raffle that involved guessing the number
of M & M‘s in a jar. They also collected
many cans of food that will be donated to .
God‘s Pantry.

From their table in Student Center
South. where the winners of the raffle
will he posted today. the club has already
made a big difference for God‘s Pantry.
Three days of sitting at a table and talk
ing with passers-by really paid off. said
Kenyatta Martin. chaplain of the club.

“I just want to help them (the club)
out.“ said LaGene Brown. an English se-
nior. ”It's a good thing they've started on
their own."

The club was on campus in 1991. but
died out. Martin said. The students re-es-
tablished the club in December. and al-
ready the nine members have gotten
deeply involved in the community.

"We have conducted specific activi-
ties like caroling and bingo at Mayfair
Village. Richmond Place and Bernhard
Place." said Rhonda Childress. the club's
secretary.

Their plans don‘t stop there. The
group is working on a campuswide auc-
tion for this month that will unite all UK
community service organizations to raise

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Hey you, TAG! You're it!

Game gets students together, having fun

By Ryan Schroer

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The people who play
TAG! are out there. hunting
down human targets.

When some. unsuspect-
ing player is caught off-
guard. BOOM! They get hit
with a Nerf dart.

Welcome to The Assassi-
nation Game. or TAGS.
where a plunger is consid-
ered a lethal weapon.

“It‘s an unusual way of
meeting people on campus.
and it’s just plain fun." said
Dave Newton. an undeclared
sophomore who organized
the game.

TAGS. only in its second
semester of operation. is a
survival game.

Last semester. 23 players
participated. This semester.
Newton said he expects
around 30.

Physics sophomore Bri-

 

 

an Larbes knows what it
takes to survive in TAG!

“You have to be really
lucky. persistent and really
paranoid." he said.

The players join the
game by paying a $1 fee and
filling out a “target profile."

Profiles include a photo.
the player's class schedule.
place of employment and dri-
ver's license. Each player re-
ceives a random profile at
the start of a game to deter-
mine his or her target.

“We need detail so peo-
ple who live far away can
track each other down."
said history senior Robert
Pratt.

The object of TAG! is to
hunt targets down and hit
them with dart guns. When a
player is hit. they turn their
target over to their assassin.

. The last person standing
wms.

Hunting down targets

can be an arduous task.
though. The fall semester's
game didn‘t have a winner.

Newton has since made
some changes in the rules to
rectify this problem.

“From now on. the
games should only last four
weeks.“ he said.

While the game is afoot.
though. players need to be
on guard at all times.

The only exceptions in-
clude class and extracurric-
ular activities. inside a
player's residence or work-
place. or if a UK or govern-
ment official (i.e. police) is
present.

“The first person who
was killed in the fall game
got shot 22 minutes into the
game. while he was playing a
game of Monopoly." said
Pratt. who was the third per-
son killed in the game.

“I was sitting desk at
Holmes Hall.“ he said. “My
assassin staked out the stair-
way and shot me 10 minutes
after I got off work."

 

Mock trial team gears up for
regional competition in Ohio

 

 

By Michael Downs
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Members of UK's mock trial team
have been practically living together to
get ready for the 24th annual Trial Ad-
vocacy Board competition.

The competition for law students is
sponsored by The American (‘ollege of
Trial Lawyers and the Texas Young
Lawyers Trial Association. said Allison
(Tonnelly. Assistant Professor of Law and
the coach UK's Trial Advocacy Board.

(‘onnelly said students returned
froin their (‘hristmas break on Jan, 4
for competition practice. which lasts
four hours a day.

The students had their final prac-
tice last Saturday. and will leave Friday
for Dayton. Ohio. where the competi-
tion will be held over the weekend.

Mock trials give the students a real
understanding of what to expect in
courtroom litigation. said Jason Reed. a
graduate of UK‘s College of Law and as-
sistant coach for the board.

Reed participated as a student last
year when his team won the regional
competition.

“By the time I came out of law

school. I had 15 to 18 trials under my
belt." Reed said.

By participating in the trials. stu
dents turn the theories they learn in
school into practice. Connelly said.

“Students who do mock trials know
what really happens in litigation. When
they graduate. they have as much experi
ence as a two year trial lawyer.” she said.

Lisa Wilson said she has gained a
better understanding of courtroom me
chanics from competition practice.

"I think it is the best thing you'll
ever get if what you want to do is litiga-
tion." Wilson said.

Right schools with two teams each
will participate in the competition. Con
nelly said Lisa Wilson. Beth Bowel].
.lefT Fleischaker and Kelly Kaiser con-
stitute l'K's two teams.

Students must be in their third year
of law school before they are eligible to
compete.

()f the .36 students who tried out.
only 2.”) made the board. In the tryouts. .
each student was required to peiform
an opening statement. a cross examina-
tion and a motion to exclude evidence.

At the competition. each student

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Report: Starr may seek indictment

WASHINGTON _, Independent Counsel Ken
Starr has concluded he can try to indict Presi.
dent Clinton while Clinton is still in office. the
New York Times reported yesterday. But. Starr
hasn‘t decided whether to call for a grand jury to
indict the president for perjury and obstruction
of justice. the same charges that may get Clinton
tossed out of office. Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark.. one
of the prosecutors in Clinton's Senate trial. said
the issue is a distraction, and he said it aids Clinv
ton defenders who say the president shouldn't be
removed from office because he could face a
criminal trial after his term ends.

Mideast peace deadline passes

JERUSALEM # The Israelis and Palestini-
ans yesterday missed the deadline to have the
[IS—brokered peace accord fully implemented.
The Palestinians are pinning the blame on Israel
because it suspended implementation in Decem-
ber. Under the timetable of the Wye River deal.
Israel was to have withdrawn troops from about
13 percent of the West Bank and have released
750 Palestinian prisoners. But a Palestinian nego-
tiator says the only thing Israel has done is ac-
cuse the Palestinians of shirking their responsi-
bilities. Israel says not enough has been done
about security.

Iraq criticizes ILN. study panels

BAGHDAD. Iraq u Iraq yesterday criti-
cized the UN. Security Council's decision to
create study panels to assess Iraqi disarma-
ment. humanitarian needs and the fate of miss-
ing Kuwaitis, calling it nothing more than “pro-
crastination." Iraq instead wants the Security
Council to condemn US and British aggres-
sion, including the mid-December airstrikes
and the recent conflict over the "no~fly" zones.
The government also called on the council to
lift economic sanctions “immediately and un-
conditionally.“

Activist Bauer running for president

WASHINGTON _, Conservative activist and
former Reagan administration official Gary
Bauer yesterday announced plans to run for the
Republican nomination for president. Bauer. 52.
has taken a leave of absence as head of the Fami‘
1y Research Council. a rival of the Christian
Coalition as the voice of grassroots conservative
activism.

He said banning abortion Would be a major
plank in his platform and he said he supports a
flat tax with an across-the-board 16 percent rate
for all Americans.

 
     

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Andrew Gotota,
disqualified
twice for low-
blows in two
boxing matches,
wants his next
light to be
against former
heavyweight
champion Nilte
Tyson.
Promoter Dino
Duva says the
fight between
the low-blow
specialist and
Tyson would be
a "tremendous
promotion."

    

OLD. BUT
SINGING:
Crooner Pat
Boone
announced
Thursday the
formation of
The Gold Label.
aimed at
recruiting “sea-
soned" but leg-
endary record-
ing artists aged
45 and older.
He said the
first star signed
was Jack
Jones, famed
for his record-
ing of the
theme from the
old TV series
"The Love
Boat."

 

VAdoctorsseepatnasvltalslgn

WASHINGTON - The Department of Vet-
erans Affairs next month will launch a sys-
temwide effort to reduce pain and suffering for
many of its 3.4 million patients. VA doctors and
nurses will be instructed to treat pain as a
“fifth vital sign," meaning they should assess
and record patients‘ pain just as they would
note other health-care basics like blood pres-
sure. pulse, temperature and breathing rate. It
is expected to take two or three years to imple-
ment the program at all 1,100 sites where VA
delivers health care. Many hospitals have es-
tablished pain centers and pain-treatment pro-
grams. but many others are doing little or noth-
ing, experts say.

Ex-IRA member kidnapped

BELFAST, Northern Ireland A promi-
nent former IRA bombmaker. who reportedly
said he feared his ex-comrades were after him,
was kidnapped yesterday. Paddy Fox spent five
years in prison after being caught with a 1.000-
pound van bomb in 1991. He opposed a cease-
fire decision by the Irish Republican Army in
1997 and rejected last year's Good Friday peace
accord, which Sinn Fein politicians chose to
accept.

His abduction was apparently the latest in
an accelerated campaign of IRA attacks on dis-
sidents. The violence has increased fears that
Northern Ireland‘s peace process could
founder.

Taylor's ex critical after balcony fall

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. w Larry Forten-
sky, the truck driver who surprised the world
by marrying screen goddess Elizabeth Taylor
in 1991, was critically injured in a fall from
the balcony of his home Thursday, officials
said. Fortensky, 45, who was divorced from
Taylor in 1996, apparently fell from the bal-
cony of his condominium in San Juan Capis-
trano, 50 miles (80 km) south of Los Angeles,
in the early hours of the morning, said Scott
Brown. a spokesman for the Orange County
Fire Dept.

Hoffman gets $1.5M more in lawsuit

LOS ANGELES —~ A federal judge Thursday
ordered a magazine that published a computer-
concocted photo of Dustin Hoffman in a dress
and high heels to pay the actor a total of $3 mil-
lion for violating his right to his own image. US.
District Court Judge Dickran Tevrizian Jr. or-
dered Los Angeles Magazine to pay Hoffman $1.5
million in punitive damages in addition to the
$1.5 million in compensatory damages he levied
on the magazine last week when he found it
guilty of using the actor's face and image without
permission.

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must deliver either a trial
opening or closing statement,
and must complete either a di-
rect or a cross examination.

The competition will be
judged by three outside attor-
neys. Connelly said.

Trial Advocacy Board is
popular among law students
because it is practical, excit—
ing and fun, Bowell said.

Bowel] said she feels con-
fident in her team's chance of
success, but expects the other

 

teams to be prepared also.

“We‘ve sure worked hard
enough to win, but its hard to
say. The quality of the stu~
dents at the competition will
outstanding,” Bowel] said.

The teams received the
case they will be competing
with last semester. In the com-
petition they will have to both
prosecute and defend the
same case.

They will have to argue a
fictional case about a Drug En-
forcement Administration
agent charged with drug traf-
ticking.

The team which wins the
regional competition will com-
pete nationally in San Antonio.

 

 

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money, Childress said.

“We are in the process of
sending out letters to other
clubs," Martin said. “Hopeful-
ly we'll get a positive re-
sponse."

The group plans to do at
least one project a semester
that involves multiple organi-
zations, Martin said.

Membership in the club
is low for the big plans it has,
but an interest meeting is
planned for later in the se-
mester to inform other stu-

dents about the club's pur-
pose and recruit new mem-
bers.

“We want to make this or.
ganization widely known
around campus and in the
community," Childress said.
“It was founded to be a sup-
port for students and to help
the community."

Porsha Ward, vice presi-
dent of the club, said the prin-
ciples of the club are why she
joined.

“All the points it stresses
are things I stress for myself,”
she said. “Spiritual uplift, aca-
demic excellence and commu—
nity service are all the things I
try, no, I do live for.”

 

 

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Ward honors Peake

University creates award in remembrance of
former psychology student killed in accident

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STA" VRITER

Tragedy struck the UK
campus Dec. 13th, 1995, when
19-year-old Erik Peake was
killed at the Physical Plant Di-
vision after being accidentally
tangled in a conveyor belt.

Almost three years later,
Erik’s memory lives on in a
special award that helps raise
safety concerns and eliminate
potential hazards for staff
members.

“I am really proud of the
award," said Erik‘s mother,

Carol Crawford, who set up the
award with assistance from UK
President Charles Wethington
and the plant's Safety Commit
tee.

“UK and I have tried to find
a way to treat the wounds," she
said. “Something good will
come out of something tragic."

The Erik Peake Memorial
Award, is a $2,000 award that
recognizes new ideas and de-
signs for a safer work place.
The annual award is split be-
tween a PPD staff member and
a psychology student at UK.

A psychology student is

chosen as a co-recipient be-
cause Peake was a psychology
major, his mother said.

The winners of 1998 were
Eddie D. Fryman. Maintenance
Tech III from PPD‘s building
operators section and Cara Gar-
retson, psychology junior.

“We are always suggesting
things to make the work place
better," said Fryman, whose de—
sign for a raised platform at the
Gluck Equine Research Center
landed him the prize. “it was re-
ally nice to see that people actu-
ally listened to and finished the
idea."

The new platform replaced
the existing ladder thereby
greatly reducing the risk of fall
by employees.

Crawford is glad the award

is starting to show positive re-
suits.

“There has been a safety
program and a safety commit-
tee dedicated to make the work
place safer," she said.

Garretson won by writing
an essay titled “Overconfidence
Effects on Safety in the Work-
place," which examined the ten-
dency of workers to disregard
safety issues despite narrow es-
capes and safety violations.

Fryman hoped the annual
award would help encourage
more input from employees for
improving safety conditions at
work.

“This award can make oth-
er people find the intiative to
solve safety problems,” he said.

 

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Thousands attempt
to flee city torn
apart on Saturday

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARMENIA, Colombia —
Thousands of people made
homeless by a powerful earth-
quake boarded buses, pickup
trucks and horse~drawn car-
riages Saturday in a scramble
to get out of the unruly and in-
creasingly pestilent city.

Many were frustrated with
the government's disorganized
effort to restore order and deliv-
er relief supplies to areas devas-
tated by Monday’s magnitudefi
quake, which killed at least 940
people across Colombia’s west-
ern coffee-growing region.

A magnitude-4.3 aftershock
rattled the area early Saturday,
causing alarm but no reports of
damage or injury.

Despite a combined police
and military presence ap-
proaching 6,000, looters sacked
several more Armenian mar-
kets on Saturday, taking furni-
ture, mirrors, fans, mattresses,
stoves, computers and other
goods. Thirty-seven people
were arrested.

At a few stores, vastly out-
numbered police were unable
to stop the looting by hungry
survivors and instead tried to
maintain order to prevent a re-
peat of Friday’s violence, in
which angry looters clashed
with police.

Colombian and foreign res-
cuers continued sifting through
dozens of disaster sites, looking
for the hundreds of missing.
Passers-by wore surgical masks
and handkerchiefs to ward off
the unbearable stench of
trapped bodies decaying as well
as feces and urine in the
streets.

Doctors are watching the
situation carefully, fearful of a
health crisis. So far, there have

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

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As police waited outside, survivors and onertunlsts leave with needs taken from a store filled with tear gas in
downtown Armenia. Looting continued for a third straight day as quakes kept coating over the weekend.

been only small outbreaks of
stomach and breathing prob-
lems.

At Armenia’s Eden Airport,
residents attempting to leave on
relief aircraft were stopped by
rows of helmeted riot police.
About 50 families with suitcas-
es and boxes had lined up at
dawn, lured by rumors of free
flights on relief planes return-
ing empty to the capital, Bogo-
ta.

The air force, which is fly-
ing dozens of relief missions
daily, said it had taken more
than 600 people with relatives
in Bogota back to the capital be-
fore Saturday. But they stopped
taking residents.

Patricia Escobar was trying
to evacuate her 3-year-oid

nephew, who has Down Syn-
drome. Doctors told her the boy
was vulnerable to infections
from the fetid air blanketing
Armenia, which hasn‘t had
running water since Monday.

Nelly Jaramillo, a mother
of three with family in Bogota.
looked angrily at the police bar-
ricade, and said the shortages
and roaming bands of thieves
had made life unbearable.

“The gangs are attacking
the barrios to steal the little
food we have," she said. “The
rations they're giving out aren‘t
enough to feed the children."

Many refugees took free
bus rides offered by the govern—
ment. But as word got around,
there weren‘t enough buses to
take the crowds forming at stag-

ing points around the city.

More than 500 people gath-
ered at a soccer stadium to take
buses to Cali, lbague and Man-
izales w all cities within a close
radius of the earthquake zone.

People wanting to go any
farther would have to pay their
own way, said transport min~
istry official Reynaldo Uribe.
That angered 26-year-old securi—
ty guard Alexander Castillo.
who was desperate to get
cousins. nephews. and his wife
and baby daughter to a rela-
tive‘s house in Bogota.

Dipping his hand into emp-
ty pockets. Castillo said he
couldn‘t afford the $15 tickets.

One man clipclopped out of
town on a horse-drawn carriage
piled high with possessions.

 

Governor intervenes

African studies department faculty members
file complaint against whole university

By Tate Illa-s
ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

TUCSON, Ariz. — Attor-
neys for Gov. Jane Dee Hull
yesterday reviewed a complaint
of possible race and gender dis-
crimination filed by the
Africana Studies’ core faculty
members and the program’s
former director.

Francie Noyes, Hull‘s press
secretary, said that the gover-
nor’s office recently received a
letter alleging there is a “hos-
tile" racial environment at the
University of Arizona. State
lawyers are waiting for more
information until they react to
the situation, she said.

The letter, signed by four
UA faculty members, states
that racism is “so endemic to
the University of Arizona that
something desperately needs to
be done here to dispel the hos-
tility to African-American
women and other people of col-
or."

Mikelie Omari. a UA arts
professor and former Afi'icana
Studies program director, and
three Africana Studies profes-
sors asked for outside assis-

............

tance to remove the depart-
ment‘s acting director, Julian
Kunnie.

“There is no department
that is forced to work with a
head that the faculty doesn’t
want -— this is a clear case of
discrimination," said Ikenna
Dieke, an Africana Studies pro-
fessor who signed the letter.

Faculty members Lansana
Keita, and Toiagbe Ogunleye
also signed the letter calling for
the replacement of Kunnie, and
the reinstatement of Omari.

Dean of Humanities
Charles Tatum said Omari will
not be reinstated, adding that a
nationwide search for a perma-
nent director will begin eventu-
ally and include Kunnie as a
candidate.

The complaint letter sin-
gles out Tatum for allegedly
breaking university guidelines,
and the UA administration for
ignoring the faculty’s com-
plaints. ,

Tatum yesterday said that
the letter was an “act of desper-
ation" and

welcomed further investi-
gation to "straighten out the
facts." He said that he believes

 

in racism complaint

the government will refer the
matter back to the university.

“When you can't
get your needs met
through the proper
procedure, you often
see these sort of acts,“
Tatum said.

The feud within

 

mission to reconsider the rul-
ing, and has not taken further
action.

Despite com-
plaints about Kun-
nie. Tatum said he
is performing well
and the problem is
a divided issue in

the Africana Studies the department.
Pro amdates back to "This is not a
1996g,rwhen Omari was When you racial thing; there
terminated as direc- , are other African-
tor and reassigned to can t get Americans in th:
be an arts professor. 66d department w o
Omari filed a lawsuit your n S will give a very
in November, claim- met thI‘OU different story."
ing Tatum discrimi- gh he said.
gatgg against he; the proper gaturn s'alid tthtat
as on gen er an marl w1 no 0
race. procedure, reinstated because
The US. Equal the same faculty
Emptloymgnt Qppor- you Often membersflghat now
uni y ommissmn pro es e reas-
reviewed Omari‘s see these signment had
calms and_found she sort Of spec‘ifically re-
as terminated be- quested Omaris
cause of her sex and acts" removal in 1996.

national origin, black
American female."

“I want (Hull) to
intervene and honor
the EEOC‘s ruling.
The university showed a lack of
respect for the US. govern.
ment,” Omari said of the Nov.
25 ruling.

Tatum confirmed that the
university has asked the com-

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- Charles Tatum, ter.
University of Arizona

In the Jan. 10 let-
however.
those faculty
members declared
Omari “fair, ethi-
cal, competent administrator."

“We had some little prob-
lems with Omari and wanted
her to change. instead the dean
simply fired her with no due
process or explanation.“ Deike

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