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P lantiff's Pitch
Women discuss class action suit
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Fighting For Freedom
"Ibelieve there are more instancesof the abridge- Only a "written request for specific documents..." hoped that individuals who voluntarily contrib-
mient of the freedom of the people by gradual and is required. Recently atithor John Powell made uted this information will be spared embarrass-
silent eneroachment of those in power than by vio- such a request. Last week he published the infor- ment because of it and that every effort will be
lent and sudden usurpations"-James Madison, mation. taken to prevent this information from falling
1788 According to a wire service story in Newday, into other hands."
Responsiveness in government is on the verge "An undertermined number of American prison- Into other hands it fell and, although the infor-
of extinction. ers were among 3,000 human guinea pigs killed mation is dated by 34 years, it relevance must be
You may have thought responsiveness had during germ warfare experiments by the Japa- stressed.
already fossilized but one of the most essential nese during World War II, and the U.S. military Although. the Constituion ambiguously pro-
citizen checks on an increasingly unresponsive establishment later arranged with the Japanese vided for checks and balances between govern-
government may soon be denied. But, it is not yet to hide records of the experiment." The papers, mental branches, no such monitoring provision
dead. obtained from the Department of Defense, and exists in any real terms for citizens; votes only
The Freedom of Information Act has provided originally published in the Bulletin of the Atomic apply to those elected, not appointed. If informa-
newspapers, journals and concerned people with Scientists stated that the prisoners were killed tion such as the germ warfare travesty are per-
a revealing and insightful education about their through the employment of plaque, anthrax, mitted to go unreported, what is to prevent the
elected and appointed representatives in small pox and radiation poisoning. In three current government from instituting similar
Washington. CIA monitored human experimen- northern Chinese camps prisoners were killed by practices? The Freedom of Information Act is the
tation, Department of Defence research on col- being pumped with horse blood or cut up while only effective mean by which responsiveness in
lege campuses and covert actions in alive. government can be ensured. Without it, the pub-
revolutionary countries are among the few The article also documents the cover up which lic's voice will represent at best, tokenism.
activities which, in the past, would have been began with a cable from Tokyo to Washington on By supporting an ammendment which would
withheld from the public. May 6, 1947. Lt. General Ishii Shiro relayed an restrict severely the availability of information
The Act was established in 1965 under the U.S. offer to supply the United States with full infor- under the Act, the Reagan Administration is
Code Title Five and covers government organiza- mation about the experiments in return for qua- abridgin and encrouching upon the freedom of a
tions and employees, public information, rules ranteed immunity for war crimes. Cecil F. fundamental right. Government is answerable to
and proceedings. The Act authorizes "anyone to Hlubbert. a member of wartime State, War, and the people. In Nazi Germany, people were
examine most of the records of the agencies of the Navy Coordinating Committee, agreed with answerable to the government. Before the CIA
Executive Branch of the U.S. government...." granting the immunity. And, in December of begins knocking on our doors, we must retain the
except National Security, Personel Files, records that year. Edwin V. Hill. chief of basic sciences at right to knock on theirs.
of criminal investigations and business patents." Camp Detrick, Md. explained in a memo, "It is
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page 2 The Stony Brook Press
Plantiff's Pitch
Women discuss sex discrimination suit as court date nean
By S.J. Highanr unlawful employment practices," in violation of the
For nearly a decade, twenty-eight women have been Civil Rights Act.
pursuing a class action suit against Stony Brook Uni- Eleven other accounts of core campus faculty and
versity for alleged sex discrimination practices. After non-teaching professionals are similarly documented
numerous delays and countless expenditures, the law in the class action suit; and across Nicols Road in the
suit known as Coser v. Moore will be decided next Health Science Center, fourteen women from the
month. Nursing School are also seeking to recover retroactive
The teaching and non-teaching professionals are loses due to alleged sex discrimination at Stony Brook.
suing the SUNY Board of Trustees who determine .II.
The complaint states that the plaintiffs have been
policies regarding hiring, compensation and all other discriminated against by being hired by the defend-
terms and conditions of employment: the Chancellor ants at lower ranks and paying them lower starting
and the chief executive officer of the SUNY system; salaries than similarly qualified personel in other
and John Toll, who was President of the University schools in the Health Science Center. The plaintiffs'
when the class action was filed. Discrimination in attorneys also assert that employees of the Nursing
hiring practices, promotion, salaries and tenure on the School were granted fewer salary increases and pro-
basis of sex are violations of Title VII of the Federal moted more slowly than similarly qualified personel in
Civil Rights Act of 1964. other schools of the Health Science Center. As a result
Judith Wishnia, Associate Professor of Women's of the alleged inequities, the complaint states, "The
Studies and a named'lantiff in the suit, explained that plaintiffs have suffered and continue to suffer severe
a class action was necessary, "to gain recognition on
;
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.::: monetary and other damages."
the part of the judicial system that the whole Class (of Another area of discrimination allegedly takes place
women) has been discriminated against." According during the tenure procedure. Wishnia explained that
to the Class Action Complaint, individual law suits after a faculty member's sixth year at Stony Brook, the
were not attempted because, "The prosecution of University decides upon whether to retain certain
separate actions by individual members of this class Judith Wishnii individuals. Tenure is based on three categories: scho-
would create a risk of inconsistent or varying adjudica- interviewed for a full time position as Supervisor of larship, or publishing: teaching; and serving on com-
tions with respect to individual members of the class.", Student Teaching in or about January 1973. During mittees, while assisting in running the department.
.To date, Professor Wishnia, along with her 27 co- the interview, she was asked questions regarding Wishnia stated, "Most times, tenure is denied at the
complaintants, have paid tens-of-thousands of dollars children, marital status and spouse's profession which department level. It's very hard to appeal."
to statistical experts whose job it is to compile and were not reasonably related to the qualifications Within the last year-and-a-half, three female profes-
interpret a barrage of figures during the so-called required for the position. Schulkind's attorneys argue sors were denied tenure and dismissed. Ruth Beizer, a
"discovery phase" of class action suits. During the that such questions are not asked of male applicants, professor in the Judaic Studies Department for nearly
discovery phase, both the defendants and the plaintiffs and as a result of the interview she was offered only a eight years, was denied tenure for failing to prove her
gather evidence - in this case statistical - either part time position, even though she had sought full publishing ability. As reported in The Shining Star, a
proving or disproving the discrimination. History time employment. After Schulkind was appointed as a campus publication, Beizer wrote to Academic Vice
part-time lecturer in the English Department, sim- President Dr. Sidney Gelber last Spring claiming she
Professor Ruth Cowan explained, "Each of us has con-
ilarly qualified males were appointed to full-time posi- had always carried a heavy student work-load and had
tributed to the Stony Brook Women's Legal Defense
tions with academic rank. The complaint additionally not had an adequate opportunity to do scholarly
asserts that although Schulkind had the same number research other than her thesis. In April of last year.
of students and the same workload as males hired to Beizer was dismissed from the University and she is
perform the same work, she was paid half the salary of not a named plaintiff in the suit.
such males and given only temporary status. But according to the suit and attorney Joe Garcia, if
Suing SUNY When Schulkind discovered later that year that her the court decides next month a pattern of discrimina-
rank and salary were substantially below that of males tion did exist at Stony Brook. not only will the twenty-
doing the same work, she protested and as a result, the eight named plaintiffs be entitled to recover damages.
complaint alleges, she was not rehired for the 1973-74 but "all non-teaching and teaching professionals who
academic year. are presently employed, have been employed, or who
Professor Cowan, also named in the complaint, was have sought employment, or who may subsequently
seek employment" at the State University of New York
Part I hired as an Instructor at Stony Brook in 1967 at a
salary lower than that paid to similarly qualified at Stony Brook will also be entitled to recover dam-
ages. Hinting at the ominous results this portends.
males according to her attorneys. She did not receive
promotional raises which similarly qualified males Garcia stated. "If we win this one, I feel sorry for the
SUNY system.
Fund, set up specifically to collect funding for the received and she was also denied merit increases while
suit." Professor Cowan added that their union has males with lesser achievements and service to Stony Next week: Defendants Defend
contributed $25,000 and faculty members have also Brook receive such merit increases. Cowan stated that
made substantial contributions. "there were no standard hiring practices until women
Prior to publicly announced salaries "nobody knew and minorities insisted on it. In the past," she
of any discrepancies," explained Wishnia. But when explained, "you made phone calls to friends in the field
they were published by the United University Profes- and sometimes you were interviewed by the chairman
sionals, "There were enormous discrepancies and we and he recommended you."
went to the administration in the late sixties." In The increased federal intervention which requires
December 1973, the Faculty Student Executive Com- that hiring practices be documented and available
mittee urged the creation of a task force and after a positions publically announced, has, said Cowan. "been
year of internal debate University funding for the a boom to The New York Times classified ads." How-
study was approved. ever, she said, "The end result has not been a monu-
Released in 1974, the Salary Equity Task Force mental advantage for women and minorities."
Professor Wishnia couldn't agree more.
reported, "The study has clearly identified certain
Wishnia was originally hired in September 1974 as
individuals whose salaries appear, on statistical
Assistant to the Director of International Studies. Her
grounds, to be inequitable. It is quite possible that our
position carried temporary status, and she was paid
techniques failed to identify some existing inequities.
the lowest possible hourly rate for a non-teaching pro-
It is crucial...that steps be taken by any means neces-
fessional at Stony Brook, according to the Complaint.
sary to correct all inequities that exist." Joe Garcia,
attorney for the plaintiffs, explained that the Task At the time of her hire, Wishnia was not informed that
her supervisor, the Director of International Studies,
Force "used small samples and did statistical analysis
was scheduled to begin sabbatical leave in January of
on the basis of these samples; they were looking at a
very low salary discrepancy." 1975. When he left, she assumed almost all of his
responsibilities, as well as her own. No attempt was
But Ruth Cowan pointed out that since only 11 cases
made to increase her salary in recognition of her
of discrimination were discerned, the University effec- increased responsibility. When Wishnia requested a
an
tively stated that inequities were isolated and not wage increase, she was told that she should work fewer
felt
overall pattern endemic in the University. "We hours. After she was told that she could have an
is
the figures were manipulated in that study, which increase in the number of paid work-hours for the next
why we went to court," she said.
academic year, but at the same hourly rate, Wishnia
In May of 1976, the women filed suit in Federal court
in resigned from her position. Her attorneys assert that,
charging the University with sex discrimination "by undervaluing her position while assigning higher
hiring, salary promotion and other terms of employ-
ranks and salaries to identical positions occupied by
ments, and as part of the class action, documented each males and refusing to correct the undervaluations,
of their alleged instances of discrimination. defendants have committed and are committing
was
According to the Complaint, Carole Schulkind
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Art is Art To the Editor not only widen this gap for
yourself but you influence the
by Mary Thomey and Lucia Ferrante ( closed, and others more open. I would In you
have built the paint up more on some of student body to do the same.
Our show in the Union Gallery, which the tubes to limit their transparency. I October 15th issue of Stony This certainly is not why you
now runs through November 10th, con- was also going to close off the tops and Brook Press, you printed a pic- were funded.
bottoms of some. The containers just ture of the University Presi- Ridiculing the University
tains works of many different forms.
dent John Marburger sitting President in such obscene
We've run into a lot of different reac- represent different degrees of stuck-
next to a nude girl. manner has no place in any
tions and we would like to clarify our ness. People are stuck. A lot of artists
are stuck. People put these restrictions I was not only insulted but paper. Yes, not even the Stony
ideas on them.
sorry to see that my student Brook Press.
Our book is not a book of pictures, it's a upon themselves. I'm stuck to a certain Activity Fee is going to waste. I request that you apologize
book of people, and the people are the extent because I have influences on As a student representative, I
me-everyone does. The people in our to him as well as the campus
art. Everyone is art. It's absurd to think and my colleagues are trying to
book are more free. That's why I think community. Let's have some
that art exists only within a limited close the gap that presently
these, more than others, are art. They're respect for each other.
range of media. Art is anything. Art can exists between students and the Sincerely, Bobak Movahedi
be everything if you can be open to it. If not stuck. Adminstration. By ridiculing
That's why ideas are so important. I Babak Movahedi Commuter
people want a theme or a message, that's the University President you Senator
just it. Art is just what you see and what feel so much freer with ideas. In making
you are willing to accept as art. the cylinder I had an idea of what I
My garbage pieces aren't really wanted it to look like and how I would
tongue-in-cheek at all. I think that the- have to do that. The process wasn't as
things are really beautiful. A lot of peo- important as the idea.
pie use things like the things I've found Everything that I did has to do with
The Tubes Are Coming
and put them through many processes what art is. Art is garbage. I'm not talk- J.B. Zoldan $7.50 for reserved seats and $5.50 for
trying to make them into a piece of art. ing about function or saying that art is a
The Tubes are. what Steve Martin general admission.
If they weren't beautiful in the first waste product. Art is not worth taking
would say,a bunch of wild and crazy Looking ahead into the future: On
place, people wouldn't want to use them. seriously, no more than garage is. Gar-
guys. But that's not all. This seven man Sunday, November 22 at 9 P.M., the
It's just as valid to look at it in the state bage is no less special and no more spe-
band s enhanced by nearly a dozen Stony Brook Gymnasium will hold host
and in the environment in which you cial than art. Art is put on a pedestal and
it becomes sterile. Art is an elitist game. female singers and the combination of to the Go-Go's, the hot new female
find it.
because That's why I like the bags on the these musicians' warped musical imagi- quintet from LA whose debut album,
Many artists are confined
nations and the dancers' agile body con- Beauty and the Beast, scored big this
they think that what's traditionally done wall-because everyone knows what
tortions make the Tubes the most summer in the city's dance clubs. Open-
is the way that they should go about they are. It doesn't have any meaning
profoundly visual art-rock sensation on ing for the Go-Go's will be Joe "King"
making art. This is why Anthony(in our beyond what it says.
Art is garbage because of the way peo- the music scene today. Since seeing is Carasco and the Crowns, one of the
book) is so much more art than a lot of
kind of pie overemphasize it. The whole thing is the only way to believing, don't make headliners on lastyear's "Get Stiff" tour.
others. He's free of all that !im-
any other plans this Sunday, November Tickets for this concert, which is gua-
itation. That's what my cylinders are absurd. Why does art have to be put in a
8 at 9 P.M. when the Tubes mount the ranteed to get those hips gyrating to the
about-how stuck people are. The nice room with spotlights for it to be
stage in the Stony Brook Gymnasium. beat, are on sale for $5.00 (reserved) and
cylinders have different degrees of considered art? Why should art have
openness. If there had been more (my more value than food? Why should art
original intention) some would be more have more value than garbage? I, - - .
Tickets are still on sale and they go for
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