Brown and White Vol. 93 no. 50

              by randy bknffk the university has been charged with sex discrimintion by elaine hoagland assistant professor of biology because she was not recommended for tenure the charges which were filed with the federal equal employment opportunity commission eeoc arc presently under investigation according to hoa gland hoagland said that she has filed a complaint with them eeoc charging sex discrimination with regard to tenure promotion salary and other aspects of employment with regard to myself and other women at lehigh patricia ota affirmative action adviser to the provost said that the university has filed a response to the complaint with the eeoc provost arthur humphrey said that hoagland was not recommended for tenure and that she appealed the deci sion to the personnel committee which upheld the original decision humphrey added that she then filed a complaint with the eeoc austin gavin executive consultant to the president said that the eeoc has the perogative of pleading a case against the university or giving her a fight-to-sue letter which will allow her to file a civil suit against the university in federal court . in a separate matter humphrey said that hoagland requested access to her personnel file after she was denied tenure humphrey added that she was given everything in her file except peer letters hoagland went to the pennsyl vania labor relations board to gain access to the letters gavin said that the board ruled in favor of both hoagland and the university he explained that the board ruled in her favor by saying that she was allowed to examine letters writ ten by fellow members of her depart ment but ruled in the university's favor by saying that she could not examine let ters collected by the ad hoc external committee on letters gavin said that lhe university has appealed the ruling to pennsylvania commonwealth court but lhe appeal has not yet bt en heard hoagland said that she is the fifth woman of the university to file a com plaint over the years 3 du brothers will face discipline committee lehigh s pop haw rnuiu university president deming lewis greets stu dents on brown bagging it with deming day during spring festival for a retrospective of the lewis years see pages 10-11 the incident started near sigma nu and moved slowly toward the v ilinity of johnson hall according to the second brother nothing really happened no punches were thrown there was some pushing he said adding that the broth ers told the three that they were from du these kids said they didn't do it we just left it was no real big thing no one got hurt he concluded the other university freshman could not be reached for comment one of the accused du brothers gave his version of what happened that night he said that he and some other du broth ers had heard that two brothers girl friends had been harassed physically we went out looking for the guys who did it they the three complainants were at the right place and time so that it would be possible for them to do it we questioned them they felt we were too rough he said emphasizing that no one was hurt they the three complainants probably thought we were living to cause trouble i think it'sa misunderstanding a second du brother recounted the events of the night i was walking home from a party and was told that a broth er's girlfriend was attacked i ran down but i missed most of what happened 2 conduct committed on university owni'h or controlled premises that vio lates the laws of the commonwealth of pennsylvania or the federal government according to one of the freshmen the three du brothers accosted him and the other two complainants early in the morning of sunday may 25 my friends and i were walking back from a party and the next thing i knew we were being accused of something none of us knew anything about he said we tried to negotiate with them and explain that we didn't know what was going on i don't know if they just didn't buy it or what the next thing i knew i was on the ground he said specifying that he had been kicked and punched traister says book collection should stay intact three brothers from delta upsilon fra ternity will face university discipline charges stemming from an alleged assault of two university freshmen and one non-university person the disci pline committee will hear the case monday according to a notice addressed to the three accused from robert cohen asso ciate dean of students and case officer for the university committee on disci pline the three men are charged with violations of two sections of the lehigh code ol conduct the charges read 1 invading individual rights or engaging ill activity that endangers indi vidual well-being or safety interferes with academic work or constitutes any danger to person or property by george gabuzda by barbara robertson daniel traister an expert on rare books from the new york public library who was appointed in december to study the university's rare book collection is scheduled to present a report of his find ings today at 3 p.m in neville hall the results of the report are expected to be a major factor in the university's decision of whether or not to sell some rare books to help finance a library/com puting center addition to mart library traister's conclusions disagree almost entirely with those of david stam an expert on the deaccessioningof rare books who was consulted by the administration in july based on stam's recommendation to sell some books to raise money for the library addition the administration said in september we do not see any alternative to the sale of some portion of the rare book collection but after studying the collection since december traister said he thinks that would be a mistake my recom mendation basically is that the univer sity's collection if properly handled the stacks and removing books not necessarily rare but of research value and fragile from the 18th 17th and very few from the 16th century the most valuable one he found on the stacks he estimated had a market value of 900 other books he found in the storehouse on fourth street and in storage in lind erman when they were removed from the stacks for space reasons he said they were merely old books but quite a surprising amount are now rare traister concluded that the books will make money for you by staying here that's the most important lesson lehigh can learn he recommended that the university keep most of the books and deacces sion very carefully some of them there's no bugaboo about deaceession ing books if you know what you're doing it's a matter of course but wholesale desperation selling without understand ing the nature of the collection is what must be avoided collection under normal circum stances one university official said that the development office is looking into other sources for the needed funds and that they never really counted on the rare books initially the official added that the feeling in the administration now is that there is more money to be made by highlighting the collection using its uni queness to call attention to it than by selling some of it robert holcombe assistant vice presi dent of the development office said that the mart library addition was not hing ing on the sale of the rare books we are presently contacting prospects we think may give the funds because of the dispersal of the collec tion in storage and on the shelves origi nally traister had thought there were about 7,000 which properly belonged in special collections he said now he esti mates conservatively twice that many and i wouldn't be surprised if it were three times some of these he found by examining could be a very important one both nationally and internationally the uni versity might want to sell all or part of it but i think it would be more valuable if it were exploited here there is a potential to use it in the university — with increased staff there has already been a constant increase in use of it by various groups if the university wants to spend money to put the collection on the proper footing instead of having it limp along it could be an extremely valuable resource . . or if not it should get rid of the whole kit and-ka boodle stam also recommended that if the university sold one-fourth to one-third of the collection it could raise several mil lion dollars toward the library addition and another million dollars to create an endowment fund to support the remain ing portions of the collection truister has concluded however that in the flat market the university could raise enough money to help finance the proposed mart library addition , but it would have to sell essentially all of the vol 93 — no 50 bkthlkhem pa friday may 7 1982 215)861-4184 discrimination charges filed lehigh university brown and white last issue this is the last issue of the brown and white for the semester the b&w will resume publication in august enjoy your vacation