Administrator allows
RA to appeal
By MIKE MENTREK
Collegian Staff Writer
a The case, of the gay resident assistant
w who claims he was discriminated against
in a decision not to rehire him has been
reopened for appeal within the Univer
sity structure.
In a meeting yesterday with Raymond
O. Murphy, vice president for student af
* fairs, former RA Tony Carozza was told
9■ he could file a student discrimination
. grievance appeal based on sexual orien-.
station with the University.
In filing the student discripiination
grievance, Carozza now will enter into a
series of informal meetings with Murphy
„ to discuss the specific discrimination
allegations concerning the decision not to
-. rehire him.
Carozza was told last spring he would
not be rehired this year for reasons of job
incompetency. Three’days before the
final decision was made to discontinue
his employment, Carozza had informed
South Halls coordinator Chris Horn that
** he was a homosexual. Carozza contends
Horn’s decision was influenced by
. discrimination against him because he
wasgay.
Carozza appealed Horn’s action to M.
Lee Upcraft, director of Residential Life,
■ who upheld the South Halls coordinator’s
' Victory seen in
.Syrians
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Syrian
troops and tanks launched a major two
pronged offensive against Palestinian
guerrillas in Lebanon’s central moun
tains yesterday in what Christians called
‘the most decisive battle’ of the Lebanese
civil war.
.. Christian forces joined the attack from"
the north and east, opening a third front,
in a>drive to rout the guerrillas from their
last important countryside en
trenchments and at the end of the first
day had pushed the Palestinian defend
ers from some positions..
1 Christian spokesmen predicted victory
within three days but the Palestinians
held most of their positions and Western
military analysts predicted they could
hold out in their mountain en
trenchments for weeks or even months.
Battlefront reports indicated the
Palestinians were pushed back on at
least one front after a day of heavy
resistance but, reports conflicted as to
how far.
Christian militia spokesmen said the
Palestinians had lost seven positions to
Syrian forces pressing on their eastern
front from the Bekaa Valley, including a
major outpost at Metein.
Palestinians conceded some losses on
the eastern front but denied that Metein
or most of their other towns had fallen.
RAs cautioned on statements
Resident Assistants may not always
speak out as RAs on issues concerning
RAs, M. Lee Upcraft, director of
Residential Life, told Association of
Residence Hall Students President Dave
Robbins yesterday.
Robbins said this statement stemmed
from a letter of protest sent to Upcraft by
a group, of South Halls RAs concerning
the firing of gay RA Tony Carozza.
During Carozza’s appeal process, Up
craft said, RAs are free to speak out as
RAs, but once the appeals process in the
Mike Brewer and Tom Ship
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audience at the State Theatre
last night. At far left, David
Fox, a local talent, performed
before Brewer and Shipley
appeared. For review, see
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the
daily
decision after two months of
deliberation.
The student discrimination appeal
process is a separate procedure from the
hearings held by Residential Life to
reconsider Carozza’s job termination.
The appeals within Residential Life end
ed with Upcraft’s decision to uphold
Horn’s firing of Carozza.
Murphy earlier had expressed un
certainty about whether Carozza would
be considered a student or an employe in
a discrimination appeal within the
University.
Murphy contacted University Provost
Russell E. Larson and Ray Fortunato,
assistant vice president for personnel ad
ministration, for clarification on the
issue. Both administrators agreed Caroz
za shopld be classified as a student in any
discrimination proceedings.
Horn said Murphy met with Larson
earlier last week to review the cir
cumstances surrounding the Carozza
case. It was agreed at that meeting that
Carozza should be granted some further
form of appeal, according to Horn.
Under the regulations j governing
student discrimination appeals, if Caroz
za is not satisfied with Murphy’s decision
at the end of the informal stage of the ap
peal process, he can request further
hearings through the provost. Larson
days
launch offens
“The Syrians have made some ad
vances along this axis but the front is still
Holding very well,” a Palestinian
spokesman said after fighting slackened
for the night.
Palestine Liberation Organization
leader Yasser Arafat appealed to Arab
heads of state for immediate in
tervention to “stop this massacre.”
• In Cairo; .President Anwar. Sadat-’
denounced the Syrian attack and said
Damascus would face “the punishment
of history” for its action. Sadat
questioned whether Syria itself staged a
terrorist raid on a Damascus hotel to
provide a pretext for the attack.
The Palestinians said the timing of the
attack indicated it may have been a
reprisal for the guerrilla attack on the
Semiramis hotel in Damascus Sunday.
Palestinian spokesmen said the
Syrians launched a “massive all-out” at
tack at dawn yesterday with armored
thrusts from two directions towards their
main positions at Aintoura and Metein 20
miles northeast of Beirut in the central
mountains.
By late afternoon the Palestinians
claimed to have stopped both assaults,
destroying as many as 23 Syrian tanks
and routing an infantry battalion on the
road that leads north from Syrian
positons at Sofar, 15 miles southeast of
University is exhausted, RAs must speak
as students only.
Upcraft said RAs should not voice their
opinions as a group, but that as students
they could not be stifled, Robbins said.
Robbins said Upcraft told him RAs
must exercise a certain amount of
discretion when expressing their per
sonal opinions as RAs.
Upcraft added that it was improper to
abuse the title of RA, but that he could
not condemn RAs when they give their
opinions as students, according to Roth
firing
would then refer the case to the
Discrimination Appeal Committee for
additional informal consideration.
If, at the end of the Discrimination Ap
peal Committee hearings, Carozza still
does not feel justification has been given
for his dismissal, the case wbuld be sent
to a Discrimination Appeal Review
Panel selected by the chairman of the
Appeal Committee. The Provost would
review the Panel’s decision before •it
could be made final.
Final appeal beyond the Panel would
be filed with the President of the Univer
sity.
Carozza said he was not told whether
he would be reinstated as an RA if Mur
phy rules that there was discrimination
in the evaluation of his job performance.
“The attitude on that seemed to be
‘We’ll have to discuss it.’ It’s all still very
up in the air, very preliminary,” Carozza
said. “We never got into specifics.’.’
Carozza said he would make basically
the same presentation to Murphy that he
gave to Upcraft this summer, with some
additional corroboration that includes a
statement by an assistant South Halls
coordinator. He said he was not told
whether he could bring legal counsel to
the hearings with Murphy.
Beirut, to Hammana, th,e first
Palestinian stronghold on the way to Ain
toura.
• Reporters who went to Hammana said
the town was still under Palestinian con
trol although it was coming under heavy
fire from Syrian tanks shelling from
surrounding hills.
The Syrians were also reported to be
advancing ?west. from the Bekaa valley, s,
pushing up the mountain roads as far as -
Hzerta, about five miles southeast of Ain
toura.
Christian forces pressing down on Ain
toura from the northwest joined in the at
tack, opening up the third front.
Christian military sources predicted
“total victory in three days,” but this
was considered unlikely. Western
military analysts predicted that
Palestinian forces entrenched in the high
rocky, ground overlooking narrow moun
tain roads up which the Syrian columns
have to push could hold out for weeks or
even months.
Weather
Mostly sunny and pleasant today. High
67. Becoming partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday. The low tonight 46 and the
high Thursday 63.
Upcraft also told ARHS members that
co-ed housing is an issue he is concerned
with. He said it is being investigated.
In a goal-setting and group
development workshop last night, ARHS
members agreed that cooperation and
communication among themselves are
the most important goals.
Members divided into representatives,
committee chairmen, area presidents
and executives. Each group discussed its
individual responsibilities.
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British pound drops to new low
LONDON (UPI)The British pound
crashed to a new low of $1.63 yesterday
despite intervention from the meager
reserves of the Bank of England. Prime
Minister James Callaghan made a
desperate speech aimed at restoring
world confidence.
Dealers on the London money markets
dumped the pound sterling “right, left
and center” and dealers said the foreign
exchange market was in a state of near
demorlization.
The pound has lost 15 cents in value in
little more than one week.
Intervention by the Bank of England
halted the slide temporarily but market
sources said a selling order from Paris
on behalf of a large petroleum company
blunted the Bank’s efforts.
The bank’s move dragged the pound
from its new all-time low of $1.6305 to
close at $1.6378 in London. But the
currency had still lost more than four
and one fourth cents since Monday.
Sterling also lost ground against other
leading currencies and its devaluation
since December 1971 jumped nearly two
per cent over the day’s trading to 45.5 per
cent. It stood at 43.6 per cent Monday.
The bank’s move shoved the pound up
ward from its new alltime low of $1.6305
to $1.6370 but there was no indication the
upward trend would continue.
The crisis was so serious that Chan
cellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey
postponed his departure for In
ternational Monetary Fund talks in Hong
Kong and Manila while he held talks with
the Governor of the Bank of England,
Gordon Richardson.
Money market sources said the Bank
of England dipped into it’s meager re-
se and shine
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Nobody seems to be worrying about eight o’clocks as the sun
rises over Lion’s Gate. The crowded 1 but quiet parking lot hints
that everyone decided to sleep in.
serves of foreign currency reserves to time,' borrowed ‘ money and oven
buy five million pounds Worth of British borrowed ideas. We will fail if we think
currency its first support of sterling we can buy our way out of our present
since the currency started its current" difficulties by printing confetti money
slump two weeks ago. and by paying ourselves more than we
Callaghan, obviously battling to earn.”
restore world confidence in the pound, “We live in too troubled a world to be
served notice on Britons that this country able in months or even a couple of years
cannot borrow its way back to prosperity/’to enter the promised land,” Callaghan
“You know we have not been creating told them. “The route is long and hard.”
sufficient new wealth as fast as we have “The cosy world which we were told
been distributing it,” Callaghan said in a would go on forever, where full em
tough, grimly worded keynote speech on ployment could be guaranteed by a
his governing Labor party’s annual rank- stroke of the Chancellor’s pen —by cut
and-file conference at Blackpool. ting taxes and having deficit spending
“We have lived too long on borrowed is gone,” Callaghan said.
Most economic indicators
show big August decline
WASHINGTON (UPI) The govern
ment said yesterday its crystal ball of
future economic activity the com
posite index of leading indicators
registered a sharp decline in August, the
first such falloff in the index since the
current economic recovery got under
way.
' The Commerce Department reported
that the index fell 1.5 per cent last month.
This marks the first decline in the in
dex since February 1975 and the largest
decline since January of that year when
it fell 3.4 per cent.
In the past, the index has risen before
each economic expansion and dropped
before each downturn.
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Government economists, however,
were quick to say that one month’s figure
may be a “statistical abberration” and
that it will take three months of declines
in the index before a definite economic
trend can be established.
Commerce’s chief economist John
Kendrick said preliminary figures, stock
prices, the money supply and plant
equipment orders for September indicate
that “chances are good, we will get a
rebound in the indicators next month.”
Contributing the most to the overall
decline, the department said was the
layoff rate a sign that industrial
production may slow in five "or six
months.
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