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Show Westminster College of Salt Lake City March 28, 1989 Issue 20 Volume 36 Giovale Takes Lead By Laura Reeves "She's going to be wonderful to work Susan Heath and Sheryl Phillips spearhead the problem of sexual harassment Sexual Harassment Policy Sees Revision, Update Savas By Tony A revised Sexual Harassment Policy was unanimously passed by Westminster's Executive Cabinet Friday, March 17. Sexual harassment is banned by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Recent changes In federal law and new definitions of sexual harassment were the reasons for the change, according to President Charles Dick. Dick said that there are many colleges and universities whose officials are unaware that their schools need to be protected against sexual harassment suits. Dick said that the new policy is essentially an elaboration of an existing policy. Susan Heath, directer of counseling and career services, and Sheryl Phillips, dean of records, spearheaded the revision of the policy. Heath also serves as the student sexual harassment adviser. Phillips said the old policy was not "nearly as explicit, and needed to be changed." Phillips said that the changes in the policy were strictly additions and that nothing was removed. Under the revised policy, specific Offensive sexual graffiti Physical agression Sexual innuendos Verbal sexual abuse disguised as humor Whistling Obscene gestures Leering at, or ogling over a person's body Questions about a person's personal sexual activity Sexual remarks about a person's body or clothing -- with improvements. Reutilization of the downstairs area of Shaw adding typing rooms and study areas was presented as a possiblity in the future, with ASWC once again offering matching funds. - and her mother Vicve Gore. think she (Giovale) is the type of chairperson of the board Westminster needs," I lanscn said. "She is a very forward thinking individual. Its a far cry from the entrenchment of the past" "I Spreading stories about a person's sexual conduct Sexual stereotyping Phillips said, "I imagine that sexual harassment has the potential to exist in any environment." Phillips added that Westminster students, employees and the college are well protected under the new policy. Along with the new sexual harassment policy, a new Sexual Harassment Grievance Procedure Inside . that the Shaw Center is a -- has been implemented. Marty's Apologia: History Matters By Dot Archibald On Monday, March 20, over 200 members of the religious and academic community packed into the Gore auditorium, designed to accomodate only 140, to receive Dr. Martin E. Marty's comments regarding the relationship of the religious past to the present and future. Marty's lecture, 'We Might Know What to do and How to do it: On the Usefulness of the Religious Past," was the inaugural Phillips said that Westminster has a general grievance procedure which covers all complaints, but the problem of sexual harassment needed special attention and well behavior considered sexual harassment distributed, formal procedures. The Sexual Harassment Policy states: includes: address of the Westminster "Individuals who believe they have been Tanner-McMurriSubtle pressure for sexual activity n Lecture Series on the .Demands for sexual favors accompanied by sexually harassed should report the matter and of Religion. The History Philosophy to the immediate superviser, the Sexual threats series is funded in perpetuity by Obert Clark Requests for sexual favors accompanied by Harassment Adviser, Susan Heath, or the Tanner, professor emeritus of philosophy at Personnel Coordinator, Barbara King." the promises University of Utah, and Grace Adams touches or brushes Phillips said that currently no sexual Tanner. Unnecessaiy Offensive graffiti harassment complaints at Westminster Marty began with two meditative have ever reached formal procedures. Disparaging remarks about one's gender thoughts, both of which bring religious history into the intimate context of every day living. The first was from Abraham Lincoln, "If we could first know where we are and . . . ; 2 Confusion Ramp-an-t whither we are tending, we could then know what to do and how to do it." The second 3 Poetry Series Update thought was an injunction to remember the connection between the past and present, 4 Music Review Shocked "Any time I think of the present, the past pushes in; anytime I think of the past, the in Chris Johnson the Spotlight 5 present pushes in." Marty went on to talk about the Facts on Cholesterol necessity for recordkeeping to stay in touch 6 with who we are, stating that th? best way to get rid of a civilization is to destroy its social 7 Looking Good Dressing for the Job memories, and its artifacts. Marty prefers to look more deeply into Lacrosse Returns 8 the stories our tradition tells, than to be - Giovale said with; she seems very responsive to student top priority for the board. We will do needs," said Chris Tucker, chief justice pro something; we're Just not sure what, and tem, of Ginger Gore Giovale, the newly we're not sure when," she added. elected chairperson of Westminster's board Though the idea of paving the dirt of trustees. parking lot adjacent to the practice field was Giovale met with the ASWC executive suggested, Giovale pointed out that the cabinet Thursday, March 23, to discuss board has other plans for the area. We hope those student perspectives which might to build the Jewett Center for the Arts on the affect the boards decisions. She also practice field, so that lot will be removed," informed the cabinet of what the board was said Giovale. "Plans are in the works right currently doing in respect to recent student now, but nothing is final yet." She added that concerns. whatever parking space remained would be According to Michael Hansen, ASWC remodeled. president, "Improving the library is the ASWC secretary, Heidi number one student concern." Hansen mentioned theSmith, of the tennis quality poor emphasized that improving the library didn't courts on campus, stating that resurfacing necessarily mean enlarging it, but the courts and adding new nets would be a nonetheless updating it. benefit. Cabinet suggestions included great The cabinet agreed that the recreation expanded library hours - especially on facilities Westminster are very minimal, Sundays and during finals weeks - and with the at of the additions made by retaining more current resource materials. the Utah exception to the Jazz weight room and men's The cabinet added that none of their room. locker concerns should be construed as criticisms of the library staff, whom students believe to Giovale concluded with a comment be exemplary. about the boards new, $3 million capital Hansen also brought up the issue of campaign. (See related story, p. 8.J She stated renovating the Shaw building. He noted that that the board is hoping to reach a goal of $3 student government has repeatedly pledged million in one year by offering potential money towards this goal on the condition donors the chance to see each dollar they that the administration would follow through donate matched by two dollars from Giovale satisfied merely with recent more expressions of that tradition. History, according to Marty, is the humanizing agent in the past, an integral element of who we are. although mostly filled with suffering. Marty said that history can be liberating when it is distant, and the stories cherished. According to Marty, there arc no "good old days." Each era has its suffering, and although people can live with the past through cherishing it, it must not be deified. Marty sees theology as the basic stuff of our religious existence; philosophy as clarifying the language of historical religion; and, doctrine as the fence that defines the identity of each group. In the question and answer session, Marty was asked about his own personal philosophy. His answer was in Latin phrases which can be stated, essentially, in these maxims: - "I think that I may understand; I think, therefore I am; as I think my thoughts are changing." "Dr. Marty was able to present very complex and difficult ideas in utterly accessible terms," said Scott Cairns, en assistant professor of English at Westminster. "I was also impressed by the facility with which he was able to draw upon what was, evidently, a lifetime of broad and careful reading," added Calms. See Marty," p. 8. |