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Show many businessesscrutinized From THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER ished to check for howler potential before filing cases — perhaps federal government —in the form of the Equal Employment Oppor. tunity Commission — will not be deployed to force a restaurant chain built around fascination with the female anatomy to hire humor consultant — dozens of federal agencies will continue tory for freedom of choice. But only a small victory. Hooters, of course, is the 170Site restaurant chain known for hiring waitresses who wear their daily pursuit of American businesses who might (or might not) have run afoul of one ofthe hundreds of thousands of regulations produced byvarious agen- So the august majesty of the they could hire an oh-so-serious Commentary Hooters Guys. That's a small vic- skimpy shorts and tight shirts or tank-tops that emphasize their assets. What the Hooters case demonstrated was that if you can convert a cy into a laughingparticular case is concerned youcan get it to back away from wrecking your business. But not every case carries within it the kind of stand-up potential the Hooters case did So, having been tacitly admen- cies, The EEOCcouldn’t admit that it had been guffawed into inac- tion, and the agency let it be known that it could have gone after Hooters underthe law as it is written. “The particular factual issues raised by Hooters do not transform this into a frivolous case or a subject for locker-room humor,” harrumphed EEOC ChairmanGilbert F, Casellas It should be noted that Hooters, @ company that has made a good deal of money providing a certain segment of the population a ser vice it was willing to pay for, had considerable resources and the willingness to fight off the EEOC’s assauit. It staged media events and ran advertisements featuring a mustached inan with a blond wig and a Hooters uniform exclaiming “Come on. Washington. Get a grip.” That broader message should and did resonate. Thomas Hopkins of the Rochester Institute of Technology estimated the total cost of compliance with federal regulations in 1994 at $600 billion, Going after Hooters — the EEOCoriginally proposed that Hooters pay a $22 million fine and set up a “scholarship” fundto enhance employment opportunities for men (!) — had undeniable humorpotential. Adding $600billion a year to the cost of doing business — and some scholars have come up with significantly higher estimates — is not at all funny After the chuckling dies down, those fabled revolutionaries in Congress should get serious about regulatory reform. It’s time not only for reform, but the out abolition of many federal re: Farmers’ goal: Put ‘culture’ in ‘agriculture’ Political ad proposal By LETA RECTOR Indian Country Today SANTA FE. N.M Clayton Brascoupe, director of the Native Scholars Programandthe economic developmentinitiativecalled the Native Farmers program wants to put the “culture” back in agriculture A full-time farmer, the Canadian-born Mohawk now resides in Tesuqueandis far from his roots He maintains close ties to his culture through a project that he designedto preserve farming tech niques. “Today we have 1.8 acres of land per personin the U.S. By the year 2050, withthe loss of agricultural lands, we'll be down to .6 acres per person,” he said. “The price of food is expected to increase fivefold. We should not build homes on topof our agricultural lands. “Wehavethe land. We have the farming traditions,” he said. “We Observations TRS are trying to find answers within our communities. The Collective Heritage Institute runs the Native Scholars Program and hosts an annual Bioneers conference in San Francisco. We started this up in an attempt to preserve Indigenous farming practices and to present farmers as heroes Kenny Ausubel, founder of the institute, said One of the companies participating in the program is the Odwalla Fruit and Vegetable Juice Company, which made $35 million last year and is expecting almost to double that this year. “We'd love to see them get those from private growers,” Mr Ausubel said. “We care very much about how food is produced and what the social conditions are of the people growing it,” Ausubel said CHI members have discussed using a Thanksgiving meal to introduce non-Indians to Indian foods since it represents spirituality, prayer and giving thanks. “This might be a nice way to educate people toaspiritual view of food and farming.” Ausubel said. Collective Heritage Institute was organized in 1990 when Ausubel and his partner were run- Jones Paint and Glass wouldlike to announcetheretirement of Florence Holsinger. Mrs. Holsinger has been working as the company interior decorator for the past tw enty-six years Shestarted working for Jones March 17, 1970. Employees and friends are invited to a reception in her honor May8, 1996 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm at 170 North 100 West, Provo, Utah. Refreshments will be served All employees of Jones Paint and Glass wish her the very best as she begins a new erain herlife BABY GRAND GRANDFATHER CLOCKS Special Kohler & Kanaraos for Mother's Day ees ap-euneh ning a farm. The USDA brought over a group ofpeople fromAfrica to study their farming techniques. One of the visitors from Africa began weeping when he saw the research garden “What we discovered was he saw avariety of sorghumhe hadn't seen since he was a child in Africa, hich used to be cultivated by his ndmoiher,” Ausubel said ecause of the introduction of hybrid sorghum by large businesses. it had disappeared.” “T suggested we start a nonprofit organization to study these ancient seeds and traditional gardening. There was great interest from Indian peoples here in the Southwest where there is an agricultural tradition. These are the people who put ‘culture’ in agniculture. But that culture is being lost very rapidly,” Ausubel said ‘Foodplants are not natural. They don’t just exist by themselves in the wild. They exist because they rdeners.” came to Native Scholars two years ago. He has worked in the community to find out who is farming and to develop a data base directory to find out what their needs are, what they want and how CHI canbe supportive. “Native Scholars is about sharing information. We want to have a ce where people can comeand dotapes, read books, use a database,” Brascoupe said definitely worth a try From THE SEATTLE TIMES Everybody complains about the vicious, superficial nature of esidential political campaig days. But until now, few people have offered ideas that would raise the level of poli course. A couple of highly respected journalists, backed by other indi viduals. politicians and ¢ for Straight Talk ( hey. the# i depending hoy ath. other pe 0 roney. But the ab would Cronkite, who know two aboutthe busin trimming a { fall shows, ¢ to prepai mped at t is now corporate plan from No Down No Payments | Til’ November 1087 (USED PIANOS AND DIGITAL PIANOS -§4995 OAC. 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