Show J The Utah Statesman NCPAC boss is just a jdrizcj Tum5tyl5 Commentary by Maxwell Glen and Cody Shearer week by Mary Bamgrover this Affirmative action can work is a weekly column in which a prominent safer the USUfaculty staff or administration is given the opportuni-- p a iscuss issues of importance The guest columnist this week is Mary Issgoter an expert on affirmative action and equal opportunity pradirector of the USU affirmative gma Bengncer was appointed action lest April after serving as acting director for several months tjfa Utm's sate: ‘Turn-style- Action hat long been an issue of controversy and inception as Executive Order 1 1246 issued by Lyodoo B Johnson in September 1965 Since that time Aflir-suhv- e Action has been challenged by both pnvate industry and Monitions of higher education as a discriminatory process befc gives preference to women and minorities over qualified Affirmative delate since its able males Ia in effort to bring the Affirmative Action issue to a head Orrin Hatch has introduced Senate Joint tesohition 41 which challenges the constitutionality of aflir-MOSenator As (R-Uta- action programs chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Coaunittee Hatch supports a constitutional odd bar federal and state institutions from amendment which giving preferential tnsnne nt to anyone on the basis of rare color or national sngm Senator Hatch contends that the current program of giv-is- g preferential treatment to women and minorities is contrary the guarantee of equal protection under the law as guaranteed Ac US Constitution The escalation of the affirmative by action issue has resulted in of understanding by both employers and agents of what affirmative action means and Executive Order 11246 was attempting to accomplish Affirmative action is NOT equal opportunity The concept of opportunity implies that all individuals are given equal tHmet in every situation regardless of their race color sex idgioa or national origin Preferential treatment is not given to yadhridual because of any one of the above characteristics Affirmative Action on the other hand is a remedial concept sdich imposes a duty on the federal contractor to take positive ps to improve the work opportunities of women and e who are considered to have been deprived of job either to overt discrimination or seemingly processes which disproportionately screened out women fsn because of a lack fc&nl enforcement tl Less than seven months after President Reagan’s election American television viewers are already being bombarded with tiresome political commercials and the ads re as virulent as ever One minute a public employees union rams against the Reagan economic agenda Switch channels and a conservative group exhorts freedom-lovin- g Americans to support the president For one group this advertising blitz is only the beginning Moderation has never been the style of John Terry Dolan and his Virginia-base- d National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCP AC) Dolan and Co are the original non-sto- p campaigners Most television viewers probably never saw NCPAC’s deadly campaign commercials last d year against four Senate Democrats Armed with Si million NCPAC began producing media attacks on the senators’ voting records 18 months before the election No one is sure what impact the early-innin- g media campaign had on the voters but Terry Dolan is convinced his guerrilla operation helped bury Sens Birch Bayh of Indiana Frank Church of Idaho John Culver of Iowa and George McGovern of South Dakota Now NCPAC is on the tube again flailing the record of among others a relatively inconspicuous Senate liberal from Maryland named Paul Sarbanes NCPAC’s ads imply that Sarbanes is responsible for everything from inflation to teenage pregnancies Other liberals and moderates few ax there are these days are in danger of the same treatment Never mind that the public may be both pre-seas- ld now-retire- highly-controversi- al skeptical and tired of gelSetemi “In the final analysis India and gentlemen” he recently told a BaOcesLly disapproving audience of neweprper fa Washington ” I don't particularly cam what the people in this roosn of onr organization so long as we are doing the irit Jung” Not surprisingly many Americans thank this smart-alec-k kid has gone too for Even GOP National Committee Chairman Eidaed Richards has criticized Dolan any something must be done to curb the it of groups like his But few people understand the from Fairfield Conn If they did they'd know that confrontation is what die “troublemaker” thrives upon The youngest of Joseph and Margaret Dolan’s three children (of whom two wosfc for President Reagan) the feisty Dolan has always enjoyed testing people’s nerves “He wu an interesting child” his supportive Irish Catholic mother told us “He always did unusual things” ' While many children of the ’60s became opponents of the Vietnam War Terry Dolan bucked the popular tide of -- d free-spirit- ed liberalism He turned Republican before his parents joining the Teenage Republicans on the beds of his older brother Tony (now Reagan’s top This ideologue argued pnlfefew even in Latin class at Georgetown University speech-write- r) Almost 10 years since leaving Georgetown Dolan is the idol of young conservatives everywhere He won’t let up until moderates and liberals are an endangered species For the time being we’ll be stuck with his annoying political ad Wetye pears in a non election COfJTD op-du- sd— orities hstber words as opposed to the concept of equal opportuni-Mfinnitjv- e action means seriously considering race and sex wnics of applicants in an effort to provide affirmative ensure that those presumed to have been discriminated gain the positions they would have attained had no discrimination "seaeffort to ensure compliance with the Executive Order monitoring agencies were established along regulations Federal contractors are faced dilemma of either i meeting the requirements imposed or federal funds withdrawn In many instances the i federal paperwork has been passed on to persons V®dficaDy tQ keep the institution up to date with the " eminent twit many unintended and unforeseen consequences P— out of the good intentions of the Executive Order Psnty quotas rather than goals have become the employers and enforcement personnel concentrate on nrather than the spirit of the legislation Claims of discrimination are filling the courts Back pay seems to "v hition on which enforcement agencies are willing '&VTC're acl°l success de are those who believe that neutrality in the 11 and minorities is inadequate Affirmative A f ® overcoming our social history of racism seems that what the affirmative action issue has tdMg to the surface the problems women and within the labor had in federal “ "'U-hdm- ing f T'"rl 6 achieving positions educational institutions has arisen with how one goes about correcting vnehout discriminating against another group diich has been proposed to Senator Hatch and to revamp the enforcement proceedings It reducing the costly and repetitive reporting probe will providing other incentives employers was Fproach affirmative action with the spirit it —- -- as Story accuracy is challenged mt mmeaieof quoted on this but I think he is In raf riling a gtimpff of within piece laundry my my proprobably operating just My name is Susan Nittrouer the law However even if he is blem had never been mealed er for treatment You will remember me from not operating illegally I think recommended enrollment to at USU are prior immoral” The his my of edition practices Friday’s In conclusion I would Eke to I did not “put up such a Statesman in which I played the emphasize my original pots role of a witch Well today I fuss’’ I never “pleaded povehave put down my broomstick rty” I merely pointed out to Never talk to reporters I hope Mr Dance that I was a policy no one dse has to learn this to take up the pen holder and as such was entitled lesson the hard 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