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* Orr said the same policy should
be applied to staff, faculty and stu-
dents. "If there's going to be a pol-
icy, why would there need to be a
separate policy for each group?"
SAPAC
Julie Steiner
Steiner is the director of the
9 Sexual Assault Prevention
and Awareness Center
% Steiner said she firmly believes
the University has a responsibility
to shield students from harassment.
However, she has many problems
with the interim policy.
" The part that disturbs me the
most is in the interim policy is the
part that talks about intent." said
'Steiner. "To prove that something is
malicious intent is difficult."
"A lot of it is not intentional, a
lot of it is people don't know that
what they're doing is offensive, how
are they going to learn?" said
Steiner.
Steiner supports education as the
thrust of the policy, but she wonders
if educational sanctions such as
workshops have been thoroughly
thought out.
"I don't think it's enough to send
somebody to one workshop," she
said. "The thing about harassment
and discrimination is we're taught
the stuff; we're talking about 17 to
21 years of solid education on
this ...They're never going to know
it's wrong if someone doesn't tell
them."-
She is concerned about the lack
of a clause on intimidating or hostile
4nvironments. "Harassment is
;learly more than an individual act,"
to said.
> She mentioned the incident this
ll when members of a fraternity
ledge class sang songs that were
emeaning to women on the Diag.
"Yes, they have a right to free
*peech, but those several hundred
people that were sitting around have
a right not to be attacked in that
Y"
Steiner questions the rationale
hat cases of harassment should be
andled by the court system and the
ntention that University students
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ACLU
Mike Schechter
Schechter is the vice president
of the ACLU's campus
chapter.
Schechter said the ACLU has ini-
tially decided that the policy is still
too vague.
Members of the group have many
questions about the policy: When is
a statement is considered to be in the
context of a discussion of ideas?
Would it be possible to select board
members that were sympathetic to a
point of view? How and who would
enforce the sanctions?
"If this is a code that we're going
to be held strictly accountable to
then there should be no questions."
Schechter said there the issue of
enforcing sanctions is very impor-
tant. "There's absolutely no provi-
sion that suggests how... that's a
big problem."
The group also believes the al-
leged victim and perpetrator should
be entitled to an attorney at all
times.
UCAR
David Maurrasse and Pam
Nadasen
Both are members of the
United Coalition Against
Racism.
Nadasen and Maurrasse said they
believe the policy should be drafted
by students of color.
Maurrasse said it wasn't enough
to just include students of color on
the advisory committee, but that
those active in the anti-racist com-
munity were needed.
"You could have a lot of Black
people on that committee, but if you
put a bunch of conservative Blacks
on the committee who believe
racism doesn't exist anymore, you're
going to have some serious prob-
lems," Maurrasse said.
"Whose interests are being served
by this committee?" said Nadasen.
"Most students aren't affected by
racism, it's students of color that are
affected."
They added that the complaints
filed under the policy should be re-
viewed by a body of students of
color.
Nadasen said the policy should
include a definition of racism. She
said the policy should not include
reverse racism. She said reverse
racism was not the same as reverse
racism because whites have tradi-
tionally held the power in this coun-
try. She said that while calling a
white person a "honky" is a nasty
thing it does not have the same ef-
fect as racially attacking a Black per-
son.
Maurrasse questions the interim
policy only punishing discrimina-
tory acts that are addressed to an in-
dividual.
"The idea that people can say
things as long as they're not directed
at anybody is ludicrous," he said.
Nadasen agreed. "The whole basis
of racism is that it doesn't have to
be aimed at an individual, it's aimed
at a race."
Nadasen and Maurrasse believe
the emphasis should be placed on a
staff and faculty policy.
"We don't want a policy which is
going to allow people to teach cer-
tain racist ideologies," said Maur-
rasse.
Maurrasse said working within
the confines of the court order would
be difficult. "We have to question
the federal court's desire to have this
kind of policy...the courts them-
selves are going to perpetuate
racism."
SALSA
Carlos Manjarres
Manjarres is president of the
Socially Active Latino
Students Association
Manjarres said the policy should
include a definition of injurious lan-
guage. He said the harmful intent of
a comment should be considered, he
said a comment can be harmful re-
gardless of its aim at an individual.
"Intent to harm is very important
to my perspective whether its on a
group or individual level," he said.
"Intent supersedes directionality of
the comment."
Manjarres believes the policy
ought to list several reference groups
for students.
UMASC
Susan Rhee and Tom Fujita
Both are members of the UM
Asian Student Coalition. Rhee
is the liaison between UCAR
and UMASC and a member of
the administration's student
advisory committee on the
policy.
Rhee and Fujita said the adminis-
tration of the policy places to much
focus on mediating incidents of ha-
rassment. Rhee withdrew a com-
plaint from mediation last year.
"The problem of mediation was
that the (policy administrator) said,
'We want both people to leave
happy.' When you have an instance
of racial or sexual discrimination
how can this happen?" Rhee
questioned."
Fujita agreed. "There seemed to
be an emphasis in mediation which
is laudable but it is based on the
premise that the (harasser) didn't in-
tend to harm anyone," she said.
"I think mediation is appropriate
when someone out of ignorance
didn't know something was offen-
sive," said Fujita. "The real failing
of the old policy is it didn't take into
account that there are some people
who are just nasty, they can't be ed-
ucated."
Both said they would like to see a
more trial-based system, with a hear-
ing board with student members and
a professionally trained mediator.
Fujita said a professionally-
trained mediator was a necessity
because a university is "one of the
the few places where (diversity) of
opinion is fine, that makes
arbitration very difficult."
Rhee said she was troubled by the
a lack of organization in administer-
ing the policy. She said that at one
time she was placed alone in a room
with one of the people who harassed
her.
"It's obvious that the administra-
tion doesn't take this very seri-
ously," Rhee said.
Fujita thinks the University
should somehow publicize what kind
of cases fall under the policy. He
said the University would have to
keep within the confines of the
Buckley Amendment, a federal law
which prohibits thetdisclosureof
student names involved in disci-
plinary suits.
"The community has the right to
know that if someone is the victim
they've been compensated in some
way," he said.
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College
Republicans
Doug Morris
Morris is president of the
College Republicans.
Morris said a policy would not
help solve the problem and may be
abused.
"It's a grey area in a lot of ways,
I don't think we can set a policy
that's really going to do anything."
Morris said he fears the policy
may be abused. He said that he has
been called racist for his stance
against affirmative action and would
fear a student using a policy for
these kind of reasons.
Morris declined to suggest
changes to the policy. "I don't there
should be one so its tough to sug-
gest alternatives," he said.
NASA
Amy De Long
De Long is the former
president and a current
member of the Native
American Association.
De Long said the University
should give the policy more public-
ity. "It's important for students to
know that something like this ex-
ists."
De Long emphasized the need for
education, but said she doesn't think
the University should require a
course on ethnicity. Instead, she said
the education should come from an
increased number of minority Stu-
dents.
"The more people we have from
different cultures... the more people
will learn," she said. "You learn
more by talking to other people than
from a classroom."
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