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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1981
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Testimony gives contradictory views of Thomas
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Four friends of Anita Hill solemnly testified Sunday she told them in the 1980s that Clarence Thomas had made unwanted sexual advances toward her. But for many years, it was rumored that court nounces vowed for him, one of them saying, "I know he did no such thing."
Offstage, a polygraph expert said Hill had passed a lie detector test, which her supporters said boosted her credibility.
The Senate Judiciary Committee met for an unusually long time yesterday in an effort to accommodate all witnesses. The testimony given was often contradictory.
"He wouldn't take no for an answer," Susan Hoercherr quoted Hill as saying about Thomas in the early 1800s. Hoercherr, a workers compensation judge in California who met Hill when both were law students at Yale, said she had never known Hill to exaggerate.
Hill added that Thomas said, "You know if you had witnesses, you'd have a perfect case against me." Hoerchert told the panel.
Hoercher recalled a telephone conversation in the early 1890s, when both women were working in Washington;
"She told me that she was being subjected to sexual harassment by her boss, to whom she referred by name. That boss was Clarence
Hill "said that Clarence Thomas had repeatedly asked her out," Hoerchner said. "She told me that of course she had refused."
Hoeerchner said Hill told her that Thomas repeated his entreaties, saying, "I'm your type. I'm your kind of man and you refuse to admit
The lie detector test added controversy to the hearings. "Mrs. Hill is truthful," said Paul Minor, administrator of the test and the
INSIDE
Debate about the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings was spitted in light of the contradictory testimony given this weekend. KU law and political experts are concerned about the toll the hearings will have on the Supreme Court nomination process.
HEARINGS END
Sen. JosephBiden, D-Del, head of the committee, closed the Thomas hearings early this morning. After conferring with Sen. James Danforth, R-Mo., Biden announced that neither Judge Thomas or Anita Hill wished to continue with hearings today.
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head of a private security firm in Virginia, in comments that sent consternation through the ranks of Thomas' defenders.
Sen. Ornir Hatch, R-Uht, called the development "highly offensive and highly political, too pat, too tick, exactly what a two-bit, slick lawyer" would do. Biden ruled the results legally inadmissible.
The Senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on confirming Thomas, a 43-year-old federal appeals judge.
Biden said Hill and Thomas would be invited back to close out the proceedings today.
More than six hours later came an entirely different story, one depicting Thomas as a man completely incapable of such action.
"I know he did no such thing," said Nancy Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, a former assistant to him at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "I trust Judge Thomas completely."
Biden rules polygraph inadmissible in hearing
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Anita Hill yesterday passed a lie detector test on her allegations that Clarence Thomas made sexually explicit remarks to her, a polygraph expert said. But it was ruled inadmissible as evidence at the Supreme Court nominee's confirmation hearing.
Joseph R. Biden Jr., head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would not allow the polygraph results to be accepted because the committee had not vouched for the credentials of the examiner and had nothing to do with ordering the
Paul K. Minor, president of American International Security Corp. of Fairfax, Va., told reporters outside the hearing room that he had concluded she was telling the truth in her accusations that Thomas sexually harassed her.
Polygraph tests generally are not admissible in court. One of
Hill's attorneys, Charles Ogletree,
said they would not formally submit
the results to the committee.
Biden, D-Del., ruled on the admissibility of the test after committee Republicans brought it up, challenging its validity.
Minor said he put four questions to Hill, asking if she had lied in her testimony or fabricated remarks that she attributed to Thomas.
■ Are you lying to me about the various topics that Clarence Thomas mentioned to you regarding specific sexual acts?
■ Are you fabricating the allegation that Clarence Thomas discussed pornographic material with you?
Have you deliberately lied to me about Clarence Thomas?
The questions on the polygraph test were:
Are you lying to me about Clarence Thomas making references to you about the size of his penis?
Harassment difficult to define
Thomas hearings raise questions about work-place behavior toward women
By Rochelle Olson Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
As the Clarence Thomas Senate hearings continue, people nationwide and in Lawrence struggle to define sexual harassment and understand its implications.
"I would hope that it would raise the awareness of the seriousness of sexual harassment and the problems that women who are in this position face," said Sherill Robinson, graduate assistant for the Women's Resource Center.
As a result of the Thomas hearings, more men may become aware of their behavior in the work place and examine their actions, she said.
But Robinson said she feared the hearings might make women afraid to speak out about sexual harassment.
The hearings could deter the reporting of harassment because Anita Hill's credibility has been attacked, Robinson said.
"It certainly is going to be talked about for a while," Robinson said.
She said she was uncertain of the long-term effects of the hearing.
Connie Burk, member of Students Against Violence Against Womyn,
agreed.
The hearing gives credibility to a very difficult issue, Burk said.
It also is letting people know that it is OK to talk about sexual harassment,
"I think it will encourage women to become more vocal," Burk said.
She said the hearings also indicated the difficulty women had pursuing sexual harassment. Often they are left with few options in the corporate or
"Men in charge of these institutions believe they have a right to this kind of behavior," she said. "It is a political and societal behavior to participate in these sorts of violence against women."
political world.
But Marlon Williams, Chicago first-year law student, said he thought the hearing had made men more aware of their behavior on the job.
He said it raised the issue of what constituted sexual harassment.
"You don't say or do anything that the slightest grounds could be misunderstood to be harassment," Williams said.
winnams said he wondered how it would be construed if a man told a co-worker that her legs looked nice or that she looked like she had lost weight.
"Is that harassment, or is it complimenting someone?" he said.
talking to, Williams said.
"There is no objective standard for
It depends on the person you are talking to, Williams said.
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Diane Simpson, Lawrence attorney,
"I think the law is pretty clear on sexual harassment." Simpson said.
But she thought the Thomas hearings would help people understand the difficulties people encounter when filing harassment claims.
People also will reflect on their behavior in the work place, she said.
"I am most encouraged by the fact that I think there is going to be an awareness that we have not had before," Simpson said.
She said the hearings would make many people think about their comments to co-workers.
What is sexual harassment?
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines define two types of sexual harassment; both are illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964:
Quid pro quo
Occurs when employee is subject to unwelcome sexual advances and submission to them is made the basis for firing, hiring, advancement
Environmental
Occurs when any type of unwelcome sexual behavior creates a hostile work environment
Unsolicited and unwelcome flirtations, advances or propositions
Examples of sexual harassment
■ Unsolicited and unwelcome flirtations, advances or propositions
■ Graphic or degrading comments about employee's appearance,
dress, anatomy
Display of sexually suggestive objects or pictures
III-received dirty jokes and offensive gestures
- Explicit descriptions of the harasser's own sexual experiences
Sexual or intrusive questions about employee's personal life
Abuse of familiarities or diminutives such as "honey," "baby," "dear"
Unnecessary, unwanted physical contact such as touching, hugging, pinching, patting, kissing
Whistling, catcalls
Physical or sexual assault
Rape
Leering
What steps to take
If situation persists, report it to supervisor or that of harasser
■ Tell harasser the behavior is unwelcome and it should stop; ignoring it will usually not discourage the harasser
- Keep a written record of what harasser says and does, who saw, how you responded, to whom you reported it.
- Discuss situation with co-workers who have experienced similar harassment
- If these steps fail, file a complaint with the EEOC or file claim with a private attorney
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SOURCE: National Women's Law Center, Capitol Hill Women's Political Caucus
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Conservative author believes affirmative action breeds hostility
By Rochelle Olson
When Dinesh D'Souza speaks on college campuses across the country, he usually is the first conservative speaker those schools have heard a long time.
D'Souza is a voice of conservatism amid a wave of politically correct speech that has been prevalent on college campuses.
Kansan staff writer
The University of Hawaii
It's been a long time since a conservative
speaker has come to KU, said Chris Man, Student
Union Activities coordinator.
been prevalent in Kansas is no exception. The University of Kansas is no exception.
D'Souza, the author of Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, will speak at 8 tonight at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Man said SUA had invited D'Souza to speak at KU because he discussed controversial topics that have stirred debate at many universities.
Among the beliefs that make D'Souza a conservative is his assertion that racially based affirmative action in college admissions should be abolished.
Affirmative action breeds hostility because
Dinesh D'Souza
maturity students with lower test scores and grade point averages can be admitted to universities because of their race, he wrote in his book.
If racially based affirmative action were abolished, nobody would feel privileged or injured on the account of race, *D'Soua wrote*.
Instead, he proposed that universities take socio-economic disadvantages into account for admissions.
For example, a student who scored 1,200 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test but struggled against a poor school system would mean more than the same score from a student who attended private schools with private tutors, he wrote.
D'Souza was a White House domestic policy analyst in the Reagan administration. He now works as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington.
D'Souza has an outsider's perspective on the United States because he is a foreigner. He was born in Bombay and moved to the United States as a high school exchange student in 1978. He stayed to attend Dartmouth College and was
the editor of the "politically incorrect" Dartmouth Review.
D'Souza he decided to stay in the United States after he graduated from college in 1883.
"It creates the most opportunities for the outsider who starts at the bottom," he said about the United States in a telephone interview last week.
Universities should not permit a Black Stu
He said he wrote *Hiliberal Education* because issues of race, gender and sexual orientation often were taboo on college campuses.
"My goal is to raise the curtain on these issues in a civil and rational tone," he said. "I don't think it helps not to address these issues and let them be swamped under the carpet."
D'Souza also wrote that universities should discourage the practice of minority self-segregation by refusing to recognize groups that were racial separatists.
dents Association, but they should permit a W.E.B. Du Bois Society because it would be based on an interest in the writings of the early 20th-century author, D'Souza wrote.
it is one of the profound legacies of the civil rights movement to attempt to remove racial exclusivity from public association in American life, "D' Souza said.
But he said he thought there might be a danger in not being part of the common culture.
During his first year at Dartmouth, he joined a foreign student group.
"I'm not saying I don't understand the impulse to hang together," he said.
"I'm proposing critical reflection on double standards that exist," he said.
Tickets for the speech are $3 at the SUA box office. After the presentation, a reception and book signing will be at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.