Volume 4, Issue 8 - Oct. 21, 1981

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NEWS: Anti-apartheid groups around the country are joining ·forces with other organizations to fight the brutal South African system and U.S. Involvement there.

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NEWS: It seems to be the season of resignations.

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FEATURE: Read about an unorthodox, entertaining and educational UCO history professor.

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METROSTYLE: Our reviewers come out of the screening room and enter the world of bQoks and restaurants this week.

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,. Volume 4, Issue 8 ©Mertopress October 21, 1981 Mosqueda, others assail DU at r.ally

UCD prof suing, daimS DU.racist ·

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by Brian Coffey-Weber

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This time last year Lawrence Mosqueda applied for a teaching "'~ob at the University of Denver. If the best man had been chosen according to some close to the situation the MexicanAmerican political science professor would now be a member of "DU's faculty. He is not and the UCD professor claims he was denied the position because of racial discrimination. --. On Those grounds Mosqueda filed suit against DU and 11 of its faculty in Denver District Court June 30, asking over $11 million in compensatory and pupitive J...damages. The first step in the long journey to trial, the filing of depositions, should begin in a few weeks. Depositions are a form of pre-trial discovery; it makes each "'side aware of what will come up in trial and also can be a means of impeaching a witness' credibility at trial. The depositions should be complete after the first of the year •but the case may take up to two

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The rally was also staged to bring attention to affirmative action abuses plaguing physical plant employees. All speakers at the rally "emphasized that discriminatory practices and their devasting consequences affected all areas of the , r ,- . , ; / , , university and not just academic 1-'\i 1 _, 1./f ·: I ; , personnel. , ' / r--., ; The case of black electrician I1.,,r I ;i I / : • , • r r r . ,.r _. -· Joe Patterson was cited as an ex.,,, /r: 1•• ; ample of harrassment and noni /~11 ,, f".·11 , 1 '/? compliance with affirmative action regulations by the private / f .., c-,.,,., ;-,- · · · ·· - · r·o university. Last fall, in an attempt by the ~ university to reduce costs, Patterco Lawrence Mosqueda (R) speaks at a recent DU rally. . son was forced - in violation of union and affirmative action years to reach trial. action guidelines was nothing policies-to eith.e r accept a $1-anTo further highlight his more than blatant racism. hour pay cut or a permanent lay · predicament and other alleged Because of these practi~, ~os- off. discriminatory practices at DU, -queda contended the umvers1ty, Patterson refused the cut in pay Mosqueda spoke at an Interna- its students - minority as well as and was fired. tional Committee Against Racism Anglo - and its staff all suffer. . The university then hired a (INCAR) - sponsored rally at the Mosqueda added that DU's white worker with less experience school's student center Oct. 14. political Science department is and at higher wages to replace · Mosqueda told the crowd of staffed by ·a grossly under- Patterson. . 100 or so spectators that DU's qualified faculty and students are After lengthly affirmative acrefusal to adhere to affirmative receiving an inadequate educa:. oontinued on page 3


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