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THE BATTALION Page 5
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1975
Equal employment
report in progress
Reagan prepares for
presidential primary
Texas A&M University maintains
an overall posture of continual com
pliance with federal legislation ad
ministered by the Equal Employ
ment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC) according to Ken
Livingston, Affirmative Action of
ficer for the A&M University Sys
tem.
Livingston is employed by the
University and is responsible for
overseeing A&M’s compliance with
such federal statutes as Titles VI,
VII and IX of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, the Equal Employment Op
portunity Act of 1972 and Executive
Order 11375.
Livingston said, in a Battalion in
terview yesterday, that his office is
concerned with preparing a semi
annual progress report on the Uni
versity’s work force and a utilization
analysis of that work force.
“The EEOC is not going to be
satisfied that you are acting in good
faith if you have a work force that is
largely women and minority races,”
said Livingston, “and those people
are all secretaries and unskilled
labor. This is why we have to submit
a utilization report,” Livingston
explained.
The penalties for failure to com
ply can be severe.
“If Health, Education and Wel
fare (HEW) were to determine that
a contractor was not applying good
faith, they could conceivably not
grant him any additional contracts
or grants,” Livingston said “They
could also stop the funds already
granted.”
Livingston knows of no cases
where funds have actually been cut
off, but said that several Eastern
schools have been threatened with
this action.
Livingston claimed that A&M has
more women in administrative posi
tions than many schools which have
been co-educational for their entire
existence.
Livingston’s office is also respon
sible for hearing complaints from
individuals who believe that they
have been discriminated against in
hiring or promotion due to their
race, sex, religion or national origin.
“Up to this time no individual has
asked me to proceed on their be
half, Livingston said.
Before going to the Affirmative
Action Office (Room 311 in the
YMCA building) with a discrimina
tion complaint, employes should
first exhaust the University’s de
partmental appeals committees.
Even if he feels that a person has
been treated in violation of the law,
Livingston can do nothing more
than recommend to the University
that it change its decision.
If the University refuses to recon
sider its decision, the individual can
bring charges through the EEOC’s
national organization by filing a
Commissioner’s Charge.
If the EEOC fails to act after this
charge is filed, the employe can fi
nally bring a suit in civil court.
If the EEOC or courts decide in
the employe’s favor they can force
his employer to give such restitution
as back pay, promotion, vacation
time, and even the hiring of a per
son previously refused employ
ment.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In scattered
states that soon will be political
battlegrounds, Ronald Reagan’s
campaign forces are at work, making
telephone calls, searching Republi
can rosters for volunteers, preparing
for a test of strength with President
Ford.
The Ford political apparatus is
gearing up, too, after a start viewed
as too slow by some of the Presi
dent’s allies.
So as Reagan declares his GOP
presidential candidacy, both sides
are hard at the political spadework
that will be crucial this coming
winter when the primary elections
begin.
In New Hampshire, more than
7,000 telephone calls are being
made each week, seeking Republi
can voters and volunteers for
Reagan in the first of the primaries,
little more than three months away.
Reagan s Florida campaign
chairman forecasts a landslide vic
tory over Ford in the March 9 prim
ary there. A Reagan campaign
lieutenant in Illinois predicts prim
ary showings that will force Ford to
quit the campaign.
All of this has happened while the
former California governor was in
sisting he had not made up his mind
whether or not to run for the Repub
lican nomination. He stuck to that
for nearly five months after giving
his blessing to a Washington-based
campaign committee.
Now that phase of the Reagan
campaign is over, and he is an
nouncing Thursday that he is, in
deed, going to contest Ford for the
GOP nomination.
Reagan’s rites of candidacy begin
in Washington Thursday morning,
and take him to Miami, Manches
ter, N.H., Charlotte, N.C., Chicago
and Los Angeles, on an inaugural
campaign tour that ends Friday
night.
The Miami to Manchester route,
with selected stops in between, will
be familiar to Reagan by mid
winter. Those states, plus North
Carolina and Illinois, are crucial to
him.
He has to win, or come very close
to it, along that early primary elec
tion route if he is to build the
momentum it will take to convince
establishment-minded Republicans
they should drop an appointed, in
cumbent President in favor of a con
servative challenger.
Ford campaign managers contend
they can afford to lose in early
primaries and still beat Reagan. One
of them, Stuart Spencer, said de
feats in the New Hampshire and
Florida contests would not undo the
Ford campaign.
Campaign strategists size up the
primary picture this way: the race is
close in Florida and New Hamp
shire; Massachusetts is tilting to
ward Ford. North Carolina and Il
linois primaries are too far away for
most analysts to predict.
NEEISNEI „
lEHIDHIED
The Freshman Class Council will
meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in
room 701 in Rudder Tower.
The San Angelo-West Texas
HTC will meet Wednesday at 7
p.m. in room 302 in Rudder Tower.
The El Paso HTC will meet
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in room
302 in Rudder Tower.
The A&M Wheelmen will meet
Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the
Rudder Tower Fountain.
Omega Phi Alpha will meet
Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in room
607 in Rudder Tower.
Wings and Sabers will meet
Wednesday at 7:30 in room 225 in
the MSC.
The Student Education Associa
tion will meet Wednesday at 7:30
p.m. in room 231 MSC. John LeF-
lore, a narcotics specialist, will
speak on “Drugs in the Schools.”
The Laredo HTC will meet
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on the first
floor of the Academic Building by
the stairs.
CWENS will meet Wednesday at
5:30 p.m. in room 501 in Rudder
Tower.
The Student Chapter Association
of General Contractors will meet
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in room
301 in Rudder Tower.
OPA Pledges will meet Wednes
day at 7:30 p.m. in Room 216 L&M
in the MSC.
The Pre-Law Society will meet
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in room
308 in Rudder Tower.
Motorcycle Club will meet Wed
nesday at 7:30 p.m. in room 401 in
Rudder Tower.
The American Fisheries Society
will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
in room 140 in the MSC.
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