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Now the government has switched sides and is backing the Piscataway Board of Education in its appeal. The Clinton Justice Department contends the board had the right to retain Debra Williams for the sake of racial diversity. Taxman’s lawyer, Stephen E. Klausner, called the switch “unethical and reprehensible” and said Wednesday that he will fight it. Deval L. Patrick, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said the government switched sides be cause the judgment in favor of Taxman was wrong. Patrick said the case does not involve quotas, which the Clinton administration opposes, but affir mative action — “a different animal.” In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Tuesday with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadel phia, the Justice Department argued that work place diversity can be taken into consideration in voluntary affirmative action plans. Klausner complained, “Why shouldn't educa tional diversity be used to protect the only Jew ish business teacher?” He argued that the fair Couni way to decide which teacher had to go would have been to flip a coin. ■* / t wc School officials weren’t immediately available for |g' v 1 / comment Wednesday. WASH 11 Marsha Wenk, legal director for the state chap-Hjnited St ter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is i Jumed eff not involved in the case, praised the government for f| n d ways switching sides. laHBets, but 1 “If all things are equal, retaining an affirmativellaUve Mil action candidate is an appropriate and laudatory|| a ntor i step," Wenk said. She also noted that while Jews! are a minority, they have not been under-represent ed in education. She said Justice’s switch “raises a myriad of ethi cal questions,” including what it learned from Tax man while working on her behalf and whether that creates a conflict of interest. Taxman and Williams were both hired on thsl same day in 1980, and both were deemed by thl board to have equal qualifications. In 1989, Taxman was furloughed whilel Williams was retained because she was the onljHRantor black teacher in the high school’s business edu-Rom m e cation department. JHHlecretary Taxman returned for the 1990-91 school year Rides so arc while another teacher was on maternity leave. Af Mhe stalem ter sitting out 1991-92, Taxrnan has been back theilotiations past two years because of retirements. IRapanese t V The Un ■oned aga ■xpecting I m m e c! i I r e a |h roughs. I Japan irade Mi ler Ryu! ■ a s h i m ■ eld ti ■nth b Unqualified medical workers make emergency rooms unsafe Bning to in ■n Japan leached ir jjovernme Sept. 30. r l Jas under |mce and a Kantor i Many NEW YORK (AP) U.S. emergency rooms are staffed by doctors who were never taught how to treat a heart attack, resuscitate a child or treat bleeding, and pa tients may be dying as a result. “It would be fair to say that lives could be saved ... if all emergency departments were staffed by appropriately trained individuals,” said Dr. L. Thompson Bowles, president of the National Board of Med ical Examiners and the chair man of a group of 38 health care authorities who studied the issue. The panel included a num ber of experts who were not emergency medicine special ists. Their report is to be re leased Monday. The report strongly con demns a practice in which medical residents supplement their modest incomes by work ing part time at night in emer gency rooms. “Many ‘moonlighters’ lack training and adequate experi ence in any aspect of primary health care,” the report said. Only about half the nation’s 25,000 jobs in emergency med icine are filled by doctors cer tified to provide emergency care. In many U.S. hospitals, doctors do not need such certi fication to work in the emer gency room. “When people ask if there’s a doctor in the house, they have reason to expect that every physician can do the minimum to save a person’s life in an emergency. 'This is not the case today,” Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, one of the report’s contributors, said in a statement. He said a better question might be: “Is there a paramedic in the house?” “When a young person fin ishes medical school, they might not know how to treat these things as well as a para medic.” Goldfrank, director of emergency medicine at Belle vue Hospital in New York City, said in a telephone interview. Hospitals often hire part- time emergency room doctors to save money, said Dr. David Sklar, an emergency medicine specialist at the University of New Mexico and the president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Arf Has Moved! Look for 4.0 and Go Across from the Hilton, near Golden Corral and Blockbuster Video. Arfs Classes Monday 9/12 Tuesday 9/13 Wednesday 9/14 Thursday 9/15 3-5 p.m. ACCT 230 Part I ACCT 230 Part II ACCT 230 Part III ACCT 230 Part IV 5-7 p.m. BANA 303 Part I BANA 303 Part II BANA 303 Part III BANA 303 Practice Test 7-9 p.m. ACCT 229 Part I ACCT 229 Part II ACCT 229 Part III ACCT 229 Part IV 9-11 p.m. MATH 152/161 Part I MATH 152/161 Part II MATH 152/161 Part III MATH 152/161 Practice Test 11-1 a.m. ACCT 230 Part I ACCT 230 Part II ACCT 230 Part III ACCT 230 Part IV MATH 151 starts Monday 9/19 and aqain Sunday 9/25 WASH1 cey allega Officer’s se that tin [erly invei landed h vas revie two femali [Committee ■congressi ■Wednesday I The con committee lone of the the lawsuit Ideclassifiec The suit 114 in fede Jdria, Va., c [tor genen land other Class of I !>!>.■» General Class Meeting Thursday, September It, 11:30 P.M. 110 John J. Koldus Building Committee applications will be available The char ed drunb Sh< while shi service, Tim 1