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Thursday • September 8,1994
Court debates discrimination
■hursday
Clinton administration
backs affirmative action
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A white teacher laid
off in favor of an equally qualified black teacher
argued she was a victim of reverse discrimina
tion, and the Justice Department under the
Bush administration agreed.
The government helped Sharon Taxman sue and
win $144,000 in back pay and damages in 1992.
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
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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
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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.
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
9/14
Thursday
9/15
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ACCT 230
Part II
ACCT 230
Part III
ACCT 230
Part IV
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BANA 303
Part I
BANA 303
Part II
BANA 303
Part III
BANA 303
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ACCT 229
Part I
ACCT 229
Part II
ACCT 229
Part III
ACCT 229
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9-11 p.m.
MATH 152/161
Part I
MATH 152/161
Part II
MATH 152/161
Part III
MATH 152/161
Practice Test
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ACCT 230
Part I
ACCT 230
Part II
ACCT 230
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ACCT 230
Part IV
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