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To: Campus Community
From: EEO Office
Date: September 2, 2002
Subject: $250,000.00 Damage Award: Music for Oboist Ears

As the new academic year begins, the EEO Office wishes to remind all employees, returning students, and new freshman that the University of Redlands maintains a comprehensive policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination, including sexual harassment. The Wolverines were recently reminded that the courts take issues of sexual harassment very seriously.

Workload demands during the month of May vary from department to department. Where workload demands allow, employees may choose to request either a vacation day or an optional/personal holiday if they desire to take Monday, May 26, 2002 as a day off. Approval for the submitted vacation or optional/personal holidays will be made by supervisors in compliance with the University's vacation/holiday policies.

The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor was excited to sign Professor Pier Calabria to a four-year contract. He was a well-known Professor of Music in Italy and the University's selection panel had courted Professor Calabria for several years. He agreed to serve as the Associate Director of the University's orchestra.

Maureen Johnson, an oboist and graduate student in the University's School of Music, claimed that Professor Calabria began to ask her out shortly after the beginning of the semester. Despite her declarations of non-interest, Professor Calabria continued to pursue her, touched her in inappropriate and sexual ways, stared at her, and made unwanted sexual comments.

Ms. Johnson told the jury that she confronted the Professor and told him that she would not tolerate his behavior, and that he was to cease and desist. Subsequently, Professor Calabria proceeded to retaliate against her by removing her from the lead position in the orchestra and humiliating her in front of her classmates in "various and sundry ways".

Ms. Johnson notified officials in the School of Music of the sexual harassment. Following her notification, the Professor's behavior did not change. Ms. Johnson eventually dropped out of the School of Music due to its "hostile" environment and filed suit. Professor Calabria was eventually asked to leave the University of Michigan after they received the lawsuit.

The University of Michigan claimed that they "do not tolerate sexual harassment on campus" and that in this particular case, "we did everything possible at the School of Music and the University to prevent such behavior. We asked Professor Calabria to leave and found another faculty member to grade Johnson's work." However, the jury was swayed in Johnson's favor when the evidence disclosed that the School of Music and the University received an early warning about potential problems with Calabria's behavior. A faculty member wrote a memo shortly after Calabria's arrival stating that he had witnessed "inappropriate behavior with female students on the part of my colleague, Pier Calabria." The facts demonstrated that the University did nothing to respond to the memo written by the faculty member. As a result, the Michigan jury awarded Ms. Johnson $250,000.00.

The University of Redlands will strictly enforce its Policy and Procedures Prohibiting Unlawful Discrimination and Harassment in the areas of academics and employment. A safe and healthy working and learning environment is essential in successfully negotiating academic and employment responsibilities. We look forward to a successful year.


To: University Community
From: Jeff Martinez, Director of Athletics and Physical Education
Date: September 5 , 2002
Subject: Fitness Center Information

I hope this finds you feeling enthusiastic about the beginning of the new academic year. As you know, we recently completed construction of the new Fitness Center and will begin operations in the near future. For the past couple of months, we have offered the entire university community the opportunity to visit the new facility and utilize the equipment. This period has been extremely beneficial to both the university community as well as our department. It has provided many a first look at a tremendous facility; and in turn, many of you provided us with feedback that will assist us as we begin the orientation and operational phase of this new facility. As I have shared with you in the past, this new facility is quite different than our previous facility and, therefore, we are asking for your understanding and cooperation as we implement our operational plan. With that in mind, please allow me to share the following information regarding our plan for the month of September in the new Fitness Center.

Fitness Center Director
Please join me in welcoming Scott Fricke, CSCS, who will serve as the Fitness Center Director. Scott joined us on Wednesday, September 4, 2002, and comes to us from Purdue University, where he served as the Director of the Student Fitness Center. Upon his arrival, Scott will begin the hiring of a new staff of Fitness Center Supervisors and implement a training program created specifically for our facility. Scott may be reached at 335-5235.

Hours of operations for students
Beginning Monday, September 9, 2002, the Fitness Center will be open from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM and 3:00 - 9:00 PM, Monday through Friday. This schedule will be expanded in October, following the orientation and staff training period. During the month of September, the facility will be open and available for current full-time CAS students only. Faculty, staff or administrators currently enrolled in courses offered by the university are not considered students for this program and will need to enroll in the user fee plan.

Orientation and open house activities
During the week of September 30 - October 5, 2002, there will be a series of open house and orientation activities offered in the facility. These 30- 45 minute sessions will allow those of you who have not yet seen the facility to visit and learn about the equipment in the facility, as well as our schedule, rules, policies, etc. The schedule of these sessions and additional information regarding the Fitness Center will be sent to you within the next couple of weeks.

Use by faculty, staff and administrators
Beginning in October, the facility will be open and available for use by faculty, staff and administrators. As we have stated previously, there will be a user fee associated with this program. The fees are in no way meant to discourage use of the facility by those groups, but instead, to assist all of us with offsetting the significant operational costs involved with a facility and equipment of this nature. Over the past year, I have had the opportunity to visit more than 30 college and university campus fitness centers that service their respective university communities. I can personally attest to the fact that those who have no fee structure are not maintained to the same standards and quality of those facilities which have a reasonable fee structure in place to go along with their long-term maintenance plan. Within the next week, faculty, staff and administrators will receive additional information regarding the fee structure we have put in place; what I will share with you at this point in time is that it will be approximately $15.00 per month and it will be eligible for the payroll deduction plan.

Fitness Center Mailing
Next week, you will receive additional information regarding the Fitness Center. This intercampus mailing will include information regarding the hours of operations, rules, policies and procedures, user fee structure, and staffing of the facility. Please feel free to contact the Department of Athletics and Physical Education if you do not receive the mailing or have additional questions or concerns.

We are all a part of very exciting times at the University of Redlands and I am so pleased to be a part of creating and providing this outstanding facility for the university community. We envision this facility as one which will not only provide the health and wellness benefits associated with a fitness center, but also another place on this campus where students, faculty and staff can enjoy the camaraderie of each other in a welcoming environment.

Once again, we appreciate your cooperation and understanding as we move through a period of orientation, implementation and operation. I invite you to share your thoughts and comments with us by phone ext. 4812 or e-mail at jeff_martinez@redlands.edu


To: The Campus Community
FROM: Linda Granell, director of public relations
DATE: September 13, 2002
SUBJECT: President Appleton's Remarks Commemorating the Sept. 11 Tragedy

A number of members of the campus community have requested a copy of President Appleton's remarks on Wednesday. They are below. If you would like to use these comments in other presentations, please just advise him by e-mail at james_appleton@redlands.edu.

SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL PRESENTATION
PRESIDENT JAMES R. APPLETON
MEMORIAL CHAPEL, UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS

INTRODUCTION

On November 22, 1963 I was in a graduate seminar at Michigan State University when I heard the news that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. Every person I know who has any memory of that time knows exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard of this national tragedy.

Each person among us will now remember September 11 in the same way. We will forever remember where we were and what we were doing when we were first shocked by the unfolding of the unprecedented terrorist attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon and the momentous loss of life and property. Carol and I were in Salzburg, Austria, with Jim and Eva our Salzburg program leaders. We had just entered a bank to conclude a transaction for the University only to see everyone in the bank glued to a lobby television. The towers had not yet collapsed but as the scenes unfolded then and during the days and nights to follow, as I was glued to CNN, the extent of human tragedy quickly unfolded. I wanted desperately to return to be with you here but it was days later before commercial flights were reinstated and we could make our way back.

Today in our small way, on this first anniversary, we wish to mourn the loss of life and to reflect on the tragedy of these unimaginable events. As I watched 60 Minutes last Sunday and heard the pain, the sadness, the loss voiced by widows and children it was overwhelming. My heart was heavy as it is today. This is a sad day for mourning.

There also is a second scene indelibly seared into my mind - the images of firefighters, police, community leaders, nurses, doctors, politicians, neighborhood friends, and religious leaders who put aside personal gain to demonstrate in the face of tragedy the highest and best human qualities. We saw countless acts of courage, kindness, compassion, loyalty, responsibility and other qualities that represent the best in human nature. And we even wondered whether any of us could have the courage of the passengers who fought the terrorists in the plane that was downed in Pennsylvania to act in the same way. In the face of the worst of human nature, we also saw the best. What irony that brought unease, anxiety, pain, death, and human and international tragedy and in the same blast on our psyches the stories that revealed the best of human nature.

Yes I believe we must mourn the loss of life and reflect on the tragedy of September 11 that illustrates the worst of human nature. At the same time, I also call on us to celebrate the unflagging human spirit that was revealed in the face of the individual and national tragedy. To have both of these in mind helps us recognize that we have choices in our lives and in our work together. While you or I might not be able to imagine ourselves acting in the extreme that was in evidence in the attacks of September 11, we can choose, unwittingly or with deliberation, to display the ugly or the good of human nature in our relations with each other, in our conversations, in our behavior, in what we strive to accomplish, in how we plan and act. It is with this in mind that I wonder out loud if we might be challenged to emulate the behavior and attitudes of those who worked and cried and stood tall in the aftermath of September 11. So it is on the anniversary of this tragedy that I call on the members of this academic community to mourn the losses that resulted from that tragedy but also to exhibit courage over cowardice, kindness over cruelty, service over selfishness, responsibility over indifference, love over hate, hope over fear, and freedom over repression. It is these qualities that I hope we can be inspired to perpetuate and extend in this place, on our campus, during this academic year.

BODY OF PRESENTATION

I want to illustrate each of these qualities in a way that might apply in the everyday events of life right now at the University of Redlands, not just in the face of tragedy. My examples may seem mundane or even trivial in themselves, but the collection could make an overwhelming difference in our lives together.

Courage over cowardice:
Courage might be acting to save a life or in some dramatic way but for me I think more about the more typical situations of everyday life. Here's an illustration. A member of your peer group uses a racial slur when talking about another student or colleague and you have the courage not to laugh or agree. Then, without fanfare, you choose the right time and the right place to suggest to this friend what his words did to hurt the other person. Now that's courage over cowardice.

Kindness over cruelty:
I believe this starts with a fundamental respect for others purely on the basis of their humanness and being created in the image of God. The richness of God's diversity is precious. Think of it - African American, Anglo, Asian, multiethnic, Latino or Latina, man or woman. With all of these variations, if you believe in God, you have to admit that God must have infinite imagination. To celebrate this collage of human existence is to encourage us to act with kindness, or I think I'll substitute acting civil in an uncivil world. It can be difficult to be civil when in our world we have few models. 'Pro lifers' square off against pro choice and vice versa, husbands and wives square off against each other in court, candidates for public office exaggerate the behaviors of opponents, intellectual differences among even reasonable people seem to erupt in bitterness, people and property seem unsafe. Jerry Springer bombards daytime TV with obscene and violent behavior, and Howard Stern with a weird sexual twist belittles and misuses everything in sight on channel E. However, I ask that we do our part to overcome cruelty with kindness by starting from the position that each of us simply deserves fundamental respect.

Service over selfishness:
Might this be translated into very simple acts of service? Taking a day to work with Habitat for Humanity, or serving the sick neighbor or roommate, or (you fill in the blanks) with any activity for which you expect nothing in return. The men and women in that plane flying over Pennsylvania gave service, indeed sacrifice, over selfishness. Should any less be expected of us?

Responsibility over indifference:
I ask that each of us take ownership for our world as well as our community. But I want bring this close to home. As a University, we have specific kind of responsibility. We must accept our role as an intellectual community and this means we are willing to explore the tough issues and ask ourselves difficult questions. Given our particular mission, the University is exactly the place to explore the many sides of the tough questions and enable persons to come to conclusions on which they can act responsibly as world citizens. Professor Bob Hudspeth in his College commencement address last May said,

    "We have a need more than ever for an educated electorate, one that can think, that can weigh moral choices, that can resist the mad rush into emotional blindness and narcissistic self-interest." He said it was a former student who reminded him that in ancient Greece the word "idiot" meant one who chose not to engage in the common and public interests! Said Bob, "Perhaps the Greeks knew what they were talking about."

Love over hate:
This requires valuing the other person irrespective of their views. It's showing tenderness, it's not using another person for ones own benefit such as slipping a drug into a drink to be able to take advantage of the woman at a later hour, it's caring for the possessions and psyches of each other. It is to genuinely care about the larger society that requires a heartfelt commitment to our fellow travelers and a willingness to promote the well being of persons, even those with whom we disagree on fundamental matters.

Hope over fear:
For me this means to believe in the possible; it also requires believing you can make a difference.

Freedom over repression:
This can involve the protection of the freedom of expression and of worship, it might mean working to overcome poverty or the reduction of armaments in this world, it could mean bloodshed to overcome repressive acts but this is a slippery slope. And, yes, there is room for patriotism and efforts to preserve and extend the freedoms that come with democracy and the best values of our American society. For sure, and coming closer to the campus, it means giving the other person their voice, not finding success at the expense of others, and enabling others to be successful.

CONCLUDING REMARKS

On this day I want us to mourn the loss of life, to reflect on the tragedy of September 11 but I also want us to think about our responsibility in its aftermath. What will you and I do to mitigate against such violence to life and property? I propose that it is to honor courage over cowardice, kindness over cruelty, service over selfishness, responsibility over indifference, love over hate, and freedom over repression.

    Search me, Oh god, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thought And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way. Amen.





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