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JAMAICA

Senior Class & Friends 1990

April 28 — May 7

Accomodations

Activities

Cost

Last day of exams — ist day of Senior Week. Two days in Toronto, seven days in Jamaica sunshine.

PEI - Toronto — Jamaica Meal & Bar

Seawind Hotel, Tower Rooms, three star hotel on the beach, 10 minutes outside Montego Bay. This is Jamaica’s hot spot. Great night life!

Two swimming pools, “Pri- vate Clothes Optional Beach”. Public beach, volleyball, four ten- nis courts, sailing, snorkeling, scuba diving, water skiing, wind- surfing, bicycling, paddle boats, glass bottom boats, four bars, three restaurants. Surf, Sun,

Sand.

$930.00

The trip of a lifetime! What better way to fin- ish off your year. There is no limit to the number of people that can go. However it is necessary to get an approximate number of interested people as flights & accomodations must be booked. This trip is open to anybody who wants to spend 7 glo- rious days and nights in the Carribean. So sign-up today at the poster in the Library Breezeway. If 40 people register, there will be a draw for a Free

Trip.

Contact Paul Griffith at 892-1451

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_Leering Prof Gets His Appeal Denied

BY KAREN 5

In a majority decision, the U of T sexual harassment appeals board has rejected chemical engi- neering professor Richard Hum- mel’s appeal.

Hummel was found guilty of "prolonged and intense staring” at Beverly Torfason in the Hart House pool in the spring of 1988. The original sexual harassment hearing panel banned him from Hart. House for five years. He ap- pealed the decision last Septem- ber, and the appeals board re- leased its decision on Friday.

The five-member panel found that leering did indeed constitute sexual harassment. However, it deemed the original penalty too severe, and instead banned Hum- mel from the athletic wing of Hart House for five years. He is free to use the rest of the facili- ties.

The original board recom-

mended its decision be placed in ‘Hummel’s personnel file for five

years, but the appeals board lim- ited it to one year. But, the panel upheld the directive that Hum- mel seek counselling.

””T am not surprised,” said Hummel, at the end of a press conference. He would like his lawyer Morris Manning to chal- lenge the decision in court, he

added.

Sexual ; ha- rassment officer Nancy Adamson said the Hummel case is a first in Canadian history.

"It’s the first case in Canada where it was leering and leering only,” she said in an interview. ”It’s a ground breaking case.

”On the whole, I feel that (the appeals board’s) decision

was that we have a inorcdet that works.”

But the board was divided on a number of issues within the case. It was split on the ques- tion of whether there was evi-

Hughes said she is confident

~ that if the case goes to court, the

decision will stand.

”There should be no reason for the court to interfere with it,

there has to be a reason in law. If

dence to suggest Hummel knew they review, we’ll defend it. -

his behaviour created "an offen- sive learning environmet” for the complainant. And, the chair of the board and former judge Arthur Martin disagreed with the majority who stated that medi- ation had been attempted but failed.

Despite the ruling, the case may not be over: Hummel can re- quest a judicial review to be con-. ducted in the Divisional Court of the Ontario Court of Appeal. A judge would determine whether any procedural violations had been made during the original hearing or the appeal.

Assistant vice-president of student affairs David Neelands said U of T will defend the ap- peals board’s finding if Hummel

.decides to pursue a judicial re-

view. He also said he is confi- dent U of T will pay Torfason’s

legal fees at the appeals board’s

request.

”The recommendation is be- ing taken very seriously by the university,” he said.

Torfason’s lawyer Kate Hughes said both she and her client were pleased by the outcome.

”We think this is a carefully reasoned decision. We were abso- lutely thrilled. (And) any small reduction in the penalty will not affect Bev.

”She’s very pleased that she can now go to the pool.”

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== Thursday, December 14,1989.