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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 10
MARCH 19, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Committee In Action
EEO Group Works To End Discrimination
I
/ THINK THA T / SHA LL NEVER SEE . . . —It all started when one of the trees in
front of the Main Entrance Building up and died. The lifeless tree was chopped down
and some heavy equipment was called in to pull the huge stump out of the ground. On
this balmy day a short while later, the Duke Grounds Department, with the help of a
crane, planted a new, healthy young tree. A new tree . . . surely a sign of spring!
(photo by Lewis Parrish)
Discrimination is a word that everyone
hears over and over again these days.
But Duke administrators are making
sure that no one has a reason to use that
word concerning employment practices at
the Medical Center and in the University
as a whole.
Duke's drive to end discrimination on
the basis of race, creed, color, sex, age, or
national origin began in July, 1969, with
announcement of a Fair Employment
Practices Policy. It was strengthened in
March, 1970, when the Affirmative
Action Plan, the University's program to
make equal employment opportunity a
reality for everyone, went into effect.
Watching over Duke's
month-by-month progress toward this
goal is the 19-member Equal
Enaployment Opportunity Committee
representing all major sections of the
University.
The committee has official
responsibility to monitor implementation
of the plan to assure that equal
opportunities are maintained for all, to
review the plan and make
recommendations for changes, to report
on how it is working to the University
president, and to interpret its goals to
Duke personnel and to the community.
From the employes' standpoint, the
committee is there to counsel with
individuals who have complaints which
may involve discrimination and to work
with employes and University officials in
resolving these problems.
"We want each employe to know that
EEO committee members are available to
help if he feels he is being discriminated
against," Richard Bindewald, chairman of
the committee, said.
Mr. Bindewald, who is manager of
insurance for the University, added that
any employe who has a complaint about
discrimination can contact any EEO
committee member or Ed Bennett,
(continued on page two)