Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 98]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Counsel has been given interim authorization to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests of the University and to provide representation for those employees or former employees of the University who request the same and represent that any actions alleged to have been taken by them in the matter were taken in their capacities as University employees. The University Counsel has recommended that such authorization be ratified, approved, and confirmed in all respects. I concur. T h e student advisory vote w a s : Aye, M r . Conlon, M r . M a t t h e w s , M r . Volgman; no, none. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a h n , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d by d i e following v o t e : A y e , M r . F o r s y t h , M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . L e n z , M r . Livingston, M r . Neal, Mrs. R a d e r , M r s . Shepherd, M r . Velasquez; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Walker.

Litigation Initiated by Hannelore T. Loevy

(38) A complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division (Case No. 76C2715), by Hannelore T. Loevy, an Associate Professor in the Department of Pedodontics, College of Dentistry, at the Medical Center campus. The complaint alleges that the University has discriminated against the plaintiff on the basis of sex by paving her a salary less than the salary it pays to employees of the opposite sex and whose work is performed under similar working conditions and requires the same degree of skill, effort, and responsibility. Recovery is sought under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (equal pay for equal work) in the amount of $4,600 for alleged damages during the period from June 1, 1973, through June 1, 1976, for an additional equal amount as liquidated damages with interest from June 1, 1976, and for reasonable attorney's fees. Pursuant to previous delegations by the Board of Trustees, the University Counsel has been given interim authorization to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests of the University in the matter. T h e University Counsel has recommended that he be authorized to proceed with the defense and that the interim authorization be ratified, approved, and confirmed in all respects. I concur.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Volgman; no, none. On motion of Mr. Hahn, these recommendations were approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Walker.

Exchange of Land with Acacia Fraternity

(39) T h e President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends the adoption of the following resolution authorizing the exchange of certain parcels of land at the Urbana campus between the Heth Chapter of Acacia Fraternity and the University of Illinois. The University will receive approximately 1,207 square feet of land abutting a Housing Division parking lot at 906 South Fifth Street, Champaign, and the fraternity will receive approximately 1,291 square feet of University-owned land abutting the fraternity's property at 501 East Daniel Street, Champaign. A Housing Division parking lot in the 900 block of South Fifth Street, Cham-