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Xenia debates ordinance

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"We have two wrongs the moral and spiritual wrong, and the wrong of discrimination," said Esprit.

Under the ordinance, a violation would be punishable by a $100 fine, with each day of discrimination a separate violation. Punitive damages would be limited to $2,000.

The commission voted 4-3 not to decide the issue at the April 11 meeting. A public meeting is expected to be held on the issue before the commission's next meeting. April 25.

Nine other Ohio cities have passed lesbian and gav civil rights protections, but only six are presently on the books. The first to pass such a measure was à ellow Springs, about eight miles north of Xenia, in 1978. Youngstown, Columbus, Cleveland, Cleves land Heights and Oberlin also me ludes rural orientation" in then avalan, hit ordinance.

Athens and Wooster passed ordinances in 1989 and 1990, only to have them re pealed by referenda Cincinnati's 1993 ordi nance was repealed by city councriam 49s after a federal appeals court upheld Issue 3 which banned such meastiree

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told her that being in a lesbian relationship would demonstrate bad judgment that could keep her from getting tenure.

Soon afterward, Dvorak said, she was excluded from participating in a local religious conference. One of her colleagues. Barbara Green, who is named as a defendant in Dvorak ́s suit, requested that Dvorak be fired, again raising questions about a lesbian professor teaching religion. Green had earlier told Dvorak that Caucasian researchers who study AfricanAmerican history only exploit African-Americans to benefit their own careers. Dvorak, who is white, specializes in African-American religions.

Soon after, Dvorak said, she was denied tenure and promotion, and when she asked to see her tenure file she was told it had been "destroyed."

In her suit, Dvorak alleges that Wright State discriminated against her because of her race, sex, religion and sexual orientation, and that the defendants retaliated against her when she filed a Title VII claim of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.

She claims that Wright State "created an intimidating, hostile and offensive work environment." and that they violated their own

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policies and procedures Fac scliond handbook includes "sexual ornation as race, sex and religuen en inti die, ha!!. tion statement.

(An executive order issued he then pover nor Richard Celeste in the early 1980s prohib its sexual orientation discrimination against Ohio state employees, including those at state universities.)

Dvorak filed the lawsuit on April 5 in the U.S. District Court in Dayton. She is seeking reinstatement, back pay and monetary dam ages. The case will be heard by Federal Judge Walter Rice.

Dvorak said that when she was hired in 1988, she was told that she had until 1994 to either achieve tenure or be terminated.

She was denied tenure in 1992. A committee from the College of Liberal Arts recommended her for tenure in 1994, but a univer sity-wide committee of faculty overruled it, and Wright State President Harley Flack declined to override the no-tenure recommendation, according to the lawsuit.

The university histed lack of scholarship and insufficient teaching scores as reasons for denying tenure.

Dvorak contends that heterosexual, male. and African American faculty members with similar or lesser scholarship and scores received tenure.

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