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15 ack women scholars seize ciiance to stare notes THE BOSTON GLOBE SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1994 By Alice Dembner GLOBE STAFF attends many conferences where she feels she has to work twice as hard as whites to be heard, particularly because her work focuses on contemporary black culture. While she says she has been fortunate to attend Yale and Brown universities and has done well, she believes she has faced consistent subtle forms of discrimination from white colleagues. White colleagues 'presume you can't handle certain kinds of analytical work. And when they see you can, then the lights come on. -You're not a person we had to bring in through affirmative action.

You're TRICIA ROSE Assistant professor, NYU women are asked to spend so much time serving on committees as "the black voice" and mentoring students that they lose time for their research and teaching. Mary Johnson Osirim, the only African-American woman teaching at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, hopes to get tenure this spring in sociology, having successfully juggled the roles of teacher, scholar, adviser and committee member. To ease the isolation, she helped organize an alliance of Asian, Latino, Native American and black faculty and staff at Bryn Mawr and nearby Haverford and Swarth-more colleges. Fostering similar connections among black women at institutions across the nation was a goal of the conference organizers, and one that Osirim was actively pursuing. Other conference goals included encouraging more black women to become professors and spurring their academic work.

with hundreds of others at a national conference on black women in academia. About 1,500 black women scholars from undergraduates to professors to college presidents have gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week to share ideas and support. For many it is a rare chance to break the isolation they suffer daily as the only black female in their department or even institution. "To see all these women already teaching validates my place in the academy," said Simmons, whose department of 17 includes only one black faculty member and graduated its first black doctoral student in 1992. "It's a treat to the eyes as well as the mind." The conference also provided inspiration for Jonora K.

Jones, an MIT sophomore from Houston who hopes to become a university professor of history. "Walking across Mass. Ave. and seeing hordes of black women academics was a special experience," she said. "As a black student here, it gets very lonely." For Tricia Rose, the conference afforded a chance to discuss race and black women's "They presume you can't handle certain kinds of analytical work," she said.

"And when they see you can, then the lights come on. Tou're not a person we had to bring in through affirmative action. You're As an assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Bernice McNair Barnett has felt similar pressure to prove herself. "There's a perception that black women CAMBRIDGE For Gwendolyn Zo-harah Simmons, the troubles come from all sides. As a black female graduate student in the predominantly white religious studies department at Temple University in Phila-dephia, she says she faces racially demeaning remarks in class and a feeling that she doesn't belong.

As a teaching assistant, she tries to provide other black students with the support she wishes she were getting, even though it leaves her struggling to keep up with her own work. Simmons says that her self-confidence, developed over years in the workforce as a development officer for the American Friends Service Committee, helps her shrug off problems, but does little to ease her disillusionment with university life. Yesterday, however, she was buoyed by the opportunity to share her experiences experience multiple advantages, but there's not an understanding that they face multiple disadvantages," she said. Getting hired is getting easier, she said, but receiving tenure or a lifetime appointment is very difficult, in part because black scholarship without having to fight to get it on the agenda. As an assistant professor of African studies and history at New York University, she "This is a validation of my own experiences, a reaffirmation of who we are as a people," said Osirim.

"But above all, it is empowering. We are not here as victims." Ex-MIT professor who was denied tenure files sex bias suit run SiwvKI 1-8OO-442-08C8 Litr, 1 By James Vaznis CONTRIBUTING REPORTER "less supportive of women" than men and "tends to disfavor the career development of women." Despite these findings, Kalonji's charges were dismissed by Wilson. He arranged to have a second committee formed, which concluded that Kalonji should not be tenured. Michael Altman, Kalonji's lawyer, said she chose to file the suit yesterday because the statute of limitations would expire on Tuesday. Previously, he said, she filed a complaint against MIT and Flemings with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, but little progress was made by the agency.

tern of sexual discrimination atMTT from the time she joined the faculty as an assistant professor in March 1982 until she was denied tenure in January 1991. MIT spokesman Charles Ball, citing university policy, declined to comment on the lawsuits. Kalonji, who holds both a bachelor of science and a doctoral degree from MIT, said in her complaint that she was one of two women "in the history of MIT to be considered for tenure in the Department; the first woman considered was also denied tenure." The complaint said two other women who were on the tenure track were "driven out" of the department because of sexual discrimination. After Kalonji was first denied tenure in 1988, two committees were appointed by then dean of engineering Gerald Wilson to investigate her charges of sexual discrimination, according to her civil complaint The first committee's findings, according to Kalonji's complaint, supported her allegations, saying the process had been "flawed" and "un-acceptably unfair." Kalonji asserted that the committee also found the environment in the department was Asserting she was denied tenure because of her gender, a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a sexual discrimination suit in US District Court yesterday against the college and a department head. Gretchen Kalonji is suing MIT and Merton C.

Flemings, the head of the department of Materials Science and Engineering, where she worked for almost 10 years. In her civil complaint, filed yesterday with the court, Kalonji said she experienced a pat BOSTON P.W.D. NOTICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS Due to The Holiday NO REFUSE COLLECTIONS Will Be Made On Jan. 17, 1994 Except in BOSTON PROPER and R0XBURY In all other Districts, refuse collections will be deferred one day. JOSEPH F.

CASAZZA COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS Man convicted of murder 25 years ago denied retrial IMBKKIM By Patricia Nealon GLOBE STAFF rW A 4 Banks' findings, was driving a car in the alley that night and intended to box in Anthony Stathopoulos so he could be killed too. Stathopoulos escaped, but Salvati was convicted of attempting to murder him, as well as conspiring to kill Deegan. He is serving a life sentence. Banks said the tipster, whose identity was not disclosed to the defense at the time of trial, was not a participant in the crime, a condition that could force disclosure of his name. In a news conference yesterday afternoon, Suffolk District Attorney Ralph C.

Martin 2d, whose office had opposed the motion for a new trial, said the man who called police "had no agreement with the government, was not working for the government, paid by the government or controlled or directed by the government." While the police report does not name Salvati among the eight men who left the Ebb Tide at 9 p.m. that night nor is he among the men who returned at 11 p.m., reportedly discussing the murder Banks found that the sightings did not conclusively establish "a common destination or scheme." Joseph L. Salvati, convicted a quarter-century ago of the gangland killing of a man in a Chelsea alley, has lost his bid for a new trial. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Robert Banks rejected arguments that a police report that could have helped Salvati's case was illegally suppressed during his 1968 trial. Two of his co-defendants, Peter J.

Limone and Louis Grieco, were also denied new trials on the same grounds. In a 20-page decision, Banks found that information included in the Chelsea police report was presented during the trial and used in devising Salvati's defense including information from a source that Salvati was not among the eight men seen leaving a Revere Beach bar shortly before the killing and returning later discussing the murder. Salvati's attorney, Victor Garo, did not return phone calls yesterday seeking comment. Salvati, 60, and five others were convicted of the March 12, 1965 murder of Edward (Teddy) Deegan, a small-time criminal gunned down in a Chelse? "'ley. Salvati, according to 4 A HANDKNOTTED IN INDIA 5 x8' $49T $399 reg.

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In July 1989, White met Kwong at the Kung Fu restaurant and allegedly accepted the first bribe in the takeout container. Kwong allegedly told White that he would receive weekly payments-thereafter oi $oii07 the indictment says. The FBI yesterday arrested a former Boston Municipal Court clerk magistrate who allegedly took weekly bribes from an Asian organized crime group in exchange for tips on impending police raids at the group's Chinatown gambling dens. Michael J. White of Revere, whose first $500 payment allegedly came in a takeout-food container at a Chinatown restaurant in July 1988, appeared before US District Judge Patti B.

Saris yesterday afternoon, and was released on bond. White recently resigned from his post at the Boston Municipal Court, claiming he was suffering from a stomach ailment, according to Frank Shields, the chief clerk. White initially said he would cooperate with authorities, but later balked at helping authorities build corruption cases around other employees in the Boston Municipal Court, sources said. His indictment does not preclude the possibility that 'he will testify against alleged mem ABLE RUG AIXSTON: Harvard next to Sports Depot, 617-782-5010. NATICK, Rte.

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