Opinion ID: 329995
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Weise.

Text: 3 In 1969 Weise applied for a position as lecturer in the Department of Public Address at Syracuse University. She was turned down in favor of an allegedly less-qualified male. Thereafter, in January of 1970, she requested consideration for a teaching assistantship for the academic year 1970-71. Although Weise was hired for this position in March, 1970, she filed charges pursuant to the Human Rights Law of New York, Executive Law, McKinney's Consol.Laws, c. 18, § 290 Et seq. (McKinney 1972), alleging sex discrimination in the denial of her application for the lecturer's position. On December 14, 1970, seven days after the hearing on that charge commenced, she was notified that her appointment as teaching assistant would be terminated at the end of the academic year. Sensing that this was no mere coincidence, Weise filed an additional charge, this time alleging retaliation. These complaints were dismissed by the State Division of Human Rights on April 21, 1972, and Weise's appeals were dismissed by the Division's Appeal Board on June 1, 1973. She also filed charges with the EEOC on May 8, 1972. 4 Undaunted by her previous rebuffs, on January 28, 1973, Weise wrote to defendant Irwin who had participated in the 1969 decision not to hire her as a lecturer requesting consideration for any teaching position. When she received no response, she went to see Dr. Irwin, who acknowledged receipt of her letter but declined to discuss the matter. She then spoke to defendant Ried, who told her that he and Dr. Irwin had agreed not to grant any teaching assistantships to doctoral candidates such as Weise but rather to give priority to first year masters candidates. Weise alleges that on information and belief she was the only person affected by this decision; she further claims that at the time she was denied consideration for a teaching assistantship because she was a doctoral candidate, a male had his teaching assistantship renewed despite the fact that he was also a doctoral candidate. On June 25, 1973, she filed a new charge with the EEOC consolidating it with her prior charge regarding this denial of a teaching assistantship. On June 28, 1973, the EEOC issued a Notice of Right to Sue, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(f)(1), 5 and on September 18, 1973, she commenced this action by filing her complaint in the district court. 5