No.
16
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 18,1982
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Conference
to
focus on perception
of
Eastern Europe
PISCATAWAY,
N.J. -
Ameri
cans'
perceptions
and
misperceptions ofthe USSR
and
Eastern Europe will
be
the subject
of a
daylong conference
to
be held
by the
Rutgers UniversityGraduate School
of
Education
at the
University
of
Medicine and Dentistry ofNew Jersey here
on
Thursday, April 29.The conference, featuring scholarsfrom throughout
the
United States
as
speakers,
is
organized
in
cooperationwith
the
New Jersey Governor's EthnicAdvisory Council,
the
state's departments
of
education
and
higher education,
and
the New Jersey Council
for
theSocial Studies,
a
statewide teachers'group.Co-sponsors
are the
ShevchenkoScientific Society, Polish CulturalFoundation
of New
Jersey
and the
Media Action Coalition.Funding
is
provided entirely
by the
Ethnic Advisory Council.Appraisal
of
intellectuals' perceptionsThe first topic
of the
conference willbe "American Intellectuals' Perceptionof the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe-
A
Critical Appraisal." The speaker,Dr. Paul Hollander, professor
of
sociology
at the
University
of
Massachusettsand
an
associate
of the
Russian
Re
search Center
at
Harvard University,
is
the author
of the
recently publishedbook "Political Pilgrims,"
a
criticalexamination
of the
reports
of
Westernvisitors
to
Communist states.
Dr.
Hollander's presentation will
be
basedon
his
book.Dr. John
S.
Reshetar Jr., professor ofpolitical science
at the
University
of
Washington, will address "The Study
of
Ukrainian History
in
the United States:Perceptions
and
Misconceptions."A research specialist
in
East European history,
Dr.
Irena GrudzinskaGross
of
Columbia University, willspeak
on
"I9th Century Western Attitudes toward Imperial Russia.""The Soviet Dissident Movement
as
Reported
by
The New York Times" willbe the subject
of
Dr. Thomas Oleszczuk,assistant professor of political science atRutgers University.The U.S. director
of
the U.S.-USSRTextbook Study Project initiated
in
1977
as a
joint effort
of the U.S.
Department
of
Education
and the
Soviet Ministry
of
Education willreport
on one
aspect
of
this study,"American Treatment
of
Soviet
So
ciety"
in
textbooks.
Dr.
HowardMehlinger
is a
professor
of
history
and
dean
of the
Indiana University Schoolof Education.Francis Baran,
a
post-graduate student
at
the Rutgers University GraduateSchool
of
Education,
and Dr.
AdamScrupski, associate professor
of
educational sociology
at
that school, willspeak
on
"Eastern Europe
and the
USSR
as
Reflected
in New
JerseyPublic School Curricula." This
is the
topic
of Mr.
Baran's doctoral thesis,which is based
on a
survey of textbooksconducted
by a
subcommittee
of the
New Jersey Governor's Ethnic Advisory Council.Dr. Scrupski,
who is the
conferenceco-director along with
Dr.
Iwan
Z.
Holowinsky, also
of
Rutgers University, will provide opening remarks at thebeginning
of the
conference
at 9 a.m.
and will
act as
moderator
for the
question-and-answer periods scheduledto take place
at the
conclusion
of
boththe morning
and
afternoon conferencesessions.
Rutgers
president
to
speak
Rutgers University President EdwardJ. Bloustein will welcome conferenceparticipants following
the
openingremarks.Dr. Holowinsky,
a
professor
of
special education
at the
university'sGraduate School
of
Education, willdeliver concluding remarks at day's end.Registration
for the
conference willbe held
at 8:30 a.m., a
half hour beforethe start
of the
morning session.
The
conference will break
at
11:45 a.m.
for
a
luncheon, resume
at 1:30 p.m. for the
afternoon session
and
adjourn
at
4 p.m.It will
be
held
in the
main auditoriumof
the
University
of
Medicine
and
Dentistry
of New
Jersey, located
off
Frelinghuysen Road.
Laying
the
groundwork
The conference
is
the result
of
effortsthat began
in 1978
with
the
establishment
of the
Education Committee
of
the
New
Jersey Governor's EthnicAdvisory Council.
(Continued
on
page
14)
Soviets compelledto ration food
MOSCOW
- A
poor grain harvestand chronic shortages
of
food stapleshave
led to
the implementation of strictfood rationing
in
most parts
of the
Soviet Union, according
to
Sovietsources., Hardest
bit arc
arepsJa'"Jrom majordistribution centers
or
from farm areas.In Siberia,
for
example, consumers
are
allowed
to
purchase about
4.4
poundsof meat
per
person
per
month, whilethose living
in
European Russia
are
only entitled
to
half that amount.Sources estimate that the Soviet grainharvest
was
about 170 million tons,
or
66 million tons below official targets.
It
was
the
third
bad
harvest
in a row, so
bad that,
for the
first time since
the
1960s, authorities
did not
include
the
figure
in the 1981
statistical report
on
the economy.The dismal agricultural results havehad
an
impact
in
Ukraine, once knownas the "breadbasket"
of
Europe. Sourcesthere report shortages
of
meat, breadand other essential food items.Butter, margarine, cooking
oil and
sugar
are
also being tightly rationed
in
some parts
of the
Soviet Union.Supplies
of
vegetables
to
urban areaswere reportedly worse this past winterthan
for
many years.
The
shortage
of
bread
has
forced
the
government
to
urge people
not to
waste wheat, flourand bread, particularly
in
feedinglivestock.
Statement
by
UNA
auditors
The following statement, signed
by
three members of the UNA SupremeAuditing Committee, John Hewryk,
Dr.
Bohdan Hnatiuk and the
Rt. Rev.
Protopresbyter Stephan BUak,
was
read to
the UNA
Supreme ExecutiveCommittee on September 18,1981. Jhen,onDecember
29,1981,
the Supreme
Executive
Committee issued its
position
in regard to a statement issued andsignedby
11
members of the UNA Supreme Assembly who ormed a "CommitteeforLaw and
Order
in the UNA."
The
UNA Supreme Auditing.Committee, afterits most recent review
of UNA
operations conducted
on
March
22 - 26,
decided
to
release
its
September
1981
statement
to
the public.Therefore,
we
are publishing the full text of the Auditing Committee members 'statement, intranslation from
the
original Ukrainian.
At
the
September
18,
1981,
joint meeting of the five members of the
UNA
Supreme Auditing Committee with the Supreme Executive Committee, threemembers
of the
Auditing Committee presented
the
following statement.To
the
Supreme Executive' Committee
of the
Ukrainian NationalAssociation,
c/o
Supreme President John
O.
Flis.
Statement
We,
the
undersigned members
of
the Supreme Auditing Committee of theUkrainian National Association, feel that
it
is our duty and responsibility
to
affirm
the
following.The UNA By-Laws,
in
Article
42
which outlines the duties
of
the SupremeAuditing Committee, state that among those duties
is: "to
investigate
all
petitions
and
complaints filed by the members against the supreme officers..."without delineating the character, forms and methods for filing such petitionsor complaints.However,
the
UNA By-Laws,
in
the chapter concerning the "Removal andSuspension
of
Supreme Officers,"
in
Article
44
does state:"Any officer of the Supreme Assembly may be suspended
or
removed fromoffice
for
cause. Grounds
for
such removal
or
suspension shall
be
any
act
ofmalfeasance, misfeasance
or
non-feasance
in
office
as
well
as any
other
act,
word
or
deed unbecoming the dignity
of a
supreme officer and detrimental
to
the best interests
of the
association."Further
on in
this paragraph
of the UNA
By-Laws
the
character
and
method
for
filing such complaints
is
delineated:
"1.
Charges
for the
suspension
or
removal
of
any supreme officer
may be
instituted
by any
member
of the
Supreme Assembly.
"2.
Any charges preferred shall be submitted in a sworn statement executedby
the
accuser. Said statement
of
charges shall
be
forwarded directly
to the
supreme president...
In the
event
the
charges
are
against
the
president theyshall
be
forwarded
to the
next qualifying vice president..."We cite these articles
of the UNA
By-Laws
in
order
to: 1.
affirm
our
obligation as supreme auditors
to
ourselves determine whether there
is
a
needto review petitions
or
complaints filed against
the
supreme officers, withoutregard
to the
manner
in
which they were filed;
2.
point
to
violations
of the
UNA By-Laws
by
several supreme officers, including
two
members
of the
Supreme Auditing Committee, Bohdan Futey
and Prof, bhn
T;IUK.
We refer
to the
"Statement
by
members
of
the Supreme Assembly
of the
Ukrainian National Association" which was published
in
the Toronto-basednewspaper Homin Ukrainy (Echo
of
Ukraine)
in the
issue dated August
12-
19,
1981.The
UNA
By-Laws quoted above,
in
Article
44
cite the transgressions
for
which
a UNA
supreme officer
may be
called
to
task, suspended from
his
duties,
or
removed from office, and they also delineate the method for supremeofficers
to
file complaints against other officers.
In the
aforementioned"Statement" accusations
are
made against "members
of
the UNA SupremeExecutive Committee, headed
by
President John
O.
Flis," who
in the
lastthree years "violated many UNA By-Laws" and allegedly allowed
a
series
of
transgressions that were detrimental
to the UNA and its
membership.We believe that
it is the
obligation
of
every member
of the
SupremeAssembly, and especially of a member of the Supreme Auditing Committee, ifhe affirms that
the UNA
By-Laws were violated
by a
supreme officer
or
officers,
to
respect these by-laws
and act in
accordance with
his
oath
to
"always observe, comply with
and
obey the rules and regulations, resolutionsand laws
of the
Ukrainian National Association;... protect
and
defend
the
good name
of the
association...,"
to act in
accordance with
the
provisions
of the
by-laws
and to
file
a
complaint
in
keeping with the formsand methods delineated
in the
by-laws.Forms and methods other than those delineated in the UNA By-Laws are inand
of
themselves
a
violation of these by-laws. Such a violation of the by-laws,in
our
opinion,
was
committed
by the
Supreme Assembly members
—
including two members
of
the Supreme Auditing Committee
-
who signedthe aforementioned "Statement."Another violation
of
the
UNA
By-Laws
and the
UNA oath, we believe,
is
the establishment
by
these
11
Supreme Assembly members
of
some kind
of
private "committee"
as
well
as the
entire contents
of the
"Statement" theysigned.
But
this
is
another matter
on
which
we
will express
our
opinion
at
another time
at the
appropriate forum.ConclusionWe
are
aware that
the
matter
of the
"Statement"
and the
SupremeAssembly signatories
is
now under
the
careful investigation of the trustees,
i.e.
the Supreme Executive Committee,
in
accordance with
the
laws under whichthe UNA is incorporated
and in
keeping with the rights and duties given themby the UNA By-Laws. But, until such time as this matter
is
decided legally andin accordance with the by-laws,
we,
the undersigned members of the SupremeAuditing Committee, do
not
consider
it
possible to conduct any further workor cooperation with
the two
members
of
the Supreme Auditing Committeewho signed
the
illegal "Statement"
of the
illegal "committee."Until this matter
is
decided,
the
duties
of
chairman
of
the
UNA
AuditingCommittee will
be
carried
out by the
former chairman
and the
present vicechairman, Supreme Auditor John Hewryk.Jersey City,
N.J.
September
18, 1981
John HewrykBobdan Hnatiuk
The
Rev.
Stephan BUak
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