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Like 99.2% of the women in Massachusetts, Helen Feeney is not a veteran. As a state employee, she was repeatedly turned down for better government jobs that went to ex-servicemen with lower scores on civil service exams. Deciding that further competition was futile, she brought a sex discrimination suit in 1975, charging Massachusetts with violating her constitutional rights. She won the first round: a lower court decided that the state's law favoring vets had a "devastating impact" on civil service job opportunities for women...
...last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 against Feeney and for absolute hiring preferences for veterans. The Massachusetts law works to "the overwhelming advantage of men," acknowledged the court. And Justice Potter Stewart's majority opinion allowed that veterans' preferences are "an awkward -and many argue, unfair-exception to the widely shared view that merit and merit alone should prevail in the employment policies of the Government." But just showing that the law had a harmful effect on women was not enough, wrote Stewart. The question was whether the state law was designed to discriminate...
DIED. Leonard J. Feeney, 80, fiery Jesuit priest who was excommunicated in 1953 for disobeying his religious superiors and for interpreting literally the traditional Catholic doctrine that "outside the Church there is no salvation"; of a heart attack; in Ayer, Mass. After his excommunication, Feeney and his followers, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, moved to a farm commune in Still River, Mass. In 1972 the aging, ailing Father Feeney was reconciled to the church without recanting...
...write." Others praise the close supervision, which gives the course the feeling of a private tutorial. Yet the method also has its critics. A common complaint, voiced by another Wheaton student, is that the repetitive drilling can be "a terrific bore and is not exactly creative." Admits Katherine Feeney, a Van Nostrand instructor at Brown: "Sometimes the students feel that it's all too structured." But, she adds, "there aren't many who don't feel amazed by how much they've learned...
...late to classes," James P. Feeney '78 said yesterday, expressing a general consensus among those that moved that distance is a major factor in their decision...