THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
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Vol.86 No.147
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Wednesdav. June 16. 1976
Commission studies utilities and parking
The Lawrence City Commission last night discussed utility rates, parking problems and the sale of fireworks within the city limits.
The commission approved a study by Black and Veatch of Kansas City, Kan., to determine water and sewage rates if a proposed sewage treatment plant were built in Lawrence. The engineering company will develop a system for manure, according to snookman Ron Hardin.
Commission members decided the limited parking facilities for non-University members in the 1100 block of Mississippi isn't under the jurisdiction of the city.
David Beard, 1218 Miss., asked the commission to support his request to the Kansas Board of Regents to make parking available to non-University members.
BEARD SAID parking for residents was taken during the day by university students seeking to avoid the cost of permit stickers. The University of Florida has a parking close to their houses during the day.
Beard proposed a special sticker for car owners in the block east of the stadium to prevent them from parking on the west side of the street. The commission members referred him to the
The commissioners also discussed the sale of fireworks locally.
"I'm dead set against fireworks and I 'm
giving 365 days' notice I don't want any sold
armer, Arngerman, commissioner,
commissioner.
THE REMARK was made after Jean Woodhead, 1339 Haskell, asked special permission for her son to sell fireworks on land recently annexed by the city.
Woodhead made the request because the land had been annexed less than two months ago and the fireworks were ordered a year in advance. She agreed to discuss the matter with George Williams, director of public works.
The commission also voted to allow the yearly sidewalk sale of the Downtown Merchants Association to sidewalks. The sale will take place July 15 and 16.
IN OTHER ACTION, the commission agreed to draw up an amendment to the city sign ordinance to permit churches to spot burials. The ordinance be limited in size, number and location.
The addition of a liquor store to the existing service station at 23rd and Louisiana will require changes in the en-route to the station, the commission decided.
20% of black professors leaving KU this year
By DWIGHT THOMAS
and KATHY SOKOL Staff Writers
Six black faculty members, more than 20 per cent of the total at the University of Kansas, are leaving their positions this year for similar jobs at other colleges or universities, according to the Black Faculty Steering Committee.
"In other words, we want to be involved in a meaningful way to improve the hiring and retention of alums and other minorities," she said. "We also dean of engineering, said yesterday."
The resigning faculty sent a letter to Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Chicago, chancellor, asking to meet with the administration and deans to discuss departments that the faculty said showed evidence of black faculty members, or none at all.
HARRISON SMITH, a member of the Steering Committee, said, "The purpose of the course to Shankar and Calgard was to make the students familiar with the knowledge known and to offer assistance to the central university administration in fostering better relations in retention, recruitment and development."
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, in a letter to the secretary of the black faculty group, said he shared the group's concern about the problem of hiring and retaining black faculty members.
Calgaard said he was "distressed by the comments" made by the group in the letter and suggested a meeting between himself, Shankel and the faculty members.
Calgaard is out of town until June 21. A meeting with the black teachers has been tentatively scheduled for next week when he returns.
SHANKEL SAID yesterday he thought the letter presented the problems of the facultyulty well. He suggested a meeting with the faculty, and one of the University in discuss the problem.
"My role is to help and improve the situation," Shankel said.
Both Smith and Hogan said Shankel and others had been very cooperative in their efforts.
THE SIX black professors said their reasons for leaving were tied to problems with their academic departments, with the degree or with the Lawrence community.
Peggy Jelks, assistant professor of education and instruction, said she had a teaching experience at University in Monroe. L. Living in Louisiana she said, will bring her closer to him.
Jelks said that while she was at KU there were no conflicts in the School of Education.
"I was free to try out new ideas and had
certain flexibility in teach me." Jollys said.
Roderick Harrison, assistant professor of See BLACK nage.3
JELKS SAID that Lawrence was an ideal town for raising a family, but that for the single person its opportunities were somewhat limited.
"However, I do feel that there is a need for more blocks in the School of Education to be offered," she said and because we do have minority students who never see a black professor," she said.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Nun of many habits
"if you're going to be an artist you must deal with all kinds of reality," Carol Hilgitt, a sister in the Order of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, said yesterday. Bilton is here at the University to drive the summer theatre production of "Who's Afraid of Me."
Title IX report in final stages, Tasheff says
The Title IX report concerning racial and sex discrimination at the University of Kansas is reaching its final stages, Tedde student body president, said yesterday.
Tasheff said the Title IX steering committee would probably send its final version of the report back to the Title IX Self-Evaluation Committee in the next few days.
The steering committee is comprised of Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; Mike Davis, university general counsel; Richard Jackson, vice chancellor for clinical affairs.
She said the self-evaluation committee should probably take a week to 10 days to complete.
Subcommittees studying discrimination in the treatment of students, employment and admissions submitted guidelines intended to end racial and sex discrimination at the University to the Title IX Self-Evaluation Committee in March.
The self-evaluation committee combined the subcommittees' findings into one report which was submitted to the steering committee.
Under the Title IX Education Amendments,
complete civilization by July 14, 2016.
Tasheff said she didn't know when the report would be made public.
No effect seen in KU policies by Court ruling
A recent Supreme Court decision that would make charges of racial discrimination more difficult to prove won't substantially affect the University of Kansas, Bonnie Patton, director of the Office of Affirmative Action, said yesterday.
Last week's decision entrances examinations required by the District of Columbia to be racially discriminatory, although blacks failed the test five times more often than whites.
Under the new ruling, charges of discrimination would have to show a discriminatory intent as well as a discriminatory effect. This is a departure from a 1971 decision that prohibited discrimination regardless of intent.
Patton said the new decision wasn't concerned with placing blame or assessing fines, aspects which directly affect KU and concerning discrimination complaints.
Nun unafraid of 'Virginia Woolf' challenge
Bv CHARLOTTE KIRK
The Edward Ablee play will run from July 7 through July 10 in the University Theatre.
KU's summer theatre festival production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" will be directed by Carol Bilten, chairman of the theater at Clarke College, Dubuque, IA, and a sister in the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
between the society and is one of the best
operators in American theatre,
Bilten said yesterday.
Bilten, who entered the convent in 1960, received an M.A. from KU and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He then owned stock and three plavers a vow at Clarke.
The play explores a harrowing duel
"OUR COMMUNITY has always en-
courage students to pursue their
education through education." Blain said.
"Arts on some levels are an integral part of education."
Biltgen, who wears slacks, sandals and lots of silver or turquoise jewelry, she said she would like to see the theatre into her religious life. Since Vatican II, a movement in the '80s that encouraged members of religious orders to work in the church, Biltgen added to their attention to wider activities, she said.
Local flu campaign awaits definite plan
Martin Wollmann, director of health services at the University of Kansas, said yesterday Watkins Hospital would administer swine flu vaccinations to the university community in late August or early September.
redemption of sorts on a ritual level," she said.
She said that profanity was very important to the play and that it didn't bother her. The terrible verbal fights show the characters to cope with the world, she said.
determining how many people would request the vaccine, but that Watkins Hospital could be asked to administer up to 25,000 doses.
"If people read it on a surface level it is profane, but it's not profanity for profanity's sake," she said. "The profanity of reality that are much more profound."
The government hasn't determined the proper dosages and hasn't set a distribution schedule.
Wollmann said that there was no way of
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Vaccine supply imperiled by insurance cancellation
BLITGEN SAID the play had different levels that were important to its meaning.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Parke, Davis & Co., a manufacturer of swine influenza vaccine, announced yesterday that it was losing its liability insurance coverage for a Government official said the development would jeopardize the vaccination program.
Parke-Davis did not explain why the swine flu liability coverage was being waived and could not identify its insurance carrier. It could not estimate insurance companies could not estimate their actuarial risks because a mass immunization program had never been implemented.
Parke-Davis, one of the four U.S. manufacturers of the vaccine, said it was losing its liability insurance coverage on July 1 and asked the government for help
E. Burke Giblin, chairman of Warner-Lambert Co., president of Parke-Davis, said that insurance is necessary to protect the producer of the vaccine in case of unrestricted supply.
Dr. Delao Meriwether, director of the government's national influenza immunization program, said that for Parke-Davis to be forced out of production" would make it very hard to implement the program."
"For the vast majority, it can be anticipated with certainty that complete protection with minor or no side effects will result. Others, however, may obtain less than full protection and others may have more severe side effects," he said.
plan definitely yet. Government reports indicate the vaccine should be available in
WOLLMANN SAID the vaccine would be distributed in stages, the first doses given to the elderly and those with chronic diseases. He said the remainder of the vaccine would be shipped at different times, depending on demand.
"Greater side effects than anticipated or even a subsequent unrelated illness may be considered in the minds of some as a basis for liability against the company," he said.
Wollmann said the hospital was considered several options for administering the vaccine. Stations may be set up on campus, and the vaccine may be given only on specific days or during specific weeks, he said.
She said possibly 40,000 people would request vaccines in Douglas County. The health department has applied for federal funding to nurse to administer the inoculations.
"On one level Albee is making a social comment that the world is falling apart. He shows this through the characters' drinking," she said. "At a personal level this is an agonizing love story in which two people have endured 23 years together."
Kay Kent, Douglas County health department director, said no one knew what the chances of a national epidemic were; we were very few people with natural immunity.
The Douglas County health department hasn't made definite plans for administering the vaccine, but Kent said there are community clinics throughout Lawrence.
Wollmann called the immunization program an exercise in probability. He said that "the vaccine is really effective."
"Being a person comes first before being religious," she said. "Our part in being in the world and in the present moment is to sacralize the secular."
DISTRIBUTION is tentatively scheduled for September 1, but the date isn't definite because of an uncertainty of availability of vaccine in large quantities.
epidemic was abnormally high because of the new strain.
Government concern arose over the swine virus because normally the disease is transmitted through contact with hogs, but Ft. Dix recruits who contracted the disease hadn't been around swine. Apparently the virus was transmitted by humans.
THE U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) recently reported in Medical News that a new strain of influenza appeared, the population had little or no immunity to it. It also said an aggressive strain of influenza could cause the new strain to spread rapidly.
The National Influenza Immunization Program provides two vaccines—one for the "high-risk" groups and the other for the remainder of the population.
THE HEW report said success of the program depended on the proportion of the population vaccinated and on the potency and safety of the vaccines used. Results of the study were presented at June to provide a basis for determining vaccine dosage and expected side effects.
"If you're going to be an artist you must
be familiar with all kinds of reality," she said. "I
worked with a number of artists."
Wollmann said there wasn't any medicine to cure influenza once a person contracted it, and fli symptoms usually lasted three to 14 days.
The immunization program is purely voluntary, Wollmann said, and there will be no coercion. He said he didn't know what the chances of a nation-wide epidemic would be if a significant number of persons weren't immunized.
"The play's ritual level ends with a release of the characters' agony and a redemption of lives lived under illusions," Biltgen said.
She said she would use her particular talent, directing, to add her own touch to the performance.
"I BELEVE there is in the play agonized passion, suffering, a moment of grace and
Teachers get quorum; ratify 7.5% pay hike
BULLETIN
U. S.D. 497 Board of Education untimely approved the new teacher contract
School District 497 teachers gained the majority of affirmative votes necessary to ratify the 1976-77 tentative agreement late last night.
The agreement is being considered for ratification today by the Board of Trustees.
The settlement was reached last Wed-
Lawrence Education Association (LEA) representatives gathered the approval of a majority of the district's 466 teachers. The survey gave an average for 7.3 per cent may increase.
"We don't anticipate any opposition to the agreement by the Board of Education," said Darrell Ward, president of LEA, yesterday.
neseday when the two sides agreed to a base pay boost from $7,800 to $8,100, with an additional pay increase in September if all other benefits are paid. When the new salary scale is implemented
LEA representatives had some difficulty in securing the majority of votes because many of the district's teachers were out of school and I vote in Monday night's balloting session.
"By 8 p.m. last night I wasn't sure we were going to have enough affirmative votes to ratify the agreement before the education meeting this morning," Ward said.
in the final balloting, only six teachers opposed ratification of the tentative con-
Contingent upon the board's ratification, last night's action will have ended nearly immediately.