THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
DREARY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.106
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 12, 1976
14 Jayhawks to NCAA meet starting today
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Budget goes to full House
By SHERI BALDWIN
Staff Writer
TOPEKA-The Kansas House Ways and Means Committee yesterday took final action on three bills containing University of Kansas budget requests, after a series of KU-related amendments and defeated motions.
The three house bills, which contain budget requests for the Board of Regents and the institutions under its supervision, were recommended favorably to the full house, which will consider them early next week.
Recommendations from a subcommittee, which was appointed to review existing programs to place physicians in underserved Kansas areas, were also appl
In approving the three bills, the com-
munity will send Lawrence campus
budget amicably.
However, it increased the KU Medical Center budget by a recommended hospital revenue fund increase over the governor's recommended budget.
The big reductions in the governor's recommended budget were percentage cuts in merit faculty salaries and other operating expenses funds.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said, "What the Ways and Means Committee recommends is likely to stand through the entire election," he added. "It will only be relative minor adjustments."
Some adjustments might be made in the Senate Ways and Means Committee, Dykes said. He doubted that many items deleted from initial requests would be added to the bills.
After the Senate Ways and Means Committee, the budget requests go to the full Senate, then a compromise committee and finally, the governor.
A motion was defeated that about $89,000 which remains from the Allen Field House re-roofing project be allocated for additional repairs to the building.
Dykes said the fieldhouse motion surprised him. He said he thought the request had gone from the State Department of Finance to the Finance Council, not to the legislature.
Committee members suggested that KU specify the requests in detail so that the appropriation might be reconsidered before legislative action is final.
Additional requested repairs included exterior pointing and caulking and root repairs to building canopies and underclearings.
Dykes said a Kansas Supreme Court ruling last Saturday that limited the finance council's ability to act for the legislature was probably the reason for the motion.
Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Attwood, said the committee would be setting a dangerous precedent of first over-allocating, then redirecting funds, if the motion passed.
Motions to provide the Med Center cardiological equipment were also defeated, but the committee asked that a letter be sent by M.D. Roberts to OOE funds be sent for the equipment.
Amendments passed included authorization for $25,000 from OEF funds to be spent for legal counsel in medical malpractice suits if necessary.
The transfer of institutional funds to
Staff Writer
Women in new roles in theater department
By JANET SCHMIDT
In the theater department at the University of Kansas, several women have chosen professions traditionally marked by female talent: directing and playwrighting.
Blair said, "Directing itself a certain amount of authority and self-confidence—
Rhonda Blair, Warren, Mich., graduate student, is directing J. L. McCure's Piece. William has been running this week at Wakefield Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall.
"Until recently, only men were accepted as having this ability and the directing was not."
"Unconscious barriers do exist," Abrams said. "In theater in the feel that the easiest way to become a director is through stage managing, which requires technical ability."
ANNE ABRAMS, Lawrence graduate student, who directed William Hanley's 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' in February in the inge theater, said, "The traditional roles for women in theatre have been more playing or in education in children's theater."
Neither Blair nor Abrams thought women were discriminated against or discouraged from becoming directors, but they agreed it would be more difficult for men than women to pursue that career.
"There is a blaa that men are better as technicians and more capable of working with equipment, so it is difficult for women to get into stage managing.
"BEFORE I went into directing, I realized the opportunities would not be that great for me—because of that understone bias—so I really pushed myself."
Donna Young, Lawrence graduate student, who is studying playwrighting at the University of Missouri.
"A new wave is coming," she said.
"There's an urge to get women into the professional fields now. Sometimes your boss will be read because you are a woman."
playwrights was small, but that she thought the situation was changen.
Young said that women were usually portrayed by playwrights as submissive, passive characters. She said one of her goals was to change this.
"But I'm interested in portraying people first, and right now, women are the people who need to be involved."
BLAIR AND Abrams both said that one barrier preventing women from choosing directing as a career was the lack of role models.
"There aren't enough women in theater who can serve as assertive, effective role models." Abrams said. "We need more women to show other women that it can be done."
Abrams said she thought the problem existed at the college level because traditionally there have been more men in the theater donations than women.
"When I read a play, I see the role of the female character based on women's concerns today. Because of this, I believe I put a different emphasis in the role than a man
THE MERE FACT that I am a woman in this day and age," she said, "means that my concerns are different—more radical than they would have been 10 years ago.
Bramis said she thought the director's insight into a play depend upon being a practitioner.
"There's a gap here," Blair said. "There are many women who have the talent but aren't in positions equal to their capabilities."
support the Regents Press of Kansas,
formed Feb. 20, was also approved.
Hayden moved that 10 medical residency positions recommended by Gov. Robert F. Bennett be cut to six, three for family practice and three for psychiatric practice.
Abrams said this difference in emphasis was demonstrated in her production of
See WOMEN page 2
The committee approved the motion and proceeded to cut the governor's recommendation for Wichita hospitals to $777,000 for 73 residences. At those figures, state support of residence programs operated by the hospitals would be equal to the current budget.
Hayden said that reams of people were being put through residency programs for substantial sums of money but that they are now locating themselves in western Kansas.
"One of our basic reasons for doing this is to get their attention. The premise for years has been to keep dumping money in so that the chips would eventually fly out to the
The subcommittee that studied state financing for financial support of medical students had reservations concerning further authorization of a Med Center Outreach training program. The program is concentrated at Bethesda Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and in Tepeka, locations very far, very far, according to the subcommittee.
The subcommittee said more of the regular housestaff in primary care specialities could be rotated to locations nearer western Kansas for training.
State support for residency programs has grown from $1.4 million to support 171 positions in 1972 to $3.5 million to support 389 positions in 1976. The accepted belief behind the increased financing is that more residents are enrolled in programs which they take their residence training.
According to the subcommittee, the Med Center student selection process limits admission to students interested in medical research and specialization—rather than students interested in general family practice—by emphasizing academic experience. The subcommittee recommended that the Med Center reexamine its admission process.
A supplemental report on an osteopathic student aid program and graduates of foreign medical schools will soon be released by the subcommittee.
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Courting drowsiness
Something happens when you combine a warm, sunny afternoon with a bag of books. Although others put aside their books to talk or nounce, Karen Edmishen, Lawrence
Skunks have strange gift for dwellers
By DAVE HAUBER
The recent unseasonally warm weather in Lawrence has brought with it some unpleasantness.
Residents said there had been numerous incidents of skunks spraying near their apartments, to the point that they had taken drastic steps to alleviate the obnoxious
Residents of the Jayhawker Towers
pardments complied yesterday of skunk
smell.
Linda Turner, manager of the apartments, said she knew there had been a park.
"It's not something that we've let by," she said. "Those people are saying these things to me, and I can't believe them."
Turner said a 24-hour maintenance telephone line was open to anyone having problems. She said she had three companies working on the problem—Lawrence Maintenance Co., Day and Night Sewer Service and Schendel Pest Control.
"I don't know how to do anything more," she said. "I seems a lot more people are complaining and they're not telling me and I wish they would. We don't care about what it costs, we care about getting rid of the skins that the skunks seem to be elusive little devils."
Paul Walter, Leneza sephomore, said of living in his second-floor apartment in Tower A. "In the morning, we air it out no matter how cold it is."
The problem, Walter said, has become so bad he can't learn the skins of snunk smell.
"I was coming out of a lecture class," he said. "There was a girl walking 10 feet behind me and she said, 'I keep thinking I smell snuck,' and I said, 'Oh God!'"
A first floor apartment dweller in Tower A, Claudia Shusterman, Miami Beach. I claudia shusterman, saying, "There is a girl in my Western GC class, she's so cute, I'm small smell." I think the top of her knickers
"I wish you could be here one night and you would know. I'm from Florida and I've peeled the skin off."
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IFC requests another sorority
By LIZLEECH
Staff Writer
The Interfraternity Council (IFC) presidents council unanimously passed a resolution last night requesting that the Panhellenic presidents council investigate the possibility of asking another sorority to visit a chapter at the University of Kansas.
Dave Beaver, president of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, said last night that the two presidents councils would consider a sorority extension in a March 23 meeting.
Members of sororites and fraternities have been saying recently that KU should add another sorority to the 12 here because fraternities outnumber sororites and the sororites can't accommodate all women who want to join.
There are 1,408 men in 22 fraternities and 815 women in 12 sororities.
THE PANHELLENIC Council added the grade-point average requirement this fall, but not because KU doesn't have enough sororities for all interested women, Linda
In the sorority rush this January, 250 of the 425 women who participated pledged. Another 107 women weren't allowed to participate because they didn't meet the requirement of a 2.2 grade-point average for at least 14 credit hours.
Filasster. Panhellenic president, said Wednesday. It was to reduce the number of foreign students.
Panellenbil's interest in inviting more sororites to campus is greater this year, as she has been making a dean of women and Panellenbil adviser, said. Extension-establishing another sorority-comes up every year, she said, but it was mentioned this year after the January run.
FPlasterer last said last night that IFC's resolution would definitely be considered in Panhellenic's decision of whether to invite another sorbity to KU.
But she said she didn't know how great the concern was because although it had been presented to the sororites, responses have been positive and negative.
Phllaterer said, "It's not as if the sorettes are knocking down our doors to you."
HORNE SAID that Panhellenic wouldn't research extension unit more interest was the problem.
Phisterer said that what had started the interest in extension were the comments of a few men and women who had mentioned the subject to her.
She said that Panhellenic would have to consider the administration's view of ad-
dung another sorority, and consider whether there were any alumni in Lawrence of the new sorority, that sorority's financial situation and enrollment protections.
She said that sororities already here also would have to be considered, because some
"in some people's minds the fraternities would be a consideration, but we aren't in them."
ONE MORE sorority probably wouldn't make that much difference in the ratio of students at your school.
Pflasterer said that the fraternity members had said there weren't enough sororites to work with in social or other organizations such as Rock Chalk and beer can drives.
Horne said some fraternities traditionally have functions with certain sororites, so a new sorority wouldn't make a difference in those cases.
Sara Cooper, former president of Pi Beta Phi, was a member of the presidents council last year and said extension had been discussed then; although nothing was done.
"It seemed like there were so many girls interested in the sorcerery system that we needed to keep it hidden."
SHE SAID she thought the system was
stable now. She also said too many girls had been cut during rush this year.
Her sorority is anxing, she said, which means that women move out of the sorority room. She says it can be a very
"If we would be willing to make that adjustment then there should be adjustments made by Pamhellenic, too, so he can join the security system," Cooper said.
April Francis, former president of the See SORORITY page 3
KU buildings to stay open
This is the last issue of the Kansan until March 23.
During spring break, all campus classroom buildings will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and the Kansas Union will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through
Staff Writer
Staff photo by DAVE CREENSHAV
Jerry Williams
needed they expected the findings of an upcoming investigation in their favor.
Paul and William filled their complaint after Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, approved the appointment of two vice chancellors for the Office of Academic Affairs. The appointees, Edward Bassett and Ralph Christoffersen, were chosen for two part-time positions to replace a full-time vacancy located by James Rosser, a black
upcoming investigation to be in their favor. Muriel Paul and Jerry Williams, both alumni of the University, discriminated against women and minorities in its hiring. Their complaint is one of three that will be investigated by the U.S. Office of Civil Rights (OCR) later this
BASSETT, the former dean of the School of Journalism, left the University last August to take a similar journalism position at the University of Southern California. Cristofferson is an assistant to Hon. John Wiley is now vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Paul and Williams said Shankel had
approved the appointments after the Office of Affirmative Action had said the appointments hadn't followed affirmative action guidelines.
Williams said he expected the OCR to take positive action against the university. By "positive action," he said, he meant he hoped that the University would be cited for discrimination, that the vice chancellor positions in Academic Affairs would be vacated, that the recruitment for the positions he was be started again and that he would save those funds from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW).
"WE THINK their finding will be in our favor," said Williams, now an instructor at Lawrence High School. "There's no doubt about it."
Paul, who now works in Ottawa at the Franklin County Rehabilitation Facility, said, "We want action that will have real teeth in it."
Paul recently was a member of a special committee assigned to investigate charges related to the arrest.
Mike Davis, University attorney, who has been designated the spokesman for the university on the complaints, said yesterday nothing to add to an email message release.
In that release, Davis described one investigation that OCR will be conducting at KU from March 29 to April 2. The investigation would involve including the one made by Paul and Williams. He said investigators must discover in that investigation whether there has been discrimination in student and financial aid and student services.
BUT SHANKEL and Ambrose Saricks, professor of history and former vice chancellor for academic affairs who hired Sarah Koehler, both commented on the冠帖s.
Shankel said he understood from a conversation with Saricks that if the recruitment and hiring for the position were to be done over again, following the correct affirmative action procedures, the same people would be hired.
"There was a strong need to get the positions filled!" Shankel said, because he hadn't seen much of them.
He said Rossier left KU for a position in New Jersey's higher education system. Williams could he might file a complaint against the Office of Affirmative Action
"But they (the Office of Affirmative
Because there were two part-time positions in Academic Affairs, and one full-time position was advertised, Sirards said, he checked with the applicants for the full-time job to see whether any of them would be interested in either of the two part-time positions. Their responses were negative he said.
"The Office of Affirmative Action is legally bound by the University to have hearings and investigate complaints that are not in compliance, wasn't going to set aside the appointments.
HANKEL SAID Rosier was the only black then directly associated with either the chancellor's or vice chancellor's offices. He also was associated with those offices now, he said.
Action: didn't file suit against him. Inec
didn't accept our complaint."
Paul Saul. "We filed suit to force the office to take action, and it resulted in a settlement."
"IT'S A FARCE if they're going to be a handmaiden of the administration."
Williams said he also planned to file a
against Chancellor Archie R. Dykes,
Shankel and Saricks, relating to the
appointments of the two vice chancellors.
In response to the discrimination complaints, an administrative internship program offers students the training six women and minority group members in the University's ad-
HOWEVER, PAUL said, the only minority group members among the inters were women, whom she said don't constitute a minority at KU any more.
But one of the interns, Peter Morales, Lawrence graduate student, is a Chicano and another, Gregorio Dua, staff member at the University Research, is Spanish surnamed American.