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Thursday, February 12, 1976
University Daily Kansan
KU coping with Title IX
By DAVE HAUBER
Guidelines intended to end sex discrimination at the University of Kansas are expected to be submitted sometime in March by Title IX subcommittees studying employment and admissions.
The subcommittees will combine their findings of any sex discrimination at KU into one report by the Title I Self- Evaluation Committee. This committee be needed for approval to a steering committee comprised of Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; Mike Davis, University general counsel; and David Robinson, vice chancellor. KU Medical Center.
THE INFORMATION to be sent to the steering committee is all part of a self-evaluation called for by the Title IX Education Amendments of 1972. This self-evaluation must be completed and approved by July 21, 1976.
the steering committee may send the recommendations of the Title IX report back to the self-evaluation committee for further revision, Bonnie Ritter Patton, director of the Office of Affirmative Action, said yesterday.
The legal stimulus for all this committee activity is based upon the federal legislation of title IX, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HFWA), which prohibits sex education in public federally funded educational institutions.
SINCE COMPLIANCE with federal funding standards is of financial concern for institutions of higher education, the issue of reconciling the traditional operations of schools and departments with that of the requirements of HEW is a sensitive one.
Recently, HEW suspended all new federal contracts with the University of Missouri at Columbia because HEW said the affirmative action program there was inadequate. The holdup is preventing #1.5 contract with the Veterans Administration.
The University of Missouri case isn't an isolated one, according to a story in the Kansas City Times. The university is among schools specifically, St. Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis, had run into problems due to unequality of their affective date of TIX IX guidelines, which was July 21, 1975.
The charges made by HEW against the University of Missouri were that "it did not include an analysis of the work force from which employees may be drawn, a utilization study to show how many women and men are employed," and it contained no goals or timetables."
RESPONDING TO the timetables of Title IX is the present concern of KU's self-evaluation committee. It has been working toward finishing its report to meet the July 21 deadline required by Title IX. HEW has required study of any sex discrimination from all areas of the University to be completed within one year after the effective date of TIX IX guidelines, which was July 21, 1975.
After the self-evaluation committee has made its findings, the steering committee has one month to consider the report before sending it back for any revision.
It now appears that the work of the self-evaluation committee will be finished in about a month, according to Tom McNamara. The committee is formed civilization and a committee member.
Jerry Waugh, chairman of the treatment of students subcommittee, said findings on the athletic department's operations were surprising. "It would be concluded in a couple of weeks."
WAUGH SAID THE committee studying athletics was looking at the kind of funds available to athletes and whether they were best distributed according to TITLE IX
The self-evaluation committee's working definition of discrimination is: "Any act which can reasonably be interpreted to be prejudicial to the welfare of educational employment and participatory opportunity by all persons where that act is based upon considerations that are not essentially related to the pursuing of employment or education, and considerations are a person's race or sex."
Waugh said, "All we are doing is pointing out the discrepancies and saying, 'University of Kansas, what are you going to do about it?' "
ATHLETICS
Athletics is one part of the University that will be largely affected by the self-evaluation committee's findings. A source of controversy in the past has been trying to understand the impact that Title IX will have on athletics, whether it means that women will be able to play on teams with men in contact sports.
Revisions were made in Title IX by President Ford and Congress last April, that provide for separate teams in athletic programs where competitive skills are a requirement. Teams play a contact sport. The revisions still give schools the alternative of having a single team open to both sexes. If separate teams are offered, the revised Title IX states, athletic departments may not discriminate on the basis of sex in providing
THE KEY TOHOW Title IX will affect
programs in the state. Program
definition of "equal opportunity"
"Equal opportunity" is a term which "addresses the totality of the athletic program of the institution rather than each sport offered," according to a memorandum released last September by Peter L. Gould, director of HEW's Office for Civil Rights.
Fonds allocated to men's and women's
sports may not necessarily be equal, but
those doing the allocating must consider the
interests of all participants in the programs.
See TITLE page 9
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