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Friday, January 30, 1976
University Dally Kansar
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
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Relaxing under the watchful eye of The Piloner, David Hatton, Spokane, Wash. junior, takes advantage of yesterday's warm weather. The temperature in Lawrence reached fifty-six degrees, with more of the same expected today.
Rates will increase on out-of-state calls
A call from a phone booth will still cost a dime for Lawrence residents, but out-of-state long distance calls soon will be more expensive.
Local telephone calls for Lawrence calls won't go up in the hear future, despite upcoming national rate increases. Bill McCarthy of Southwestern Bell, said yesterday.
Long distance rates within Kansas won't increase either, Collinson said. However, rates for interstate long distance calls will go up soon, he said.
"The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) gave us permission to raise our return on our investment in interstate calls one-half per cent," Collinson said. "We're not yet sure how much this will raise our prices."
The rate increases in Kansas are part of a nation-wide price hike in telephone service. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to allow the use of 5G in commercial buildings (ARTK) to interate stakeholder rates to bring in an additional $225 million a year.
The increase approved by the FCC was actually $435 million less than what AT&T had requested, according to the Associated Press.
Collinson said there woule would be an increase in charges for installing and
moving telephones from $8 to $24 a visit.
Telephone repair service will continue to be free, Collinson said.
Rates for calls from public telephones will stay at ten cents a call in Kansas, he said, though calls now cost 20 cents in Missouri. Southwestern Bell had wanted to raise rates on its lines in Kansas as well, Collinson said, but the KOC had not approved the increase.
Charges for directory assistance were being considered for the Lawrence area but no decision had been reached, he said. It would take six months to one year for the KCC to decide whether charges were justified, Collinson said.
Last year, Southwestern Bell applied to the KCC for a K$1.8 million rate increase for infrastrate service. The KCC allowed only a 3% increase from Southwestern Bell is appealing, Collins said.
The RCC began Wednesday to consider whether Southernwestern Bell should have a second radio station.
An increase would be justified, Collison said, because of the inflation since last year's KCU study. He said prices for raw materials and raw materials in plastic and copper, have risen steadily.
Lumber prices have also gone up, which makes it more expensive to install them.
Student apartments burglarized
Two University of Kansas students reported burglaries to their apartments Monday to the Lawrence Police Department.
Larry S. Bonura, Lawrence junior, told police Monday that the front door of his apartment had been pried open while he was attending class that day.
Bard J. Davis, Littleton, Colo., sophomore, reported the other break-in. He told police that when he returned from Christmas vacation he found that burglaries had entered his apartment through a window and robbed him of a portable television set, a clock-radio and other items valued at $195.
Bonura told police that a stereo system valued at $700 had been taken.
Welppert said that commissioners leaders weren't stereotyped "women's libbers." She said some of the group's leaders were feminists, and others weren't.
Women's role
From page one
Miller said that several commission members showed great hostility toward people who held opposing viewpoints at a hearing on the Supreme Court's Rights Amendment group last spring.
DEBRIE BARNES Miles, a former Miss America from Eudora, led the group opposing the Equal Rights Amendment (FRA).
Miller said that certain commission members were hostile toward the sponsors of the debate. It seemed as if some of the people at the debate were more opposed to what she stood for as Miss America, she said, than the issue of the ERA.
Grunz said she, too, had been at the ERA
based and had seen several individuals
with no legal claim.
Those individuals accomplished nothing, Grunz said. All they succeeded in doing, Grunz said, was to affirm the stereotypes of extreme feminists.
SIMILAR ATTACKS on persons, rather than issues, had occurred at commission-sponsored abortion debates she had attended. Miller said.
Harlenske said she was once a stamper supporter of the ERA, but that she said she "could no longer get up on a soap box and defend it."
She said she saw many loopholes in the ERA that she hadn't seen before. She also said she would have many undisirable consequences for women, its supposed beneficiaries.
"Women would be placed in the position of being legally equal to men," Harlanke said. "Women are a minority of sorts and cannot compete with men on an equal basis.
"I DON'T THINK women are ready to compete on an equal basis because as it stands now, women are a minority in terms of the law." she said.
Harlenske said she thought the ERA forced women to compete against men in organizations and occupations that once were reserved for women.
This competition might have the effect of eliminating women from opportunities, rather than making more opportunities available to women, she said.
Harlense said her change of heart on the ERA wasn't the sole source of her disillusionment with the commission. She said she was tired of fighting the feminist
The commission has a definite stigma attached to it. Harlenske said.
“WHEN I WAS in the commission, I actually had people come up to me and ask me if I was a lesbian, a man-hater or a 'women's libber',” she said.
She said she finally decided she could accomplish more being herself without any
Harlenske said that the term "alternative lifestyle" and "bit connotation to visual imagery" familiar to him.
"To some freshmen women, alternative lifestyles may mean group marriages and all sorts of other things. Their attitude is: 'I wish I could get out of here with my psychology degree.'"
JOYCE HAYDEN, Paola freshman, said she had heard good things about the commission from girls she lived with at GSP who had attended the commission's day. Hayden said she hadn't heard anything bad about the commission or its programs.
Jolette Larson, Great Bend sophomore, said she had never attended a commission program, but had a favorable impression of the group.
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"The commission was accused of being a lesbian organization at the last Student Union meeting," he said. "We've heard all the stereotypes and we just try to ignore them. When we try to get money from the Student Senate they always say, 'Are you decriminatory? Are we discriminatory organization?'
W翡pert said she was aware of unforgettable comments made about the interview.
DAVID HERRON, Dodge City senior,
said he thought the title of Commission on
Transportation was appropriate.
"IVE ATTENDED the Intercollegiate Association of Women Students convention and have found that the discrimination question is something common to women's organizations throughout the country," she said.
Grum said she thought the commission suffered in part from a bad public image and was not confident.
"The commission isn't as visible as it should be," Grunz said, and "this affects its funding. There is some hesitancy to fund a student loan expansion that appears to be a major external organization."
The commission sometimes is labeled as a group of "womens librarians" or the "Women's Library Association," but bad connotation.
BOTH GRUNZ and Welpert said that the commission wasn't just for women, but for everyone.
Grunz said that many of the issues the commission dealt with were of equal importance to men. Men are always in the audience at commission programs, she said, and in past years men have been on the committees of the commission.
In addition to being called a single sex organization, the commission has been accused of being an arm of the administration. Weinpert said.
THE COMMISSION'S headquarters is in the Dean of Women's office, and although they are advised by Grunz and other staff members, the commission isn't an arm of the administration. Mr. Harrison said she. Also she informed the duke did receive supplies from the Dean of Women.
The commission derives funds from its annual mum sale and from the Student Senate. This year's mum sales are being the annual Women's Recruitment Banquet.
The commission had discussed moving to the student services area on the third level of the Karasas Union, Weipart said, but the carassis discarded because it was too expensive.
The commission received a $1,431 allocation from Student Senate for the 1975 fiscal year. The money is used for supplies and a monthly newsletter that is sent upon request to more than 700 people and organizations.
Harlenske said another cause of her disillusionment with the commission was its failure to reach its members. The commission, she said, was founded on the principle that every woman on campus belonged to the commission, although each woman determined the extent of her participation.
GRUNZSAID THE size of the mailing list was a good indication of the amount of women students' interest in the commission.
There is a president, an executive assistant and 11 chairmen for 10 different groups. There are also human sexuality, political action, beyond high school, spring symposium, fall open forum, publicity, women's sports, non-religious students and women's recognition.
Harlenske said that many women attend only one lecture or event a year. Most don't
"IF YOU WERE involved in the com-
pany, you were here." Her body. You belonged. "Oh yes, you did."
Miller said, "It is a growing experience for those on the board, but it doesn't really reach out. I don't know if that's the fault of the students or the commission."
Grunz said she didn't think participation was a problem. Between six and seven thousand people attended programs sponsored by the commission last year, she said.
Grunz said that some programs were better attended than others, but that poor attendance could be attributed to the number of tests scheduled for a particular
THIS YEAR'S officers are aware of the participation problem. Both Weippert and Stephanie Antos, chairman of the fall open forum, said they were concerned about getting more women to participate in the commission programs.
One indicator of participation is the number of applications for board positions,
"It's impossible to inform every woman on campus of her opportunities because it is impossible to get them all together." Anatos said every woman is really that interested.
"YOU CAN GO to lectures, events and symposiums, but you are just the recipient of information," she said. " unless you are a member, no one knows you are involved."
perceive the commission's board members as an elite group.
"This is not the fault of the commission," Antos said. "It's really up to the girl, although we haven't given it to you. I'd like it to become easier to get involved."
Antos said she didn't think the commission had an unfavorable public image.
"Most males I've talked with have shown a favorable response to my involvement with the commission," Antos said. "I have never accused of being a big "women's libber."
WEIPPET SAID that money, not the concept of having all KU women as its members, was the reason that the comrade was ineffective in reaching its goals.
Welpert said lack of funds had hampered the commission in its efforts to reach more people. The commission couldn't afford to advertise in the Kansan, she said.
"One reason we have open membership is so people don't feel pressured to be very active," Welpepp said. "I don't see it as a threat." She said women and letting them know we were here."
"NEXT SEMESTER we're going to try to bring a greater cohesiveness among the commission members in order to reach a greater number of people," Wheeldt said.
One of the goals of the commission was to provide women with support they wouldn't have in a past life.
Harlenske said that her involvement with the commission provided the confirmation she needed to stimulate her desire to go to law school.
Antos said she thought some people could
"The commission served a purpose for me at the time, but I found I outgrew it," she said. "I got bogged down with all the options and attitudes they presented."
GRUNZ SAID that the goals of the commission were to help women realize their career options, to help women question the status quo and to help women make choices for themselves based on what they, as individuals wanted to do.
The commission evolved from a group called the Associated Women Students (AWS). AWS had on campus for years prior to the formation of the commission.
CARLYL SMITH, acting dean of women, was at KU during the time when AWS was an active force on campus. She said that AWBS began its major work in 1959 when it began to change some of the rules about curfews for women students.
Grunz said that until the changes were made during the '60s, all women were required to live in a University residence hall their first year at KU. There were strict hours for women in both residence halls and sororities, she said.
Emily Taylor, dean of women at that time, thought these "parental" rules were inappropriate for the University to impose upon women students. Grunz said.
GRUNZ SAID THAT THAT thought that women should learn to be responsible for
being responsible.
Gradually the restrictions began to be lifted. Gruz said, At first only seniors were invited.
"When I came here in 1968, sophomores still had to be at a certain time," Grunz said. "By that time seniors and juniors have been issued card keys to their living groups. By the time men were treated entirely differently than women and had no hours restrictions."
THE COMMITTEE on the Status of Women was created in 1988 to work within AWS to examine sex discrimination and the status of women on cannus.
By 1970, Grunz said, practically all of the old rules had been eliminated. AWS had a choice of continuing with a different perspective or disbanding. At that time the company was still growing, and became the main organization under which some of the AWS programs were continued.
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Grunn said the goals of the commission were similar to the old AWS. Both advocated making choices and being aware of the consequences of those choices, she said.
There is still a need for the commission in 1975, but Grunz said that the need was even greater when the commission began as a separate organization five years ago.
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