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Monday, December 8, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Task force will examine coeducational honor group
By KATHY GANNON
A special task force has been formed to study the organization of a new, coeducational sophomore honor society, according to Laura Pinkston, president of CWENs, the sophomore women's honor society.
Pinkston and Pam Horne, assistant dean of women and CWEN advisor, with met Dvon Alder son, dean of men, last week to discuss proposals for the new honor society.
CWENIS is one of four KU single-sex honor societies that must comply with TITLE IX of the United States Code.
TITLE-IX, which became law on July 21,
1975, states that an organization that receives significant assistance from an educational institution may not discriminate in membership selection on the basis of sex.
The deadline for compliance is July 21, 1978.
Other KU honor society affected by Title IX are Mortar Board for senior women, Sachem Circle of Omicron Delta Pi, for men; and Owl Society, for junior men.
Mortar Board has already decided to admit men and will consult with the Office of the Dean of Men before its selection. He has been selected by president of KU's Torch chapter, said.
Mortar Board's national organization to admit to men at a meeting of chapter
Ed Rolfs, president of Schem, sald Schem was waiting until the KU Title IX Review Committee gave them a recommendation to change membership requirements.
Owl Society hasn't talked about any changes yet but is planning a meeting with Alderson to discuss the situation, Randy Brown, president of the Owl Society, said.
Pinkston said Alderson would recommend six sophomore men from different living organizations to work with cWENs on behalf of the new honor society for sophomores.
Advisers from the Dean of Men's and Dean of Women's offices will also be on the task force, which will change the purposes of CWENs to include sonomore men.
When the presidents of Mortar Board decided at their national conference to admit men, they voted to strengthen their purpose of encouraging and improving the status of women despite the admission of men into the organization.
That constitutional change still needs the ratification of a majority of the 167 Mortar Board chapters but Miller said it would probably pass.
The national Sachem organization allows chapters to admit women, but KU's chapter has been closed.
Rolfs said in a previous interview that he thought Mortar Board offered senior women the same opportunities Sachem offered senior men but that he fawsed the possibility of a joint board to oversee the two groups.
Owl Society isn't a national organization but it receives significant assistance from KU and must comply with Title IX, Brown said.
Pinkston said the purpose of the coed sophomore honor society was to provide guidance for students in three ways: as a man or a woman in today's society; as a student at KU; and as a person who had leadership qualities.
The KU CWEN chapter is the first chapter of the national society of CWENS to initiate a change in its structure. Pinkston said, although the presidents of all the members of the national university to admit men at an October national conference in Alliance, Ohio.
Pinkston said some CWEN chapters are trying to prove that they don't receive
significant assistance from a university and aren't in violation of Title IX.
"To me, this is only a delay tactic," Pinkston said.
KU GWENS could not take this action because it has faculty advisors, and gets funds and information on candidates for membership from the university, Horne said.
The selection process for the new sophomore society will be based on the same guidelines that CWENs has used, including the following activities and peer support. Eminkton said:
She said that she was trying to find out from the National Board of CWENs to see whether the action of KU's CWENs affected its relations with the national organization.
"Unless the National Board of CWENs implements our actions for the national society, our chapter will be only a local one," she said.
Horne said she thought that the actions of this chapter was "an exciting possibility."
She said there had been some interest in establishing a sophomore men's honor group at KU but there was not a national organization.
Events ...
TODAY: There is a HOUSEMOTHER'S MEETING at 2 p.m. in the Watkin's Room of the Kansas University. The SUA CHESS CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in Parc C of the University of Kansas. The BIOLOGICAL IMPLEMENTATION Student Center, 1629 W. 19th St. THE GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. There will be a lecture on SERIAL MONOGAMY by Nancele L. Gonzalez of the National Science Foundation at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
Grants and Awards . . .
The University of Kansas has received a $30,000 grant from the EASTMAN The University of Kansas has received a $30,000 grant from the EASTMAN. The grant will be used for educational purposes not covered by state taxation.
ELLAS K. MICHAELS, professor of human development, has received a three-year grant from the NIAA4 to study ways to stop seizures during alcoholic drinking.
Three students and an alumnus have won first place in a NATIONAL DESIGN CONTEST sponsored by the American Society of Interior Designers. They are Lucy L. Colbert, Chesterfield, Mo.; Barbara Haman, Creve Coeur, Mo.; Susan Phillips, Washington D.C.; all fifth-year visual arts students; and Michael Nelson, Independence, a 1975 graduate of the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
RONALD SRUILL, Haven graduate student, has received a Fulbright-Hays fellowship and a year to study modern drama at the University of Malawi in West Germany.
"Collector's Choice" is the title of the third annual sales exhibit, which features more than 130 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs.
A sales exhibition of art objects covering western and oriental art from the middle ages to the present, will be on display at Sooner Museum of Art through Dec. 23.
Art objects on sale at Spooner
William Hennessey, curator of collections, said Friday that the earliest work was dated 1500 A.D. and that the works were in various regional, local and international art work.
He said that outstanding works by such master artists as Jacques Louis David and German painter Jacob Philipp Hackert were published in 1925. Edward Waller, Salvador Dali, Joséf
There are many prints of Lawrence and Quantrill's raid from Harper's magazine in the late 19th century.
Albers, Thomas Hart Benton and Robert Rauschenberg.
Several high quality cartoons by Honore Daumier are on exhibit, along with Japanese prints from the early 1900s and original wallpaper designs from 1920.
"There's a strong emphasis on drawings," Hemesey said, "because art prices are so high this way that they are one of things most people are still able to afford."
Prices for the art objects, all of which are
for sale, range from $10 to $4,000.
"One of the ideas for this sale is not so much to make money as to let people know
they don't have to be rich to afford original works of art," he said.
"Probably three-fourths of our buyers are members of the museum and KU faculty."
Hennessey said the exhibition was also designed for non-buyers, to enable them to view some of the finest items currently or the art market.
The objects were selected by museum officials from galleries in New York, Los Angeles, London, Kansas, South Carolina Florida and Colorado.
"Collector's Choice" is on view at the museum from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1:30 to 4:45 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
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--cordially invites you to an exhibit of paintings by
2120 W. 9th
The Department of Painting and Sculpture and SUA Present the
Fourth Annual Art Escapades Bohemian Ball
Dec.13 8:30-12:00 p.m. Union Ballroom
Free Beer Music by Tide
Tickets *2.50 at SUA
The First National Bank of Lawrence
Jack O'Hara
prominent Kansas City artist and member of the American Watercolor Society
December 9 through December19
Monday through Thursday 9:30-3:00 Friday 9:30-3:00,4:00-6:00
Main Bank Lobby, 9th and Massachusetts