KUAC reproved
By MARTISCHILLER
Staff Writer
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) got a slap on the wrist last night from the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee in a ruling and recommendation on the Wendell Barker case.
Finance and Auditing had several alternatives in making its ruling. They ranged from saying that Barker wasn't discriminated against and KUAC wouldn't be discriminated against to Barker had been discriminated against and KUAC would lose all of its allocation.
The committee said that Barker was inadvertently discriminated against, but he has no evidence of such discrimination.
The suit in question, tested by Wendell Barker, Hutchinson third-year law student, charged that the KUAC, in amending its bylaws in March, had eliminated consideration of white male students for board comments in 175. Barker is a white male.
THE COMMITTEE said that Article I of the KUAC Bylaws violated Article 10 of the Senate Code and discriminated against Barker.
Article I of the KUAC Bylaws defines the make-up of the KUAC Board. It says that the student board, including the student body president and the chairman of the Senate Sports Committee. It also states that there will be one minority student member and one majority student member.
The committee said that the reverse discrimination against Barker was due to the timing of his application for appointment. When Barker applied, the two ex officio positions (student body president and Sports Committee chairman) were filled by white males. One of the two remaining positions was already filled by a woman.
ARTICLE 10 of the code allows students the right to participate in any University-sponsored or University-approved activity regardless of race, religion, ethnic
background, political affiliation or sex,
unless sex is a qualification.
The Senate Rules and Regulations state that the Senate may not fund any organization that violates the Student Code. The KUAC has been allocated $147,000 by the Legislature, half of its appropriation, KUAC is to receive the remaining $73,000 in January 1976.
The committee recommended that the Senate withhold further funding of KUAC until its bylaws were amended to comply with Article 10 of the Student Code.
BARKER WAS PLEASED with the committee's recommendation.
"If the Senate follows this recom-
ment, it will interfere and drop my
case against KUAC," he said.
A failure of Article 10 to comply with the Affirmative Action Guidelines was blamed by the committee as one of the reasons the discrimination had occurred.
The Guidelines provide that women and minorities be given an equal opportunity to be hired or appointed to University positions.
KUAC was trying to comply with the Affirmative Action Guidelines and inadvertently violated Article 10, the committee said.
J. Hammond McNish, adjunct professor of business, represented KUAC at the meeting. The KUAC board could be expected to make the recommended changes quickly if the Senate passed the resolution, he said
"I MURE THEY'LL move with some
expenditure, about $73,000 worth," he said.
The committee recognized that KUAC hadn't been intentionally discriminatory and that Barker had been a victim of discrimination. He was not a non-discriminatory. The committee said.
Barker was asked to respond to the statement that since the student body president and the Sports chairman were not in agreement, this institution itself wasn't discriminated against.
Barker quoted a ruling handed down by William O. Douglas former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in a reverse discrimination case that said that benign racial discrimination wasn't benign to the person who was affected.
GSC committee allots remaining 75-76 funds
After considering requests from 11 graduate student organizations, the budget committee of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) last night allotted the remaining funds from its original Student Senate allocation of $9,209.
Decisions made by the budget committee must be presented to and approved by the GSC executive committee before they become effective.
Of the 869 remaining for 1975-76 fiscal year program funding, the budget committee allocated $827. Requests for funds had totaled $1,950.
Requests from five new graduate student groups were among those considered by the committee. Of the $465 requested by those groups $407 was allocated.
The new groups, their requests and the committee's suggested allocations were: Rehabilitation in Psychology, $125, $125; Systematics and Ecology, $96, $96;
Graduate Students in Health, Physical Education and Recreation, $22, $66; Masters of Public Administration Student Education, $25, $25; and Radiation and Biophysics, $23, $25.
Six graduate organizations that had previously been awarded funds were also considered. Those groups, their requests and the committee they suggested allocations to, were not available; nothing; Graduate Alliance of Students in History, $200; $110; Graduate Association of Students in Philosophy, $240; $120; GSC office, $200; nothing; Linguistic Graduate Students Association, $134; $80; and research grant of American Studies Students. $200; $100.
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
The committee denied most or all of the requests of those organizations that, in the committee's view, hadn't adequately justified a need for the money. Such organizations may present amended requests to the GSC within 10 days.
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