KU power structure slow to admit women
By SANDY HERD
Staff Writer
A historical review of women in top administrative positions at the University of Kansas could be summarized by a single position that, by tradition, required a woman—the dean of women.
With few, but notable, exceptions the advancement of women to administrative positions has scarcely scratched the surface of a male-dominated administration.
This is not to say that progress has been made. But, depending on the data used to measure progress, it may be that progress has been missed.
In 1975 women held 27.8 percent of full-time administrative positions. That percentage increased to
CONSIDERING THAT only 17 percent of KU's faculty last fall were women, those figures seem to indicate that women in the administration are far outdistancing women in faculty positions.
That is not necessarily the case.
The problem with the administration data is that women constitute those percentages only when the classification "administrator" stretches to include the lower levels of the administrative structure:
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assistants to deans and assistant directors of Audio Reader, the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, the office of affirmative action and the office of minority affairs.
"Women are the directors of the smallest programs and the least funded programs," Bonnie Ritter, director of the office of affirmative action, said yesterday, "and they're making the lowest salaries."
If salaries are, as traditionally they are, any measure of the importance in power and scope of an administrative position, then the disparity between the average salaries of men and women indicates that men still have the clout and women are getting the titles.
The average salary for women administrators with 12 month appointments was only 40 percent of the male equivalent.
"SO IF EITHER salary or title is an index of administrative responsibility, women shared very little
of the decision making power at the University of Kansas, "Ritter said.
TITLE IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination at academic institutions. In 1975, the implementing regulation specifically prohibited discrimination in, among other areas, the hiring, upgrading and promotion practices at universities.
The Affirmative Action Plan, adopted at KU in 1973 and revised in 1977, established policies and procedures designed to prevent discrimination. It also outlined steps to recruit, train and improve the status of women, minorities and persons with disabilities.
THE TITLE IX and Affirmative Action as safeguards against sex discrimination, why are so difficult to enforce?
The common reason given by administrators is that a sufficient pool of qualified women for admissions will be available.
"Until not too many years ago, there were not too many women in the academic rankings."
Most top administrators, especially those connected with academic administration, have come up
through the ranks, typically from full professor, administrator of a school, lower level University administration and upper level Universitywide administration.
Although the intermediate levels vary from one discipline or field to another, it is at these levels that experience in budgeting, supervising, developing programs and other administrative skills are acquired.
THE EXISTENCE and development of pools of qualified candidates is the bone of contention at KU.
Women contend that the pools exist but that progress in developing the pools varies from one area to another.
"There has been good progress in the office of students affairs," Ritter said, "but much slower progress in the other vice chancellors' offices and in the chancellor's office."
In the recently reorganized office of student affairs, 20 women were appointed, the highest appointment received by any woman.
"Typically, the ones that have come from the chancellor's office have been those that would be unsurprising, like director of affirmative action, minority affairs and women's athletes." Ritter said.
RITTER SAID women and minorities were usually appointed to those offices because a much larger proportion of white males already had passed those levels and the accompanying lower salaries.
"The farther you go down the ladder of administration, the greater proportion of women and men work there."
Sankei told the women who are assistants and directors of relatively small University divisions were, nevertheless, increasing the pool of qualified candidates at the intermediate administrative level.
Ritter said, "Women are typically put into programs that are dead-end programs. If you look at the directors at this school for this current year, they directed the offices with relatively low budgets.
"A GOOD EXAMPLE of this would be the comparison of the budgets of the director of men's sports to the budget of the city."
Ritter said one of the reasons often given for not promoting women was that they had not had enough experience with complex budgets or supervisory experience.
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U.S. reporters to face charges in Soviet court
Wednesday June 28,1978
MOSCOW (AP)-Soviet officials yesterday ordered two Moscow-based U.S. reporters to appear in court to face charges of civil slander.
In a separate case, the Soviets temporarily freed a U.S. businessman accused of smuggling currency in exchange for the company's shares charged with spying in the United States.
Court summonses were hand delivered to Craig R. Whitney, 34, of the New York Times and Harold D. Piper, 39, of the Baltimore Sun while they sat in their Moscow offices. They were ordered to appear in court today but were not told why.
Meanwhile, Francis J. Crawford, Moscow service manager for International Harvester Co. of Chicago, was released from Lefortivo Prison about 24 hours after two USissons firing spp charges in the United States, a tradeoff negotiated by the two governments.
The reporters said they thought the charges were related to dispatches that they wrote from Tbilisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia, disputing the authenticity of a nationally televised "confession" last month of a Georgian dissident.
Crawford, a 43-year-old Mobile, Ala., native, was arrested and taken from his car June 12 at a stop light in Moscow. He denied that he changed money on the black market, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
CRAWFORD'S ARREST was thought to have been in retaliation for the arrest of the two Russians, Vladik Alekandrovitch Golubin and Mikhail Navayev, 43, who were accused of accepting falsified U.S. defense secrets from an unidentified U.S. Navy officer who was cooperating with the FBL. They were detained by the Soviet ambassador in the United States.
Crawford and the two Russians are to be held for trial in Moscow and the United States, but there was speculation that all three would be sent home in another exchange either before or just after their trials.
The reporters said the articles that apparently got them in trouble with Soviet officials dealt with dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia. They quoted friends of Gamsakhurdia as saying his confession had been fabricated by authorities.
Garnakhurda was accused of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Both reporters said they refused to sign the summons but would appear in court.
The spokesman said a siren system for Lawrence and Lecompton was being tested to see whether the system could be activated at either place.
the campus warning siren that went off yesterday at 3:15 p.m. was intentionally activated to test the emergency preparedness system, a spokesman for the local emergency preparedness organization said yesterday.
Siren sounding not accidental, spokesman says
"We were doing some wiring interconnections between the radio control unit and the receiver."
The siren at KU is located on top of Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall.
He said the sirens, which act as disaster and civil defense warnings, were activated throughout the city as well as on the KU campus.
Tender aardeners
Dawn Van Hec and Terra Lybin pick onions from the organic garden that pupils planted
at the Lawrence Open School. "It makes the kids realize that food doesn't come' directly from Dillon's shelves," the school's coordinator said. See story page four.
Ax attack by Russian kills Swedes
MOSCOW (AP)—In the bloodiest attack on foreign visitors in years, a 24-year-old Soviet watchman watched yesterday axed two elderly Swedish tourists to death and seriously injured a third outside a central Moscow hotel.
The incident came a month after a hooded gunman held two employees hostage at a downtown airline office and threw into the spotlight official Soviet statements that violent crime is merely a bourgeois act. In fact, happy, secure framework of Soviet society
Hotel officials said the victims apparently were preparing to leave Moscow and were out for a final stroll through the downtown area when the attack occurred.
The attack took place at about 4:30 a.m.
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Witnesses said the tourists were standing with other Swedes outside the Intourist Centre, which was decorated Kremlin, when the tall, husky Russian rushed up and began swinging at them.
Witnesses said the assailant, described as about 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 20 pounds, took an ax from a briefcase and started swimming wildly.
The bodies were removed after about 10 minutes.
Well-placed Soviet sources identified him as Alexander Nazhikhy, who worked at a local radio station.
A policeman and several cab drivers overpowered the assailant, witnesses said.
The Soviet news agency Tass said *Invictour, the Soviet organization for foreign tourism*, expressed condolences to the Swedish Embassy in Moscow.
HOTEL OFFICIALS said the suspect work. Witnesses said he appeared glassy eyes.
Opinions polarized on KU Title IX impa
University of Kansas administrators expressed satisfaction yesterday with KU's progress toward compliance with Title IX and said there probably was no need for an investigation by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
However, Anne Levinson, a member of the Women's Athletic Council, differed with the administrators, saying that the law needed enforcement to be effective.
Levinson, who has played field hockey at the University of Kansas for the past two years and who has been a member of the Council of Women Athletes and the Women's Athletic Council, said that there were many disparities between the women's basketball athlete distribution and the an investigation by HEW was "definitely" needed.
"THERE'S NOT ONE area that's in equity with the men's department," she
"There's no point in having Title IX if Levine can enforce it." Levin, Windup, Magazin.
However, Doug Messier, assistant athletic
investigator at the University of New
Ireland was no need for an in-
terview for HEW
July 21 is the deadline by which such institutions must comply with the regulations
"Everybody has a lot of work to do, and I sure HEEW does, too." he said.
Title IX is part of the Educational Amendments Act passed by Congress in 1972. It prohibits sex discrimination at any institutional institution receiving federal funds.
KU will be in compliance with Title IX by the July 21 deadline. Messer said,
women to participate in all types of athletics.
THE LAW STIPULATES that schools must provide equal opportunity for men and
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
and William Hogan, associate executive
vice chancellor, agreed yesterday that
much more work would make no difference in University plans.
Messer said there was no sex discrimination in KU athletics.
"We're still going to go ahead with plans to improve women's intercollegiate athletics as rapidly as we can," Shankel said.
Messer said women got more funding from the state than men.
Hogan said, "Our plans to provide better opportunity in women's athletics will not be missed."
"I have a 'wait and see' attitude about the whole thing. I think it will be quite a while before the correct interpretation of the law is determined.
However, Ken Snow, women's gymnastics coach, said, "I would like to see HEW go ahead and check very quickly on individual institutions.
BOTH SAID they hoped an investigation would not be necessary.
"It's very difficult for people in our department to hang on when we don't know."
Marian Washington, director of women's athletics, said it was possible that an investigation of whether KU had complied with Title IX would be needed.
"There's no question that we have had some concerns in the department," she
said. "A complaint was filed last year, and other complaints may be filed later."
She said disparities still existed in the
nine-venue budget, especially in coaches'
budget.
HOWEVER, SHE said she did not expect to file a complaint herself.
J. I. Lau, a representative of HEW, had said no investigation was scheduled to determine whether KU was in compliance with TITLE X.
Mike Harper, a Women's Athletic Council
member, said. "The government has passed another law that looks good but has no bite.
"A lot of lip service is being given to compliance."
Harpman, student body president, and he thought there was still ex discrimination in his school.
Although Harper said he did not plan to face a complaint with HEW, he said he theorized that Mr. Bickert would
"It's another example of a law that looks good on paper, but is understaffed and will be overrun."
HOGAN SAID HE thought TITLE IX was good even if an investigation was not made
"The law is doing some good," he said. "It causes people to think and re-evaluate what they are doing to improve women's athletics and to provide equal opportunity."
According to Title I, HEW has the right federal funds from institutions that do not accept it.
An assurance form certifying compliance must be sent with each of KU's applications for federal financial assistance for any educational program or activity.
Shankel, Hogan and Messer all said that if occasion should arise, they would sign such an order.
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Senate vote blocks oil import fee
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate voted yesterday to block President Carter from imposing an import fee on foreign oil, and the Supreme Court ruled that lawmakers of try to avoid the problem.
Senators voted 49-38 for the measure sponsored by Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., that would deprive Carter of federal funds needed to impose such a fee as a way to encourage energy conservation by making imported oil more expensive.
The measure was amended to an $8.8 billion funding agreement with the Treasury Department. Funding is due in 2014.
The Senate later passed the bill by voice vote. It now goes to a conference committee with the House to reconcile differences with the House version of the same legislation, which does not contain such an import-fee ban.
Asked whether the vote would hamper Carter's effectiveness at next month's economic summit in Bonn, Powell said, "It certainly further erodes the confidence of the rest of the world in our ability to act responsibly to deal with our own problems."
VOTING AGAINST imposition of an import test in a coalition of Republicans and Democracy Democrats.
At the White House, press secretary Jody Powell said Carter viewed the Senate vote as "just another unfortunate demonstration of the desire to duck a tough problem and of why we're still the only industrialized nation world without a national energy policy."
The Senate also voted 54-34 to cut 2 percent, or 844 million, from the appeal process. The House has not voted.
White House staff and various other agencies included in the bill.
Dole cited recent reports that Carter might use the occasion of next month's economic summit to announce a fee on oil imports of $5 to $6 to a barrel.
Such a move would be inflationary and could trigger price increases by oil industry companies.
Administration officials for some time have held out the likelihood that the president would take direct steps to raise the price of oil—such as an import fee—if Congress fails to pass his embattled proposal for a tax on domestic crude oil.
Democratic Senate leaders unsuccessfully argued Tuesday that prohibiting the president from exercising such an option would have as he prepares to meet with world leaders.