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Thursday, April 13, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Duties of Sunflower Hostesses redefined
By KERRY BARSOTTI
Staff Writer
Wanted: 12 University of Kansas women to serve as Sunflower Hostesses in recruiting high school athletes to KU. Duties include showing athletes and their parents the campus; sitting with them at games and making the athletes feel wanted.
making the athlete the KU men's athletic
Since 1975, part of the KU men's athlet
Suspect offered tape of murder, LA paper says
LOS ANGELES (UP1) - George Shamak is a suspect in the "Hillside Stranger" case, telephoned the Los Angeles Herald Examiner last Saturday and offered to sell a tape recording made during one of the 13 killings, police disclosed yesterday.
Shamshah, 27, an escaped convict from Massachusetts where he was served a term for armed robbery, is presently being held as a fugitive at a federal institution in San Francisco.
POLice Chief Daryl F. Gates said Herald Examiner editors informed the department that a man identifying himself as Shamkhal had phoned them offering to make information available about all the killings, including the tape recording, for $10,000.
Los Angeles police contacted the San Diego institution and confirmed that Shamshak had made a telephone call that day. Gates said the warden told police they had cut off further calls from Shamshak because they had a prison to run.
Shamshak last week was termed by Gates a prime suspect in the sex slayings because he had information that logically could only be known by a participant in the murder by detectives investigating the careers of women and women dating back to last September.
New German Cinema The Films of Wim Wenders
WIM WENDERS
Thursday, April 13
KING LEAR
directed and written by Grigor
Kozintsev Russian Cinema-cinema-
scope
7:30 p.m. $1.00 Woodruff
Friday, April 14
Friday, April 14
Special Film—Midwest Premiere
Wim Wenders'
"THE AMERICAN FRIEND"
with Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz,
"One of the Best Films of 1977"
3:30; 7:00 & 9:30 p.m.
$2.00
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Saturday, April 15
The complete works of filmmaker BABARA LINKEVITCH, in PERSON! including CHUNAMOON
SILVERPOINT, MORE . . .
8:00 p.m. $1.00 Forum
Monday, April 17
Photographers on Film
Robert Frank's
PULL MY DAISY
narration by Jack Kerouac with Allan Ginsberg, Peter Orlowski
THE PHOTOGRAPHER Dir.
William Van Dyk. A film about Ed-
ward Weston by a photographer and
Rainer Rim. $1.00. Woodruff
7:00 a.m.
DANNY LYON'S SOC SCI 127 Documentary on a Texas "tattoo artist" and body装饰.
Tuesday, April 18
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THE FIRE WITMN (Le Feu
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Dir. Paul Leduc, Radical Journalist
John Read's account of Pancho
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Wednesday, April 19
department's recruiting program has been to provide each prospective male athlete with a Sunflower Hostess while visiting KU. The hostess also answers questions about the school and introduces the athletes to KU athletes.
athletic.
Were selling them on KU'? Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director, said
he was selling them.
"We can't bring the recruits to KU and leave them by my side. With a hostess, I'll just go home."
UNTIL THE March meeting of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board, one of the responsibilities of the hostesses listed on the specification of duties had been to "help get prospective athletes dates if desired."
The KUAC board has since changed that specification to say only that the hostesses should "make prospective athletes feel wanted by KU."
Laura Pinkston, a member of the board, said that the program might be in violation of TITLE 1X, which states that an institution can not "classify applicants because of
sex.
"Sex cannot be a criterion for any job."
she said. "The main idea of giving persons who are not involved in the athletic program a chance to get involved is a good one, but I'm sure that there are some men on campus who would like to do something like this."
"TIM TWO or three years older than most of them, and thumb to think that I'd go back."
David Amberli, vice chancellor for student affairs, wanns it sure that the program was in its best shape.
"TD LIKE to see them expand the program into a general student booster club program."
However, Waugh said that the job would be better handled by women.
"When a recruit comes to campus, he wants to know about the social aspects of the school," he said. In my opinion, a young lady can respond to these questions more easily.
"It's a wholeome relationship. I think that the recruiter would enjoy meeting some of us," she said.
would say the department had considered men as well as women for the jobs, and women for the jobs.
In addition to the hostess, each recruit is assigned a host, one of our male athletes, to participate.
"I THINK there is a difference between what it is purported to be and what it is":
Elizabeth Banks, another member of the board, agreed that the hostess jobs might be reinstated.
"If you've ever seen those football players, they're just huge guys from out on the farm," she said. "All they think about is keeping them in line to keep an interesting conversation going."
Banks, assistant professor of classics and art history, pointed to a newsletter sent out by the athletic department showing one of the Sunflower Hostesses sitting on a bench in front of Wescoe Hall, with the caption "Sitting pretty."
"It is meant to be a way of introducing athletes to KU, but the fact that they are pretty girls, I think, puts it on a sexist level," she said.
Waugh said that the purpose of the photographs was to give recognition to those who were his jobs.
"I wouldn't say that was sexist," he said. "Land! Let's go check all the publications at KU that have pictures of young ladies. We'd be pretty busy."
JANET GORMAN, a Sunflower Hostess,
said that although she was not familiar with
Title IX, she did not think that the program
was sexist.
said. "I wouldn't join anything that would hurt my reputation."
as sexist.
"I'm careful about the things I join," she
Gorman, Kansas City, K安, senior, said she joined the Sanfower Hostesses team.
"I asked if I'd have to date the recruits and I was assured that it was an on-the-level organization and that I wouldn't have to date the guys," she said.
Another hostess, Sharon Mauer, Lawrence junior, said that the reputation controversy over the hostess program was ridiculous.
"It is a hard job," she said. "We have to sort of things about the University to tell it."
Mauer said that few of the hostesses ever dated the recruits they escort.
you mean same that appearance was not a major consideration in the hiring of managers?
"I wouldn't say that I was Miss Beauty Queen, but I went in with my cloth pumps."
However Waugh said, "Attractiveness and personality are important in the young ladies we choose," he said. "We want people to be a good goad—loyal trustworthy, brave."
Registration opens for run
Registration has begun for this spring's intramural cross country run. The 2.5-mile run on the west camp is set to start at 11 a.m. on April 22.
Students, faculty members and staff at
KU are encouraged to register at Recreation Services, 208 Robinson, until Friday. April 21. Registration also will be on the day of the race before 10:30 a.m.
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