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Thursday, November 10, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Bias hearings to stay confidential
Members of the Affirmative Action grievance procedures discrimination board decided this week that all board hearings would remain strictly confidential and that involved parties would be restricted from meeting each other during hearings.
The board met Tuesday night to make
initial procedural decisions for the hearing of
the committee to the Board.
The board hearing is the final step in the Affirmative Action grievance procedures and is designed to deal with complaints of Kansas faculty, staff and students.
According to Marilyn Ainsworth, associate professor of law and board chairman, there were questions by board members about whether parties involved in a discrimination hearing would be allowed to cross examine each other.
"We're trying to keep people as unmotivated as possible, so we're going to be careful."
SHE ALSO SAID there was a question about whether hearings could be open if the parties involved chose to waive the confidentiality stipulation written in the procedures. It was agreed that all cases would be closed.
"We had given them the option of a hearing by an ad hoc hearboard, but in all cases the parties chose to wait until the judge sent the Dewers, Affirmative Action mediator, said.
"I think it's important to the process that it all be confidential," Answorth said.
The new grievance procedures were
discussed at University Aug. 1, but appl
dation of a bribery case.
Names of the discrimination hearing board members were announced last Friday by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
Babcock to receive solar energy
Babcock Place, a senior citizen apartment building at 1700 Massachusetts St., is expected to have lower electric bills next winter. The complex will also make it easier for the complex to solar energy.
The Lawrence Housing Authority (LHA) hopes to cut the electric bill by $15,000 to $20,000 next year, Sarah Peters, executive director of the LHA, said yesterday.
Peters said the LHA was waiting for the Kansas Department of Housing and Urban Development to approve a $157,000 grant Babcock Place qualified to receive. The Lawrence City Commission approved the Tuesday night.
The Kansas Union Bookstore, the Oread
Bookstore and the new Satellite Union
Bookstore will have a new manager,
effective Dec.1.
The new manager, Betty J. Brock, was selected by a University of Kansas search committee after the August resignation of J.D. Crestman.
New manager for bookstores to begin Dec.1
Warner Ferguson has been acting manager since August.
Brock now manages the Boise State
Universi's Bookstore in Boise, Idaho, and
has a national presence.
Before working at Boise State, she worked as special assistant to the vice president of student affairs, assistant bookstore manager and acting general manager of five bookstores at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Brock received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She also took graduate level college store management courses at Harvard University.
The money would come from a $6 million energy conservation program President Carter established a few months ago, she said. The money is to be used to install solar energy collectors and several small booster gas-fueled water heaters.
Peters said that Babcock Place now has an annual electric bill of $50,000 and that the building is being restored.
She said that the LHA expressed a desire to the Kansas Department of Housing and Urban Development in Topeka to cut the bill.
"Housing and Urban Development advised us to contact three energy conservation consultant companies to come in and discuss the materials might be able to be used," she said.
SHE SAID THAT of the three companies
contacted, only Energy Mid-West Inc., Kansas City, responded.
She was surprised when she found out Babcock Place qualified for the money, she said, because she believed more than one consultant firm's assessment of a need for an energy conservation improvement was needed.
She said the consultants found two areas on the floor to be the most logical place for the storage.
The solar energy would be used for space and water heating, she said.
"We spend $28,000 a year heating water and room space. We hope to decrease the cost of that expense to about $10,000 or less," she said.
Babcock Place is now entirely heated by electricity.
THE GRIEVANCE procedures require that the board comprise three faculty, three administrators, three students (at least one graduate) and three civil Service personnel.
The board must have at least three persons who are members of minorities and at least three women. The members will serve on the board for three years. The three-year board terms are staggered so that four classifications each classification, are replaced each year.
Ainsworth, James Akagi, professor of microbiology, and Edin Schorner, lec-
tologist.
Bill Hambleton, professor of geology, Phil Rankin, associate director of central personnel, and Vernell Spearman, assistant director of minority affairs, are representing the administration. Student members are Robert Presley, Chicago University; Sempkihls Lawrence graduate student, and ArtSola, Cottonwood falls sojourn.
BONNIE RITTEN, Affirmative Action director, said there had been delays in appointing the board, because, for example, he was not enrolled and had to be replaced. Another delay was that the selection committee waited to see whether Reynold T. Iwamoto, professor of chemistry, would receive a letter from the board after his recovery from heart surgery.
This is the first time a discrimination board has been used with the grievance procedures. The previous procedures lacked a time guidelines. Under the new procedures, a complaint must be heard within 60 days of its filing.
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