University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 4, 1974
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Senator Is Equal Rights Watchdog
By SUZI SMITH
Kansas Staff Reporter
She says she's not a women's liberate because she has lost track of what that term means. But she has taken on the job of ensuring equal opportunities for representation in student government to all minority groups.
Her name is Becky Podrebara and she is
the first Affirmative Action Coordinator for the Student Senate.
"It's a new position," she says, so there's no precedent set. I can do anything I want.
Budget Increase Needed For 1976, Dykes Says
The position of Affirmative Action Coordinator was created by legislation passed in 1996.
Dykes said KU had the "best legislative in two decades or more." But he said the university's concern about allocations for increased open access faculty and staff. The 1976 fiscal year budget is before preparation for submission to the NCAC and will be approved at next year's launch.
Rising costs of electricity, fuel and equipment will require corresponding increases in the budget of the University of Kansas for the 1978 fiscal year, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday at biweekly news conference.
"Because of inflation, it is very difficult to continue to operate. Costs of electricity, telephones, equipment and utilities all have risen astronomically." Dwes said
The 1976 budget will request a 10 per cent increase in faculty salaries. That request, which is expected to be implemented soon,
year program that calls for a 10 per cent increase each year. The Kansas legislature recently approved a 10 per cent increase for the 1975 fiscal year.
Dykes said he wanted a raise in the salaries of classified personnel which would include his staff.
Pedreabare, Kansas City, Kan.,Jun, says she thinks her moderate but positive stand is the factor that get her the job. If the coordinaent needs people to move in, people off from getting involved,
The University of Kansas libraries, he said, need a 12 to 15 per cent budget increase to keep pace with the rising costs of books and periodicals.
"The budget is an ask budget," Dykes said. "There is a great deal of change after."
Dykes gave some reasons for the University's success with this year's budget. Legislators were convinced that KU's funding was real, he said. Good economics helped an economically good year in Kansas also helped KU's budget request, he said.
and student body president, after he included the proposition in his platform
"That doesn't mean I'll be any less firm," she says, "but I'll be more diplomatic."
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"There are some people already in the senate who have corrected others for saying chairman instead of chairperson," she says.
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She says the only time during her three weeks as coordinator she has done anything as a watchdog has been to assure that the senate's employment ads specify that women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
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Pobredarec sees three main functions in her job, acting as a watchdog for the senate, keeping people informed about important and recruiting involvement of minorities.
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"The purpose of affirmative action is to make access to student government available to groups that wouldn't normally have access," she says.
She will keep the senate informed of the activities of minorities and keep in touch
She says the most important part of her job will be a public relations effort to get more people from every group at the University involved in student government.
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Peddarebale says she has been involved in student government as a class officer and found that a greater amount of input is received from groups that aren't represented now.
with minority groups on campus to inform them about the senate.
She says she is trying to talk to all leaders of minority groups to explain her views.
Sometimes, she says, people don't get involved because they don't have the access routes. It is the opportunity for access that she says she wants to provide.
She says that most of the people she has contacted are already involved in other ways at the University, but says that they may have opportunities, hopes they will refer others to the senate.
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