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Discrimination
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managers better understand some of the laws concerning their employees, Allen said.
"We started a program last spring on equal employment opportunities to familiarize managers with the Equal Employment Opportunity Plan how to treat employees fairly," Allen said.
Facilities Operations administrators maintain that there has been no discrimination problem.
Bob Brought, director of Med Center Facilities Operations, said that other complaints had been filed in the past and that the allegations were always found to be "false and unfounded."
"I think most of these complaints result from personality conflicts and personnel problems."
Roger Oroke, University director of support services, will not comment directly on the eligibility of applicants.
"I hate to see them (the complaints)," Oroke said. "There is always some concern that discrimination might exist, but similar (investigative) processes have been implemented in the past and there was no indication of discrimination."
MED CENTER Executive Vice Chancellor David Waxman and Med Center Affirmative Action Director Melvin Williams would not comment on the complaints, except to acknowledge that they knew the complaints had been filed.
The three individual complaints—Williams, Taylor and Burkarth all received at least a "satisfactory" rating during the rating period before the filing of their complaints. All three stood by their charges that they were not being treated fairly.
Williams said he had received only one promotion in the three and one-half years he had played.
"I only got it because the man who had the position died," Williams said.
Burkhard alluded that he was denied a EECQP carte to attend at an EECQP charter on Tweaked first complaint.
TAYLOR SAID Facilities Operations administrators called a meeting of all the employees who worked in Taylor's shop before his complaint reached its EEOC hearing.
"They took Dennis (Burkart) and six other guys down to the hearing to leafy against me."
Burkhard he said he would not testify against
Operations administrators suggested he do.
"I told the truth at the hearing and Bob Brought and Steve Hughes (an associate director of Facilities Operations) got upset," Burkham told when they made things pretty rough for me."
Brought's name was mentioned again by Burkartia in 1978 incident.
"When a construction supervisor position opened up, they hired Ed Saunders, even though Larry Lyle (an assistant director) told me he required an additional qualified applicant for the job." Burkhardt said.
BURKHART SAID he was told by Brought and Mike Wood, associate director for structural maintenance, that Saunders got the job because he needed the money more than Burkhan did.
However, Wood said he interviewed seven
applicants for the position. He said Saunders was chosen fairly.
Saunders could not be reached for comment. Burkhalt also alleged that as soon as Saunders took over as his supervisor, he started harassing Burkhart.
Saunders could not be reached for comment.
"It was mostly verbal harassment," Burkhart said. "He (Saunders) started telling me that everything I knew I learned to do the wrong wav."
IN NOVEMBER OF 1978, two months after Saunders became Burkart's supervisor, Burkart filed his complaint. Burkart said he still had not been heard from the EEC.
Although Burkart has not heard from the EEOC, Taylor has heard from the EEOC on both of his cases.
The EEOC accepted Taylor's first complaint, filed in June of 1977. The Commission dismissed his second complaint, which was filed in August of 1980, because of a lack of evidence.
Taylor tiled his second complaint because the problems that caused him to file his first complaint were not corrected after the EEOC found that his allegations were true.
Taylor alleged in his first complaint that he had not gotten a promotion since 1973 because he was black. Yet he later said that he had never applied for a promotion.
"I did not apply for a promotion because I knew that the administrators would give me a promotion."
TAYLOR SAID the main reason he did not apply for a promotion was that other blacks had been promoted has been stripped of their authority. The promotions were "hollow."耳
Taylor fled his second complaint because a white man in his shop, Glenn Kessler, received several promotions and became an assistant worker at the Med Center for only three months.
"When they promoted one man, they took all of power away from him," Taylor said. "Now, the president is much more relaxed."
Taylor also alleged that Mike Wood hand-picked Kessler for the position.
Kessler said he had received only one promotion in the two years he had worked at the company.
"I started out as a laborer, because there were no carpenter positions," Kessler said. "On August 15, 1980, I was promoted to supervisor of maintenance at Bell Memorial."
RECORDS SHOW that Kessler actually received two promotions during his first two years at the Med Center. The first promotion was to a position as maintenance carpenter on November 1, 1979. The second promotion was to a maintenance supervisor position.
Once the EEOC investigates all the employees' complaints, it will either accept them and issue instructions to correct the problems or reject them for lack of evidence.
John Nicholson, public information officer for the EOEC in St. Louis, said that he could not comment on specific complaints, but that the EOEC had done nothing to define the wishes of the person filing the complaint.
The EEOC said it did not expect to settle all of the backlog complaints before 1983. That gives Facilities Operations two years to take corrective action on its own.
EEOC
assigning an investigator to Williams' case is the number of steps the EEOC must go through before an investigator is assigned.
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After someone files an EEOC complaint, he must sit down with an intake officer and fill out a form detailing the allegations. Wach said. The case will be seen to see whether it has jurisdiction in the case.
"That was one reason we had so much backlog," Welch said. "We were taking cases that were not in our jurisdiction."
Within 10 days after the EEOC determines it has jurisdiction, a fact-finding conference is held. This gives both sides a chance for a "no-fault" settlement, Welch said.
If n settlement cannot be negotiated, the complaint goes to extended fact-finding. An investigator is assigned to determine whether the charging party still has a grievance, Welcome
satisty both sides, Weich said. "The arrangements can get pretty novel."
"In many instances, after facts come out in a fact-finding hearing, the charged party no longer exists."
"The fact-finder tries to arrive at terms that
THE INVESTIGATOR checks personnel files, interviews personnel directors and other employees and checks the individual's case file to verify the charging party's claims, Welch said.
If the charging party still has a claim, then the EEOC issues a right-to-sue letter. Welch said.
"The individual can file suit on his own in district court, or we will put the case on a
ligation track, which means the EEOC will file the suit itself. "Welsh said."
However, before the EEOC can take a complaint to court, EEOC commissioners must approve the decision to sue. After approval is given, the case is sent back to the district office from which it came in order to initiate court action.
The EEOC commissioners approved 355 cases for court litigation in fiscal 1980, Welch said.
The EDOC's budget for fiscal 2018 was $144 million, but its proposed budget for fiscal 1982 is
Scholarship
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To handle all the complaints, the EEOC has a staff of 3,700. It originally expected to get rid of all of the backlog cases by 1982, but because President Reagan's budget cuts would reduce the EEOC staff to 3,400, the goal for eliminating backlog cases is now 1983.
penalty. At the University of Kansas Medical
students participated 80 percent of the medical
students participates in the study.
Vancrum said that another change by the student required the criteria of the areas the student must practice.
"With the changes, a student would be given tuition credit for practicing in an underserved area in Kansas," he said, "and the student would have to make an effort to live in a critically underserved area of the state."
AN AREA without a sufficient number of patrons per person and per square mile qualification.
the state rural hospitals qualifies as work in an underserved area.
"I know a lot of people who need the scholarship, but have absolutely no intention of serving in an underserved area," one student preparing to enter the KU Med Center next fall said. "To be honest though, I do know of two or three people who are serious about using the scholarship and actually practicing in an underserved area.
"Still, a lot of people use this as a cheap way to get through med school."
According to another pre-med student, Dave Merritt, the reason that a lot of people have to use the scholarship is because KU's tuition rates are so high.
MERRITT SAID that he could attend a medical school in another state a lot cheaper than he could by going to KU. He also said that because a lot of people were accepted only to KU, they did not have any choice and had to take the scholarships to pay KU's expenses.
Merritt said that one of the problems behind the high tuition rates was the fact that the Kansas Legislature did not seem to strongly back education in the state.
"When you have a med school where the tuition is nearly twice as much as the schools surrounding it, unreasonable to expect them to pay the high rate," he said. "Those people are then forced to use the scholarship—and now they are cutting that back."
Ids
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scan it to check out books. That strip with the
same color will be under the plastic in
the front of the case.
The student's name and number will not be in the transcript. In the University has asked that it be retained.
Currently, the Wakkins Memorial Hospital admissions department uses charge card printing machines with the embossed IDs when admitting patients.
"Our people feel that it keeps people from filling in the registration slips with messy handwriting," Martin Wollman, director of health services, said. "We have continuously said it would be nice to have the embossing on the card."
BUT DYCK SAID that the hospital had never
embarked on embassing during its meetings with his office.
"Well, if they aren't embassed, students will
have to learn the names in their own
handwriting," Wolman said.
"They will embellish the card because they have more numbers on it. They'll put a number on the card and a student number
The University of Kansas Medical Center,
the University of Kansas Medical Center,
which also offers the pet card for its
students with diabetes, is offering a free
Space will be left at the bottom of the new card. Space can embody it, Dyck said. The Med Center is located in New York.
"If we want to spend the money for an emboss large enough to handle our population here, we can," Dyck said. "But so far, no one has said anything."
AS IT STANDS now, KU must purchase a kit to manufacture the IDs, Dyck said. The kit includes a camera, a developer timer, a photo cutter and a laminator. The University will buy three kits, giving one unit to the Med Center and keeping two for use on the Lawrence campus.
Dyck would not say how much the system would cost.
Dyck listed the availability of positive identification as a plus for the picture card.
Yet, the Kansas Union accepts both the plastic and the paper temporary ID cards now in use for
"If I was a downtown merchant, I wouldn't cash a check from someone who used a student card."
check-cashing, purposes. Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, agreed that the picture card would help cashiers to positively identify check writers.
"It would also stop people from using someone else's ID card," he said. "I think we would be in a position to take action."
CLIFF HAKA, director of circulation at Watson Library, said he would be in favor of getting红 of the paper temporary IDs, which cannot be ontically scanned.
"What we have to do in that case is to hand-key them," Haka said. "The problem with that is, potentially, it's a little slower and less accurate."
Accuracy shouldn't be a problem, Haka said,
because when a student number is keyed in, the
corresponding name appears on the computer
terminal screen. Terminal operators are supposed
to make sure the name corresponds to the
number.
"Keying in the wrong number is a thing that could happen in one in 1,000 times," Haka said.
The picture ID should also eliminate the problem of students' using one another's cards to play.
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