KANSAN
The University Daily
Friday, March 6, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 110 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By KATHRYN KASE
By KATHRYN KASI Staff Reporter
Shankel to address issues
Major issues facing the University of Kansas will be addressed at a University-wide convocation after spring break, Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said yesterday...
Designated as the convocation's feature speaker, Shankke declined to say what issues would be addressed. He said that the convocation was suggested yesterday by KU's chapter of the American Association of University Professors executive board.
The AAUP was not the first group to express
"the members of the AAPU executive board felt there were some major issues the University needed to address," he said. "They asked if I would convene an all-University meeting and I agreed."
concern about the issues facing KU. Shankel said various administrators talked to him as well.
But he denied that the convocation would be held as an emergency measure.
"There are just a number of major issues that they wanted me to address," he said.
However, the convocation was the AAUP's idea, Shankel said.
The approach Shankel had planned was a test of the letter, similar to the letter in the Kansan Wednesday.
That letter discussed academic standards for athletes. Those standards have been in question since the Kansas City Times published an article about a student's academic standards were lowered for athletes.
Adverse public reaction to the letter did not affect his decision to assemble the convocation.
Swartz would not reveal what the AAUP and Shankel thought were the major issues.
He said it was too early to tell about reaction to the letter.
'We felt that this was the time to bring some of these issues out into the open,' she said.
Braided Method of our conversation.
"We felt that this was the time to bring some of
these issues out into the open," she said. Swartz would not reveal what the AAPJ and
Evelyn Swartz, AAUP president, lauded Shankel's endorsement of the convention.
"I think I have to respect his confidence on that," she said.
Funds sought for Howorth addition
No specific date for the convocation has been set, Shankel said, but it will occur after spring break, which ends March 22. He said the date would be announced next week.
Neither Shankel nor Swartz could remember the last time such a convocation was held.
The place is also uncertain.
"It depends on whether I think there might be 50 or 500 people," Shankel said. "I think that Allen Field House can be ruled out, though."
Greek officers assert no prejudice intended
By LENDA WALTON Staff Reporter
Offices of KU's residential fraternities and sororites deny they discriminate when accepting members. But members of minority groups are scarce in KU's Greek system. Of the 3,000 fraternity and sorority members, fewer than 200 are active in their groups, and most of this minority membership is in the black Greek organizations.
The Alpha Phi Alpha is the only one of the back Greek organizations at KU with a host.
"It's more or less segregation by choice or force," David Raban president of Alpha Phi.
But membership in both fraternities and sororites is open regardless of race, race, or national origin.
The Black Panhellenic Council coordinates KU's eight black Greek organizations. None except Alpha Phi Alpha participate, the interfraternity board is formed by students because they are non-residential chapters.
Neither the Panhellenic Association, which coordinates KU's 13 residential sororities, or the Interfraternity Council, which coordinates the 23 residential fraternities, makes any attempt to activity recruit minority members, accepts students and president Sara Snyer and Interfraternity council president Mark McClanahan.
"The way we look at it, there should be no discrimination for anything—height, weight, race," Mary Murgua, vice president of Panhellenic and a Mexican-American, said. "Our only requirement is 12 hours and a 2.0 grade average."
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In January, the Panhellenic Association held its rush. More than 600 women registered, and 384 plued a sorority. But only about one other minority women went through rush.
These fraternities and sororites also admit members regardless of race, but Raban said the average white student would feel uncomfortable, just as a black student would feel uncomfortable in a white Greek organization.
The seven black Greek non-residential groups are Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Sigma Gamma Rho and Zeta Phi Beta sororites and Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi and Phi Beta Sigma fraternities.
Rabon said that lack of support and recognition from the University was the reason blacks had only one residential Greek house.
For the most part, black Greek groups
support from alumni at other Greek hawks.
"For more of them to get involved in other groups would be defeating our purpose."
"The black Greek organizations were formed to fill the needs of blacks and minorities," Wilson, Atchison graduate professor, said there are to promote the education of minorities.
But black Greek leaders said they are intentionally about the future of their race.
optimistic about the future of those groups. A former president of the Black Panther Party, who later there was a movement toward more involvement in the Greek system. But she does not think more minority students will be able to participate nationally white fraternities and sororites.
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governor to offer an amendment to his recommendations to put back the $184,005 to cover the University's expected deficit in its contributions to the employee retirement fund.
The full committee will finish hearing subcommittee reports today and will take final action on the individual and system-wide budgets.
Both houses are facing a March 13 deadline to take action on their own bills that they can comply with.
The KU subcommittee's stand on the Haworth
addrew the only debate yesterday.
"Maybe those are euphemisms for what we have. Hein said, referring to the language in the sport
Subcommittee chairman Ron Hein, R-Topke, said that Snow Hall was inadequate, unsuitable because of the steps that he took to alleviate those conditions were in the best interest of the University and the state.
"That's correct," Hein answered.
Steineger told the committee that this was an example of why the public criticized lawmakers.
COMMITTEE MEMBER Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, interrupted Hein and asked, "But what did you do?"
Hayden shared Steinger's feelings about the Legislature, but for a different reason.
"We in government can't figure out how to work things around," he said. "It would be more important to fix up conditions (at KU) than to pursue education (playing lids at Wichita State)."
He said the deep cuts were being made in his proposed budget to avoid a tax increase next year.
"Taking from one area and putting it in another does not mitigate the need for a tax law."
Hayden said it was not fair to ask some to sacrifice while others were told it all right to get
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There were an estimated 13,000 people killed in El Salvador in 1800. Stansifer said that it was impossible to determine which side, left or right, was doing most of the killing.
But both sides have accused each other of bungling sloppy killing people who are not really involved in the struggle.
Stansifer said that he had surprised to find that most of the people he talked with in El and Salvador were more upset with the leftist terrorists than with those of the right.
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