The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Friday, January 23, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 80 USPS 650-640
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Forer, Dillingham travels start battle in state House
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Following up on criticism of the University of Kansas leveled Wednesday by State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland, a Lawrence lawyer who has reminded the House of its role in higher education.
The representative, Democrat Betty Jo Charilton, distributed a memorandum to each member of the House that said the personal opinions of legislators should "not take precedence over the traditions and practices of our free society."
The statement was in response to the speech Hoagland, R-Overland Park, made on the house floor. He called the KU School of Social Welfare a possible "seedbed of malcontents" and suggested changes in the system of faculty tenure.
HOAAGLAND SAID he was airing pent-up feelings on the way KU administrators Separiman and former faculty members Foster and Clarence and Carrie Hudson their trips to Iran in 1979. KU suspended the two
without pay. Force has remained at KU as an
contract that was re-posed by the University.
Yesterday Hoagland, as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced his committee would hold hearings on tenure at Regents schools next week.
Usually such hearings are in the House Ways and Means Committee, but Ways and Means Chairman John Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said he did not object to the hearings in Hayden's compound.
Hogland said he decided to hold the hearings
and presented the allegations to him and
wanted to see more evidence.
Charlton said she hoped her statement would make legislators realize that the Legislature had no role in dealing with internal university affairs.
in her memorandum, Charlton said the Board of Regents was created as a buffer between the Legislature and Regents schools. The Legislature has also granted the Board is strictly limited to fiscal matters, she said.
"It follows, it seems to me, that a member of the Legislature should not discuss officially, in
session, matters which are internal to a university," Charlson in her message, "If one of us desires to make such criticism, we should make it to the Board of Regents."
Charlton acknowledged that since the Legislature created the Regents, it could dissolve the body. But she said she did not think that would happen.
that would happen.
Charlton said she saw his message and the response it received from other representatives as "too scary."
"There was entirely too much applause," Charlton said. "But I am certainly not afraid of the issue, because people have liked messages such as Rep. Hoagland's before."
WHEN YESTERDAY'S session of the House convened, Charlton had said she was going to stand and say that Hoagland had engaged in demagoguery. She decided, however, to deal with the matter in a way less "humilating" to Hoagland.
Hoggland, "I began to realize," Charlton said, "that my feelings would have a better effect if they were given in calm defense."
She said she was hoping that by using her
See RESPONSE page 5
Caller threatens to kill Forer family; harassment is nothing new, he saves
By TIMSHARP
Staff Reporter
An anonymous caller made death threats to the Norman Forer family Wednesday after a state representative publicly criticized Forer's December 1979 trip to Iraq.
Forer's wife, Una, said she received three calls between 6 and 7:30 p.m., apparently from the same person. She described the voice as that of a college-aged male.
Forer, associate professor of social welfare, said yesterday that the anonymous calls were nothing new. He has been receiving such calls since his return from Iran.
"People are offended because they think I cheated the people of Kansas," he said.
Forer said the charges that he walked out on classes at KU were "not only unfair, but also untrue."
He said Flerer should not have expected his job back after returning from Iran.
reread said that he was tired of having the accusations brought against him without being able to answer them and that it was time for aggressive action.
"I intend to do something about this because it is going on too long," he said. "These politicians don't want to let it go. They apparently feel they can get some political out of it and I intend that it never happen again. I'm going to do something about it."
Forere said he was not sure what he would do. He said he would call a press conference within the next several days to announce his plans.
He said he asked Hoagland for equal time on the House floor, but Hoagland would not grant it.
list of formal charges, but one was never made.
Forer and Clarence Dillingham, a former instructor of social welfare, recently filed a lawsuit against the University. The suit charged Acting Chancellor Del Shankel, former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and the University with libel, denial of due process and invasion of privacy in handling the situation.
Wets, drys and ASK support new beer bill
"I want a trial," he said. "If I'm guilty of leaving my job, then I agree I should be kicked
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A A bill that would close loopholes in the present beer law but leave the current drinking age intact is scheduled to be introduced in the Kansas Senate today.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita, was drafted with the help of the Associated Students of Kansas and is supported by the Rev. Richard Taylor's Kansans United for Life at its Best, as well as a newly-formed state association for beer retailers.
THE MORRIS BILL would make it illegal to consume 3.2 beer on state highways and would punish people under 18 convicted of drinking beer.
"I proposed the bill in response to some problems pointed out when the provision came up last year," Morris said.
Last year's bill, strongly pushed by Taylor's group, called for raising the drinking age to 21. The measure failed to reach the floor of either house.
MORTIS, who opposes raising the age to 21, said he also was working on a bill that would suspend the license of persons under 18 convicted of drunken driving.
The first conviction would lead to a six-month suspension, while the second could lead to one-year suspension.
"To kids that age, that's (the drivers license) the most precious thing they have," Morris said.
John Wooden, owner of the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14, said the retailers organization, which does not have a name yet, planned to hire two lobbyists to support the first Morris proposal. He said the group's support of the bill would increase the possibilities people have of taxing and tavern owners.
"There used to be a lot of seedy people running bars." Wooden said.
Wooden and other Lawrence tavern owners met in Manhattan yesterday to formalize the association, which would represent the local branch of the town's tavern. Manhattan, Topeka, Kansas City, Wichita, Salina and Hays.
LAWRENCE TAVERN owners will meet again Tuesday night, and another statewide meeting is planned for Feb. 17.
meeting is planned. A clever trick is "If we are half as strong as ASK (in the Legislature), then we'll do a hell of a job," Wooden said.
The Morris bill has seven co-sponsors, none of which are senators from college towns. Morris
said he was reluctant to include a senator from a college town because it might alienate other senators from the bill.
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Morris said another legislator might introduce
legislation to abolish the cereal malt beverage
rating, thus killing his proposal.
But Morris said he would agree to such a
happening, but he never happens. He
happen in Kansas provides liquor by-the-drink.
"We're being hypocrites calling 3.2 beer cereal malt beverage," he said.
Morris said he was not sure how successful his bill might be in the Senate.
"I have to believe something's wrong when SK, the drys and the wets get together," he said. "I'm not sure."
EVEN THOUGH ASK and Taylor find themselves on the same side this time, the friction from past battles still surfaces.
If he can pass election, Taylor said yesterday that the Morris bill would remedy only part of the problem. He said the current age still would have to be increased.
Earlier, Taylor said that he told Bob Kelley not to give him the $35. Supported raising the age to 35 only as a joke.
But Taylor said the study, made of alcohol-related traffic accidents for people between 18 and 21 in Michigan, did not seriously support that measure.
Bingman had said that Taylor wanted to raise the drinking age based on a study that supported the Bingman.
He said the director of the study mentioned the 35 limit as a joke in a speech four years ago.
"Bob Bingaman doesn't have any facts to support the 18 proposal, and so he has to make me look bad," Taylor said yesterday. "I have no respect for Bob Bingaman."
But Bingham said that particular age bracket had the highest accident rate regardless of beer drinking, and Taylor could not correlate the two facts.
Bingaman responded, "I am not going to blast the reverend.
"I have attempted through this whole thing to be as friendly and humane to Rev. Taylor when other libbists tell me it's a waste of time."
Taylor said states that had a drinking age of 21 had fewer alcohol-related traffic accidents in the United States.
Bingaman said ASK would be using the argument that 18-year-old have tremendous rights and responsibilities bestowed to them by state and federal government, and that 3.2 beer drinking "is just an extension of those responsibilities."
Demonstrators march against legal abortion
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan staff
By PENNIE CRABTREE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
"We came here to demonstrate our faith and our freedom to choose," state coordinator Sarah Trulove said. "We believe abortion is a moral choice, and as a matter of religious freedom should not be legislated against."
State Rep. Charles Laird, R-Topeka, and Nancy Lacore, president of the Topeka Pre-Life Coalition, give instructions to anti-abortion supporters at a rally night in Topeka. In above photo, Mark Rew of Meriden carries sign during a march around Stormont-Vall Hospital.
TOPEKA- Pro-choice and anti-abortion forces converged on the state Capitol yesterday to mark the eight anniversary of a Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion.
Events staged by the two groups lasted all day, beginning with a chapel service and a march to the Capital by the pro-choicers, and ending with a somber, candlelight procession outside a Topeka hospital by an anti-abortion group.
Nearly 200 supporters took part in the activities sponsored by the Religious Coalition of Abortion Rights, a coalition of religious organizations that support abortion as a legal option.
THROUGHOUT A 45-minute chapel service held at the First United Methodist Church, RCAR leaders reaffirmed the group's position.
"We cannot and will not separate our faith from our freedom," Jean Glauber, pastor of the church, said. "No one has the right to pass legislation that will prohibit me from practicing my beliefs in a world of suffering or people must sometimes make hard choices."
Outside the chapel, a group of anti-abortionists sang hymns and carried placards reading "Chastity, Not Abortion," and "Free Choice or Murder?"
After the service, RCAR supporters march
quarterly down Harrison Street to the City
bar.
During the march, four anti-abortionists who were dressed as demons joined the marchers. Garbed in red tights, black capes and horns, the four taunted the marchers with
snouts of "we're with you" and "hell is prochoice."
The demons, all KU students, were not part of an established anti-abortion organization.
"We, as individuals, couldn't let this march go on without a counter-demonstration," Terry Sercer, a Lawrence junior, said. "We believe abortion is murder. These babies, who are free from all sin but original sin, are condemned never to see heaven. We're here to let everyone know that hell is rejoicing over pro-choice legislation."
INSIDE THE CAPITOL, pro-choice marchers distributed loaves of bread to each legislator. The loaves were inscribed, freedom of Choice is as basic as the Staff of Life.
"No one has a right to tell me what to do with my body," one marcher said. "Those pro-lifers want to make sure a child is born, but they don't stay around while it grows up."
If I stay around while it grows
see ABORTION page 5
Weather
It will be sunny today with winds from the west to northwest at 5-15 mph, according to the KU Weather site. The wind night will be clear with a low in the upper 20s.
The extended forecast calls for sunny skies Sunday and Monday with highs in the 60s and a chance of precipitation Tuesday with the temperature falling to 40.
COMFORTABLE
University expects ruling on Title IX compliance soon
Tomorrow will be continued with highs in the low 60s and lows in the upper
ByREBECCACHANEY
Staff Reporter
"I'm not particularly eager to get it," Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said yesterday.
University officials are awaiting a ruling by the regional Department of Education on KU's Title IX compliance within the athletic department. The ruling was expected Jan. 17.
Phyllis Howlett, associate director of athletics for non-revenue sports, said the ruling would carry a lot of impact because it was among the first nationally to come in.
Title IX is a 1972 federal law intended to prohibit sex discrimination in education.
Last year, KU was one of eight universities picked by the Department of Education in the first round of investigations into possible interation between male and female athletes.
ammetes.
THE INVESTIGATION, which concluded in November, was brought about by complaints filed with the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare at the end of a three-year Title IX compliance period that began in 1975.
Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics and formermember of the KU Athletic Corporation, and Anne Levinson, 1980 KU graduate, filed the complaints.
The Department of Education, which assumed jurisdiction over Title IX last May, began a comprehensive review of KU's compliance with the law in October. Seven investigators looked into allegations of discrimination against women's teams in equipment, facilities, availability of practice times, financial aid, coaches' salaries and travel funds.
If results of last semester's investigation show that KU is not in compliance with Title IX, KU could lose more than $27 million in federal funds each year until it does come into compliance. So far no other school has lost funding because of non-compliance.
Although the KU athletic department does not receive federal funds, the university does receive federal funds.
"We've been talking about what we'll do if the Department of Education has found KU is not in compliance," Shankar said. "We're not going to release any specifics until the ruling actually comes in."
Howlett said she was unaware of any plans being formulated by the athletic department.
The findings of the investigative team were to go to regional attorneys immediately after the inquiry and later to national headquarters in Washington, D.C. Education of faiths was said during the investigation.
THE ON-SITE inquiry was originally scheduled to last 10 days, according to Patricia Boyd, head of the investigative team. Because of the number of people who called and asked to meet with investigators, the investigation lasted more than four weeks.
Officials said they would not comment on the current status of the findings until the University
According to the latest interpretation of Title
IF THE UNIVERSITY is found not in compliance, KU will be allowed another 90 days to make the necessary changes before losing federal aid.
The Department of Education is required to notify the University within 90 days after collecting and analyzing information and making a determination.
Prior to the 1979 interpretation, revenue
products such as football, were exempt from
the rule.
DX, made in 1979, athletic departments must divide total expenditure for all men's sports by the total number of male athletes to derive the average expenditure per athlete. That amount must then be spent for each female athlete, to comply with the law.
Hob Marcum, KU athletic department, has said that at least an additional $1.1 million would be required for the athletic budget, which now costs approximately $70,000 per basketball figures were included in the average.
However, when Levinson filed her complaint against the department, she maintained that if the department had begun building up women's sports programs when first required in 1972, the athletic department would not have found itself to have come to have up with the money so quickly.
KU also was investigated by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1978 for compliance, but no action was taken largely due to confusion about the interpretation of TIX.