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Wednesday, July 26, 1972
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Discrimination: Women
There are many people on this campus who are disgusted with the Women's Equity Action League for filling a formal charge against KU for discriminatory employment practices. And 1, too, am disgusted, and for more than one reason.
First, and probably most crucially KU has never received directives from HEW (telling of the kind of affirmative action policies that are now required to read the minds of those in Washington?)
Secondly, the statistics used in using the disparities are all old. To me, it's like accusing someone of a crime two years after it happened. It would be nice to be more up to date than 1970-71. For instance, we were told Margaret Gates, chairman of the Action Committee for Federal Contract Compliance, said that 9.5 per cent of the teaching staff in the School of Journalism was female, but that none of those was employed full-time. I am sure that one assistant professor in the school would be interested to know that she wasn't really teaching full-time this past year. It's little things like that make me look less confident. The charge was so shoddy. And now we'll waste time and money explaining the situation, rather than changing it.
The letter also says recent hiring showed evidence of continuing discrimination. I know of a situation in another school at KU in which a faculty member was being sought to replace one who was leaving. Two women and one man were interviewed. One of the women was offered the job, but she turned it down because she had a better offer from her school. The next choice of the committee was the man. So the statistics will say that a man was hired, not a woman.
The crazy thing about this is that it parallels so closely the fight only a few years ago to get blacks and other minorities into the classroom. Then,
there was a problem with finding qualified personnel. Schools battled each other to get good professors, in the process, many black colleges lost their finest teachers. Now, when many women are only beginning to think of having a career as a professor, there are more people actively seeking women for jobs. But it's still hard for a woman to accept a job teaching, say, in Johnson County Community College if her husband's job is in Iola. Certainly there are some husband-wife teams teaching at KU; some are in the same or close by areas, some are in rather distant areas, but in each case each person was in his mertis. In one example, when her husband interviewed with a department at KU his wife came along to see the campus. She was most flattered, she told me, that KU interviewed her on a separate trip—not as an adjunct of her husband's.
I'm not saying I believe that there is justice in its purest forms given to the women of KU. On the other hand, I don't know that there is pure justice in any department or school either. Where there are people there are inequities.
Maybe the easiest way to end the inequities is to limit the enrollment of women students until the number of those enrolled matches the number of those teaching here. If we care about is matching statistics, that would be the easiest solution. But if we are really to do something about the problem, let's not have too much hand over the aid to women students when women are already getting more than men, or admitting more women when all Kansas high school graduates already are admitted. Repetition and backtracking we don't need; progress we do.
-Rita E. Haugh Editor
Bounty Recruiting
These days, when some people complain that KU recruiting and public relations aren't what they used to be and that KU is losing the state's best students to other schools, a small college in Oregon has tried a drastic recruiting measure that has brought national publicity as well as censure.
Eastern Oregon College at La Grande, which was faced with the prospect of a sagging enrollment this fall, announced July 7 that it would pay currently enrolled students for any new students they recruited. All a student had to do was write the names of prospects on a cardboard and mail it to the college. Payment would be made if any of those contacted enrolled in the fall. And that payment wasn't bad; $80 for each new student from out of state, $36 for each transfer student and $24 for each freshman from within the state
The plan has been suspended, however, "primarily because it was opening the door to institutional rivalry," Dean Carlos Easley said. The plan had been criticized by other Oregon colleges because they envisioned large numbers of the recruits he intended to go to Eastern Oregon by its deterents recruiters. Easley said most of the names were of persons not currently enrolled in any Oregon college.
Eastern Oregon is believed to be the first college to offer a bounty for students, though other schools have tried radio advertising and faculty recruiting to attract new students. Easley, who initiated the offer, said he didn't think it was any different from hiring 10 alumni to call on prospects. He had hoped to attract 250 new students to the campus of 1,650. The cost of paying the bounties, about $10,000 was to have been paid by a college-affiliated foundation, which intended to raise the money from private sources.
The offer did attract 150 names. The college will pay recruiters for those who actually enroll. Easley said the controversy over the plan may do what was originally intended--assure a fall enrollment.
KU certainly doesn't need to try a bounty recruitment plan—not until we have more teachers and more space. We can hardly afford to recruit more students when our teacher-punil ratio is already higher than it should be. If you don't think you need the classrooms and notice the portable buildings sprinkled on the campus this fall.
Publication Hits Agents In Ice Cream
dry cleaning fluid is used as a flavoring agent for ice cream, according to Prevention Magazine in its July issue.
The chemical in question, ethyl acetate, from which commercial pineapple-flavored ice cream has been extracted, leather and textiles whose vapors have been known to cause damage. But that's only one of a bundle of additives in commercial ice cream whose danger is less well understood, fully assessed says the article. "Ice Cream Is Pure Chemicals."
What's your favorite flavor?
vanilla, chocolate, strawberry.
Does it hurt you? No, says Prevention because with a few rare exceptions you're getting a chemical substitute.
Piperonal, for example, a synthetic that replaces the real vanilla, a well known kisser killer.
CHOCOLATE ICE cream, when artificially flavored may contain such jaw breakers as amylphenyl acetate, alderhyde
In strawberry there's propylene glycol and anhydrous vanilla cream, which gets its flavor from amyl acetate, a solvent for oil
Two components, Washington, Internships in Education (WIE) and Education Staff Seminars, were conducted by the university and served as a report for several years before the institute was established in 1971.
A program at George Washington University, the Institute for Educational Leadership is headed by Dr. Drachel, former Detroit superintendent of schools. It is concerned with the interrelation of educational policy and the roots of educational practices.
C18, veratraldehyde and propylene glycol, to name a few.
Major Foundation-assisted instruments in this effort include Institut de Educational Leadership in Worcestershire oriented Leadership leadership and the Foundation administers, and a long-range effort to help schools of education improve doctoral programs for school ad-
Under the 1988 amendment to the Food, Drug, Cosmetics Act, reports Prevention, ice cream and cooking were lifted from official freedom from legally established labeling restrictions for a period of two years. The allowance this time in order to maintain what it calls "standard of identity."
The consumer doesn't know, which of these additives he's getting in his favorite ice cream, including some that have been recalled by manufacturers, but the manufacturers are not required to tell him.
WIE, NOW in its seventh year,
exposes educational administrators for a year to
decision-making. A total of 125 interm-
sions have been awarded.
In 1971-72, 18 men and women
held jobs on Capitol Hill, in the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare, the U.S. Office of
Prisons or in private groups and
associations such as the Rand
Corp. and the Urban Institute.
HALF OF THE Foundation's public education budget this year, about $7 million, is devoted to efforts to develop educational resources that are fitted to improving schools but also sensitive to the social, economic and political context of education and skilled in the administrative and human techniques of institutional change.
THOSE TWO years extended into the present time. While no earlier extension of the time limit was agreed, a clear that it would not enforce
Standards were established in 1900 for frozen desserts but ice cream has always been considered a devoid of informative labeling. The only information on ice cream cartons is the name, of the carton, the turer, the name of the ice cream, its flavor and its volume. Where a carton has been added, this must be stated, but the name of the artificial flavoring ingredient need not be
THEY ARE TWO polyoxyethylene emulsifiers, which have been labeled as potentially cancer-lowering glycol alginate, which has been used in germicides, antifreeze and as a paint remover in paint bottles. Some rats developed diarrhea and others fed on the lowest amount. Another ingredient allowed in most coatings is sodium carboxymethylcellulose. This standard is sodium carboxymethylcellulose. this standard is sodium carboxymethylcellulose. this standard is sodium carboxymethylcellulose.
Administrative Research Funded
In 1960 the FDA authorized the use of these same chemicals, even though no new information
requirements for showing names of ingredients on the labels of ice cream products.
Standards for ingredients in ice cream were issued by the FDA in 1982. The FDA stated these standards are notorious for what they permit. Back in 1942, when焊ings were held on aluminum panels, chemicals were considered for inclusion but rejected because FDA judged their safety had not been evaluated.
Improving education by raising it in a more efficient way than trying to make dilapidated housing habitable by adding electric
These are often, but not always, principals and school superintendents. They may also be officials of federal and state education agencies or staff members in progress, mayors or state legislators.
The Ford Foundation's Office
Public Education is paying
time to the development of men and
women who manage schools and
Three-fourths of the interns'
"We do not recommend ice cream at all, even in its purest form, because of its high fat and sugar content." But "if you insist on an occasional indulgence, look for the brands which list the natural ingredients, and Breyer's are two brands that we know are making ice cream with honest ingredients, in order to keep our hands off others. There may well be others."
proving their safety has even been provided.
time was spent in jobs at the sponsoring agencies. The rest was divided among field trips seminars and meetings. WISE alumni have gone on to administrative posts in school colleges and state education agencies around the country.
The isolation of another group, Federal education staff members who too sedum are exposed to the scene of education, is the target of another program, the Education Staff Seminar.
In Washington, they generally
attend dinner-discussion meetings
on a monthly basis and month
with subject specialists
and scholars. Participants also
THE PARTICIPANTS each
are responsible for
sense level federal agency
and legislative staff members who
has responsibilities related to
government.
and women who have participated in the program are blacks, poor whites, Chicanos and American Indians who lack the formal academia credentials advanced fellowship programs.
This fall the institute will begin two new programs. An associates program will bring mid-career professionals with established competencies as resources and technical consultants primarily to state legislative and executive committees, educational policies in motion.
Partly because problems in rural areas are manageable and a small number of people can handle them, the company said it regarded this program despite a relatively high cost. The program cost $13,000, particularly productive.
The other new effort is a program of scholars in residence, the first of whom will be Stephen Koehler, an emeritus at University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, an expert in state and federal policy.
Four years ago, through a University training program, the University taught several universities that were resolved to improve the quality of teaching.
and to open university-wide resources, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, that support students in schools of education.
ANOTHER OBJECTIVE is to identify and recruit men and women from outside as well as those in the community who normally would not aspire to careers as school system educational administrator programs also seek to attract men minorsity-group members.
The aims were to replace narrow departmental curricula with programs built around individual interests and talents of students. This led to internships and clinical experiences into doctoral programs
The participating universities were chosen in part because the law was that their reforms would be diffused and adopted by other institutions.
Since it taken from two to three years to produce a doctorate, to graduate and on the job Until recently programs had not fully taken up.
Organic Food Bill Sought
Writing in the July issue of "Organic Gardening and Farming," editor Robert Rodale said, "The days of a casual approach to organic farming for profit are rapidly coming to an end. For one thing, the people won't stand for doubts about organically grown food because it can harm them, and much money in organically grown quality to be unsure of what they're getting." "When some so-called organic growers monk with what the words 'organically grown' really mean on the food label, they're taking on more than the hard core of the health food industry, some organic gardeners who want to buy better food during the winter or organic gardening." They're trying to pull the wool over everybody's eyes.
Rodale Press, Inc. which launched its own organic certification program in 1971, and is encouraging local organic farm groups to set up similar programs, has called on Americans to support an "Organic Food Bill" now before Congress.
THE BILL now before Congress, introduced by Rep. Edward I. Wright, will mandate national inspection and certification service for organic farmers.
If the bill is enacted, the days of confusion and doubt about the
meaning of the words organically grown could be over for
good.
Provisions of the Koch bill are:
The term organically grown is defined precisely to mean "food which has not been subjected to pesticides or artificial fertilizers and grown on soil whose humus content is increased by the addition of organic matter."
"Organically processed food" is also defined. It means "food whose ingredients have all been grown organically, including meat and poultry, which has not been treated with preservatives, hormones, antibiotics or synthetic additives of any kind."
THE SECRETARY of Health, Education and Welfare, in conjunction with other government and state officials, and consumers.
shall offer regulations that will set a standard for a minimum humus and mineral content of the soil of organic farms, and set standards for maximum permissible residues of pesticides, herbal substances, or fertilizers in the soil, the produce and the water sources of the farm.
All farmers intending to produce organically grown food for sale, the Koch bill states, shall register with the Secretary of H.E.W. on or before Dec. 31 of each year. That registration shall include his or her name, place of business and farm or farms operated. The secretary shall make available to anyone the list of registered, commercial organic farmers.
The cost of operating this federal organically grown food certification program would be borne by the farmers certified, who would be required to pay a fee based on acreage or other units of production. Violations would subject formers or merchants to penalties in keeping with similar violations of the Fodd, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which the Koch bill seeks to amend.
The secretary would be instructed by the measure to design an "organically grown" seal which would be the only acceptable seal designating foods as organically grown. Each separate marketable unit of the produce grown by a registered organic farm would be stamped or marked in some way with the seal, and with the name and address of the farmer.
"WHEN THIS bill is signed into law," writes Rodale, "it will put out of business the certification program now operated by Rodale Press. The Koch bill specifically says that government certifications must be issued under a kind of certification allowed. We support that provision." of the bill.
"In the meantime though, we are going to proceed with our own program of offering testing services to farmers who are selling their produce under the organically grown label. The need for that program is so great that it may be a year or more until the government program could take effect."
Sierra Club Officer Nixes Plan
TOPEFA (AP)-The chairman of the Kansas Sierra Club said a proposal by a Kansas State University staff member that the state impose an "inverse severance tax" if needed to nuclear waste or nuclear nuclear waste in state beds was a crackpot proposal.
Ron Baxter, Topeka attorney,
also said he had heard the aring of
Manhattan "will seriously injure"
the city. James S. Johnson,
Sen James B. Pearson, R-Kan,
when he represents this nation at
an international conference in New York.
The Geneva conference is being held to discuss the possibilities of finding an international nuclear waste dump site.
"What is Pearson's position if the conference is told Kansas is a dump for the world - at the right price?" asked Baxter, who sat in on the Senate legislative committee Tuesday but offered his comments to the governor.
CLACK, nuclear engineering
instructor at K-State, presented
thesis on the Kansas wars,
if they were buried in Kansas
beds in the central part of the
state to the interim Legislative
on Assessment and
Taxation.
The committee appeared interested in Clack's plan but took no action and formulated no position on it.
The committee meets again
Aug. 25-26, and Baxter said he may ask to appear to offer rebuttal to Clack's testimony.
"We thought these proposals had been laid to rest," Baxter said of the Kansas Sierra Club's position.
"WHAT Clack proposes to do is permanently contaminate the Kansas salt beds, permanently cause a threat to Kansas water tables and make for Kansas a newly new and questionable image.
"I think it's a renewed effort by the waste dump advocates to stir up interest in Kansas as a dump site again."
Clack, who said he spoke as a private citizen and not as a representative of Kansas State, explained that his proposal was to hire former power companies who would dump nuclear waste in the salt beds - but only if Kansas agreed to accept the Atomic Energy Commission's plan to create a private nuclear waste repository in the state.
THE AEC proposed in June 1970 to use an abandoned mine at Lyons for the national nuclear bomb site, which stirred up controversy in the state virtually ever since, with Baxter, Gov. Rovert Docking and U.S. Rep. Joe Skubak of the Sibir region, leading opposition to the proposal.
"I would urge you to resist accepting the waste dump unless there is suitable compensation." He wants us to stop wanting it badly, enough they'll
lobby to help get it through Congress."
Clack acknowledged it would take federal cooperation to build the infrastructure and materials brought into the state to be deposited under federal lands. The AEC proposes to buy the land from Congress that has authorized Congress thus far has authorized
CLACK estimated that by the year 2000 the repository can generate $100 million a year in revenue for Kaspersky to tax. By the same time it can be taxed at a rate equivalent to .02 mills per kilowatt·hour of power
only leasing of the land until tests prove the salt bed storage theory safe.
Fawcett Tries Gimmick To Find Role of Covers
In what may be a publishing first, Fawcett is releasing the paperback edition of "Vice Avenged: A Moral Tale" with two different front cover illustrations. Half of the initial print comes from the other one picture, and the other half will feature another illustration.
Books with both covers will be available at the same time at the same stores.
The stunt is part of a mer-
standing, experiential project in which he infuses cover illustration may have on the sale of a paperback *bok*. It begin when Fawcett's artistic approach—whether "Vice" or "Joyful promise" of sensual entertainment satirical high comedy. So two artists, Bob McGinnis and Bob McGrannie, commissioned to do covers.
However, Clack agreed with the committee that Kansas could not tax electricity produced and used outside the state, but would have to tax the incoming wastes from a range of curies of radioactivity.
Authoress Lola Burdh is an 18th century scholar and the wife of the poet William Burdish She and her husband live in Porter with their three daughters. "Vice Avenaged" is Burdh's first book.
Baxter challenged Clack's revenue revenue were that by the year 1990 the U.S. would have about 150 nuclear power plants, and would produce would create only about $20 million in tax revenue for Kansas, based on estimates.
Rep. Shelby Smith, R-Wichita,
vice chairman of the committee,
also said Kansas could face a
serious tax problem after he
pursued his campaign. The
mass was full, no more wastes were
coming into the state to be taxed.
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