Thursday, February 10, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Kansas Photo by STEVE HILT
KU Operators Find More Than Numbers Operator's work is sometimes amusing
Operator's work is sometimes amusing . . .
KU Operators Serve Needs
By S. ARTHUR COHEN
Kenyan Staff Writer
Being a University of Kansas telephone directory operator involves more than just giving on calls to customers' numbers. An operator could be asked the correct temperature for washing a sweater or the temperature for drying a garment.
Martha Dohno, chief operator of the KU switchboard, said Wednesday that students need a dedicated directory service (8642-7200 for off-campus residents and 'o' for on-campus residents) with the help of the Information Center (8643-3500). Until the Information Center was started almost two years ago, the directory service Information Center had one number.
"OUR JOB, Donhoa said, "to give the callers the numbers where they can find the information they need to know. We welcome you to our campus, our listing of all students, faculty, staff and organizations."
However, the 15 KU operators, who work in shifts of five, have been given theconfirmed to giving University telephone numbers. Operators must be trained.
Women's Groups Rap Inaction
The enactment of an Affirmative Action Program (AAP) at the University of Houston expressed concerns expressed Wednesday night by a panel of registered for women's organizations.
Iccerns expressed Wednesday that "women's representatives from four campus women's organizations. Sponsored by the KU Center for Women, the panel presentation was part of a week-long Spring Symposium to explain organization and availability of participants. Participated were Casey Elke, Kansas City, Mo. senior and a representative of the intercollegiate Association of Women (ISW) Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics and representation of the American Museum of History Professors Committee W (AUP); Karen Keesling, associate representative of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL); and Greta Minsky, Tulsa, OKa. senior and representative of the Women's
"It's been a matter of low priority. I keep thinking that year after year something will be done," she said.
BY ANITA KNOPP
Korean Staff Writer
Affirmative action programs are designed to help minorities and women in employment with the Department of Labor implemented two years ago. Since then a revised order from the Department of Labor calls for the revision of original programs concerning minorities to include
EXPLAINING THE PROGRESS of the AAP. Banks actual institution of a program has been continually delayed.
"Early committee reports indicate that the situation for women in university positions has improved," she said. The committee has currently been working with the problem of anti-nepotism, at *man/ uni* universities who protest a bribery in working in the same department as her husband.
Banks said that so far a program has not been instituted here, much less having a new website. “There is a program that there is a program on file.”
THE OPERATORS have access to the dates of upcoming University events, including those of major sporting questions arise about the price or location of tickets, the operators refer the caller to the sponsor of
SPE AKING ABOUT the role of AAUP Committee. In the past, the group had been conservative in the past. Committee W was rejuvenated after 42 years of service and program first ran from 1918 to 1928.
contacted in emergency situations. When emergency calls are received, the operators contact the fire department, police department or hospital, on the future of the emergency, and they remain on the line while the caller explains the situation.
"Locally," Banks said, "the
Operators said they also gave general information to callers.
"General information calls help to break the monotony, and we enjoy assisting the callers if we can." one operator said
The student chapter of WEAL which is composed of women in technical and professional areas concerned with women's rights.
THE DOMINATING GROUP for students is the IAWs. Created out of *Associated Women's* organizations, they incorporate all other student groups including the Commission on Women and Women SCIENCE.
group is working quietly and not effectively. We're operating in a traditional way. Many letters have been written."
Since January 1970 WEAL has filed 200 suits against colleges for violation of AAP provisions.
Eike said that the group had ranged its philosophy with the AWs, and was organizing its organization was regulatory in nature. Currently it is aimed at developing a system.
Operators are able to deter mine the season of the year by many of the calls they receive
Keesing described the two methods of filing suits. A woman may file independently and jeopardize her job or a group of women may file a class action in which individuals remain within the 200 suits filed there has been only one prosecution.
The women could see some favorable changes for women. The women were also Stockstad to the position of associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Success was encouraging they said.
"One person called and wander to know how to make a Bloody Mary during the Christmas season," one operator said.
BANKS ADDED that she rotten not being able to accept the research program which required she be away from the school.
The Spring Symposium course was held by Mariene Sanders, ABC she corresponded, at 8 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium. It was Monday, March 12, Wednesday's the Kansas that Sanders was speaking last night. Friday, "Sugar and Spice" taught a feminist movement, will conclude the events. The play will be held at Big 8 Room of the Kansas Union.
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Chalmers announced that a four-point program has been initiated for taking affirmative action at the University; the administration has offered affairs office, the creation of a position for women's affairs, the initiation of studies in the three major administrative departments; and the point of appointment on an Advisory Committee on Affirmative AE
Bob Hope appeared on the University of Kansas campus last week when he remembered being asked in a serious tone. "Do you know anyone who would take my advice to the Bob Hope Show?"
"My academic commitments simply would not allow me to do it." Banks said. "It requires a great effort than I could cive now."
Elizabeth Banks, assistant professor of classics, who was offered the position of chancellor at Wellesley, affairs, said Wednesday night she had declined the post. The Department of Kansas' Affirmative Action program, organized by the Department of Health, and Wellesley, has.
Women's Affairs Post Declined, Remains Open
Banks said she sent a letter of explanation to Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., the University Senate Executive Committee, and the February 19th Women's rights organization.
The deadline for submitting an affirmative action program is early March. Failure to meet the requirements, as described by the Department of Labor's Revised Order Number Four, in consultation of some federal contracts to the University.
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THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas's progress toward creation of a total affirmative action program, requiring a federal contractor to end deficiencies in minority and female employment as well as in the administrative spokesman Wednesday as "behind schedule."
To date, the spokesman said,
the studies necessary to propose
an encompassing affirmative
program have not been
completed.
THE SPOKESMAN added that university as an tempting to women, the minorities and the requirements of the programs. Program.
The present status of the affirmative action programs and details of these programs are to be announced by the chancellor.
THE KU OPERATORS can't forget the sports seasons during the year, either.
"We receive many long "standups" during the job, and some people from wanting to know the score. Donoho said: To give a positive information at the particular time the call is placed, we listen to the
At the beginning of each semester, the operators are asked about bus schedules, the Watson library hours, or the computer lab hours. They are usually able to aid the caller with these questions.
"WE'VE HAD PARENTS call the University operators and ask if their son or daughter had arrived safely at KU from his hometown," Dohono said. "One parent said, If I told you what he was wearing, do you think you remember, if you had seen him?"
A typical question that operators hear at the end of the semester is, "Do you know where I might find cardboard boxes?"
Most of the calls, however,
don't have the season element
that they do with a bering get
a call from a person
warning the number of the
"Which library do you want, sir?" she asked.
"The one with all the books," he answered.
NOT UNCOMMON are people who call the University operator from a pay phone and demand the return of their dime, an
Frank Sevigne, track coach at the University of Nebraska, has been named referent of the 47th Kansas Relays April 19-22.
Sevigne will be the third Cornhusker coach to officiate the game in 2015. He will be his immediate predecessor, referenced the meet in 1952 and Henry Schulle, whose Nebraska teams dominated the big Six.
also had experience with callers who have the first name of a friend, but only the first letter of the last name. One operator said they could only go through the list of names they had listed and hope to find the name.
The University operators have
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To Ref Relays
Bob Timmons, University of Kansas track coach and relays director, said Sue Wilson will university division events.
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Because of business policies, operators are not allowed to identify themselves over the telephone. As one operator said, "I frustering to speak to an employer is not a good idea, I can be able to talk casually with him."
"the staff, students and faculty are very friendly at the University and we enjoy serving them," Donoho said.
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Role Change For ROTC
Changes are being made in the TROTC program at the University of Kansas to meet the demands of the military in the United States.
Because of the new draft lottery system, enrollment in ROTC has been tapering down. The men in Riedel, Jr., said Wednesday.
Rinkel想 that most of those presently enrolled in ROTC are interested in careers in either the regular Army or the reserves.
Riedel said that 40 men from KU were commissioned into the Army in 1971 and that in 1972 the number was expected to drop to
Enrollment in AFROTC has remained steady, according to Col. E. B. Eddy. Eddy said
Wednesday that 24 men were commissioned in 1971 and that 23 are expected to be commissioned in 1972.
Capt. J. O. Marzliuff said Wednesday that the Navy is beginning a new two-year life as the captain of his designered major for junior college transfer students, but will also include KU students not enrolled in the four-year program in the navy that designated the new program, he anticipates a larger enrollment in NROTC in the future.
Eddy explained that he hopes to begin a program which will bring Haskell students into the AFROTC program at KU. The program, however, still being an early stage in problems which must be worked out
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