TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
Title IX
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and women, they would not be penalized if the spots were not filled.
Opposition to the ruling countered that schools would not devote enough attention to female recruiting, knowing it was not necessary to find the athletes to fill the rosters. Also, under the new rule, teams could stockpile large groups of non-schoolship male athletes without them counting against compliance.
Debbie Yow, University of Maryland athletic director, proposed to allow schools to comply by having a 50-50 split of male and female athletes, regardless of enrollment, with a two to three percent error margin. Kansas would also meet those standards with the 52 to 48 split.
Yow said it was the easiest way to decide the number of male and female athletes.
"If we had an apple and were hungry and we wanted to be fair, we would split it 50-50." Yow said. "It is an attempt to be fair."
The vote tied seven to seven, with one commissioner, Lisa Graham Keegan, missing the vote.
Tie votes receive a separate mention in the final report, Yow said.
The commission also recommended that non-traditional students not be counted as part of school enrollments for Title IX. Non-traditional students are defined as students who are either older, professional or graduate students.
Martin said this part of the recommendation would affect all schools, but in particular, professional schools.
The most lopsided vote was
on a proposal to eliminate the proportionality requirement. It failed 11-4.
- Edited by Erin Chapman
THE CURRENT STANDARDS FOR UNIVERSITY TITLE IX ATHLETIC COMPLIANCE
(the institution must pass one of the following)
Test one The institution must provide intercollege level athletics opportunities for male and female students in numbers substantially proportionate to their respective full time undergraduate enrollments.
Test two-The institution must show that it has a history and continuing practice of program expansion for the underrepresented sex.
Test three-The institution must fully and effectively accommodate the interests and abilities of the underepresented sex.
graffiti writers' work — some of them friends — was particularly jarring, they said.
The three tests for Title IX are enforced by the Office for Civil Rights.
Graffiti
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"They're just white walls under a bridge, most of them overgrown with shrubs or leaves, so what's the problem?" Vormehr said. "Why does it matter if someone's out there putting art on that wall as opposed to smoking crack by it?"
Giessel said Lawrence should have legal walls for writers to practice graffiti. He stood behind graffiti's artistic expression and Vormehr's work.
"It was almost as though he got penalized for doing the city a service," Giessel said.
Vormehr understands a property owner's argument that graffiti is written on someone's private property, but he also said
Vormehr said he understood the objection to obscene graffiti but it should not be grouped with artistic graffiti.
some of the best artwork he'd seen was illegal.
"There's no distinction between the art aspect of it and the primal I'm-going-to-write-my-name-on-a-wall," he said.
Since Vormehr's jail time, he stopped writing illegal graffiti. It was no longer worth the risk of a fine or felony charge. He continues to write in his drawing books and to paint throw-ups — a complex work of graffiti — with Giesel on the walls of his friend's garage.
Vormehr's audience is mostly limited to a group of friends, those who see his pieces in the garage. He changed his tag from, "Sien," to "Stres" after getting caught.
Painting in his friend's garage allows him to take his time creating throw-ups of "Stres" in multiple layers, outlines and dimensions, and he doesn't have to worry about getting caught. It's legal graffiti.
"I think it promotes better art-work, but at the same time, half of it is running out in the middle of the night looking behind your back every five seconds and still just doing some big, just dope-ass piece." Vormehr said.
But he can't afford to get caught again, a police record could damage his future, he said.
Pride and personal accomplishment motivated Vormehr to write graffiti. As far as the illegality of it, he said that too was part of it-beating the law.
"I'd have a felony on my record for painting on a wall."
— Edited by Andrew Ward
See video of Vormehr and Andrew Giessel, Larned senior, writing legal graffiti.
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