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University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 27, 1992
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WOMEN'S PROGRESS AT KU Women continue drive to gain sports equality
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
Cathy Palacios grew up in a house where her father was king.
"He was basically a male chauvinist," said Palacios, Naperville III, ill., senior, and member of the women's track team. "There were three girls in our family, and he always played in the juniperine. But the whole time I kept thinking about athletics."
Palacios said she swam and played volleyball and basketball before she ran track in high school.
At the NCAA indoor track championships, Palacios won All-American honors in the mile.
She isn't the only female athlete to achieve success at the University of Kansas in the past year.
The women's basketball team, which finished the season 25-6, qualified for the NCAA tournament, and the Women's Swimming and Diving team placed 15th at the NCAA meet.
But before the NCAA and before Title IX was passed in 1972, which said universities had to give attention to gender equity,
In 1903, James Naimish coached what was then called women's "basket ball." The team finished with a 2-record.
But women's opportunities did not end there.
In February 1912, KU women competed in 10 different sports including basketball, volleyball, hockey, tennis and swimming.
women mostly competed for the Women's Sports Club, which was financed by Student Senate, the Kansas University Endowment Association, alumni and individual donations. KU participated in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, which was the women's athletic equivalent of the NCAA, in the mid-1970s.
In 1975, KU gave athletic scholarships to women for the first time. Twenty-five partial scholarships were given.
This year, 137 women participated in nine sports, with 113 of them receiving either partial or full scholarships, and 24 did not.
However, women athletes and coaches hope to continue the work of *Title IX* and other measures that aim to earn women the right to vote.
Palacios said female Olympians, such as Florence Griffith-Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, had taken women's athletics to high levels.
"In the short time women have been able to officially compete, there have been great things done, but men's sports will always be more glorified because they've been
playing longer," Palacios said. "But I think the interest in women's sports is rising, so hopefully that will lead to more media attention. As the attention comes, I think everything else could come together."
Frankie Albitz, Kansas volleyball coach for six seasons, said coaches and the administration worried about Title IX, but the athletes concentrated on working hard and succeeding.
"KU could still make progress in recognizing women's sports," she said. "But that's probably true for everywhere, and I've been a lot worse places. The states are getting behind Title IX and pressuring junior high and high schools to give more to women's athletics. I would like to think at the leaders. But we will probably be following the other levels."
Shawn Melton, Colwich senior and a member of the swim team, said her team was getting more respect because of its performance at the NCAA meet March 19-21.
"We have to work twice as hard to get the respect of men's teams, but we're moving in the right direction," she said. "I think people are realizing that women athletes are making a difference, and people are beginning to recognize us. That makes it easier for people to accept the fact that we're here to stay."
KU's goal of women's equality still not realized, says Emily Taylor
By Shelly Solon Kansan staff writer
When Emily Taylor was dean of women at the University of Kansas 20 years ago, women held few faculty or administrative positions, and equality for female students was non-existent. she said yesterday.
Despite the 1972 passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments, which gives women equal access to education, Taylor said some faculty still told female students that raising a family should be their goal.
"But that was normal for a university then," she said. "We had hardly any female faculty and hardly any women in non-traditional majors. But we were free to take any course of study."
Taylor said equal opportunity was available to any one who is aggressive enough.
"Women would go to interview for the veterinary school at Kansas State and come back in tears," she said. "They would question their motives and why they wanted to work instead of stay home, but the women would be strong enough to take it."
Taylor said that by 1972 the University of Kansas was
ahead of most U.S. universities because it abolished curfew hours for women and allowed them to live where they chose.
She said that when she left her position as dean of women, only one woman was working in the adminis-
But Taylor and some current female faculty and staff members at KU question whether enough has changed in two decades.
Statistics from the office of academic affairs show that there is one academic dean, 48 full professors and five faculty administrators who are women.
Women used to struggle to earn jobs, but now they struggle to advance. Taylor said.
Ann Eversole, associate dean of student life and director of organizations and activities, said women had not found success in the higher levels of the University.
"KU appears to be comparable to any large public, state institution," Eversole said. "It's not a thought that women are not getting higher level positions. It's a fact."
Ann Weick, dean of social welfare and the only female
full academic dean, said women should have more visible roles in University life.
"Increased numbers of women as full professors and administrators is an essential need at the University," she said. "Given the lack of representation women have in our society, representation at the University is still
Weick said male and female faculty needed to encourage women to pursue graduate studies.
"The doctoral program is the pool from which new leadership comes," she said. "We need to encourage women to excel as much as they can and not to feel that advancing in the University or any job position is a negative choice, but rather a positive one for opportunity and potential for development."
In the fall 1991 statistics from the office of institutional research and planning, women outnumbered men as graduate students 3,959 to 3,275.
In business, 528 men and 361 women were enrolled. In pre-medicine, there were 247 men and 237 women. In architecture, 340 men and 156 women were enrolled, while there were 1,132 men and 210 women in engineering.
Cathy Palacios prepares for the team's first meet, which is today.
Unless and Vision coalitions work to overcome voter apathy
But neither group fields a full slate of candidates
By Jay Williams Kansas staff writer
"I've said to friends if 30 percent vote, and we lose. I would be happy that we were able to get people out to vote," he said.
The coalitions are taking different approaches to increase turnout. Vision will visit campus organizations, but Garlinghouse said the process would take work because Senate needed to change campus perceptions.
Jean Winter, Unless presidential candidate, said earlier that she would be happy with a 15 percent voter turnout.
Brad Garlinghouse, Vision presidential candidate, was more optimistic, saying turnout should be higher than last year, which was 14 percent.
The Vision and Unless coalitions passed out fliers and buttons yesterday at the Kansas Union to gain support from students and get them excited about the campaign.
The two coalitions in this year's Student Senate elections are not fighting each other as much as they are fighting apathy.
"If elected, we need to go out and talk again to people and say 'This is what Senate is about' and ask people what they want done." he said.
Neither coalition fielded a complete list of 64 candidates for
*What it comes down to is not the number of bodies but the number of
He said the campaign should not dwell on the past.
"I rather under the underdog role," she said. "I don't want to get complacent. When you perceive you are moreorge, you lose your incentive to work."
Garlinghouse said last semester's Senate fight over the removal of former-president Darren Fulcher would hurt both coalitions because students perceived Senate negatively.
Winter said the Unless campaign would concentrate on off-campus support and word-of-mouth advertising.
"A lot of us have ties in various student communities," she said. "I think word-of-mouth is the best way to campaign."
Winter said her coalition was the underdog in the election.
active bodies," Garlinghousesaid.
Winter said she thought a large voter turnout would help the Unless coalition because it did not draw as heavily on the vote of organized living groups.
"Traditionally, the greek community and organized living groups come out to vote no matter what," she said. "Our platform will appeal to a broad audience."
Unless has 41 students running for Senate. Unless has no candidates from the schools of engineering, journalism, architecture and design, law and pharmacy, and has filled only five graduate positions.
Fifty-three candidates are running on the Vision coalition. It did not fill the two pharmacy seats and filled only four of 13 graduate senator spots.
Winter said several people who had planned to run with the coalition did not meet the March 18 filing deadline for senators.
Garlinghouse said the smaller schools probably would only affect the presidential vote in a close race, where Vision would have an advantage.
**Off-Campus**
Marsiel V. Romero, Amber Almanza, Desey Tziortzis, Kristin Lange, Peter C. Brawhwa
**Nunemaker**
Kristen Evilziser, Nikki Millard, Shannon Newton, Daron Sinkler, Shanda Vangas, Kathryn Price, Tim Dawson, Brent Roeder, Benjy Schwartz, Karla Laricks, Natalie Greenstreet, Jill Bechtel, Eric Medlij
Camille R. Allen, Katie Cook, Kelly R. Dankelberger, Nichole David, Caroline Gingye, Vered Hankin, Matford Jordan, Thyraf Krupp, Rene Ramu, Sarah Anne Smith, Chava Martens, Brett Bitner, Kenneth Martin
President,Vice President
Brad Garlinghouse, Lance Wright
Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Travis Harrod, Liz Shanker, Julie Garney, Marc Wilson, Carlos Travis, Jason McIntosh, Diance King, Ian S. Anchach, John Schwartz, Chad Seymour, Alan Tikwar, Joan Shemaker
Graduate
Jean Winter, Chris Stong
Ed Austin, Robert Thompson, Steve Yates
Non-Traditional Susan H. Garlinghouse
David Allen Gawell, Will Ingram, Patrick Dilley, Marcia Quiros
Marcie Wakefield, Kim Bland, Gloria Cheng, Michael Gregoree, Karen Block Imhoff, Kristin Costlan, Christian Nelson, Diphee Young, Chris Robinson, Nason Shevie, Josue Pineau
Business
Jason Linder, Phillip Forster
Nicole Roberson, Jennifer Zucco
Jason Mann, Philip Frewer
Architecture and Design
Social Welfare —
Julie Chadwell, Jennifer D. Davis
Stephen A. McBurney, Courtlandt T, McQuirc IV
Laura Cohen, Kristy Dorsey, Jonathan Folland, Susan Loyacono, Martin Shinoshita
Marian A. Taylor
Liz Pederson, Marcie Rosenbaum
Bobette L. Puderbaugh, Rowera P. Viloria
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES
David D. Barney, graduate; Ashley Langford, journalism Source; VISION, UNLEASHED coilations
Laura Moriarty
Carlos Lopercena, Renee Rosén
Jill K. Minct
Monica K. Spreitzer
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