University Daily Kansan, September 28, 1983
Workshop teaches KU grievance procedure Sexual harassment victims can get help
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Her employer was overt in his intentions, she said, when he would approach her and say such things as, "Please put your hands in my pocket?"
During her six months as a receptionist at a car dealership, Krista Percival, St. Louis sophomore, said that most of the salesmen behaved in the same way with the women working there.
"It was a nuance," she said read, "I think they'd be able to control it."
Mary Hoferek, assistant director of the office of affirmative action, said that a workshop last week on sexual harassment was a part of last year's conciliation agreement between the University of Kansas and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
HOFERKEE SAID THE office had been the areas of non-business last year,
A workshop on sexual harassment for men is planned in October.
At the workshop on sexual harassment for women, Joyce Cliff, assistant director of the office of residential programs, presented a range of statistics on sexual harassment in the United States.
In a 1976 Redbok magazine study on sexual harassment, 88 percent of 9,000 women responding reported that they had experienced some sort of sexual harassment on the job in 1976. Of the 297 cases cited in the study, 80 cases of sexual harassment.
Cliff said she was not too concerned with percentages.
"I know it happens to at least one person, and I think that's one too many."
Hoferek said people in the KU community who thought they were sexually harassed either on the job or in their homes had learned to resolve the problem themselves.
BUT, IF SUCH attempts fail, she asks the person can come to the office and ask her questions.
She said there were three levels of procedure — investigation, mediation and hearing by the discrimination board — to deal with sexual harassment grievances from the KU community.
Hoferek said if a student or faculty member requested help from the office of affirmative action in settling a sexual harassment case, the first step would be to investigate the grievance. She said that she would talk to the person accused in the complaint and to any witnesses.
If the harassment continued after the investigation, Hoferek said, the complainant may resort to mediation.
Hoferek would go to the person accused in the complaint and tell him or her of the complainant's demands, she said. She would then mediate between the two and make sure that the harassing action had ceased.
A THIRD PROCEDURE, which bypasses mediation, is filing a formal complaint and taking the grievance before the discrimination hearing board, a panel of 12 members from the University.
Shari Rogge, a KU student senator, said at the workshop that many students she had spoken with did not know what to do. There are dures concerning sexual harassment.
"It's good, but what is it if the students are not aware of it?" she said.
In order to better inform the KU community about KU sexual harassment policy and procedures, Cliff said that she and Hofeke were working on a brochure that should be ready for publication next spring.
HOWEVER, SHE SAID, the office
could not enough money to
produce the brochure.
Rogge said that she had spoken with many students about sexual harboring and defended it. She did not think that student concerned implicit advances harassment.
"They think it has to be blatant," she said.
When she asked students what they
Rita Napier, professor of history, said that if a person wanted to bring a sexual harassment complaint to affirmative action, that the person should document each incidence of sexual harassment as soon as it occurred.
would do in the event of being sexually harassed, Rogge said, they had most often replied that they would ignore it.
"You cannot have a case without documentation," she said.
Shirley Harkess, member of the discrimination hearing board, agreed.
"Talk to a friend and show them what you we written," she said. "This person can help."
HARKESS SAID IT was important to sexual harassment by faculty members.
"There's . . . an imbalance in terms of evidence," he said. "The faculty is waging its legal battle."
Cliff said that most of what had been written in sexual harassment policies had concerned the workplace setting and not the academic setting.
"That's a problem for those of us in higher education," she said.
She said that an adequate definition of sexual harassment for a university should include wording to the effect of "the use of one's authority or power to an intimidating, hostile or offensive work or educational environment."
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The same week that Continental Airlines filed bankruptcy and Eastern Airlines said it might go under, a new enterprise has announced plans to begin lawsuits "all-frills" transcontinental flights.
Plane offers 'all frills'
Bargain-hunting travelers can often find coast-to-coast flights for $150, but Regent President F Michael Rogers said yesterday that he would fly bi-coastal commuters for $1,500.
"There's an old Chinese saying that disaster connotes both tragedy and opportunity." Rogers said in reference to other airlines' problems during an interview before a gala planeside news conference.
ROGERS HOPES TO lure the rich with fringe benefits, making his service one of the fanciest modes of travel in the world. Queen Mary and the Orient Express.
But Regent's owners, Stuart and Clifford Periman, have encountered considerable turbulence before their first flight. Regent, set to inaugure in 2015, is the first aircraft in months overdue because of Civil Aeronautics Board objections.
The Permlans, founders and former officials of the Caesars World Inc. gambing empire, were barred from holding gaming licenses in Atlantic City because of alleged organized crime ties.
In rejecting Regent's bid to begin common carrier flights, the CAB cited the alleged dealings with reputed mobsters and only granted conditional authority to fly as an "indirect carrier," meaning an outside company must operate the flights pending an Oct. 24 hearing.
THE THREE REGENT airliners,
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and renovated for $3 million each,
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for the maximum 36 passengers on
champagne and lobster flights.
There are four private compartments — the one way fare goes up to $4,000 each for the secured quarters — featuring queen-size beds and conference rooms with copy machines and an electronic stock monitor.
The plane also offers direct telephone service, personal computers and video-cassette recorders for enjoying the latest movies.
At least one attendant on each flight — there is one black-tie attendant for each five passengers — will be a stenographer, and another will be a hairdressermanicurist.
ROGERS SAID ONE of the main benefits to the exclusive clientele would be the limousines that would pick up passengers at their home or business and whisk them to planeside.
Former Burford aide testifies to Congress that budget office stifled EPA rulemaking
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Former EPA chief Anne Burford's top aide told Congress yesterday that White House officials stifled agency regulatory efforts, even warning "there was a price to be paid" and that Burford approved a set of ant-pollution rules.
John Daniel, among 21 executives to resign as a result of the scandal that rocked the Environmental Protection Agency, told a House subcommittee he assumed corporate representatives were secretly prodding the Office of Management and Budget to stall EPA rulemaking procedures.
Subpoenaed to testify before the panel investigating the role of presidential aides in the EPA controversy, Daniel passed much of the blame to the campaign officials. He signaled enforcement of environmental laws during Burford's stint as leader.
He said he believed the company official intended to call OMB, since the industry normally would be offered no opportunity to comment until the
DANIEL SAID THAT in 1982, an official of the General Electric Corp. accidentally phoned EPA's office of air, noise and radiation — rather than the budget effort — to request more time to make comments about proposed rules covering disposal of high-level radioactive wastes.
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When EPA proposed effluent guidelines for the iron and steel industries, he said, OMB passed along comments "of such a particular, technical nature that they would have had to have come from ... the regulated industry."
"The inescapable conclusion," said Rep. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., a member of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee, "is that they just sat over there (at OMB) and acted as a backdoor channel to allow corporations to hotwire the regulatory process to get what they wanted."
"I think you have characterized it correctly," Daniel replied.
DANIEL TESTIFIED THAT OMB stalled, altered or tried to alter EPA regulations on water quality, uranium mill tailings and ambient air quality, eventually causing Burford to abandon her view that she was part of a "team"
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He testified Burford and her staff received numerous "veiled threats" when OMB objected to proposed regulations. Daniel told reporters included comments such as, "These regulations will never be cleared by OMB."
WHEN BURFORD SIGNED off on proposed regulations on promoligating effluent guidelines for wastes from the pharmaceutical industry over OMB protests, Daniel said, he got a phone call from the OMB's deputy director for regulatory reform. He said Toxzi told him, "There was a price to be paid for
doing what we had done and we hadn’t begun to pav it."
Tozi resigned OMB last summer to take a job in business.
"A price to pay? That sounds like something out of a second-rate movie." he said when informed of Daniel's testimony by a reporter. He said he did not want the comment, although he remembered phoning Daniel about the regulations.
"There was nothing hidden about it." Tozi said. "I told EPA and the whole world that the levels EPA was claiming in the effluent guidelines were too high. I am a graduate chemical engineer. Yes, I have worked with you in EPA. EPA all the data I received. I encouraged industry to go talk to EPA directly."
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