University Daily Kansan, April 26, 1983
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Changes in labor law wouldn't affect KU
By ANNE FITZGERALD Staff Reporter
If proposed changes in affirmative action regulations are enacted, they will have little immediate impact at the University of Kansas, the director of the KU office of affirmative action said yesterday.
Under the proposed regulations, the Department of Labor would change the requirement for firms that must have an affirmative action plan from those with at least 50 employees and a $50,000
contract to those with at least 100 employees and a $100,000 contract.
Roberta Ferron, the KU director, said the University would still be required to have an affirmative action plan.
THE PROPOSALS would also reduce, but not eliminate, the amount of required paperwork for firms with between 100 and 250 employees and contracts between $100,000 and $500,000.
Firms with more than 250 employees and $300,000 in contracts would not be exempt from the paperwork requirement.
The University, would not qualify for any of the exemptions.
Civil rights advocates throughout the country have protested the changes, which would also impose a two-year limit on back pay awards in employment discrimination cases.
Ferron said that such back pay restrictions could be a positive change, because present administrators or employers would not be responsible for past discriminatory practices.
She said the theory behind present regulations was analogous to "guitit tripping" in the Indian community. bv
which white people could be blamed for the history of discrimination against Indians.
BUT AN ATTORNEY with the Women's Legal Defense Fund in Washington, D.C., said that those arguments denied the legal issues involved in the changes.
Arkle Byrd, the attorney, said federal law, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, said it was necessary to "reach back to the root and the branch of discrimination" — something that the new two-year limit would make difficult.
Early housing will require previous arrangement
Unless they have made previous arrangements with the office of residential programs, students who arrive before the beginning of term will not be provided housing by the University, the director of the office said yesterday.
Fred McElhenie, the director, said the office was considering housing for only those students who were either enrolled in summer sessions that began early or who had signed a contract with his office to live in the available summer housing.
Joseph R. Pearson Hall, 1122 West Campus Road, will be open from June 6 to July 29.
MelEllenie said both the School of Law and the School of Architecture began summer sessions on May 16. Other schools begin their sessions in August.
McElhene said that in the past, students who arrived early could be housed in the available summer residence hall for several days, but then had to make off-campus living arrangements.
HE SAID THAT procedure would be dropped for financial reasons.
"The past several years, it just hasn't proved financially feasible." McElhenie said, "and this year's elimination of spring break housing also contributed."
After the University received a petition signed by more than 80 people interested in living in a residence hall during spring break, it sent contracts to those people and was considering opening a hall during the break.
However, McElheneil said, only nine people returned the contracts.
He said that several students who met criteria for living in interim housing had already been accommodated.
Steve Keel, assistant director of bousing, said arrangements had been made for three students to live in Jayhawk Towers.
Keel said the students were either enrolled in the summer session for law or architecture.
'Crash course' gives new commissioners insight
Three newly elected city commissioners received a crash course yesterday afternoon from City Manager Buford Watson and city department directors on how the city operates.
Mayor David Longhurst and Commissioners Ernest Angino and Mike Amyx, who were elected to the commission earlier this month, received overviews of city departments by the department heads.
Incumbent Commissioner Nancy Shortz also attended the orientation.
After the city staff spoke to the commissioners, they were taken on a tour of various city facilities.
Watson said the orientation was a better way of acquaining the commissioners with city government than a better way of engaging meetings to explain background to them.
"Any kind of an orientation is a fast way to get acquainted," he said.
THE COMMISSIONERS toured the
--central maintenance garage, 11th and Haskell streets, the Judicial Building, 11 E 11th Street, the Kaw Water Street Plant, Second and Indiana streets, and City Hall.
The three commissioners said they thought the $5^{1/4}$-hour orientation was valuable and would help them in their jobs as commissioners.
"A lot of the things we saw today are things you take for granted. But until you are inside you don't really appreciate the scope and significance of the
"During the campaign they were calling out Bonzo. They better watch out. Bonzo grew up to be King Kong."
basic city services," Longhurst said.
"The more we know about the city the better we can make decisions."
better we know that before the orientation he knew of some of the city staff and facilities only on paper.
"I have no question whatsoever that this is going to help," he said.
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Amyx said, "This afternoon has probably been the most compact education I've received as a commissioner. I appreciate the city services more because of the tours."
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By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
"It increases are not proposed and passed we will be facing a reduction in student aid programs because of inflation," said Joan Holland, assistant assistant to the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
"WE CANNOT REALLY tell how much the funds available for the programs would decrease." Holland said.
Financial aid funds depend on Senate bill
Unless the U.S. Senate passes an amendment scheduled to be proposed this week, less money will be available for education and financial aid during fiscal year 1984, a student financial aid official said yesterday.
Reagan's proposed budget estimates the inflation rate for 1984 at 4.7 percent.
The House budget proposal includes an increase of $650 million in student aid for fiscal year 1984. The Senate committee has approved last year's appropriations of total education expenditures of $2 billion.
The Senate Budget Committee last week finished marking up the concurrent budget resolution but did not provide any increases for educational funding, which includes Title IV student aid such as Pell Grants and Guaranteed Student Loans.
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After the Senate approves its budget, any differences between it and the House version will be ironed out and given to President Reagan to approve. The House has already passed the budget.
educated Dorothy Sedder, educational legislative adviser to Hollings, said the announcement of the amendment would be made this week. It would recommend increases in the education budget surpassing the increases passed by the House.
If Kassebaum decides to vote against it, Hatten said, it would be because she is trying to limit government spending, not because she wanted to cut any available student aid.
HOLLAND SAID, "WE are counting on the passage of the amendment to provide more funding for all the programs, including our own."
Susan Hatten, educational assistant from Nancy Kasebaum's office, said she thought the senator would necessarily support the increase.
Kansas senators will consider the overall economic picture and the large deficits before voting to approve their educational assistants said.
amount of funding available to the educational programs.
"You have to draw the line somewhere," she said. "Kassaebaum supports the maintenance of these programs but it's just not feasible to make large increases in anything."
Lars Bollson, education adviser to Dole, said that no firm decisions could be made until they saw the actual proposal.
"DOLE IS GENERALLY very supportive of Title 1 elementary education and college loan programs," Bolton said.
grants. "But within the past two years many senators who would have normally voted for the educational increases have been holding the line on any increases.
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