University Daily Kansan, March 25, 1983
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Human relations panel seeks power in discrimination cases
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
The Lawrence - Human Relations Commission last night discussed changes in the city's human relations ordinance that would give the commission the power to order back pay, compensatory damages and sometimes punitive damages in cases of discrimination.
The human relations commission now only has the authority to investigate and attempt to conciliate any charges of discrimination.
The relations commission now has to
refer any other action to the Lawrence City Commission.
A NUMBER of lawyers representing several local business firms spoke against a proposed ordinance that would limit the powers in the relations commission's power.
The ordinance is to be considered by the City Commission Tuesday night.
The ordinance also would give the relations commission the power to request a subpoena to investigate complaints of discrimination by going through an attorney designated by the city manager.
The ordinance would bring firms that employ two or more people under the
jurisdiction of the relations commission. It also would add age and handicap discrimination to the types of discrimination.
RAY SAMUEL, director of the city's human relations department, said, "I feel we have a good ordinance and we are making it passed by the City Commission."
"We have a better ordinance because" of the inputs." he said.
He said the meeting last night and a similar meeting Monday were meant to respond to concerns about the ordinance.
Arnold Berman, chief counsel for the Kansas Department of Human Resources, told the relations commission that the ordinance was not needed because four government organizations investigated discriminatory practices.
He said that the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, the Kansas Department of Human Resources, the U.S. Department of Labor and Equal Employment Opportunity were all available to those who thought they had been discriminated against.
SAMUEL SAID that under the present ordinance the human relations department had trouble obtaining information in discrimination cases and that subpoena power would make it easier to obtain that information.
Jerry Shelor, a Topeka attorney who was representing a Lawrence firm he would not identify, asked the commission why it wanted to duplicate the power of the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights.
He said that a firm could conceivably be investigated by several different agencies, including the local commission, and each one might reach a different conclusion about the alleged discrimination.
Tom Moore, vice chairman of the commission, said that the city could move more quickly than the state and that the state would move more quickly that federal agencies.
JOHN LUNGSTRUM, an attorney representing several large local firms that he would not identify, told the commission that discrimination should be eradicated, but that agencies already were available to do that.
He said he was concerned about the commission being able to authorize punitive and compensatory damages.
"That, I think, is the fundamental problem with this ordinance," Lungstrum said. "A body created that does not have the same checks and balances as the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights was. You are not professional judges."
Legislators lament KU money woes
About 50 students, faculty members and administrators spoke with state legislators last night about their concerns for maintaining high quality education at the University despite the state's fiscal problems.
The forum, the second annual Ad Astra Per Aspera Legislators' Reception at the Spencer Museum of Art, was organized by the KU delegation of the Associated Students of Kansas lobbying group.
BOTH STATE Rep. John Solbach,
D-Lawrence, and State Sen. Wint
Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, told the
audience that the state's financial problems would not be resolved soon.
"It it makes my job harder when we see resistance to protecting the assets of higher education," Winter said.
Jan Fink, Manhattan senior, said she went to the reception because "it's important that we get together with the legislators to talk to them about our concerns, because it's the only way they'll know how we feel."
Jeff Silverstein, University special student senator, took the floor to explain that he did
not think students should have to pay a proposed $15 academic services fee in tuition next year.
CHARLTON said she thought the state should finance the University as much as possible so tuition could be kept low.
"But that's not the way it works," she said. "I only wish some of the other legislators who don't realize the needs of the University were here." Who could who can't come to the University and the ones who need to."
Watkins hires two physicians
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The University hired two new physicians for Watkins Memorial Hospital yesterday, said Jim Strobl, acting director of health services.
The physicians, who will join the staff at the beginning of April, will lighten physician workloads at Watkins, he said.
Raymond Swiegler, acting chief of physicians, said the new physicians would decrease 24-hour on-call duties
from once every six days to once every eight daws.
ONE PHYSICIAN will replace the man gagger Haggan, who is retiring April 1, and the other physician's salary will be increased. The physician's student health fee increase, Strobl said.
Next week, hospital officials will begin the selection of the last two physicians to be paid from the fee increase, he said. The two additional physicians will join the staff in August and will be in full staff of 11 physicians, he said.
The loss of three physicians in the
last two years has kept the current staff of eight overworked, but new procedures instituted in the last two weeks have made the most recent use of physician's time, he said.
THE TWO physicians hired yesterday — James Reed and Ann McBride — are both KU alumni, he said.
McBride, a 1976 KU graduate, grew up in Lawrence and is currently in New York.
Reed, a 1947 KU graduate, grew up in Kansas and had a private practice in Lawrence for 15 years before moving to Washington D.C.
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