University Daily Kansan, February 24, 1983
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Roberta Ferron, above, director of the office of affirmative action, conducts a day-long workshop for KU managers and supervisors on equal employment opportunities. Also taking part in the workshop was Gail Hamilton, manager of staff training and development.
KU managers attend EEO sessions
By ANNE FITZGERALD Staff Reporter
Seventeen managers and supervisors at the University of Kansas learned yesterday that affirmative action involves more than fair-hiring practices.
The group participated in the first of four equal employment opportunity workshops to be conducted this semester. KU's office of affirmative action.
"Some of the more subtle aspects of affirmative action that we covered were good for people to know," said Faye, assistant director of KU's counseling center.
HE SAID THAT even though his department had successfully implemented the policies in the past, it was sometimes difficult to do because of the same issues that have faced the staff in the workshop showed him ways to overcome such problems.
The workshops were required by last year's conciliation agreement
between the University and the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
After an on-site review last March, OFCCP cited the University for violation of equal employment opportunity laws in 10 specific areas, one of which was the dissemination of EEO policy.
Employee interviews during that review indicated that neither the existence of KU's affirmative action plan, nor the identity of the director of the office of affirmative action, was known to University employees.
TO REMEDY the situation, the University agreed to conduct mandatory EEO training sessions for such as the one held mastery.
The conciliation agreement also required that EEO policy statements be disseminated to all new employees, both classified and unclassified, and that quarterly articles on EEO policy be published in The Oread.
Gail Hamilton, manager of staff training and development, said the workshops were intended to give participants greater awareness of their rights and responsibilities under the plan.
The University also agreed to make the identity and responsibilities of the director of its office of affirmative action better known.
ROBERTA FERRON, director of the office, told the group that affirmative action involved not only education but also training, education and attitudes.
"The spirit of affirmative action is the important part," she said.
But how to measure that spirit of fairness and ensure its implementation is not always easy, several participants said.
Hamilton conducted four workshops last fall, before Ferron assumed her role at the University. She said that about 300 managers would eventually take part in the workshops. Nine more are planned.
KU student badly beaten
A 21-year-old KU student was in fair condition yesterday after she was abducted, badly beaten and possibly raped Tuesday night behind the building that was the Montgomery Wards store on 31rd Street, a Lawrence Memorial Hospital official said yesterday.
Diana Klopfenstein, nursing supervisor, said the victim was recovering from surgery.
LARRY LOVELAND, Lawrence police officer, said police had not yet received the results of tests that would determined whether the woman was
He said two men, one armed with a club, had grabbed the victim from behind as she was unlocking her car in a restaurant parking lot on 23rd Street.
U.S. draft registration high Selective Service official says
The men forced her into the car and told her to drive to a parking lot behind Wards, where the men beat her to unconsciousness, Loveland said.
Police have no suspects in the crime, he said.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Selective Service registration program is a "success story" with a high degree of compliance, its director told Congress yesterday.
"This rate would compare very favorably with compliance for any government program," he said. Over the past decade, since the start of the program in 1980,
Selective Service Director Thomas Turnage told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the compliance rate for all age group age group most vulnerable to a draft.
BUT REP, BILL Green, R-N.Y., who opposed the registration act when Congress approved it in 1890, said he knew his efforts to abolish the program.
"The claimed military benefits are far too slight to justify the social and economic costs."
In earlier testimony before a House Education subcommittee, Turnage defended the requirement that college students show proof of their draft registration before receiving federal student aid.
The critics said the regulations developed by the Selective Service System and the Education Department were contrary to the intent of the law passed last year as an amendment to the 1983 defense authorization bill.
THE AMENDMENT, by Rep. Gerald Solomon, R.N.Y., bars federal student financial aid beginning July 1 for young students not register with the Selective Services.
Regulations drafted to carry the amendment out require students to show school officials the letter sent to them by the Selective Service after
Critics said the plan put the burden of enforcing the registration requirement on colleges and universities, but Turnage disagreed.
"The major role is given to the applicant student who is asked to complete the program."
Rep. Bob Edgar, D-Pa., said he had introduced a bill to repeal the Soiomoon amendment, calling it "misguided and unfair."
EDGAR SAID the law imposed a burden only on young men — not women — and only on those who needed financial aid.
Former associate dean named to panel
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin yesterday named a former KU associate dean to the Kansas Task Force on High Technology Development.
The appointment of Susanne Shaw, former associate dean of the School of Journalism, was made jointly by Carlin and James Kramer, the chairman of the governor's task force.
The task force was designed to investigate recruiting opportunities in the state. The
SHAW RESIGNED from the School of Journalism last year to become president and publisher of the Coffeeville Journal.
James McCain, former president of Kansas State University, was also named to the committee. McCain, from Topeka, was secretary of the Kansas Department of Human Resources after 1975 until 1980.
Carlin also appointed Gordon Elliott,
Pittsburgh, to the task force. Elliot is
president of CB International, which
manages 100 pizza restaurants in eight states.
Since last fall, Carlin's task force has added 18 members, who will review the findings of a high-technology study on economic development. Department of Economic Development.
From that study, the task force will make specific recommendations to encourage high-technology development in Kansas.
ALSO, THE Legislature organized a committee on Communication, Computers and High Technology that was intended to work with the governor's
task force and the department of economic development.
Carlin last January proposed that the Legislature allocate $1.5 million to Board of Regents universities for high-techology research.
The governor's task force will be broken into five subcommittees. Four or five task force members will be assigned to work in each subcommittee.
The subcommittees in late spring or early summer will incorporate their conclusions into one message that the task force will present to Carlin.
On the record
A CAR STEREO, valued at $80, was stolen Tuesday night from a Lawrence resident's car parked in the 3400 block of Harvard Street, police said.
TWO MOPEDS were stolen from two Lawrence residents Tuesday, police said. The mopeds, valued at $800, were from the 110 block of Louisiana Street.
ANOTHER CAR STEREO, worth an estimate $450, was stolen Tuesday from the 500 block of Fireside Drive.
Profs to talk about financial future
Three KU professors will speak tonight on the problems faculty members face during financial crisis at the University of Kansas.
The presentation, sponsored by the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, will feature Joel Gold, professor of English, and Nicholas Orr, professor of English and Del Shankel, professor of biochemistry and microbiology.
Gold will discuss the history of KU's financial exigency policy.
The policy, which Gold helped to develop, outlines the procedure for declaring a financial crisis at KU,
including the elimination of academic programs and tenured faculty.
He said that last April, the Board of Regents requested each Regents university to develop a policy for review and discontinuance of programs.
CAROTHERS will discuss a policy for discontinuing academic programs, and will talk about the impact of these policies.
Carothers said the policy, which is not yet final, would determine whether programs should be dropped for academic, rather than financial, reasons.
Deadline for study abroad tomorrow
Shankel said he would report the effects of the University's reduced
operating expenses budget on program quality, both at KU and nationwide.
FOLLOWING the presentation, which is scheduled for 7:30 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union, the president will answer questions from the audience.
AAUP President Evelyn Swartz said she thought faculty members would be interested in the panel's presentation because Shankel, as former acting president of the institute, has been directly involved in forming program and budget policies.
"This whole area is of great interest to the faculty right now," she said.
Ann Oetting, study abroad adviser,
said programs in almost all fields of
study, including the sciences and
engineering, would be offered at eight
British universities. Students must
have a minimum 3.0 grade point
average and be at least juniors during
the 1983-84 academic year.
able currency exchange rate is available with the program.
PARTICIPATING universities in England include Essex, Exeter, Hull and Reading. Programs are available in Scotland at Stirling, St. Andrews and Strathclyde and in Wales at Aberystwyth.
The office of study abroad also announced a new summer institute workshop in landscape painting in Great Britain, open to any student in the United States who has had an introductory course in painting or has an undergraduate degree with painting experience.
Students interested should contact
The deadline for applications for an academic year of study in Great Britain is tomorrow, although some late applications may be considered, the office of study abroad announced yesterday.
Robert Sudlow, professor of art, or the office of study abroad. Oetting said. The deadline for applications is April 1.
THE PROGRAM is offered for five or for seven weeks, Oetting said. Students will attend art history classes in the morning and spend the afternoons painting in the English countryside for six hours of credit.
The five-week program costs $2,070,
and the seven-week program from
June 20 to Aug. 9 credits $2,895, she said.
Fees include tuition, room and board;
a visit to Kansas City to London;
program-related traveling within
England.
class vary with each program, she said, but it is cheaper to study in Great Britain with the University rather than independently, because a more favor-
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