THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
A LITTLE WARMER
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 33
Thursday October 13,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Gays ready for skirmish despite ads
By LEON UNRUH
Staff Writer
The sexual revolution rumbles on, this time catching in the mud as possibly these women try to break free.
The problem, at least in the skirmish scheduled for tomorrow, is that many of the people involved cannot decide on the uniform of the day.
The event designed to educate and maybe embarrass a few heterosexual students, according to one of the gay leaders—has been named "Wear Blue Jeans If You're Gay" Day. The conflicting groups listed now are Gay Services in Kansas (GSK), or Grace Lesbian Alliance (GLA); against an unorganized contingent of protestors.
At issue is GSOK's and LLA's promotion of the national "Wear Blue Jeans If You're Gay" Day, for which KU students have been asked to wear overalls or jeans if they are gay, according to Todd VanLaningham, GSOK leader.
**WE WANT PEOPLE to stop and think, "What if people thought I was gay?" VanLampham said yesterday. He said he wished they would wear blue jeans Friday for me."
"Every day of their lives gay people and lesbians have to conform to heterosexual society. Let's have one day when they want to do what we want," Van liannham said.
The purpose of the event 15 to make those people aware of how homosexuals might be treated.
Not willing to accommodate the gays are several students who have taken out classified and display advertisements in the local media. In denouncing the occasion or punishing it at fun.
One man placed an ad reading, "Non-gays unite! We wear a shirt tomorrow if you are not gay. Don't let a few of them' frighten you. What are you, a man or a mouth?"
TWO OTHER MEN bought an ad in tomorrow's Kansan, which says, "Wear your underwear on the outside of your jeans if you're Gav Daw is today."
Tom Tipton, Hutchinson sophomore and one of the authors of that ad, said, "I wear blue jeans a lot and I don't appreciate my lifestyle to appease another group."
VanLaninghamham said. "We're not trying to be vicious or mean—just a little ornery, perhaps. I hope people will see it as an educational-type thing."
on yesterday's solar eclipse and let passers-by, including Rhonda Neugehner, Lawrence senior, take a look. See story page six.
LLA, a branch of Women's Coalition, is contributing time and help but no money, he
GSOK is funding the venture, which has used posters and Kansan advertising. VanLingham would not say how much the campaign cost.
Sun qazing
Jeff Miller, Overland Park sophomore, kept a telescope sighted
Court listens to Bakke arguments
BY RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court was urged yesterday to decide whether special programs to aid racial minorities are valid and vital to society or whether they should be banned for illegally discriminating against whites.
The view that the court's nine justices take in the reverse discrimination case of Allan Paul Bakke could have a profound effect on the future of affirmative action programs in education and business across the nation.
Many civil rights leaders and constitutional scholars say the court's decision to allow a woman to marry a man with no relations since it harned segregation in 1954. A ruling is expected before the court concludes.
THE CASE HAS drawn wide attention, and hundreds of people lined up outside the court building beginning Tuesday night to gain admission to the session.
"Allan Bakke's position is that he has a right not to be discriminated against
because of race," San Francisco attorney Reynold Cohn argued as he urged the court to uphold a ruling by the California Supreme Court.
The state court ruled that a special admissions program used by the University of California's medical school at Davis made Bakke a victim of racial discrimination and less academically qualified minority students to enter white, excluding Bakke.
BAKKE, A 37-YEAR-OLD Sunnyville, Calif., engineer with the nation's space program, successfully contended in state court that a student at the medical school had not set aside 10 slots
in each year's entering class for minority students.
The university appealed the California courts' ruling, and its attorney, former Warner Bros. executive Andy Cox, argued that such a program was intended to aid persons long "victimized" by racial harassment.
Cox told the justicees that race might be taken into account for proper purposes, such as overcoming the effects of past oppression.
COX'S ARGUMENTS focused on the rights of minorities to have an opportunity for full membership in American society, and Colvin's contentions centered on
See BAKKE page ten
Affirmative action lauded
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NEW YORK (UPI)—Vice President Walter F. Mondale said last night that the Carter administration supported aftershocks of the war and a positive tool to overcome past denial."
Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was in charge of the affair, which was attended by King's father and King's widow, Coretta Scott King.
Social Change. A huge portrait of the slain civil rights leader hung over the dais.
Mondale described King's father as a grandson of slaves whose family helped liberate a nation. He thanked him and those in the civil rights movement who had never turned their back on the country and had never stoned believing in democracy.
The challenge facing America, Mondale said, is to "stay true to the trust placed in America by the civil rights movement and people like Daddy King."
Dykes approves on-campus rally
By BOB HAWLEY
Staff Writer
The University Events Committee yesterday denied permission for a campus homecoming pep rally tomorrow, but with permission, the rally will be held anyway.
The committee voted six to four to deny the request for a pep rally planned for 1:15 tomorrow afternoon between Wescoe and Strong Halls.
Mondale told a dinner crowd of, 1,500 honoring Martin Luther King Sr. that the administration would not turn its back on 200 years of discrimination. He said the administration believed in affirmative action.
But because the committee is only an advisory committee to Dykes under its new guidelines, Dykes' approval of the rally overrides the committee's denial.
The committee's function is to advise duties on which activities can be held on GIMP.
THE REQUEST FOR a rally was signed by Robert Foster, chairman of the
"We are prepared to defend its use in the courts of this land as we have done in the past."
homecoming committee, and it made note of a Oct. 10 memorandum from Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, implying that the committee had been approved by Dykes and the Committee.
The committee denied permission for the rally, saying it would be a hindrance for state troops.
Scott Jarus, ranking member of the committee, said Shankel had used the committee's name in the mime because it assumed that it would approve the request.
But Jarus said that approval of the request would make the committee increase.
"Allowing the rally to be held would interfere with the classroom activities of both groups."
The dinner was sponsored by the Atlanta-
based Martin Luther King Jr. Center for
See RALLY page nine
Honararies assess coeducational status
Four University of Kansas honaries, faced two years ago with going coed or losing University affiliation, said yesterday that they would have changed women's music society, they would not have changed their organizations' definitions to Title IX discrimination provisions.
The four honories, CWENS (now Lambda Sigma), Mortar Board, Sachem and Owl Societies, confronted the same TITLE IX provisions that sparied Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI), a women's music society, to seek an exemption allowing it to remain all-female.
KENT SAID that CWENS had been eager to chance to Lambda Sigma.
SAI recently changed the definition of its society from a professional honorary to a social organization and received an exemption from Title IX provisions from the University of Illinois. The exemption Welfare (HEW). The exemption allowed SAI to retain its all-female membership.
**TITLE IX prohibits sex discrimination in**
**organizations in federally**
funded institutions.
When Title IX went into effect in 1975, Sachem, a senior men's honorary, and Owl Society, a junior men's honorary, decided to sacrifice University affiliation and remain all-male. Mortar Board, formerly a senior men's honorary, and CWNS, formerly a sophomore women's honorary, joined the new group and go coed. The new coed sophomore honorary changed its name to Lambda Sigma.
Mari Lynen Kent, adviser to Lambda Sigma, said, "We knew that we could get around TIX in that way, but our point wasn't to get around it but rather to consider its potential functional and one of the best ways HEW has in getting rid of discrimination."
sexed," Kent said. "We were eager to change, and we didn't want get around
Bob Turvey, another adviser to Lambda Sigma, said, "There was never any desire to get around the intent of Tide IX. I think the team had a plan and that it would benefit them to follow it."
Ann Warner, president of Mortar Board,
said she thought the purpose of the group
was to educate students in the field.
"Aside from the issue of men and women, the classification of social organization would run an honorary," she said. "Mortar Board believes that excellence among students in the University should not be evaluated on the basis of sex."
PAUL CARROLL, president of Owl Society, said that his organization had not been aware of the possibility of exemption from the grant of going coed or losing University affiliation.
Don Alderson, adviser to Sachem, said he thought the honoraries would not have opted for the exemption rather than lose University affiliation.
"I don't know if we would've even considered doing that, but I'm sure that it would've been brought up as an option if someone knew about it," he said.
"There was no chance of staying single-
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Committee approves pay reform
"I don't believe that we gave any consideration to taking that path because it is an honorary and isn't concerned with being anything else," he said.
A. A House committee approved legislation yesterday to reform the bill, allowing state representatives vote increases for themselves. Under the bill, any future pay increase would not go into effect until the following Congress convened, meaning there would be a election between the time members approved any increase and when they started voting.
John Josserand, a former member of Sachem, said, "We didn't consider the alternative, and I'm not even sure we were aware of it. In some ways, though, that action avoided the question of the issue of being an honorary. Perhaps HEW is putting emphasis on discrimination in job formation but we didn't know the possibility."
JR Jeffhads, president of Sachem, and Gruma, advisor to Mortar Board, were unanimous in approving the plan.
Urban housing bill signed into law
The $14.7-billion housing bill emphasizes improving conditions in the nation's older cities. Financial aid to cities and rent subsidies are aimed at helping 345,000 families find housing at rents they can afford, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. See story page two.
WASHINGTON—The Carter administration's first urban program was signed into law yesterday, providing billions for housing programs, rent subsidies for poor families and an expansion of the Community Development program.
House kills ethics reform proposal
Congress upholds airbag order
Locally . . .
that it may have been too late. The Senate voted to kill a resolution overturning the airbags on hours after a house committee tabled a similar move. Congress has now until tomorrow to pass the measure.
Spokesmen for the Graduate Student Council have received complaints that graduate students working as teaching assistants at the University of Kansas are a dissatisfied, but silent, group. What are called unequal pay and unfair and unequal work demands are given by proponents of University guidelines as among the reasons for setting standardized hiring and firing procedures. See story page five.
The vote ended the last important reform proposal of the Commission on Administrative Review—a special panel assigned to tighten ethical standards and revise administrative procedures after last year's congressional sex scandals.
The surprise move, a personal defeat for Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, followed Tuesday's disclosure that members had used taxpayers' money for such business entertainment expenses as club dues and an office Christmas party.
WASHINGTON—The Houss killed a congressional ethics reform bill yesterday, apparently angered by embarrassing disclosures brought to light by a
WASHINGTON—Congress yesterday upheld the administration's order that auto makers put passive restraints, such as airbags, in all new cars by 1984.
Library funding rates low in national survey
By DAVID ALFORD
Staff Writer
Although University of Kansas libraries ranked third in the Big Eight in total operating expenses in 1975-76, they fared low in research. In fact, only 20 percent of the Association of Research Libraries.
The Association of Research Libraries, a national organization of 166 member libraries, compiles an annual report that compares various operational expenditures and functions of member libraries. The association then ranks the libraries.
The 1975-76 edition of the associations
statistics ranked KU 171 of 106 members in
Oklahoma State was 92nd on the list,
Oklahoma 84th, Missouri 78th, Nebraska
72nd, Colorado 62nd and Iowa State 42nd.
It is not a member of the association.
Iowa State spent $3,456,166 on its libraries during 1975-76. Colorado $3,128,143, KU $2,968,140, Missouri $2,881,150, Oklahoma $2,682,150, Kansas $2,181,750, KU
The University of Illinois, whose libraries are considered by librarians to be among the finest collegiate libraries in the United States, spent $8,502,302 in 1975-76. That amount is $6,522,023 more than KU spent during the same year.
ACCORDING TO the association's statistics, KU spent $991,231 on library materials. Illinois spent $1,979,083 on library materials.
KU spent $314,844 on current periodicals and Illinois spent $1,138,044.
$5,501,881 was paid in salaries to Illinois' staff members.
A total of $1,532,447 was paid in salaries to staff members of KU's libraries and
Jim Ranek, dear of libraries, said this week that even though a comparison of the two libraries is not possible.
EXPENDITURES
Big Eight in total operating expenses, the ranking was misleading because Big Eight had a smaller operating expense.
"One of the problems here is that there are several schools in the Big Eight that are
experiencing library problems," Ranz said. "Missouri, K-State, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are also unhappy with their
See LIBRARY page nine
Staff illustration by David Miller