AUTUMNY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Wednesday October 12,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.88.No.22
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSE
Crackdown
Jim Rigney, Shawnee Mission freshman, was caught yesterday in the KU police department's bicycle safety crackdown and was charged with a felony.
said the department had handed out more than 40 tickets to cyclists since Oct. 2, mostly for failure to obey stop signs and
Fire checks reveal deficiencies
Bv MARTHA FASSETT
Staff Writer
Twenty of the 23 University of Kansas fraternities and eight of the 12 KU sororites have not complied with recommended state fire standards made last fall, recent inspections by the Lawrence Fire Department and the state fire marshal have shown.
Paul Markley, technical advisor to the state fire marshal, released reports yesterday from fraternity inspections, which were completed last week.
Markley said that three fraternities — r1 Kappa Alpha, Pii Kappa Theta and Sigma Phi Epsilon—and four sororites—DeltaGamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa KappaGamma and Pi Beta Phi—had complied with the recommended standards.
However, the other fraternities and sororites have not completed fire standard improvements recommended after initial fire inspections last fall.
LAST FALL'S FIRE inspections were prompted by a fraternity fire louse last
August at Baker University in Baldwin City. The fire killed five men.
After last fall's inspections, Markley said that some fraternities and sororities thought that the recommendations were not serious. Now they all recognize the need to make improvements, he said, and have begun the work. They have contracted for the work to be done.
"We aren't going to say that action will be against us, but we must and sooner or later refuse a press Markley said. "We expect letters saying that the interim deal has done, and we have a plan."
Markley said that the letters had been sent to each fraternity and sorority, notifying them of their status after inspections. Further inspections will be scheduled as the houses make improvements, he said.
The main concern is that all houses have enclosed stairwells or smoke detectors where stairwells are not feasible, Markley said.
Fire inspections of the KU scholarship halls, residence halls and other University buildings will begin later this month, he said.
RESULTS FROM THE fire marshal's office on fraternities are:
- Acacia, 1100 Indiana St. Four of the See FIRE page 8
University honor societies in particular have been affected. Sachem, a senior men's honor society, and Owl Society for junior men, decided to forfeit University affiliation rather than go coed. Mortar Board for sophomores, formerly all-female hon societies, decided to go coed instead of forfeiting University affiliation.
SAI last year sent information to HEW supporting SAi's claim to being a social, instead of professional, organization and received an exemption from Title IX discrimination rulings, according to Ruth Gould, national director of SIA
TITLE IX wording is directed only at professional organizations.
"Based on this information (sent by SA1) and on your statement that the information reflects the overall membership of your organization, Iota is a 'social organization' whose purposes are to foster interests in music and to promote social contact among persons sharing a general interest in art form." (Source: "The Iota Foundation for professional endeavors related to music.")
Richard Beattie, acting general council assistant to HSEW send SAI a letter detailing
The Title IX provision prohibits sex discrimination in a federally funded institution. Since Title IX went into effect in 1975, other campus organizations have been faced with going coer or losing University affiliation.
Music society exempted from Title IX guidelines
Barbara Harris, providence president of SAI, said, "We applied for exemption from Title IX because, while we aren't stricly social like the social sororities, we aren't stricly professional like the business societies.
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"THEY CONCENTRATE on preparing their members for a job. We have a certain emphasis toward that, but our primary membership is college age women, and a lot of them don't go into music after they graduate."
Requirements for membership in SAI are that a student must be regularly enrolled in music and/or music education; the mendation of music ability and scholarship and be pursuing at least a minor in music.
The organization, Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI), received HEW permission to remain all-female after changing the definition of the society from a professional honorary to a social organization. Alice Downs, SAI, was on the daycare. SAI made no organizational changes.
The exemption reads:
Mu Phi Epsilon is a similar women's music honorary, but it awarded this summer at its national convention to become coed to remain affiliated with the University.
Although neither Mu Phi or SAI receive Student Senate or administrative funding, the groups are considered affiliated with the faculty and graduate programs facilities and have KU faculty advisors.
Mu Phi is registered with the office of
student affairs as a campus organization,
and has an active position on the
council.
By DIANE PORTER Staff Writer
however, said that in the past SAI had been registered.
SANDY DENSFORD, president of Mu Phi, said she thought that both Mu Phi and SAI were professional music groups and dance troupes. The TIX because they use campus facilities.
"We're the first to go along with both the law and the wording. We're staying afar."
"We want to emphasize that men n. est
need the same requirements as women,"
drew Meese.
"We feel that our purpose is to further music, and that it doesn't matter whether the musicians are male or female. We feel we have to be serious if we're trying to set a precedent," Dfordsaid.
*NOT JUST any man will get in, but only eligible ones. We're purging music, not the腔调.*
Mu Phi is the only professional Greek onation on the national level to go coed, Denforo.
Both organizations competed for the same members, but are not in competition on two levels now. Densford said, "We are now professional and they aren't." We are professional and they aren't."
A University of Kansas women's music society will retain single-sex membership because of an exemption to Title IX. The University of Health, Education and Wellcome (HEW).
SAI rush began yesterday, beginning its new custom of rushing in the fall and in the
Before, both organizations rushed simultaneously in the spring, but SAI planned a fall rush this year to benefit those students who were down. Downs said, "There is a chance for more girls to go through rush and for graduating seniors to participate in the organization."
JERUSALEM-After a five-hour cabinet meeting yesterday, Israel cabinet secretary Ari Near said Israel had approved a "working paper" on the resumption of the Genawa peace conference. President Jimmy Carter,Secretary of State Joseph Biden and the Israeli Foreign Minister Mohde Dayan developed the paper. See * story page two*.
Israel accepts Geneva conditions
See TITLE IX page two
NEW YORK—A bomb exploded yesterday on the crowded steps of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, causing minor damage but no injuries. The interior of the library was not affected, and none of the windows in the spacious structure were damaged. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing.
NICOSIA, Cyprus- Unidentified assassins yesterday killed rescueman Ibrahim al-Hamdii of North Yemen and his brother. Col. Abdallah Mohammed al-Hamdii, North Yemen's government-run Sana'a radio reported. According to the police, the assassin was killed by Maj. Hussein al-Ghassimi, has been formed to rule the Middle East.
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
The explosion occurred shortly before 4 p.m., hours after a dynamite nomu was dismantled outside the General Motors building and a letter believed written by the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN was found in a west side telephone booth.
The members of the FALN are now engaged in a war of nerves," the letter to part. "This war is being conducted against yanki-imperialism and all its forms."
WASHINGTON—The New York Times reported yesterday that U.S. and Soviet negotiators have made substantial concessions in working out a strategic and limitation agreement. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III said the agreement "disclosure and refuse to comfort or deny any of its statement." See story page two.
Bomb damages NYC public library
It's a different kind of class - no desks, long-winded lectures, no dozing until the whistle. But that's not to say that students in ballet I don't undergo a rigorous learning process. Learning the basics of ballet is extremely taxing, because it requires a tremendous amount of self-dedication. Learning the stunts and clumsy movements. It is a constant conflict of mind against body as dancers give commands to muscles and limbs rarely exerted in such ways during everyday activities. Kim Cochran, Gardner junior, is also in ballet I who spend some time each week seeking the fulfillment that comes from gracefully flowing across a polished wooden floor. See story, photos page six.
Concessions reported in SALT
The radio quoted the council as saying it called upon the people to exercise patience and self-control in aftermath of the assassinations. North Yemen will pay $1 million for victims.
North Yemen president assassinated
Locally . . .
Cochran
Issue exceeds Bakke, lawyer says
Staff Writers
BY DERIC GILLIARD and VENNIE WHITE
The Alan Bakke reverse discrimination suit goes to the U.S. Supreme Court today, but its impact already is being felt. Walter Bakke, a former University, Nashville, Tenn., said yesterday.
"Schools around the country are saying they are afraid to admit minority students because of race or gender."
He said that was hypocrisy and actually the schools did not want to admit minority students.
Leonard, a black attorney, is advising other attorneys involved in the Bakke case. He spoke yesterday at a forum at the University of Georgia Law School in the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union.
Bakke, a white male who was denied admission to the University of California at Davis medical school, charged the school with reverse discrimination.
The school reserves 16 slots for minority students. Bakke says that this policy will help increase student enrollment.
Leonard said he would be hardpressed to even speculate on how the Supreme Court could rule.
He said if the court ruled in favor of Bakke, he could see institutions telling minority students, "Sorry, we can't admit you."
"And we'll be headed for another 25 years of struggle," he said.
As a result of Bakke and other cases, he said, the generation that would benefit from earlier struggles would face closed doors of reverse discrimination charges, he said.
The issues involved in the case are bigger than Bakek, he said.
"There is no such thing as reverse discrimination," he said.
Leonard said it was obvious that race was an issue because no similar suits were being filmed by Catholics against Mormons, Jews and Gentiles or soccer teams against bands.
"There is no truth that to notice race is unconstitutional."
"It's strange the challenge comes only
against black or minority students," he said.
The Bakke case is "total, absolute racist to the core" he said.
"Those who would deny Black-Americans, whose blood is represented in the red bricks on this campus, an education or the right to enjoy the rewards this nation deserve, are worse than infidels and have denied them while this country was built," Leonard said.
"A number of people on the other side were our friends, and it is tearing the black community apart to find those who were not standing by us. We are not now standby for our sides."
Leonard said those who used psychological phrases such as reverse discrimination were doing more damage than the Ku Klux Klan did.
Such phrases are "subtle violence," he said.
Leonard said that for reverse discrimination to be possible would have required an influential potential user.
"There would have to be a great percentage of black doctors, lawyers, governors and corporation heads, and that won't happen in your lifetime or mine," he said.
"You'd have to make a collection of this power and use it against whites like it been done."
Leonard said it traditionally had been blocked that had been discriminated against because he was black.
"I do not know one white person who is poor because he's white" he said. "I know a whole lot of black people who are poor because they're black."
Leonard said unless institutions were monitored, the percentage of minority students entering or graduating from professional schools would continue to be low.
He said, provided that everything else was equal, a student's grade point average should be the most important factor but that other factors should be considered.
Those factors are the level at which the student started, how he got to that point and why. The other factor is the learning
Leonard said it would be difficult to weigh these factors without considering the state of the market.
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Minority programs urged
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Black Caucus yesterday urged the Supreme Court, in its decision in the Bakke case, to strongly endorse affirmative action program.
In an indirect way, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission made the same plea by releasing a report defending such programs.
The Congressional Black Caucus and the commission took their positions in advance of oral arguments scheduled today in the Supreme Court in the case of the regents of the University of California versus Allan Bakke. Some civil rights groups say the high court could be the most significant in two decades for the future of race relations in America.
THE CASE INVOLVES Bakke's claim
but he was denied admission to the university's medical school at Davis because he is white. He contends that his records were admitted ahead of him because the university followed a program to select 15 minority applicants for each entering class.
The California Supreme Court upheld Bakke's claim and rued that the university system amounted to unconstitutional discrimination.
“Is a state or private institution prohibited from taking race into consideration? Bakke says yes, I say no.” he said.
See BAKKE page seven
The 11 black House members who compose the Congressional Black Caucus urged the high court to reverse the California law, which constitutionality of the university program.
"The future health and welfare of this
BOB KEARKE page seven
Although he disagreed with Bakke, he said, "I think Bakke should have been admitted because he's shown the kind of tenacity black people have to show."
Predicting
Walter Leonard, president of Fisk University, Nashville, discussed the Bakke reverse discrimination case before about 100 people last night in the Kansas Union. Leonard said that the court ruled in favor of Bakke in the case, originating from the University of California at Davis, minorsities would "be headed for another 25 years of struggle."
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