University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 29,1977
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HEW backlog delays discrimination investigation
Bv Deric Gilliard
Staff Writer
Investigation of a racial discrimination complaint filed by a black woman against the University of Kansas probably will be delayed until at least late next spring, an official of the Department of Health, and Welfare (HEW), said Tuesday.
Russell Bailey, an official in the civil rights division of HMEW said that a backlog of 10,000 submissions was waiting for review.
The woman, Margaret Lomax, said she tied her complaint against KU because the university had no evidence of fraud.
the law school, an action she said was against the policies of the 1972 University of Kansas Lawrence Campus Affirmative Action Plan.
Lomax said that while she visited Lawrence relatives in August, she decided to apply to KU's law school but did not have the $24.00 application fee.
The $24.60 included a $10 application fee,
$4.50 to transfer scholastic aptitude test
scores to KU, a $5 fee for graduate and
$10 fee for school and $1.50 for a transcript
transferral.
admitted because other students had applied months earlier.
LOMAX SAID that an assistant dean in the law school told her that she could not
Lomax said that two sections of KU's affirmative action guidelines supported her
She cited sections from 'Policies for Students,' No. VI of the plan:
- In order to ensure full equality of opportunity for admissions, the University shall actively recruit and encourage women and minority applicants at all levels.
"I if had known that KU didn't follow their affirmative action guidelines I never would have applied at law school at KU in the first place," she said.
MICHAEL, DAVIS, University general counsel, said that Lomax was refused admission because she applied "about three weeks before having had no particular reason for being late."
"More important, she had no transcript of her undergraduate work.
- Criteria for admissions shall be flexible enough to take into account the effects of economic and cultural differences in the backgrounds of applicants. Traditional
"At the time she applied, there were quite a number of applicants already on a waiting list and they were told that they would be admitted in order as they were ranked. The list included minority and nonminority students, Davis said."
academic criteria shall not be the sole consideration in admission and support decisions. Existing criteria shall be supported in alternative action goals in making decisions.
Davis said he was confident that the University's position would be upheld and the University was complying with affirmative action guidelines.
Bailey said that after HEW handled other cases, that it would conduct a thorough investigation.
"It has been put in our complaint log, and when its turn comes up, we'll investigate and send a letter concerning our decision on the case," Bailey said, as well as to the University. "Bailey said."
THE HEW civil rights division would decide whether Lomax had been discriminated against, Bailey said. If the division decides she has not been deprived of her rights, the case would be closed; if she has, the division would be discriminat. KU would be forced to comply with federal affirmative action guidelines or lose federal aid, he said.
Racist fears death if sent back to Alabama
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI)—Avoled racist J.D. Stone, who says he will be killed if he is sent back to Alabama to face trial, surrendered yesterday on charges of exploding dynamite at a black Birmingham church in 1958.
"I am not guilty and I don't think that under the Constitution and the extradition laws I can be extradited to Alabama," said Tracy Katz, an attorney who heads the radical National State Rights party.
Stoner appeared before State Court Judge James L. Bullard to answer the two indictments returned in Alabama, leaving him with his home by saving he was going to lunch.
Stone has offered to identify—but only in Georgia courts—an undercover FBI agent and a Birmingham detective who he helped fire, but whose firm fired him £250,000 to have the late civil rights movement.
leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., killed in 1968 or 57.
Stoner, who wears a bow tie with a Confederate flag emblem, also said the same FBI agent offered him $2,000 to burn the Belt Baptist church in what he termed "an obvious trap. They have been trying to get me for years."
In asking for a reasonable bond, he told the judge, "I am not going to run. I assure you I am going to be here when the hearing comes up."
Stoner was released on $10,000 bond on two indictments which accuse him of exploding dynamite dangerously near an inhabited dwelling.
The blast damaged the Bethel Church, which was empty at the time. However, a bathedral stood nearby.
Setting off explosives near an occupied dwelling is a capital offense in Alabama and
any extradition request from Alabama Gov.
George Wallace.
the same grand jury which inquired Stoner also indicted Robert Chambill, 73, on four counts of murder in a 1963 church bombing. The jury claimed the lives of four young black girls.
Minority Affairs
not covered by the statute of limitations.
Those found guilty can be sentenced to life
A Student Senate Sub-Committee now forming to promote Minority Awareness on the KU Campus.
MEMBERSHIP OPEN TO ALL KU STUDENTS.
Stoner, who expected the indictments for two days, had said he would file for a writ of habeas corpus as soon as arrested, and would request Gwou. George Busheb to refuse
THURSDAY, SEPT. 29 is the deadline for all applications.
Applications available at the Student Senate office/84-3710, Kansas Union/Level 3
Student Senate is funded by the Student Activity Fee.
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