THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Wednesday September 28,1977
Vol. 88, No.22
Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
since birth, feels that people are prejudiced against the blind. "I have to make them understand that I have as much ability as anyone else," she says.
Rlind DJ
Naomi Souls, St. Louis, Md., senior, faces a rather unique daily challenge, that of being blind. Souls who has been virtually blind
Blind DJ fights attitudes
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
Although the way she broadcasts her weekly radio program may not be that different from other KMJ disc jockeys' in at least one place, Soule J, 21, is blind.
Soule, St. Louis, senior, broadcasters her radio programs each Sunday from noon until 2 p.m. in a format the station calls "down home."
"They call it down home," she said. "I don't. I call it country-rock."
Country-rock music, she said, features performers such as Linda Ronstadt, Emmyluw Harris and Jackson Browne.
Many of the songs Soule plays come from her own collection of more than 350 record albums.
"Mine are labeled in braille," she said. "But, usually there's somebody there with me, like one of my friends who is a therapist." She labeled, but otherwise I do everything.
SOULE SAID she did not have any trouble learning to operate the audio console that a disc jockey must use.
"Most boards are basically the same. If you know one, you know them all," she said. "I usually take a piece of tape and cut it into dials so I know how far to run."
One problem she had to overcome was the prejudice people have against blind persons, she said.
"They think that I can't do what I want
to do. I have to make them understand that I have as much ability as anyone else," she said.
"Sometimes it's hard to get through to them that I can do just as much or do the job as well."
job as well. However, getting her first job as a disc jockey was not that difficult, she said.
joker was always liked music a lot, but I didn't think I'd ever get into radio," she said.
SOLE GOT HER first job as a DL at a college station while she was attending Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, as a psychology-sociology major. She said some friends showed her how to operate the camera; she decided she wanted to broadcast.
"They pulled some strings for me and I got to do show two a week," she said. "I really got interested in it and enjoyed it. It was a real thrill — I just ate it up."
Southern broadcast country-rock programs at KRNL in Mt. Veron for two semesters and later broadcast programs at KCOU in Columbia, Mo., during the summers of 1975 and 1976 while she attended the University of Missouri. It was there she decided to become a radiotelevision-film major.
Soule began attending classes at the University of Kansas in the spring of 1976, and although she still broadcasts, her interests have changed.
"I'M INTERESTED in programming or working for a record company, not in
public relations, but being a field representative," she said. "I'm also interested in concert promotions. I don't know anything about it, but I'm intrigued."
terraced
"I'd also like to be a music director at a country-rock or a country radio station or be a program director."
Soule developed a country-rock format last year and said she was interested in the development of country-rock music. "However, however, she said, many do not succeed.
many bullys on me.
"I think that it would do really well here," she said, "because a lot of people like country-rock."
Soule also is interested in research. With Erwin Martinez, assistant professor of radio-television-film, she tests newly released songs and does random sampling in telephone calls. Part of the telephone, the phone and it is rated by the person called.
THIS SURVEY, used by about 30 radio stations and every major record label which produces country music, helps show which songs will become hits.
"If it doesn't test well, a music director shouldn't waste his time with it," she said, "unless the record really shoots up in the charts."
Soule, who was born 10 weeks prematurely, has been blind in her left eye since birth. Although she had some sight in her right eye, cataracts
See BLIND page 12
Closed meetings proposal on Senate agenda tonight
A proposal that would allow the Student Senate and its committees to close their meetings, and another that would change the procedure used by student groups to ask for Senate funding highlight tonight's Senate agenda.
The full Senate is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Big 8 Room in the Kansas
Both the meetings proposal and the registration and recognition procedural change will be offered in their original forms and in a form recommended by the Senate Student Rights and Privileges Committee.
Last week the rights committee voted to recommend to the Senate an altered version of a bill stating that all meetings should be open. The altered bill would permit the closing of any meeting by a three-fourths vote of the members present.
THAT RECOMMENDATION was made after arguments were made that some meetings should be closed when personnel are discussed or during election ballot counting.
When the original bill was presented to the Senate two weeks ago, it had been voted back into committee after meeting stiff floor arguments.
The issue arose this past summer when Kansas Athys. Gen. Curt Schierbeider ruled that the student senate at Kansas State University was an advisory group because it was answerable to the university president. The senators have to comply with the open meeting laws.
KU currently has no rule regarding any meeting should be open or closed.
The three-fourth vote was suggested to
that a meeting would be closed only
few days before.
KIU'S SENATE is in a similar position.
The registration and recognition petition is not in the form of a bill because the Senate cannot enact the procedural changes, but it is in the form of an administrative administration to follow the Senate's wishes.
The rights committee voted unanimously to adjourn University to eliminate the recognition of the university.
All groups intending to ask for Senate funds now must file a registration form with the vice chancellor for student affairs. The groups must meet certain qualifications.
THE PETITION, filed by Steve Leben,
student body president, asks that the recognition clause be removed to permit all activity steps to apply for student activity fee funds.
The qualifications are that the groups may not be oriented toward support of or opposition to particular religions, activities or beliefs; political party activities or programs; or personal and private activities or habits.
Last spring three groups were denied recognition, causing Donald Adilson, then acting vice chancellor for student affairs, to be fired. What changes could be made in the process.
Leben's petition was introduced to answer StuEx's suggestion of continuing registration, but setting up a three-member committee to look into recognition problems.
Sabbatical plan discussed
By JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Writer
Members of FacEx and University of Kansas administrators held a closed meeting last night and reached what was described as a reasonable agreement toward a compromise on the proposed faculty sabbatical plan.
After the meeting, Del Shankel, executive vice chairman, and William Westebaker, FacEx chairman, described the discussion and said a final agreement was in reach.
"We had a very frank exchange of views," Shankel said. "I think we agreed that the major issue was how to handle the strictly meritorious provision of the Regents guidelines, and I think we are close to an agreement on that issue." he said.
Westerbrooke agreed that the meeting had come close to resolving the differences.
"there was no final decision, but we're getting to the point where there is some reasonable agreement toward a middle-of-the-road compromise," he said.
The rejected faculty sabbatical plan would have allowed some sabbaticals to be granted on factors other than merit, and the length of time without a sabbatical and the length of time without a sabbatical.
The meeting had been held to discuss the administration's recent rejection of the proposed faculty sabbatical plan. Shankei explained in a recent letter to Westekbue that the proposed sabbatical amendments were incompatible with the university guidelines, which specify that sabbaticals should be granted strictly on merit.
In its meeting two weeks ago, the Faculty Council instructed Westerners to take more care of administrators
Rights clause sent to committees
Bv JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Writer
A proposed Senate code amendment calling for equal application of all University rights and privileges was passed in the University committees by ExSen yesterday.
SenEx voted to send the amendment to the Human Relations Committee, the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee and the Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee for further study and suggestions.
The amendment was originally introduced by Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian Studies, to alleviate what he described as the "crisis" in males to University warrants procedure.
Leban said yesterday that certain grievance procedures had been set up for certain groups, and that some groups had been denied a range of procedures and options than others.
The amendment had been defeated by SenEx last week, but two SenEx members asked Leban to reintroduce the amendment this week for further discussion.
In a letter distributed to SenEx two weeks ago, Leban said he was bothered by a concept he believed was held by some KU administrators. The letter said that some of the KU groups are entitled to fairness of treatment because they are members of a specified group."
"I want the same things to be available to everybody in the same kinds of situations." Leban said. "I want whatever rights and responsibilities are available to anyone to be available to all."
AURH votes raise in room fees
THE LETTER said some administrators had reversed the concept of fairness, entailing only members of certain groups to fairness.
"If a person has a complaint stemming from being black, the grievance procedures are very clear, well-thought out and carefully developed," he said.
"EVERYONE HAS access to affirmative action grievance procedures, whether they are black, white or brown, if they feel race is eliminated against because of race," he said.
The proposal would need approval of the AURH Assembly, the Administrative Housing Board and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes before becoming effective.
Hobart Jackson, associate professor of architecture and urban design, did not recommend him.
A proposed $60 increase for double rooms and $105 increase for single rooms were approved last night by the Association of University Residence Halls (AUHR) contracts coordinating committee for the 1978-79 residence hall contracts.
Jackson said he did not know where the proposed amendment would fit in the code, and told Leban that he was "suspicious" of Leban's motives.
The proposed fee increase will cover inflated costs of custodial services, food, storage and transportation.
"If not (a minority), you have to go to your department chairman, then to you
"What do you suspect me of?" Leban asked.
increase revenue and the number of available housing spaces. Committee members considered a drop in single room counts and a cent of the total residence hall rooms.
Residence hall contract rates this year are $1,250 for double rooms and $1,575 for single rooms. If the increase is approved, the rent would cost $3,180 and single rooms, $1,680.
In a proposal submitted last week to the contract coordinating committee by J. J. Snyder, the committee approved the following:
costs of custodial services would be absorbed entirely by single room rates.
However, the committee voted to divide the custodial cost increase between single and double room rates.
The committee voted last night to maintain a 30 per cent ceiling on single room contracts. The number of single occupancy rooms declined by about the total number of residence hall rooms to
Jess Paul, AURH president, said that more single rooms were needed as "drawing cards" to encourage students to live in residence halls. With more single rooms, the students can return for a second room; live in the balls and vandalize in the balls decreases.
However, Paul said he favored a maximum of 25 per cent single rooms for a few years to provide more space for students in the crowded halls.
Jackson did not reply, but William Westerbeek, SenEx chairman, told Leban it sounded like the reverse discrimination case that will soon go to the Supreme Court.
That case involves Alan Bakke, who has charged that the University of California Medical School at Davis had practiced reverse discrimination by reserving slots for minority students. Bakke, who is white, was rejected by the school twice.
Leban disagreed that his amendment was addressing the same principles.
"Fairness is what is important," he said.
"I think fairness is great and I want it available to everybody. There should be equality of opportunity."
Westerbeke said the amendment was hard to argue against, but said it may have subtle implications for many University grievance procedures. He recommended that it be sent to several committees for study.
Leban told SenEx they would face the amendment again even if they did send it to the committees.
A story in yesterday's Kansan about telephone solicitations incorrectly said that coupon booklets sponsored by WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Mo., include discounts for dry cleaning but no coupons for free dry cleaning. The booklets contain gift certificates, some of which are redeemable for free dry cleaning.
the committees.
"I'm not going to let this die in committee," he said. "This is going to wind up right back on this table."
Correction
to attempt to resolve the differences over the plan.
FacEx, the executive committee of the Faculty Council, consisting of 39 faculty members of the University Council, 21 faculty members in the University governance system.
Administrators attending the meeting were Shankel, Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs and Mike Davis, University general counsel.
A second letter from Shankel to Westerbeke, distributed at the Faculty Council meeting, said that Shankel thought that the concept of relative merit was not enough for him. He made sabbatical decisions if the viability of the sabbatical system was to be maintained.
Some Faculty Council and FacEx members had expressed concern that Shankel's objection to the plan was a new basis for administrative opposition. However, Shankel said last night that this philosophical issue had been resolved.
Shankel said that his philosophical belief was based on the Regents guidelines and that an agreement on the guidelines would ensure a bridges between faculty and administrators.
Neither Shankel nor Westerbeke would comment on any exact agreements that had been reached because final details were still being worked out. Westerbeke, however, said he didn't think another full meeting would be necessary.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
USSR willing to suspend tests
Gromyko
Senators present deregulation plan
UNITED NATIONS—At the U.N. General Assembly meeting yesterday, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko announced that the Soviet Union is willing to join with the United States in a temporary suspension of nuclear testing. Gromyko also took the opportunity to criticize the Carter administration on several issues, including human rights and armaments. See story page two.
WASHINGTON—The Senate Finance Committee is looking for compromises on the issue of deregulation of natural gas prices that will allow ministration, the industry and consumer groups, Benton D, Pearson D, Pearson D and the House of Commons of industry-supported price deregulation, presented a plan yesterday. See story page two.
House reiects funds for abortions
WASHINGTON—The House yesterday overwhelmingly rejected a Senate-backed proposal to allow use of federal funds for abortions in cases of rape, incest or medical necessity. The House contends that federal funds should be sent on abortions only when a woman's life is seopardized.
The abortion dispute arose in a conference committee considering a $60.2 billion social legislation bill. House and Senate conferences must now return to work on the bill in search of a compromise. See story page three.
Israel expells black Americans
TEL AIVI—The last of 25 black Americans who said they were in Israel to baptize their children in the Jordan River were expelled from the country yesterday. The Israeli government charges that the blacks were shouting to settle in Israel illegally as members of a band of Black Hebrew. See story page
Korean indicted in conspiracy
KOREA
WASHINGTON - second South Korean businessman was indicted yesterday for conspiring a congressional bribery scandal involving Tongsin Park. The official, Hancho C. Kim, was charged with conspiring to defraud the United States and making a false declaration to a grand jury.
Kim, a naturalized U.S. citizen now living in Lanham, Md., was charged with 25 overt acts in an alleged conspiracy with two former employees of the South Korean CIA, who were named as uninfected co-conspirators.
Park, a millionaire rice dealer, was indicted earlier as a key figure in the scandal.
Locally . . .
A University of Kansas professor had a problem. He thought there were no books that adequately covered the history of Nazi Germany. His solution: He wrote his own book. The professor, Charles F. Sidman, chairman of the department of history, had the help of five German history graduate students in putting together a book that is more suitable for his purposes. See story page six.