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Corps Affirms Flood Control Plan
By CHUCK POTTER Kansan Staff Writer
A revised draft of an environmental statement on the controversial Mud Creek flood protection project was issued Wednesday by the National Park Service Engineers. However, Mayor John Emick said a decision regarding selection of a plan to provide flood protection control for Mud Creek would not be made until a final assessment had been issued, probably in several weeks.
Emick said the decision would be made jointly by city officials, the Carw and Kaw firms.
The draft statement specifically endorses the Corp's 1969 plan, which the Corps and the city had planned to implement three years ago until pressure from environmentalist groups forced investigation of alternatives.
Basisically, the 1969 plan calls for 4.7 miles of stream channelization and 4.3 miles of levee on the right bank of Mud Creek, which enters the Kansas River about four miles east of the downtown Lawrence bridge, flow southeast.
Bob MacDonald of the Corp's Environmental Resources Section in Kansas City, said recently that the Corps recommended the 1989 plan because "you have to recommend something when you issue an environmental impact statement."
HOWEVER, MacDONALD said, comments received by the Corpus within the next 30 days from various state and local officials who received copies of the statement could possibly affect the Corp's final recommendation.
The Corp's final recommendation will be included in the Environmental Impact Statement to be issued in January, as will the Proposed Receipt received by the Corps, MacDonald said.
The draft statement lists several adverse environmental effects which would result from implementation of the 1969 plan, including loss of a section of natural stream
and wildlife habitat, loss of wildlife"corridors" in the Mud Creek area and possible disruption of potential archeological sites.
The statement also sites several reasons for the Corp's recommendation of the 1969 plan over several alternative plans, none of which involve stream channelization.
NONE OF THE other plans, with the exception of two "diversion plans," would offer protection to the land along the left bank of Mud Creek. All of the other plans would have been left bank flooding problem than Mud Creek's natural condition, the statement says.
The statement cited as "objectionable due to their high costs" the diversion plans, which would involve diversion of high Mud Creek flows into the Kansas River. Five other plans, all of which involve less federal expenditure and an increased local cost, would "place a financial hardship upon the city of Lawrence."
The draft statement, which the Corps issued in accordance with requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, is the second environmental impact statement issued by the Corps. The Corps published the first statement in January.
CONSIDERABLE RESPONSE to the first statement, particularly in opposition to stance of authorization, led the Corps to review the report, and choose alternatives to the 1989 plan.
On Nov. 9 the alternatives were presented by the Corps at a public meeting conducted at Grant School in Lawrence. While almost everyone present agreed that flood control motion for north Lawrence was necessary, reaction to the alternatives was varied.
KU Allegedly Charged With Sex Prejudice
City officials, county officials and residents of the north Lawrence area favored the 1969 plan. However, environmentalist groups such as the National Audubon Society (NAS) favored selection of either of two alternative plans calling for construction of a setback levee. Neither of the plans involved stream channelization.
By LINDA DOHERTY
Kansan Staff Writer
As a result of a complaint filed by a group of University of Kansas women, the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights has alleged sex discrimination against the University.
According to Peggy Scott, Lawrence senior and press contact for the group, the complaint names the University of Kansas, Chancellor Raymond Nichols and the Kansas Board of Regents in the discrimination charge.
CHARLES OLDFATHER, University attorney, said Wednesday night that he had not officially been notified about the charges.
The complaint requests an investigation in the areas of faculty hiring policies, salaries, promotion, tenure, student financial aid, graduate admissions and the lack of females in administrative positions, Scott said.
"Normally when the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights gets around to investigate, if and when they investigate, they issue a notice of the charge and take actions accordingly.
"I was able to confirm the fact that some charges, which I heard about over the phone but still have not seen, have been filed against the University," Oldfather said. "The University has received no notice of the charges either officially or unofficially."
Tony Lopez, director of the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, would neither confirm nor deny Wednesday that any actions were being taken against the University. He said it was not the policy of the Commission to make such statements.
RICHARD VON ENDE, executive secretary, said Wednesday night that he knew of no formal notification of such a suit received by Nichols.
Scoff said she had received notification from the Commission in November that an investigation was underway.
"We have received official notice that the suit has been filed," she said.
According to Scott, charges by the Commission are based on statistical data released by various offices of the University. The compiled facts allegedly show
salary and promotion discrimination against women of the faculty and of the university.
"ALL THE FIGURES have been officially released by the University," Scott said, "and are the results of several years of study."
The group of KU women filed their complaint with the Commission in July and with advice from Commission members in August through October, Scott said, from August through October, Scott said.
The petition was signed by University faculty members, male and female; administration personnel; classified and unclassified University staff; and students, undergraduates; and was returned to the Commission on Civil Rights, she said.
INFORMATION from the Office of Al-farmative Action for Women Report on the 1971-72 Faculty Salary Study, which was taken as evidence, according to Scott, included:
On the average, females earn less than
males in every rank from instructor to full
pupil.
On the average, faculty women,
disregarding rank and experience, are an-
numerous high school math major candidates.
Differences between male and female salaries on the associate professor, assistant professor and lecturer levels increased in 1971-72.
SCOTT SAID the complaint was filed with the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights because the Commission was "one of the most powerful agencies on the state level." necessary the Commission has the legal authority to order compliance with state discrimination laws, she said.
The proportionate representation of women in higher ranks of the faculty decreased in 1971/72 from that of 1970-71. Women were only 3% of the faculty promoted to full professorship this year.
Frantic Last Minute Gasp Engulfs Watson Library
As students scramble to write last-minute term papers and to study for impending finals, they have been frequenting Watson in increasingly large numbers, according to H. Robert Malnowsky, assistant director for reader services.
"One reason the complaint was filed is that the Affirmative Action Plan is now under consideration and perhaps this will serve to remind the University of the need for a strong plan," Scott said. "Also, if the plan does not turn out to be satisfactory, these charges will serve as an alternative action of that can be taken."
Last week 12,933 people passed through the library turnstile as compared with an average daily total of 17,535. Peak hours seem to be morning and mid-afternoon, said Malinowski.
Watson Library is fast replacing the Red Dog Inn at the hot spot in Lawrence.
According to circulation librarian Nancy Bangel, the normal checkout and return rate is books a day. On Monday, however, 1,278 books were checked out and 1,241 were returned.
Not only have more students been coming to the school, but more books they have been reading and more books.
Ron Klatasek, representing the NAS, said in November that stream channelization was the most environmentally destructive and imperative methods of limiting flood damage.
By semester break, Genier expects totals to run as high as 2,000 books per day.
The increased library usage and the limited library staff may cause delays in acquiring materials they want.
OTHER ENVIRONMENTALIST LISTS present at the November meeting who
Senate Allocates Funds to Keep Libraries Open
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The Student Senate allocated Thursday a total of $1,444.80 for maintenance of Watson Library and branch libraries for the week preceding and the first week of finals.
The library will be open Dec. 11 through Dec. 20, and April 30 through May 13 from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, and from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday. The library will continue to close at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
Jayhawk Audubon Society, the Lawrence
Sierra Club and the Douglas County Coon
Comments on the draft environmental statement can be addressed to Lewis G. Hirsch, Department of Resources Section, Department of Army, 700 Federal Building, Kansas City.
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