Thursday, November 9.1972
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Antinepotism Regulates KU Faculty
By MIKE BICK
Kansan Staff Writer
Bonnie Patton, former instructor of speech and drama, can no longer teach at the university. She is now husband, Bobby, also an instructor of speech and drama, was promoted to chairman of their department, Patton had forced her out.
KU's ruling on nepotism, or the favoring of relatives in employment, states that members of an immediate family can be employed at KU so long as one member of their family is present and the television over the other. In most cases, the ruling affects faculty husbands and wives.
Patton's case is not new, nor is it the only example of the antinep忻ism policy at KU. Other faculty, past and present, have been affected by the ruling.
An effort to change the ruling at KU was initiated October 18 by Committee W of the KU chapter of the Association of American University Professors (AUAP). The committee drafted a proposal requesting the Board of Regents to review an-
tinemipel rulings at KU and eliminate the supervisory requirements. The proposal was sent to the Affirmative Action Board to consider their consideration, their guidelines to end the issue, and at KU.
The AAUP has recognized antinepistom rulings as a problem to all academic institutions and requests their elimination from institutional policies.
Margaret Arnold, associate professor of English and secretary to Committee W, said the proposal cited two reasons for the change.
ACCORDING TO ARNOLD, the proposal stated that opportunities for promotion in administrative positions at RU were himself. The same rule applies to rallings. Also, she said, the proposal pointed out present employment practices with antineoprotism contributed to an "inappropriate transfer or appointment" of a employee who is moved to an administrative position.
Beverlee Anderson, assistant professor of business and chairman of Committee W$, said she did not know when action would be taken on the proposal.
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Saria Kieser, instructor of speech and drama, was given as an example of a person whose appointment at the University was divided because her husband Charles Kiester, professor of psychology is chairman of the department of psychology. Mrs. Kiester who is primarily a psychologist, works in the department. She can only have one job in the department of psychology, for which she does not receive any salary.
Consideration was also given to Nancy Steere, Lawrence graduate student, and her inability to attain a position in American politics, his husband is chairman of that department.
THE KU COMMITTEE proposal follows
guidelines set up by the national AUAP
network.
antipotem rulings as a problem to all academic institutions and requests their help.
In a statement by the national AAPU Committee W, reported in the AAUP Bulletin June 1971, antinepthus rulings were stated to be "contrary to the best interests" of academic institutions. The university community was deprived of qualified faculty members, the article stated, as a result of these rulins.
The statement concluded that reasonable restrictions should be placed on decisions involving direct relatives. Faculty members, according to the statement, would not nor participate" in decisions that were warranted in "direct benefit" to family members.
ACCORDING TO an article in the March 1972 AUBP Bulletin, the national Committee W said antipodesm "severely hinders" the careers of faculty wives, who were usually affected by these rulings. The article suggested that any institution enforcing antipodesm rulings should be given greater pressure from the Department of Health, Education and from faculty wives, who think their careers have been affected by the rulings.
"The qualifications for promotion should be based on the individual," he said, "not on family relationships. As long as there are four members in a reasonabilism, I believe the stand is reasonable."
John Glinka, associate president of Watson Library and president of the KU AUPA chapter, said the national AAUP stand on the issue was a fair approach to the problem.
Glinka said objectivity would be important if a husband or wife found they were not part of the story.
"You shouldn't be in a position to supervise," Glinda said. "Could that person be objective, for instance, to give salary raises? That's not a good way to operate."
"AS FOR THE external view of the department head and one of his staff," he said. "We are so afraid to be enough to view that situation as impersonally as we ought to. We should try to operate in a formalized open direction as soon as there is no basis for suspicion of bias."
The 1949 Faculty Handbook showed that prior to World War II, KU had the policy of employing only one member of a family on its staff. The policy was relaxed, however, during the war because of a shortage of qualified professors.
At the war's conclusion, the ruling forbade the employment of any family member, unless that employment was temporary.
In the 1954 Faculty Handbook, the Board of Regents modified the ruling. According to the Regents, no administrative officer at KU could have a 'close relative as a member on a staff' which 'reported to him directly or indirectly.'
THE STATEMENT ALSO emphasized that *usband and wife could not be employed in permanent positions at KU, or hold permanent tenure in such positions. In exchange for a marriage between faculty who both had married, one was required to relinquish it.
In 1964, the ruling was modified again by the Regents, allowing employment of a person without regard to family relations. A second one relative did not supervise the other.
Antipopism, in its various historical stages, has affected many faculty careers
This ruling is in effect today.
Patton, the person most recently affected, said the antinemist诉讼 could be called discriminatory. The ruling, in most cases, favors a man, she said. The basis for
"The qualifications for promotion should be based on the individual, not on family relationships. As long as there are guidelines for antinepotism, I believe the stand is reasonable."
promotion in any department should be based on ability not on relationships, she
Elizabeth Banks, assistant professor of classics, though not affected by antinepism at KU, said the ruling caused KU to lose valuable faculty members.
IN REFERENCE TO the Patton case, Banks said. "I think it's too bad she left. The University had a competent person on the floor nationally," he said. "We field nationally. Now we can't have her."
Banks said if someone could be trusted as a chairman of a department, he should be trusted not to show favoritism. There are instances for the services for the department head, she said.
Sara Kiesler, instructor of speech and drama, said antinepotism had affected her career at KU, but she thought her education was one of her field had broadened her outlook.
Kiesler, who was cited in the KU AUAP Committee W proposal said she would normally be a psychologist at any other university. Because her husband, Charles, is chairman of the psychology department, he does not attain a position in the department.
Her career is negatively affected by antinepism in this sense, she said, but has gained valuable experience in speech and drama.
THEY SHOULD change that rule," Kiesler said. "It is discriminatory against women and restricts any person like myself."
Coralee Price, Theatre in classics, said antipopism played an important part in his career.
Price said when she first came to KU in 1945, she could not get a permanent full time position, because her husband, G. Bailley Price, professor of mathematics, was on the faculty.
After World War II, Price worked at KU because of the shortage of professors. This, she said, was only part-time employment on a semester basis. In 1945-46, Price taught in the English department while her husband was on leave from KU.
In 1961, after several years of voluntary retirement, Price was appointed in both the English and classics departments, with the lowest rank. This again was on a semester basis. After 1986, she gained yearly appointments from KU in the classics department.
Women Shown Hard on Own Sex
A series of research studies performed in the last two years at colleges all over the United States, including the University of Iowa and other institutions, are more critical of their own sex than men.
One of these studies was directed recently by Sara Kiesler, associate professor of speech communications and human relations. Her study involved two equal groups of women who were asked to view paintings and evaluate them. The first group of women were told half of the paintings and evaluated by man artists, the other half by female artists. The second group saw the same pictures but the sex of the artist had been reversed. The women were also told that half of the pictures they saw were to be judged by them and the
other half had already been judged and found to be very good.
Kiesler said that the women rated men and women equally for the paintings that had already been successful. When they had to decide the merits of a painting they awarded the best ratings to paintings of the male artists.
"If you tell people a painting is successful, then they don't devil the painting because of the painter," Kiesler said. "But if they aren't sure as to how good the painting is, then they usually say that the male artist is better."
tices to female undergraduates and asked them to evaluate them. The group of women gave higher ratings to men, even in the female reporting areas like detritus.
Later a student at the college did a follow up on Goldberg's study. She did the same task using a group of women from the lower middle class. Most of the women had not attended college. She discovered that her studies were too low for them to read. She said that women without a college education thought it was a big success to just have printed books.
Kiesler said her study came from questions raised in a study by Phillip Goldberg at Harvard University at Connecticut. He also attended Goldberg's item of achievement. He gave the ar-
Kiesler also used another study as background for her project. She said that a college in Wisconsin had sent applications to several colleges around the United States.
Kay Workers End Campaign
Disappointment was most evident in young Kuy workers like 19-year-old Jeanne Larzealer of Ioa, who had planned to attend KU this fall but joined the Kay campaign as media coordinator after Kay's win in the Republican primary.
TOPEKA—Mixed emotions were the rule at state Republican Headquarters Tuesday night where the landslide victory of President Nixon was tarnished by the equally decisive loss of gubernatorial candidate Morris Kay.
By MIKE LEWIS Kansan Staff Writer
"Kansans weren't ready for a positive campaign," Larzalere said, "and they deserve what they get for the next two years."
Larzalee attributed her candidate's loss to what she called the people "of chance and repeated that the people were just not ready" for a modern, positive campaign."
Larzealer's sentiments were shared by 18-year-old Carol Haagensen of Kansas City, who began working for Kay several weeks after his primary victory.
"Ray based his campaign completely on his platform, not mud smearing," she said. "Bell, Republican from Lawrence, who was elected to his second term as state insurance commissioner, said he was 'the governor surprised' at the outcome of the governor's race."
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"SOME OF US who have faced it (antineopism) years ago," she said, "are still feeling it now. Even with that rule though I have gotten what I wanted. A teacher himself rather than have tenure for security. Security rides with performance."
Price said that although she was still not in the position of attaining full professorship at she thought her teaching and years here had been luckless. Others she said, were no at all lucky.
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Price cited one case in particular in the 1965 involving Mrs. Micks, part-time instructor in the department of English. Micks was a nationally known author of several books, Price said, and was honored with an award for parliamentary equipment for helping POWs in World War II. She could only teach part time, Price said, because her husband was on the faculty.
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Though Price thought the antinepistom
ruling at KU was gradually being eased out
at KU, she said the ruling had hurt the
University.
"In some cases," she said, "the University has done itself a disesservice."
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