The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, September 4, 1981 Vol. 92, No.11 USPS 650-640
Changes may alter affirmative action
Staff Reporter
By CATHY BEHAN Staff Reporter
If you don't already have a job listed up for after graduation and you are a member of a minority group you might have to start a job at your office of affirmative action said Wednesday.
OFCCP IS RESponsIBLE for monitoring affirmative action programs in businesses and industries.
"A number of proposed changes for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs may decrease that office's ability to monitor af- nal action programs," Mike Edwards said.
"These changes will have a direct affect on affirmative action programs," Edwards said, because they are signaling the direction to affirmative action and equal employment."
Edwards said the proposed changes would decrease OFCUP's jurisdiction over the number of individuals affected.
One of the proposed changes would raise the cut-off limit for companies that have to meet the affirmative action requirements, from the current 50 employees and $50,000 in federal contracts, to 100 employees and $1 million in federal contracts.
"If the threshold is raised, smaller organizations would not be required to meet affirmative action policies."
A SECOND CHANGE would broaden the job categories used for affirmative action planning. This change is designed to reduce paper work.
If the change is approved, the University
would only have to break down its employee
analysis in advance rather than by department
and task analysis.
For example, a professor who teaches in the French department is counted with other French professors to decide whether there is a violation of affirmative action guidelines.
If the proposed change goes through, that would be grouped with all other faculty members.
Therefore, it would be harder to see whether positions that take a high degree of skill are better suited.
"We'd be looking at all the faculty together, and yes, it's easier to make a work force analysis together, but it lessens compliance standards if you lump everyone together," he said.
A third change would exempt some federal contractors from OCCP compliance reviews for five years—even though some contracts are for less than five years.
"I think it's important to have frequent compliance reviews because those companies that have not been frequently reviewed have been lax." Edwards said.
"I agree that record keeping must be made
efficient, but everybody must" have an oper-
tion to take care of it.
OfCPC is asking for public comment on these changes. Affirmative action will continue to operate under the old rules until OFCP makes these changes final. Edwards said.
The deadline for public comment is Oct. 26, and comments may be sent to James W. Cisco, Acting Director, Division of Program Policy, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. 20210.
Water bug
Pat Donahue, Orlando. Fla. senior, gets a head start on the Labor Day weekend by taking a dip in the Chi Omega fountain.
MARK McDONALD/Kensan Sta
Second committee to study red tape
Staff Reporter
By SHARON APPELBAUM
A committee that recently submitted a report on University red tape will soon be replaced by another committee that will study the report.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday he would appoint a committee within two weeks to rid employees of some bureaucratic hassles.
"We hope to make this operation more efficient, humane and with fewer inherent frustrations," Cobb said. "We want to make life more serene and tranquil."
The committee will study the problems that individual departments, called small users, have in dealing with such support groups as purchasing and inventory.
Small users, such as bookkeepers and the administrative assistants, will make up a
"Many of them have the best insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the policies. They interact on a periodic basis with the support offices."
The new committee will be a spin-off of the Committee on Policies/Procedures that was appointed in March 1980. The committee,
composed of faculty and administrators, submitted a report last month citing problems in general terms, such as a need for better communication between departments and support groups.
Cobb said the small user committee would find solutions for individual problems, but the first step was to define a process.
For example, departments have been ordering supplies through a state catalog. Prices are based on the size of the business.
However, Cobb said prices of various supplies were lower than at times, prizes were lower than they listed.
Cobb said departments could call the University purchasing office to find out the best deal for you.
Cobb said many problems were simply a result of departments not understanding various problems.
A savings of about $8 may not sound like much, Cobb said, "but if you multiply that times a thousand transactions the University does in a year, there's a great savings. That's an immense benefit to the departments, who don't have enough supplies as it is."
"There's a mythology about some policies. It's possible to affect the ends the committee wanted with a better exchange of information."
Ed Meyen, chairman of the committee, said communication with the support groups already had improved. The committee met with representatives of the different support offices at each meeting.
"The sessions allowed the committee to identify areas of concern and pursue them with members of the various offices." Meyen said. "The discussions helped us better communicate with support offices."
Cobb said members of the committee asked themselves the question, "What are the rules and regulations you believe make your life complicated?"
He said they then determined which of those rules was grounded in state law, which was just an erroneous interpretation of that law and which was an old bad habit held on to for years.
He said the job of the committee would be to break the University of those old habits.
"These are things that are within our power to be investigated." *Cobin said.*
The committee would then tackle state statutes.
"Some were designed to serve a purpose 10 or 20 years ago, but not now."
Because changing state law is a lengthy and often discouraging process, Cobb said the committee would hold off on the statutes for now and concentrate on University rules.
Kansan a hit in French major leagues
Tom Kenny, Leauw school, managed France's second-best baseball team last year while studying at a university in Bordenux.
By MARK ZIEMAN
Staff Reporter
There are few French baseball afficionados who cannot recall last year's runner-up in the National Championships. If pressed, they can even claim that he was Ewing Kauffman, and its manager, Tom Kenny.
The team's name of course, was no trouble at all—the Pineau Pitchers.
French baseball aficionados? Tom Kenny?
The Pinehill Pitchers?
That's right. The Pineau Pitchers, managed by Tom Kenny, Leawood senior, was the second-best baseball team in France last year.
"Baseball is really ready to take off in France," Kenny said yesterday at his home in Lawrence. "A lot of teams are looking for Americans now."
While studying in Bordeaux, France last year as part of the KU study abroad program, Kenny was one such sought-after American. Kenny said he was contacted by a physician, Didier Fournier, who played for the Pitchers, a team belonging to La Federation Francaise de Baseball. Fournier was a major league. Fournier asked Kenny to play on the team and become its manager.
Kenny agreed to take the job, plus coach a "min" team of children, ages 8 to 12.
"I wrote home telling my parents, 'Can you just send over a couple of pictures of George Brett or some of the Royals for the team.'" "I know, tearing them out of Sports Illustrated."
His parents went a step further. They contributed to the upholdman, the owner of the Kansas City Royals.
"Mr. Kauffman sent over Royals' caps, a cap,
a picture, a plastered scorebooks,
a calendar of the Royals' Kennedy."
"The kids just went nuts," he laughed, adding,
"but the adults were just as ecstatic as the kids."
See BASEBALL page 5
Unattended dog a problem if bite is worse than bark
By PAM ALLOWAY
Jimmy, a light brown Labrador and Swiss farm dog mix, was guarding his master's orange backpack outside Snow Hall yesterday, as usual.
Something upset him, and the usually friendly Jimmy began "baring his teeth and growing," according to Shirley Archinal, of several students kept out of Sipa's snoot door.
Staff Reporter
The incident was one example of a growing problem on the KU campus, particularly in the warm seasons. Police were unable to respond, resulting in unwitting and sometimes vicious doves.
Archinal, who works in the Systematics and Ecology department at Snow, said the dog was always there and was "usually not like that."
Another student kettle kit of *Snow because*
or the teacher kettle kit of *Snow because*
Shaw, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, said he was making his morning rounds, when the police told him not to go near the door because the dog had attacked someone.
The owner, Paul Marki, Bern, Switzerland freshman, was attending a class in Snow at the University.
Using a long pole with a noose on the end, two KU police officers and an animal control officer succeeded in putting the dog in a cage that was inside a City of Lawrence van.
POLICE told Marki that he could either take
their vehicle or detain it either or the
agregual would be left to the police.
He said he volunteered to shorten the leash
and tie the dog to a tree rather than at an entrance way, but police wouldn't listen.
KU Police Capt. John Mullens said that last month, a team of officials issued Arts building, blocking three doorsway.
Marki said he brought the 8-year-old dog from Switzerland He said that Jimmy had never bitten anyone. The dog usually accustomed to coming from his home on New York street to campus.
"It was like a Mexican standoff," he said. "Nobody could get through except the owner. All we could do is reroute people."
Jim Denney, director of police on the Lawrence campus, said the department usually had three to four cases yearly of people being bitten by dogs.
"The problem is with owners who leave the in those kinds of situations without thinking."
When police find a vicious dog, Denney said, they notify the city's Animal Control office and keep people away from the animal until the control officers arrive. The dog is taken to the pound. Occasionally, they try to inform the owner but many times it is not possible.
Denney said the fault was the dog's masters, not the dog's.
Lawrence has an ordinance that says no dog can be left unattended. The ordinance also says that vicious dogs must be muzzled. A state ordinance concerning dangerous animals, not under their owner's supervision and without proper restraint, also exists.
A violation of these ordinances is a madnessmanor and is punishable with a mutilation.
KU administration unaffected by Kansas open meeting law
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
Tuesday's warning to the Lawrence City Commission to "keep the door open" when meeting informally, does not apply to KU administration and Smoot, a state deputy attorney general, said.
Smoot, whose main duty is to monitor the open meetings law, said after Tuesday's commission meeting that the Student Senate, Faculty Senate and other University groups were not bound to
Smooth was invited to the commission meeting by Commissioner Barkley Clark to clear up ambiguities surrounding informal meetings between commissioners.
the state's open meetings law because they "exercise no authority over the governance of the University, which is strictly in the hands of the Chancellor."
Commissioner Don Binns had charged that the occasional Tuesday afternoon meeting between Mayor Marci Francisco and Commissioners
See MEETING page 5
It will be partly sunny today with a high temperature of 85, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be from the southeast at 5-12 mph
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the upper 50s. Winds will continue from the south at 10 mph.
torrow and Sunday should be
party time, and mid暑 mid
and overnight lows in the 60s.