The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, August 24,1981 Vol. 92, No.2 USPS 650-640
Budig stresses KU's potential as 'top 10' university in '80s
Staff Reporter
By JANE NEUFELD Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas has the potential to boost our ability to manage these injuries in the future according to its new champion.
And Chancellor Gene A. Budig pledged to achieve that potential with the help of KU faculty, staff, students and officials, in his speech to be delivered at Allen Field House today.
In a copy of his prepared speech, Budd said, "I believe that within the decade of the 1980s the University of Kansas will be recognized as one of the top 10 universities in the nation.
"I as I begin my service as chancellor, I pledge myself to work toward that goal. I promise that I will not rest until we have achieved it, and I invite you to hold me to my objection."
Budig was scheduled to be inaugurated this morning during the annual University opening convocation. All 9:30 and 10:30 classes were cancelled to allow students to attend.
BUDIY BECAME chancellor Aug. 1, replacing
Chancelor Dut Schuhman. In his speech, Budi
y BECAME chancellor Aug. 1.
"One of my chief duties will be to explain to our constituencies the needs and the pential of the University," he said.
"My fundamental concern is the issue of adequate compensation for our faculty and staff
who are, as I said, the heart of this University. If KU is to remain a vital, innovative and productive institution, we must be able to retain, honor, compensate, our finest teachers and scholars.
Budig listed funding for KU libraries and the need to replace and improve scientific equipment as his other major concerns, and he said he would work with the college staff with elected officials to gain support for KU
"I am confident that we can work together effectively for the mutual benefit of the state and the University," he said. "Our futures are, after all, inextricably intertwined."
Budig also called on students to work with the University in order to receive the best possible education.
"We cannot educate you," he said. "We can only make your education possible if you are willing."
BUDIG'S REMARKS were to follow a traditional inauguration ceremony. The ceremony was to open with an academic procession including delegates from 189 colleges and universities, KU faculty, staff and officials, members of the Kansas Board of Regents and Kansas Gov. John Carlin. All Kansas Regents institutions and all Big Eight conference universities planned to have representatives at the ceremony.
The chief and deputy marshals of the University were to lead the procession
Representatives from universities, colleges and learned and professional societies were scheduled to march according to the years their institution had begun with the Harvard University representative.
Budig's father-in-law, John Van Bloom, was to represent Bloom's alma mater, Union College. Bloom was to march ninth in the procession of academic delegates.
THE CONVOCATION schedule included remarks by Gov. Carlin and a composition by James Barnes, KU assistant director of bands, to James Roberts, by the KU Band, directed by Robert Foster.
After the composition, Sandra McMullen,
chairman of the Board of Regents, was to make Budd's chancellorship official by investing him
into the university as its office, a mace,
and a silver ceremonial collar.
The ceremony was to start with an invocation and end with the singing of "The Crimson and the Thunder."
Budil follows a long line of KU chancellors beginning with R.W. Oliver, who served from 1865 to 1867. Oliver, an Episcopal rector, hired in 1869 during his stint before return to the ministry.
Budig, 42, is a native of McCook. Neb. he received his bachelor's degree in journalism, his master's degree in English and his doctoral education, all from the University of Nebraska.
JULIE GREEN/Kansan Staff
District attorney questions paraphernalia law's validity
By STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Two months have passed since the Kansas law changed, but almost nothing has changed in Lawrence.
KU residence halls have no policy on how to deal with paraphernalia violations, the district attorney has not prosecuted anyone for violating such rules as usual at Lawrence's two head shops.
Douglas County District Attorney Mike Malone said Friday that he was awaiting the outcome of a court case that would determine the validity of the law before he actively enforced it. That ruling is expected to come in about a month and will settle a lawsuit brought by an association of Kansas paraphernalia dealers against Attorney General Robert Stephan.
"It's a case of legislators wanting to go home and say, 'Look what we've done to curb drug abuse,' when they haven't done a damn thing," Malone said.
MALONE HAS repeatedly attacked the law for being vague and unenforceable.
In addition to specifically outlawing bongs, pipes with screens, roach clips, cocaine spools and similar devices, the law prohibits the sale or use of these devices intended for use with controlled substances.
Feds to probe Med Center charges
This means many stores could be guilty of selling drug paraphernalia if there are indications a customer is purchasing a product for illegal purposes. Malone said.
A GROCERY STORE could be selling paraphernalia by selling baggies, he said, and a hardware store could be found guilty for selling alligator clips.
A U.S. Department of Labor's investigation of Affirmative Action procedures at the University of Kansas Medical Center next month could prove troublesome, the head of the labor department agency conducting the investigation said yesterday.
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
See LAW page 5
Robinson said the investigation was "strictly routine," but she said it might be complicated by racial discrimination and harassment complaints that employees of the facilities could not access equipment fitted with the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission against the Med Center.
"I hope I'm not sending my people into a hornet's nest," said Betty Robinson, director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
At least seven Med Center employees have filed grievances with the EEOC since 1977. Several black employees alleged in their complaints they had been verbally harassed and
Jim Scaly, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said Saturday that the Med Center's Affirmative Action plan would stand up to the investigation.
OFFICIALS AT THE Med Center learn of the investigation last month in a letter from the court that uncovered the case.
denied promotions by their white supervisors and administrators.
Robinson said Friday that her division's investigations became more complex when the Trump administration began.
Since its inception in 1978, the contract compliance office has periodically checked on federal contractors, including universities, which have been involved in this. This is the first investigation at the Med Center.
"It is a good Affirmative Action plan, parallel to the one on the Lawrence campus," he said.
He said the EEOC complaints were "routine complaints like any organization gets."
Robinson said she couldn't tell now whether the investigation would become complex. Robinson
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No results yet in Title IX investigation
Bv EILEEN MARKEY
Staff Reporter
The results of last year's investigation into alleged sex discrimination in KU athletics have been bouncing between Kansas City, Mo., and Washington, D.C., all summer.
KU officials expected to receive the results after spring, but athletic officials said Friday they had no reason to believe the game was over.
Helen Walsh, spokesman for the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education in Washington, said the results had been delayed because revisions had to be made.
"The regional office in Kansas City drafted a proposed letter of finding a few weeks ago, and we requested some revisions." Walsh said. "They'll send it back to us for approval."
THE LETTER was sent back for revisions once before, but Walsh said that her office needed more information and that a delay was inevitable.
“It’s just impossible to meet the 90-day deadline,” she said. “A statement of finding is very detailed and very long. It’s a complicated procedure.”
Phyllis Howlett, assistant athletic director,
of the University of athletics had not heard anything about a football game.
TITEL IX is a 1972 federal law intended to prohibit sex discrimination in education. If the University of Kansas is found in violation of the law, it could lose all or part of its federal aid.
"I would hope that the University would not need ITX hovering over their heads to keep them."
Separate complaints of discrimination against women's athletics at KU were filed in 1978 by Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics, and Anne Levinson, 1980 KU graduate. In financial aid, travel funds, equipment facilities and coaches' salaries.
KU was among eight universities chosen by the Department of Education in the first round of investigations into alleged sex discrimination in athletics.
A four-week investigation, which ended in November 1880, resulted from the complaints filed by Banks and Lewison. A ruling by the Department of Education was expected Jan. 17.
TWO OF THE first eight universities to be investigated already have received their letters of finding, and Walsh said other letters would go out soon.
"I can only be grateful that the whole thing is still in consideration," she said. "The pressure is not off Strong Hall. It’s all applause as far as I’m concerned."
Although she faced her complaint almost three years ago, Banks said she had not been charged.
"We will be issuing other findings very shortly," she said.
The University of Akron in Ohio originally was found in violation of anti-bias laws in a letter issued April 20, but the university was allowed to correct it and to correct its program and did not lose funds.
The University of Bridgeport in Connecticut was issued a letter of finding Aug. 13. Walsh said that university was in compliance on financial and planning plans, and plan compensating for inequities in other areas.
According to Walsh, if a university was not in compliance with Title IX, it would be given time
Gretchen Budig, wife of Chancellor Gene A. Budig, sits with Daphne, the family pet.
Gretchen Budig balances social, family obligations
Staff Reporter
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
She had just settled in her chair on the sun porch when both the doorbell and the telephone rang. Minutes later, her 14-year-old daughter and a friend walked through the front door and into a small room off the sun porch to watch television. Before long, the phone ran again.
Constant activity is a way of life in the Budiz household.
As her husband, Chancellor Gene A. Budig,
learns the administrative ropes, Gretchen
Budig keeps busy trying to balance a hectic
family life with her own full schedule.
Mrs. Budig is not a complete stranger to Lawrence, have come here in 1986 to watch a KU football game. Her brother, a KU player at the time, was playing for the Jayhawks.
She said she was enjoying her return to Lawrence, but has been so busy unpacking and getting ready for the fall semester since the start of this school year hadn't time to explore much of the city.
"Each time I walk downtown I see something different," she said.
APART FROM SETTING into her new home, Mrs. Budig has been working on her fall schedule, which includes numerous dinners, receipts, pre-game parties and alumni events. With the help of her husband and alumni, she has also been planning functions to be held at the chancellor's residence.
Although she will be involved in planning and coordinating many of the University's social activities, Mrs. Budg prefers to leave it up to her husband and expressed disinterest in policy-making.
"They hired my husband for that job," she said.
Although she has been called the "First
"I'd just as soon be referred to as 'Gretchen Budig,'" she said. "It's sort of silly, but I live with it."
Lady of the University," Mrs. Budig shrugged her shoulders at the title.
Rocking back and forth on a dining room chair, she talked about her fall plans.
"Weather permitting, I want to have the football pre-game lunches out on the lawn.
Monday Morning
with box lunches. soft drinks and balloons," it said. "It's supposed to be fun; it's a game."
HER NEW DUTIES have left her little time with her family.
"I enjoy it, but I'm trying to figure out how we are going to have a family life," she said with a smile.
The Budds have a son, Chris, 16, and a daughter, Mary Frances, 14. They also have a brother, Alain, a dogue Daphne, 11, who reams through the house and helps greet visitors at the door.
When they can find time, the Budigs like to play sports or relax at home.
"We play tennis and golf or sit on the front porch and watch people," she said.
Finding free time isn't always easy, though Even her child,lead hectic lives.
"the problems with the kids is they have their own scheduler said, they said that it's not back and forth," he recalled.
This served as a mode of communication when they all come and go at different times,
"Everyone is gone so much that I just tell them to be at church on Sunday," she said. The Buduis attend St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 1229 Vermont St.
The Budig family lives on the second and third floor of the chancellor's residence. The
the chancellor's residence. The
See WIFE page 5
Weather
WARM
Today will be partly cloudy with a high near 90, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be continued partly
cloudy with low of 60 to 65.
Winds will be light and variable.
Tomorrow will be pleasant with a high of 85 to 90.