University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, April 6, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 127 USPS 650-640
Boost for women's athletics Plan complies with Title IX
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is committed to a 13-point plan to eliminate inequities that the Office of Civil Rights found in KU's intercollegiate athletic program, according to a copy of the report.
Del Shankel, acting athletic director,
yesterday explained the specifics of the plan KU
submitted to OCR regarding its compliance with
Title IX.
"We're committed to doing some specific things to aid the women's athletic program without diminishing support for men's athletics." Shankel said.
TITLE IX, WHICH WAS passed in 1972 under the Education Amendments, calls for equal opportunity and is equal per capita spending on involved in men's and women's athletic programs.
KU became one of the 80 schools under investigation after two separate complaints were filed by the district.
Anne Levinson, a 1980 graduate who was a member of the field hockey team and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board, filed the first complaint in July. Elizabeth Banks, department of classics professor and former KUAC board member, filed a second complaint in August. Both cited inequalities in KUAs women's athletic program.
In a letter of findings released last Thursday, OCR found KU in compliance with Title IX if
their access rights violated.
KU3's 13-point plan, submitted to bring the University in compliance with Tile IX, covered athletic financial assistance; provision of equipment and supplies; scheduling of game and practice times; travel and per diem allowance; opportunity to receive coaching; opportunity to receive tutoring; provision of locker rooms, practice facilities, training facilities and training facilities and service; provision of housing and dining facilities and services; publicity; provision of support service; recruitment of athletes; effective accommodation of student interests and abilities
INEQUITIES EXISTED in almost every area the time the suits were filed, according to the OCR.
A few of the changes accepted by OCR already have been made. Others must begin in the fall of 1982. The University has agreed to make all necessary changes within the next three years.
The following are the main areas the plan considers.
Athletic facilities
By the 1984-85 school year, the women's softball team can expect a new softball diamond to be completed just south of Allen Field House.
The softball team can also expect additional lighting in the area of Allen Field House, where it is located.
Shankel said the additional lighting for the men's baseball team had been provided for by the athlete's parents, but the University had not found a substitute. Additional lighting in the women's softball team area.
The locker room for the women's basketball team had been delayed because the facilities operations had not been able to get all of the materials it needed to finish the project.
Game scheduling
The plan effective next year will move men's Saturday basketball games from the evening to 2 schedule which will allow women's teams to schedule later and ultimately after men's 3 games or in the late evening.
Travel allowance
The length of stay and room arrangements will depend on budget constraints, but KU will
For teams that travel within a 300-mile radius of Lawrence, the athletic department will provide van transportation. Outside of that radius, the teams will travel by bus or plane.
"Insequence implementation of this policy will not enable suitable treatment for male and female athletes."
OCR found dining arrangements during travel to be equitable.
Training facilities
KU now pays the deductible amount of medical costs on the health, accident and injury insurance for both male and female athletes. This was found to be equitable.
The athletic department will also continue to provide a certified trainer for both programs, and the weight and strength coach will be available to all athletes.
Over the course of the next three years, KU will either increase the number of women's coaches or decrease the number of men's coaches to make the programs equitable.
The housing and dining facilities will become equitable over the next three years, KU has promised, with a specific plan to be developed in the fall. The university is officially becomes KU's athletic director May 1.
This particular point dealt with both housing and training table facilities.
Shankel said that in the category of tutoring, the athletic department would make tutoring available to any student-athlete who thought he or she needed it.
Financial aid
In swimming, tennis, track and golf the
bowler is awarded will be identical as
of fall 1982, Shanker kissed.
"It is our commitment and our firm expectation that within three years the financial aid for female athletes will be substantially doubled and that other benefits in intercollegiate athletics," the report stated.
in college financial in order to fulfill its commitment, KU will either fund the programs to the maximum levels set by the national organizations to which they
See PLAN page 5
Severance tax bill crushed; Carlin vows to continue fight
Staff Reporter
ByKEVINHELLIKER
TOPEKA-A A slim majority of senators yesterday crushed the only severance tax bill to reach the upper chamber this session, but supporters refused to acknowledge defeat.
On a 21-9 roll call vote, the Senate killed the first severance tax bill to reach its floor since 1957. But Gov. John Carlin, in a news conference called immediately after the vote, vowed to persist in his severance tax campaign and criticized those who opposed him.
"I can assure you the severance tax will be a part of a package before this legislative session."
Wait, let me look at the first word. It's "can assure you". The second word is "the severance tax will be a part of a package before this legislative session."
BUT DURING two-and-a-half hours of emotional debate on the tax, which would have
"The problems are still here today."
"If you think all I wanted a vote on the floor, you have not heard what I've been saying. I have not fought for two years for a severance tax just to have it voted on."
raised more than $100 million for the state general revenue fund, Senate opponents said Kansas did not have serious enough financial problems to justify a severance tax.
they argued that the tax would cause the oil industry—the second largest industry in the state next to agriculture—to move out of Kansas, taking jobs with it.
One opponent, State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-PA, would receive all of Kansas' finan-
cial would resolve all of Kansas' finan
Although the bill did not specify which state agencies would receive severance tax money, supporters said it would be aimed at social education and maintaining quality education in the state.
"At no place in state government, other than in state roads and highways, do we show a need for a new highway system."
BUT MINORITY Leader Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, responded, "Those of you who believe that can take the fishes and the loaves and feed the multitude."
See SEVERANCE page 5
Weather
Spring will take a step backward to more winter-like temperatures today as highs will reach in the 40s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the south-southeast at 5 to 10 mph. It will be warmest on Sunday, with lows tonight in the 28s and 39s. Fair skies will prevail tonight.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and warmer with temperatures in the low to mid-60s.
Winter weather blew back into Lawrence yesterday after spring made a brief appearance last week. The Frigid temperatures forced students inside Bailey Hall to escape the elements.
Area weather not that bad
From Staff and Wire Reports
Even though there were snow flurries yesterday and KU students had to face a chilling wind and 30-degree temperatures, Lawrence fared much better than the northern half of the
According to the KU Weather Service, yesterday's weather did set the record for the coldest high since
but in Chicago, nearly a foot of snow fell and 40 mph winds caused blizzard conditions.
An intense snowstorm also dumped more than six inches of snow in six hours on Des Moines.
was issued for much of the mid-Atlantic coast and central Appalachians for today.
Up to four inches of snow was expected in some of those areas.
A winter storm warning was posted for north-central Illinois, northern Indiana and west-
central Wisconsin.
New York state was caught in winter-like vice with up to six inches of snow and winds up to 55 mph, causing a wind chill index of 13 degrees below zero.
Mike Akulew, of the National Weather Service
topics "yesterday and today" to temperatures
in Kansas.
He said an arctic high pressure area from Canada was causing the lower temperatures in
The normal temperatures for this time of the year, Akulow said, were highs in the lower 80s.
Warren Farrell, author of "The Liberated Man," leads a group in a stand-up, sit-down dancing experience as part of his workshop to emphasize understanding from the other gender's viewpoint. Monday's workshop was part of Men's Awareness Series 1982, sponsored by the Men's Coalition.
BON GREENSPANIKansan Staff
Lecturer advocates sexual awareness
By JIM LEHNER Staff Reporter
Society teaches men and women to look upon each other only as success and sex objects, which contributes to problems concerning male and female awareness, author Warren Farrell told about 300 people last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Farrell's lecture was part of the Men's Awareness Series sponsored by the Men's Coalition in cooperation with Student Union and University Residence Halls and Husband and Husband.
Farrell said that women were taught to enjoy their bodies only if they were overpowered by men and men were taught to power women.
"I think we train men to have the psychological components to be mini- tured."
'And we train women to have the psychological components to be mini-
sized.'
FARRELL, a former board member of the National Organization of Women and the only male to be voted to the board three times, said when he became involved with NOW in 1970, "a lot of people saw the women's movement as a threat to masculinity."
Farrell took the early part of his lecture in a narrative about his experiences with men's health.
"We're prisoners of our specialities."
"We're prisoners of our specialties." She said women held back their feelings
"We see ourselves as the Mariborino Man," he said. "but after five or 10 years, we're involved with an institution, answering to a boss to pay the mortgage.
about sexual relations, while men tended to overstate theirs.
MEN ARE PRESSURED, he said to tell little stories about how successful their sex
"We know we're lying but we don't know how much the others are lying," he said.
This, he said, made males extremely insecure.
One device Farrell used to demonstrate to men how women tested when men judged them.
"The beauty contest." Farrell said, "tends to attract a carnival crowd."
The purpose of the contest, he said, was to get the "carnival crowd" to attend and then "move them through a process they weren't expecting."
Farrell said that another purpose of the contest was to show men how it felt to be viewed as a sex object and to show women how it feels. Men pressures into treating women as sex objects.
"Women are part of a beauty contest everyday," he said. "They have no choice but to be judged, and men refuse to comment on a woman's body, they are called fags."
FARRELL SAID he did not enjoy the beauty contest, but it was the strongest method of showing people the roles they fall into.
For men, the accustomed role is that of a success object, Farrell said, and for women it is that of an avid reader.
Men are trained to think their only worth lies in their success in the business world and women are taught their only worth comes from their attractiveness. Farrell said.
See FARRELL page 5