KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, April 2, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 125 USPS 650-640
Athletic department complies with Title IX rules
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
The Office of Civil Rights announced Wednesday that the KU athletic department was in compliance with Tile IK. The athletic department earlier had given OCR a plan designed to reduce inequalities between men's and women's athletics.
The OCR began investigating KU in October 1980 after two complaints had been filed.
The OCR summarized its findings in a four-page cover letter dated March 31, sent with a thank you.
Vicki Thomas, University general counsel,
declined to release the report or copies of the
letter but allowed reporters to read the letter.
In 1979-80, female athletes at KU comprised
33.2 percent of all participants in the intercollegiate athletic program, but received only
13.7 percent of the financial aid," the cover letter
"WOMEN RECEIVED an average of $781 per
athlete; men received an average of $2,436 per athlete. The University acknowledges that this was a disproportionate award of aid for the women's program.
"The OCR concludes that the University plan will correct the violation within a reasonable period of time."
The length of the "reasonable period of time" was not defined in the cover letter, but the latest interpretation of Title IX states that the time period cannot exceed five years.
period Game 1A.10 The letter indicates that the University must improve the following areas of women's athletics to be in compliance with Title IX:
- Scheduling of games and practice times
- Travel and per diem allowance
- Equipment and Supplies
- Opportunity to receive coaching and tutoring
* Provision of locker room, practices rooms and
  classrooms
- Provision for housing and dining facilities and services
- Publicity
- Equal and effective accommodation of the interests and abilities of students of both sexes
- Publicity
- Recruitment of student athletes
The letter came in response to two suits filed in July and August of 1978 allowing that KU discriminated on the basis of sex in its intercollegiate athletic programs.
If OCR had found that KU was not in compliance with Title IX, the University could have lost about $27 million in federal financial aid it had received.
- Promotion of support services
ANN LEVINSON, a 1900 KU graduate who
announced her desire that her intention had
not been to lose funding for her
"The intent was not to have the funding taken away. The intent was to point out the quality of our training."
eizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics and former board member of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, filed a lawsuit against the college out of town and could not be reached for comment.
Del Shankel, acting athletic director, said he had not looked closely at the report, but he thought that because the OCR had accepted the plan KU submitted, it probably was a fair plan.
Levinson said she wasn't completely satisfied with the decision, but she was glad OCR had responded.
responsibly, it's better than I expected because of the present administration," she said. "We know that the education department will still keep tabs on the University."
Levinson said she had filed the suit because of the inequalities she saw in available scholarship money, traveling expenses for women and "virtually every aspect of the program" while she was a member of the field hockey team and a student representative to KUAC.
"I knew what was going on at other schools" she said, and I knew what was going on in the
"It was obvious we were being treated very poorly."
assessing compliance, it measured two
factors, determined whether the
polarity and availability of the
polarity aid availbility.
THE LETTER SAID that OCR examined the availability, quality, benefits, opportunities and treatment provided for both men and women to see if they were equivalent.
athletes was proportional to their rate of participation in athletics.
Secondly, it measured whether athletic positions proportionately available to male and female athletes.
Another section reviewed all intercollegiate programs and examined the 10 factors listed in regulations, plus athletic recruiting and support programs. The programs were found lacking in each of these areas.
"On Feb. 11, 1982, the Office for Civil Rights met with you (Budig) and members of your staff to discuss informally the proposed findings of our investigation and to identify plans the University may already be implementing with respect to the inequalities that were found," the letter said.
Investigators arrived at KU in October 1980 and conducted a four-week on-site investigation, questioning athletic department officials, coaches and athletes.
3-month contraceptive stimulates controversy
KU has been waiting for a response on its status since last spring. Reshuffling OCR and budget cuts had slowed the process.
By ELIZABETH MORGAN Staff Writer
Today a woman can get a shot that prevents pregnancy for three months after it is injected.
But the drug, Depo-Provera, is not as simple as it sounds.
Because of uncertainties about the drug's safety, the Food and Drug Administration has not approved it as a contraceptive. Concerns about doctors who are willing to prescribe it for birth control.
Depro-Provera is made of the hormone progestin. Birth pains are a combination of pain and rigidity in the pelvic area.
One Lawrence physician, Dale Clinton, has chosen to go against the tie and prescribe Depoxy.
Depo-Provera has been approved as a cancer treatment since 1972. Because it is on the market for one use, physicians may use it for another, and the FDA says it is legal for them to do so.
"I'm NOT trying to promote it as a contraceptive. I don't advocate it as being an end-all contraceptive," Clinton said recently. "I do use it."
"He said something to the effect that 'There's this great new drug on the market. If it nee hassle, I'll give you a dose.'"
Sarah, a 26-year-old KU student who asked that her real name not be used, went to Clinton because she had encountered problems keeping on the schedule for taking birth control pills.
The uncertainties about the drug center on some tests that possibly link the drug to cancer, and the lack of evidence for this, are.
Sarah took the Depo-Provera shot. It was easy she simply was injected every three months. She never had to think about birth control between injections and never got pregnant. She told her friends about the "great new drug."
There is no question about its effectiveness.
According to the Upjohn Co., the manufacturer of the drug, the pregnancy rate is 0 to 1.2 per 100 women, and it is at least as effective as the pill
"It is so effective," Clinton states in a note on a bulletin board hanging in his office, "I will
perform a D & C for you without any additional
for (if you do become pregnant)."
A D & C (dilation and curettage) is a technique that removes tissue from the uterus for abortions or during laparotomy.
Although doctors are not doing anything illegal by prescribing Depo-Provera Judy Kraus, a psychiatrist at the University of Druguese with a patient might sue a doctor if there were any problems caused by the drug.
FOR THAT REASON, she said, physicians may avoid prescribing it.
"You would hold and suspect they're not going to put their reputation on the line," Kraus said.
Several Lawrence gynecologists said that they did not use Depo-Provera because they feared it would cause side effects.
"Yes, I do take risks," Clinton said when asked about possible mall practice suits.
However, a Topeka attorney, Janet Smith, said it would be difficult for a woman to win such a case.
"A woman could sue because anything that is physically different about her because of the drug," Smith said. "But the problem is linking the cause."
And, as Clinton said, "All of the complaints can't be attributed to the medications."
can't be attribuited to the medicaten
Smith said. "Without consistent evidence ...
Smith said. "Without consistent evidence ... you wouldn't have much luck in a court of law." And lack of consistent evidence could be a problem with Deo-Provera.
There is no conclusive evidence that Depo-Provera is a cause of cancer. The FDA first denied it approval as a birth control method because of studies that showed beagle dogs tended to develop mammary tumors when given Depo-Provera. It was later discovered that beagles are easily susceptible to mammary tumors.
Still, according to former FDA commissioner Donald Kennedy, "no contraceptives currently approved for marketing have shown a similar carcinogenic potential in the beagle assay."
Rhesus monkeys are were tested, but when some of the monkeys developed tumors of the uterus, critics pointed out that monkeys were given relatively high levels of the *deny*
hitively high quality
See CONTRACEPTIVE page 5
A four-foot square block of street collapsed from erosion at Jayhawk Blvd. and Sunnyside St. yester day morning leaving a chuckhole over a foot deep.
KU professors query Reagan's defense stance
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS
Staff Reporter
In a March 31 news conference, President Reagan ruled out the possibility of freezing the U.S. defense buildin.
"I think a freeze now would not only be disadvantageous—in fact dangerous to use with them in that position—but I believe it would also militate against any negotiations for reductions. There would be no incentive for them to meet with us and reduce arsenals."
"The truth of the matter is, on balance the Soviet Union does have a definite margin of superiority, enough so there is risk," Reagan said.
"My most serious objection, I believe, is that what he said is based on an utterly false premise—the premise that the only way to stop the army is to creep our part of the arm race," Mikkelson said.
Gerald Mikkelson, chairman of the KU Slavic department and associate professor of Slavic languages and literature, said that President Reagan's statute had been too far behind. The measure would not ahead of us militarily.
But two KU authorities in Soviet affairs say that the increased defense spending that Reagan is proposing is not the way to deal with the Soviets. Instead, there should be more emphasis on negotiating limitations of existing arms, they said.
NORMAN SAUL, KU professor of history and of Soviet and East European Studies, said, "It is very debatable whether the Soviets have superiority or not. What is superiority when
"the exact opposite is true. The only way to stop it is for us to have negotiation and agreements with the Soviets on limiting and reducing arms."
4. woud still seek all opportunities for negotiations, and I'm not sure that has been done," he said. "The more negotiations there are, the more opportunities there are for agreements."
He went there to do research on Puskink and Soviet literature and as the resident director for a semester Russian Language Program. He has also gone to the Soviet Union to negotiate for some KUI cultural and educational exchanges, but he has not Mikkelson will take two trips to the Soviet Union.
He said that Reagan's request for an increased defense budget was dangerous, and that he thought the Soviets would increase their military spending just to try to keep ahead.
dealing with nuclear powers that have the capability of mass distraction for both sides?$^2$
Mikkelson and Saul both have had personal contact with people in the Soviet Union.
Saul was in the Soviet Union in 1973 and in 1974
in search Russian-American relations in the
1980s.
both professors agreed that if the United States centered its attention on military build up and did not seriously communicate to the Soviet Union that it was interested in negotiating arms control, then the Soviets would probably respond by continuing armed race or a military confrontation.
HE HAS TALKED to many Soviet historians of American history and international relations.
Mikkelson has been to the Soviet Union eight times from 1966 to 1978.
Vladimir Mikoyan, assistant to the Soviet Embassy press secretary, Washington, D.C., said, "Any new round of arms race would increase the war effort and greatly increase the danger of another war."
Soviets think that the continuing arms race will be dangerous.
Mikoyam said that if the United States refused to negotiate, "we will not be sitting quietly doing so."
Saul said that if the Soviets thought that U.S. defense spending posed a military threat, they would react by building up their own troops and using them down or by taking some dinomatic action.
The Soviets see a large U.S. defense budget as an attempt by the United States to become the
"THE SOVIET UNION could emerge as a much more military state than it is now," he said, "but it is also possible that they won't be able to afford a military increase.
"In fact, they might not even be able to afford what they have now, and economic pressures could force them to back down from the war. But the government that they're made to military development.
He said that a U.S. military build up would not make the Soviets want to negotiate.
"We are not going to make the Soviets bow
atmositically by building up militarily
here."
Gregory Guroff, chief for Soviet and East European Research, U.S. International Communication Agency, Washington, D.C., said the US military was very serious about building new weapons.
"What makes it a very dangerous world, I think, is that the perceptions which the Soviets have of the new determination in the United States to build weapons is not counterbalanced yet by any perception that we are indeed serious about arms control negotiation." Guroff said.
He said the Soviets tended to interpret the American military buildup as more of a desire to wage economic warfare on the Soviet Union than a desire to push the button.
Mikkelson said he thought some U.S. policymakers were convinced that if the United
States forced the Soviet Union to continue in the arms race, the soviet economy would collapse, and the United States would emerge as superior.
"THEIS THEORY carries the attendant risk of a nuclear exchange at any moment," he said, "because the Soviets will not be brought to their knees."
Mikkelsen also said he thought the U.S. military buildup would convince the Soviet leaders that they were faced with an immediate, overwhelming military threat.
And, he said, "it will negate all the progress that has been made over the past 25 and 30 years of persuading, on a people-to-people level, that there is a way of getting along with each other, of having cultural and educational exchanges, of trading with each other."
Guroff said he thought Soviets perceived themselves as responding defensively to the U.S. threat.
"It you live in a society where the aggressive actions of one society, the United States in this case, are constantly portrayed to you, and the information about what your own society does is almost non-existent," Guroff said. "it is very difficult to come away with the impression that there is a kind of interactive political system in the world.
But, he said, the Soviets have moved in recent years into other areas of the world and are also moving toward the United States.
"THEY COME AWAY much more inclined to see themselves as responding defensively to their own dangers."
According to Mikkelson, the Soviets nevertheless have a tremendous sense of military and economic inferiority.
Guroff agreed.
Saiul said that throughout their history, Soviets usually had been passive, responding to the invaders. But this is not the case.
See SOVIET page 5
Staff Reporter
By ANNE CALOVICH
Prof says faculty can't lead alone
It will be impossible for the University of Kansas to ever reach its potential if the administration does not take a leadership role, Richard Cole, vice president of the Kansas branch of the AAUP, said at the annual meeting last night.
Cole, professor of philosophy, told about 25 members of the AUAP that KU would not reach its potential as long the administration in leadership must come from the faculty alone.
"If leadership doesn't come from the governance and the administration, it won't come." he
He likened departments to kingdoms and fiefdoms, where there are meetings of chairmen, and which each department guards its own interests without providing needed leadership.
Cole said that the three-year terms faculty members served on committees provided them with only enough time to familiarize themselves with the system and then they had to bow out. For example, the faculty now working on the report of the Commission on the Improvement of Undergraduate Education will all be gone in three years, he said.
"There is not a continual body with a memory capable of undertaking long-term projects because the governance destructs itself every three years," Cole said.
"In the last 15 years, there has been no speech by an administrator that spells out what needs to be done to reach excellence. The goal of the organization was to endure, but it was made without specifics."
Chancelor Gene A. Budd said laint August that he wanted to make KU one of the top 10 public universities.
He said the faculty members had been infected by the urgency the administration showed in dealing with decreasing enrollments and departments. Faculty are too concerned with their own budgeting and with recruiting students away from each other, he said.
Cole said that much of the potential to improve the University was already here, but went untapped, as departments followed the administration's example of committees galore.
The departments have become autonomous, he said, "with a responsibility each to itself without a responsibility to the interest of the University as a whole."
"The potential is not tapped, but is frittered away into useless committee meetings. AAUP meetings, departments, schools," he said. "There are literally more committeees than faculty here. A lot of it is spent in wasteful, useless committee work."
It will be cloudy today with a chance of thunderstorms and an expected high temperature around 70, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Tonight it will be cool with lows in the upper 38s. Tomorrow will be cloudy with highs in the low to mid-60s.