KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Monday, March 29, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 121 USPS 650-640
Harassment policy amended
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
The University Senate executive committee decided Friday to send a revised streamlined sexual harassment policy to University Council for its approval.
"It's not a 'professor-student, employer-employee' policy."
"I feel that we have been successful in that we have a document that covers men and women," Ernest Angino, SenEx chairman and professor of geology and civil engineering, said Friday
The original policy's procedure for complaining about sexual harassment was too drawn out and complex and included too many channels for a harassment complaint to want to go through. Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said.
"We were afraid that no one could get through the procedure during a normal life span," Cobb said.
Cobb revised the original policy.
UNDER THE original procedure, a person with, a sexual harassment complaint would be called for a hearing.
Depending on whether a sanction were imposed or the complaint dismissed, the procedure could take the complainant through a Discrimination Hearing Board, the suspected harasser's dean, the vice chancellor for academic affairs, the dean of student life or the director of personnel services.
The new policy streamlines the procedure by eliminating some of the specific details, Shirley Harkess, SenEx member and chairman of the Sexual Harassment Committee, said. Harkess said she had not had time to review the policy well enough to discuss the specific details.
She suggested developing a brochure outlining the policy and distributing it through student offices if the policy were passed by the University Council.
"I could just say, 'This is what you should do if you think you have been sexually harassed,'"
"or "I should be a better person."
IN OTHER business, Angino said it would be difficult to convince the Board of Regents that the University of Kansas needed a voluntary early-retirement program because other Regents schools do not seem concerned about early retirement.
SenEx members agreed.
The only problem we have is that there
doesn't seem to be any one at any of our sister organizations who gives a damn," he said.
"It's going to be hard to sell to the Regents if it’s only coming from KU."
SenEx has been reviewing early-retirement policies from other schools, such as California State University and forwarding them to the department (e.g., SenEx, SenEx member and professor of law, said).
The programs provide incentives, such as part-time salaries, to encourage professors to teach.
A voluntary early-retirement program would benefit the University as well as professors, students and staff.
REPLACING A tenured professor and giving than retirement benefits could be less expensive than the current plan.
"One of the strong points for early retirement is to open positions at the lower end of the academic structure to get some new blood into the program," he said.
The Faculty Senate executive committee also decided Friday that KU's faculty handbook should outline the faculty code of conduct, rather than stress policies and procedures, such as academic freedom and affirmative action, as it does now.
Severance tax, salaries top survey
Bv COLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
More than half of Lawrence residents favor a minerals severance tax, and about a third think that KU employees deserve a salary increase greater than 10 percent, according to a questionnaire completed by members of Lawrence's 4th District.
Branson said she was surprised by several of his responses to the 17 questiona, which dealt with issues such as whether a woman should
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, sent the questionnaire to her 7,000 constituents in mid-February. Ruth Hull, Branson's campaign manager, returned 10 percent of the questionnaires were returned.
"One of the biggest surprises was that the response was so good," she said yesterday. She said that a 6 percent response to constituent questionnaires was considered good.
"It is indicative of the high interest in state legislative issues in Lawrence," she said.
ACCORDING TO the survey, 25 percent of residents think the salaries of KU employees should be increased by 8 percent or less. Some of the answers were outspoken against higher工资.
"My wages don't keep up with inflation. Why
should wages of University personnel?" one respondent asked.
But Branson said that the negative responses were outweighed by those in favor of higher wages for KU employees. She said 25 percent were in favor of a 9 to 10 percent salary increase, and 36 percent advocated an increase of 11 to 16 percent.
"It's about what one would expect in a university town. Branson said, 'since there are so many people here, it's really cool."
She said several residents commented that quality of education would suffer if faculty members were not present.
See QUESTIONNAIRE page 5
Order hinders Wolf Creek protest
By JANET MURPHY
Staff Reporter
About 100 anti-nuclear demonstrators gathered in Burlington last weekend to protest the construction of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant and to commemorate the third anniversary of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
Steve Robinson, Wichita senior and spokesman for a group of demonstrators, the Kansas Natural Guard, said the weekend was successful, although a restraining order issued by a judge at the state supreme court was still being applied from going onto the property to plant cotton trees and trees
KG&E Co. owns the plant, which sits on about 10,000 acres of former farmland about 70 miles southwest of Lawrence, Kansas City
Coffey County sheriff's officers served eight members of the Natural Guard with a summons, a petition for a temporary injunction and the retraining order on Saturday morning at the Natural Guard's cannister at John Redmond Reservoir.
ROBINSON SAID he thought the restraining order was a response to the Natural Guard's March 8 letter to KG&E. In the letter, the Natural Guard told the electric company that its members planned to go onto power plant property to plant trees and grain.
Robinson said the group's members, most of them from Lawrence, were more prepared for arrests this time than they were when they participated in a similar protest at Wolf Creek last November. At that point, all of the protesters were arrested for trespassing. Charges were later dropped.
There were no arrests last weekend.
There were the arrests that we learned. Because of the restraining order, Robinson said, the group changed its plans and decided only to rally at the gates of the plant and to plant the trees and grain elsewhere.
Saturday morning, the group led a rally near downtown Burlington.
Councilwoman Carrie Grace a member of the committee. These女
The seven-mile march Sunday began at the campfire. Three-and-a-half hours later, the protesters arrived at the gates of the power plant, where they released balloons, listened to speakers and sang and chanted anti-nuclear songs and slogans.
STATE TROOPERS and Coffey County sheriff's officers, as well as KGK's security officers, followed the protesters on their march to the
A security guard at the plant gates said that nothing different would happen if the security officers hired by KG&F and the protesters as they marched.
Wanda Christy, Burlington resident, and Francis Blaufus, Westphalia resident spoke on the dangers of nuclear energy and why they
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Kansas Natural Guard protesters release helium balloons at the gate of Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant near Burlington. The balloons carried cards that would inform recipients that they could be exposed to radioactive fallout in the event of an accident. About 100 people participated in the weekend-long protest.
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Willis McCorkill, KU letter carrier, mail in the post office in Strong Hall. McCorkill started work for the U.S. Postal Service then the U.S. Post. *off* v in 1943.
KU letter carrier recollects good old days of efficiency
Staff Reporter
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM
KU letter carrier Willis McCorkill is a realistic man. He believes that the U.S. Postal Service no longer delivers the mail as efficiently as it once did.
But those looking for someone to blame for slow mail delivery can forget about McCorkill.
"The service is bad enough as it is today. I try to give the people the best I have," he said.
McCorkill first started working for the Postal Service in December 1943 as Christmas help. He now delivers mail to most of the buildings at the University of Kansas. Including a stint in the Navy, he has worked for the U.S. government for more than 33 years.
more information."
"I really can't complain," he said. "The Post Office has been good to me for a good portion of my life."
BUT McCORKLL also has been good to the Postal Service, as it is now called. He said superiors should go with letter carriers their jobs to check on their proofs of such inspections doesn't bother him.
"They can go with me any day of the week, even the lightest, and I'll put in a good eight-
His routine rarely varies, and not much out of the ordinary happens, he said.
"You read about carriers saving people from burning buildings and this kind of thing," he exclaimed.
Mccorkill's most unusual letter-carrying experience happened last month, when someone asked if he could come to work.
MAIL DELIVERY at KU has changed much since McCormill started in 1943. Two walking routes and one parcel post route served the University then, he said.
"Even as late as last week, people would tell me. 'Happy birthday,'" he said.
"It's changed from two-a-day foot trip routes to it is now," he said.
What it is now is McCorkill and his two-and-one-half-ton mail van. His route all goes the way from the Gertrude Sellars Pearson and Corbin residence halls to Nichols Hall, on West Campus.
McCorkill often makes large deliveries at Green Hall, the law school building.
one afternoon, he shook open the supposedly empty mail bags from the previous day's delivery.
Monday Morning
"Laws books are heavy and many, he said. 'As an estate law is the rule for all Americans, you can be put up the mail at Ball Hall."
"That's called 'elbowing and looking for sleepers," he said. His work paid off, as he picked up a small bundle of letters that had been left in the bag.
THE POSTAL SERVICE really doesn't make it clear that Corkill said, "considering the volume of mail sent to us."
Mccorkill knows most of the people on his route and talks with many of them as he puts the case forward.
"Have a good day in spite of me." he says to them, as he pushes his two-wheeled cart out the door.
one reason McCorkill knows so many people is
see MATT MAN page 5
Weather
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Today will be partly cloudy and warmer with a high near 60, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. There will be a 20 percent chance of rain, while there is a 40 percent chance this evening. Winds will be from the south at 20 to 30 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms.
The low will be near 40. Tomorrow's
high will be in the mid-60s.