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KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, January 21, 1982 Vol.92, No.79 USPS 650-640
Discrimination charges filed
By TOM HUTTON
Staff Reporter
Discrimination charges against the KU Greek system and the University of Kansas Medical Center were filed with the Kansas Civil Rights Commission yesterday by state rep. Norman
Justice filed a complaint alleging racial discrimination throughout the Board of Regents schools, but particularly at the University of Kansas.
In a telephone interview last night, Justice said that while he thought discrimination occurred at all Regents schools, KU was almost flagrant in its violations. He cited the fraternity system at the main campus and hiring practices at the Medical Center.
"I have been a state legislator for 10 years," Justice said. "I don't believe there has been a year that has gone by without a complaint against them."
There have been formal discrimination complaints against the Med Center in recent years.
In September 1977, a black medical student.
Issa Gregory, alleged racial discrimination in grading practices at the Med Center. Issa's case was heard in Kansas City Federal District which decided that no discrimination had occurred
The most recent discrimination charges were filed last April between facilities operations and training.
This case, which is still under investigation by the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, alleges that discriminatory hiring and promotional practices were used.
Melvin Williams, director of affirmative action programs at the Med Center, said he knew nothing of Justice's latest accusations. He did. Judge Ruth Stern said "be at least a month before we hear anything."
Last spring Justice persuaded the Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council to consider investigating the selection policies of fraternal organizations at the University.
Although the council decided not to investigate the KU fraternity system, Justice still contends that a decision should be made.
"There's got to be some kind of way that they can be removed," Justice said. "I'd like to see this work."
The argument originally presented by Justice to the council, in his fight against the fraternity system, was the payment of fraternal advisers with state funds.
Neither Farmer nor Shelia Immell, sorior adviser, said they advised organizations about the problem.
Art Farmer, KU fraternity advisor, had no comment on Justice's allegations.
Justice originally called for the suspension of all adviser salaries, as well as the salary of John Conard, then the executive director of the Justice Department, during the investigation by the council.
The council denied the request almost immediately.
Justice has alleged that Conard, in his position with the Regents, did not respond to Justice's own requests for investigation of discriminatory behavior, especially the hiring incidents at the Med Center.
Justice has vowed to pursue his fight against discrimination in the state's university system even if the civil rights commission can't uncover any new evidence.
Senate rule change challenged
"I'm a Scorpion you know, and I won't give up without a fight," he said.
By ANN LOWRY
Staff Reporter
Plans to enact a new Student Senate committee attendance policy without approval from the body raised objections yesterday, Loren Busby, student senator, said.
"They're changing the rules and regulations without going through the proper channels."
Welch said the policy was part of the platform his coalition formed while campaigning for office last fail. There were no plans to enter it officially into legislation.
Busy said policies must either be presented to the Senate and passed as bills or voted on by individual committees. He said he would raise the question at elections for former senators, but he doesn't mention a Senate mandate.
The Student Executive Committee made the decision this week to apply the present attendance policy for Senate meetings to committee meetings, student body vice president, said yesterday.
"The policy itself is not a bad one simply the wye they're going about doing it is totally wrong."
Senate rules and regulations state that senators will be suspended after two unexcused absences or four absences of any kind from a Senate meeting.
This rule now applies for committee meetings, Welch said.
Enacting the policy without consulting committees did not conform to rules, Paul Buskirk.
In the past, committee chairmen have sent out 25 to 30 meeting notices and only a handful of committee members have attended, Welch said. The application of the policy should improve the
The application of the policy should improve the committees' efficiency.
"It has been the policy in the past but it hasn't been enforced." Welch said.
Weather
It will be cloudy today with highs in the 30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. There is a chance of rain or snow tonight and tomorrow. The low tonight will be in the lower 40s with lows near 20. In the lower 30s with lows near 20.
Winds will be from the southeast at 10-20 mph today.
Tom Kowalski, third year law student, believes that a person does not have to have sight to become a lawyer.
Blind man 'sees' law
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
Tom Kowalski is blind.
So what?
"It's crazy what you can do without (sight). I'm not really good at pictures anymore . . . and driving." Kowalski, 3rd-year law student from Bonner Springs, said this week.
but, he's able to do most other things—like go to law school, for example.
Kowalski gets to and around Green Hall by himself and works out specific class problems
wus his professors, Fold Lovitch, associate dean of the School of Law, said.
"He's so almost totally self-sufficient that no other mannages to be made." Leitch said.
Kowalski said he went blind in January
Kowalski later laser-treatment on his retina
was given.
Kowalski said that his blindness put an end to the job he had held answering a phone at a hotel.
"They didn't really think that a blind person could use the telephone," he said.
See BLIND page 5
Getting up for classes and staying up was the problem for most students yesterday. Lending a hand (left) Kay Lawrence, Kansas City sophomore, (center) Andy Long, Springill, Kan., junior and (center) Jill Slack, Newton, Kan., junior, help Sue Spies, Chicago junior, back onto her feet.
Icy rain slows traffic, people
Rubber-soled shoes not chic, but safe
Although most overhead lines were covered with ice, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. reported no increase in service calls. The Kansas City weather office reported no problems due to the wet, freezing weather.
The revitalized winter returned after the Midwest and Northeast had a few days of warmer weather following 10 days of snow and record cold that killed at least 315 people.
Yesterday morning the Douglas County
sheriff's department reported 12 traffic
accidents within the city limits between 8 a.m. and
9:15 a.m.
Storms barrelled across the Great Plains and upper Midwest with renewed ferocity yesterday, dropping a near-record 14.2 inches of snow on parts of southern Minnesota in less than eight hours, closing schools and strolling scores of drivers. The previous 24-hour snow fall record was set Nov. 11, 1940, when 16.7 inches of snow fell on Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Eleven people were treated at Watkins Hospital for weather-related accidents. A spokesman for the hospital said most cases involved injury to the knee, shoulder or elbow. Only one patient, suffering from a bruised forehead, was admitted to the hospital.
Freezing drizzle falling throughout the Lawrence area slowed traffic and made travel hazardous yesterday.
That statement was heard frequently yesterday after an onslaught of freezing rain hit Lawrence, causing numerous accidents both in the streets and on the sidewalks.
Although many students were slipping and sliding their way to classes yesterday, Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Hospital, said not only did the report to the hospital with failed related injuries.
The icy conditions prompted University of
Tampa to dismiss most employees 30 to 40
minutes prior to the game.
the difference between an uneventful walk to class or an embarrassing slide down the steps.
From Staff and Wire Reports
What kind of shoe a person wears, can mean
Area shoe stores offered some advice on the kind of shoe or saddle to wear when Old Man Winter bunches up.
Staff Writer
By PAM ALLOWAY
"Ugh," the student groaned as she struck the cold, gray pavement. After quickly looking around to see whether anyone had witnessed her, she wondered if she shouldn't have ever worn these shoes today."
Traction is vital if one wishes to remain in an upright position when walking on ice, according to Jeff McPhee, manager of the Payless Shoe Store. 1300 W. 23rd St.
A gum-rubber sole, found on many sport shoes, is one of the safest shoes to wear in ice weather, according to Gordon Shreves, the owner of Gordon's Shoe Center. 815 Massachusetts St.
As the student rushed out the building into the brisk morning, she was met with a multitude of lee particles whisking through the air, forming a deceptively clear, sleek surface on the
"The important thing to remember is the more tread, the wider and the flatter the shoe, putting as much surface of your foot on the ground as possible, the less trouble you'll have," he said.
Anding to the midwinter blues for motorists was a pea-soup fog that cannuckled the Gulf coast. In 1932, a boat crashed into it.
"Nothing is slip proof," he said. "But if a shoe has some texture on the bottom, it will break."
Two inches of snow blanketed parts of Idaho and moore was predicted for later this week.
Travelers advisories were posted over the Sierra Nevadas, the mountains of northern California and Oregon, across northern Nevada and the Colorado mountains. A foot of snow fell on higher elevations in Oregon. Rain and sleet mixed with snow belted low areas.
A few quick steps and down she went.
A pair of shoes that seems to fit them category, he said, are Moon Boots. They're usually brightly colored, foam-insulated and are sometimes called after-ski boots.
Conditions in the Lawrence area today are not expected to change from the wet and freezing weather, according to the National Weather Service. The current chance of precipitation today and tonight.
Another problem you can run, or rather slide into, is shoes with stifle shoes. McPheeater said.
"When you wear shoes with stiff soils and you come up steps, there's only an edge of the sole too. You can't go over it."
McPheeter said he considered western boots, high heels and leather-soled shoes the most durable.
While students walked all over the icy campus in everything from topsiders to hiking boots, mail carriers who encounter all types of weather, usually wear a uniform shoe.
In Dallas, about 40 cars crashed in dense fog on the Interstate 30 bridge over Lake Ray Hubbard, forcing police to close the highway for several hours. Few of the cars were dispatched to untangle the mose of steel.
Lee Martin, the U.S. Postal Service's Kansas City, Mo., manager of safety, said he made several recommendations on clothing to mail carriers in this area who must deal with freezing conditions.
"We recommend they obtain the uniform shoe, which has a coarse composition." Martin said.
Snow fell at the rate of an inch per hour at Eau Claire, Wis. The southern edge of the storm produced snow from eastern Nebraska into central Kansas, changing to freezing rain from northeast Kansas through Missouri and central Illinois.
The uniform shoes always have tread on the sole and many have materials and ribbing imitated leather.
secutive day of icy roads in the middle Atlantic states.
Temperatures should reach the low 30s this afternoon. Tonight's is expected to be in the mid-50s.
Steady rain fell throughout the day on an 11-county disaster area south of San Francisco and was expected to continue through Thursday. The rains were expected here on the hills for another rash of mud slides.
A van carrying retarded children overtured, killing one person and injuring at least nine others on a rain-slick highway near Pacific Grove, about 100 miles south of San Francisco.
See SHOES page 5
We also recommend carriers wear high-top
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"Ice-proof" shoes are displayed in area stores as winter weather sets in and students begin to lose traction.