University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1981 Page 6
Poll results back foreign students' rights
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
University of Kansas students think that foreign students have the right to protest peacefully and that they should be given a policy to deal with sexual harassment.
The Student Opinion Survey, given Nov. 16-20 to 480 students in different levels of classes, asked students
questions about sexual harassment, foreign students and whether they had access to typewriters.
The 25-question survey showed that about 75 percent of the students surveyed through that forceful contact of a sexual nature was sexual harassment and that about 66 percent thought the University should have a policy dealing
Forty-two percent of the students thought students from other lands and cultures were more aggressive.
Barbara Paschke, a research assistant for the office of institutional research and planning and chairman of the Student Opinion Survey Committee, said the survey was a service to students and campus organizations.
Results of student opinion survey
Sexual harassment
If you as a student or employee at the University were to experience any of the behavior listed below in your association with a faculty or staff member who could hurt or help your academic or job situation;
1. Would you consider it sexual harassment?
2. Do you think the University should have a procedure to deal with this?
Univetted pressure for dates:
although 30 percent didn't think they should.
"The idea of the whole survey is a way of obtaining information that can be trusted," she said yesterday. "It's not easy to believe that it will go directly back to the students."
Do you consider this sexual harassment?
DIN PN DK PY DY
7.4% 12% 12% 10.5%
Do you think the University should have a procedure to deal with this?
15.4% 34.9% 19.2% 15.4%
Uninvited sexually suggestive looks or
... consider sexual harassment?
7% 32.5% 9.7% 39.5% 11.4%
    is this a valid health?
16.5% 39% 20.3% 9.5%
Forceful contact of a sexual nature:
8.7% 39% 20.3% 9.5%
constlist sexual harassment
0.8%    1.1%    21.8%    74.8%
... procedure to dent wear ...
1.7% 3.8% 6.8% 22.8% 65.8%
Uninvited sexual teasing, jokes,
remarks or questions:
...consider sexual harassment?
3.6% 23.6% 13.4% 43.1% 16.3%
3.6% 23.5% 13.4% 43.1%
*procedure to deal with this*
10% 29% 20% 24%
Uninvited pressure for sexual relations?
... consider sexual harassment?
1.1% 4.9% 3.8% 30.4% 59.9%
procedure to deal with?
... procedure to deal with...
4% 9.8% 7.6% 24% 52.2%
Uninvited letters, phone calls or materials of a second nature:
materials of a sexual nature:
consider sexual harassment?
consider sexual reassignment 1.3% 6.8% 5.1% 35% 51.8%
... procedure to deal with
8.8% 7.9% 8.7% 34.8% 44.8%
Uninvited and deliberate touching,
leaving over or exiting;
learning over or concerning
consider sexual harassment?
1. 3% 5.5% 4.2% 32.2% 56.8%
Typewriters
...ple centre to deal with
3.2% 8.7% 8.5% 28% 51.7%
Do you own a typewriter or live in a residence where there is access to typewriters?
Yes 84.2% No 15.8%
Have you ever needed a typewriter on campus?
Yes 54.4% No 45.6%
Would you use a typewriter if it were provided on campus?
Yes 22.4% No 77.6%
Would pay typewriter be most useful to you in:
Unit 14.1% Watson Library 47.4%
Unit 18.7% Other 20%
Foreign students
Foreign students hold the same rights as American citizens to protest peacefully and to participate in demonstrations.
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11.3% 25.3% 37.4% 19.7% 6.3%
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v.2% 17.7% 9.4% 45.2% 18.5%
effort to mix with Aerosol a serious
effort to mix with Aerosol
3.8% 34.8% 32.3% 24.4% 4.8%
Foreign students lack sufficient skills in English to be competitive for campus jobs.
10.7% 39.5% 28.7% 16.5% 4.6%
I feel that foreign students contribute more to the KU community than they 'take from it.'
2.9% 16.3%
24.8% 0.7%
students from other lands should attempt to adapt to the dominant U.S. culture
4. 4% 16.5% 14.8% 43% 21.3%
4.2% 31% 13% 41.7% 9.9%
Interacting in class and socially with students from other lands has enriched multifacility
*Definitely not, probably not, don't know, probably yes, definitely yes*
**Strongly disagree, disagree, don't know, agree, strongly agree**
Four campus groups submitted questions for the survey: the KU Information Center; the SenEx Special Subcommittee on Foreign Student Resources; and the Sexual Harassment Policy; and the Commission on the Status of Women.
Paschke said another reason the committee did the survey was to provide a uniform pool of information that could be trusted.
Paschke said the groups submitted questions to the committee each question.
"Most of the decisions we made about the proposals and questions were geared at trying to stimulate dialogue about the information at the same time," she said.
Students who volunteered to administer the survey gave it to about 25 classes. The survey took about 10 minutes to complete.
"We look at it as a committee to see if it has broad relevance to the University community," she said. "If we think it does, we look at the question in particular and we may ask the group to answer or we may modify it ourselves."
"If further work is needed, they would probably request that we do more analysis," she said. "We as a team would obtain the data, but we provide it to others."
"We work with the groups until we reach a mutual agreement about the question."
Paschke said she hoped the survey would be widely discussed.
The committee is now giving the requested information to the campus groups that wanted it, Paschke said.
"Particular groups were doing their surveys and everyone was not trusting others' results," she said, while explaining that one source and done in a uniform way."
A similar survey was done last spring.
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This year, 104 more women registered for KU sorority rush than last year because the cost has decreased, Mary Murgia, Panhellenic vice president for membership, said vestday.
Rush is the annual drive for new members conducted by the 13 KU Panhellenic sorortites each January before spring semester begins.
This year, 764 registered, and more transfer student are expected to register late, said Sheila Immel, Panhellenic adviser.
But at registration in 1979,
Panhellenic charged only $21 for
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LAST YEAR, Pannellencil
charged $7.25 for registration. Of that amount, $7.25 was for processing
forms and $4.25 was for housing because rush begins before
residence halls open.
Panhelline cut the charge to $65 this year by shortening rush and the number of rushes rushee stay in the officially closed residence halls.
Panhellenic eliminated one of the
free days between the last rush party and the day rushees receive bids from a sororites.
Last year, even with fewer rushes, 180 eligible women who went through rush were not asked to join a house.
Murguia declined to say how many openings were available to interested women in this year's Jan. 8-15 rush.
"That's unfair to the houses and the girls," she said. "They try to guess how many spots are left in the house they want, and it affects their attitude."
Last year, at the first informational meeting with potential rushees, Panhellenic officers stressed the requirement that women have a 2.0 average to be considered for employment made some women realize early that they would not meet the requirement, Meeker said.
ANOTHER REASON for last year's decline could be that panhellenic officers stressed the grade point requirement, said Donna Meeker, vice-president for pledge affairs.
The 2.0 average is also required this year.
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