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University Daily Kansan, November 20, 1981
Greeks
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some local Panhellenic issues. Most of the fraternal organization belong to the National Inter-territory Council.
"Besides the University, the Greek Houses are answerable to their national associations." Ambler said. "The position of the University is not to make changes in them."
Despite the University's detachment, in 1965 the University Senate Human Relations Civil Rights Committee did investigate the possibility of discrimination in the KU Greek system.
According to the records of the committee, some Greek houses had provisions in their constitutions that said members must meet two requirements: (1) they must be a member of the other; (2) an member had to be white.
However, the civil rights movement of the mid-1960s has come and gone and those rules have been changed. Many in the Greek system say the entire situation regarding minorities has imprinted on them.
Although there are still no blacks in traditionally white sororites, blacks have gone through sorority rush, and they have become accepted members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon
"I think the Greek system has diversified in just the short time that I've been here," Amberli said. "It's a little bit of a problem."
RECENTLY the Panhellenic delegates added a bylaw to their constitution prohibiting racism in any sorority. They also granted affiliate status to the Zeta Phi Beta black sorority.
Those changes indicate that there is no discrimination in KU sororites, Sara Snyder, and
There is, however, some confusion over the status that the black sorority was granted.
The Zetas were told two weeks ago that they had been granted associate member status, according to Helen Townsend, Zeta president. However, on Sunday, Snyder told the Zetas that they had instead been granted affiliate status, Townsend said.
"Our goal was associate status, not affiliate status," Townsend said. "As an affiliate, you can never be a Panbellenic officer. Also you can't vote on the constitution. We wanted to have some say in policy. As an associate memBER you can."
Snyder said that she had told them last spring, when the affiliate process began, that they could be only affiliate members because of a National Panhellenic Conference rule that requires associate members to first be affiliated with the National Panhellenic Conference.
The Interfraternity Council also includes blacks in its membership. This year they have two black fraternities that are members. The latest addition was in September.
"We voted to give them membership because we want everybody who wants to be a part of the system to be a part of it," Mark McClanahan, past president of IFC, said.
"I counted the votes and there were very few negative votes."
"ONE OF THE first changes that Harold
would make is a revision of the ICF指令 he would like to
Palmer would like to add an amendment to the constitution that would allow a group to be an elector. He has been a member of the
"That way more black fraternities could be members of IFC," Palmer said. "Our membership would have to be a certain proportion of the toal black enrollment at KU."
Both Panhellenic and IFC would investigate any formal complaint of racial discrimination in the workplace.
"If we found a complaint like that, we would put the house on social probation," Mary Murgiau, vice president of Panhellenic membership, said.
When a house is placed on social probation, it can not participate in intramural sports. Rock climbing is one.
However, we don't hear about discrimination.
"If that happens, why doesn't a person speak out? They have to do something to let us know."
IN 1977, a second University Senate Relations Committee investigation was begun because of a letter to the editor of the University Daily Kansan from a sorority member. In the letter, she claimed that race had been a factor in her house's decision not to pledge a black woman.
we just took it upon ourselves to investigate it. Marilyn Ainsworth, professor of law and公理学
"rush information shouldn't be so euphemic," Ainsworth said. "For people unfamiliar with the system, many don't know what Panhellenic means. Most minorities didn't have relatives in the system, unlike many of the white girls who are interested in sororites."
The committee contended that black women were not in KU's Panhellenic sororities primarily because they were unfamiliar with the program. One of their suggestions was that Panhellenic sororites appeal to blacks to interest them in going through rush.
However, the idea of actively recruiting men would not through rush did not murder Murgia's approval.
"We don't have a special program for Mexican and Oriental women to go through rush," said Murgina, who is a Mexican woman and no one had to push me to go through.
"I think that someone has to start and then other people follow. This year there are several Mexicans and Orients going through rush."
"It is it fair to other girls' if we recruit for them. That could be offensive to white people," she said.
THE 1977 committee had also sent question-
marks to the Board, but if they had any
minorities or if they had ever had a
conflict, the board would consider.
The committee was told, however, that they were stepping out of line, Ainsworth said. Some national associations would not allow their KU chapters to respond. Also a lawyer from the Chi Omega national chapter said that they would not tolerate any melding in their internal affairs.
After the investigation was completed, another back girl went through rush in 1972. She consulted a psychiatrist.
"I guess I'm getting too old to be shocked." Ainsworth said. "I'm getting too cynical to believe that anything would have changed because of our investigation."
some current Panellinic officers advised they said the 1977 investigation into sorority discrimination
The vice president for membership said that they did not know of the 1977 incident or of any other disease.
"Maybe in the past, years before the Civil Rights Act (1964) there was discrimination," she said. "But not since then—for sure. They know they can't do that. It's illegal."
HOWEVER, many people still think the Greek system is closed to blacks.
"They can't say straight out say no blacks," Javonnie Hill, Overland Park junior, said. "However, there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that points that way." "I think that it will be a cold day in hell before any minorities make up an sizable portion of Greek members."
During the 1965 investigation, one sorority member told the committee, "I feel that it will probably be something of a hardship for the first house which does pledge a Negro, but it will open the way for other houses to do so and the price is not too high to pay."
Busby takes second place, vows to remain involved
By DEBRA BATES and ANN LOWRY Staff Reporters
Standing among his supporters, Loren student president was David Adkins.
"We gave it a good shot anyway," Busy Snyder told the press, presidential running mate, David Cannellati.
A deadly calm descended upon the room. The excitement of the evening was dead. The radio was turned down low, the results that day were bleak. A team from Alternative Coalition had taken second place.
Adkins and Welch, Perspective Coalition,
came in first with 1,033 votes, While Busyb
and Cannatella, Working Alternative
Coalition came in second with 825 votes.
"The fight is not over just because we didn't win the election." Cannatella said. Cannatella was re-elected as graduate student senator in 2018 and would be outspoken in the upcoming Student Senate.
BUSBY SAID HIS plan for the future was to drop governor senator because "Adkins partisans kill him."
Busby is planning to file charges against Bert Coleman, former student body president, for allegedly violating Student Senate rules by reading a few of the presidential ballots that were brought in the Student Senate office Wednesday night.
"I won't press for a re-vote," Busby said. "I just think it was an irresponsible act for a student to vote."
Busby said he was disappointed but he said he hoped Welch and Adkins could represent the student body as well as they said they could.
WHILE BUBSY'S coalition party slowly waned, the atmosphere at the Groucho Marx Coalition party was presidential and vice presidential candidate with 731 votes, remained in pandemonium.
the comedians' supporters shed few tears over the serious news of their loss.
"We had a good time," David Phillips, Groucho Marx candidate for president, said as he surveyed the remnants of the coalitions' election-night party and supporters.
"I think our showing was good, but we were not in this election just to win. We were in this election to make a change in student government."
the spirits of the nearly 100 supporters assembled at vice presidential candidate Monte Janssen's house had been quite high due to a statement Coleman made Wednesday night declaring the Groucho Marx candidates were in the lead.
"I like the way they joke around, and I really think they can make something of our student body," said Rusty Roberts, Kansas State, senior. "They'll get what the people want."
Upon the announcement of the final results, Craig Nauta, the coalition's treasurer, said, "Senate as it is now will just keep perpetuating, and Senate will be the same boring Senate it always has been. But we had a good party anyway."
MARK McDONALDI/Kansan Staff
After announcing that he had lost the Student Senate presidential race, Loren Bushy took time off to contemplate his loss.
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