The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, November 18, 1981 Vol.92, No.62 USPS 650-640
Black women find manv sororitv doors shut
First of three parts
By CONNIE SCHALLAU Staff Writer
People stared at her and she heard them whispering.
"Is she a member of the sorority?"
Wendi Coleman, lawrented senior, was at the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority waiting for a friend so they could ride to a football game together.
Many parents were at the sorority house on that Saturday in 1978, and Coleman said they seemed taken aback by her presence in the house. Wendi is black.
"They were whispering and gawking at me. Colman said, "People thought that I was crazy."
Coleman said that it was made clear to her that she was no longer welcome in the AGD hospital.
Coleman later joined Delta Sigma Theta, a black sorority. She cited the incident at the AGD house as one reason that she chose to join a black sorority.
JUST AS COLEMAN perceived her presence as a guest was welcomed, blacks who have attempted to become members of KU's 13 Panhellenic sororities also have been rebuffed, several former sorority members said.
These perceptions prompted two University Senate investigations into allegations of misconduct.
In 1965 and 1977 the University Senate Human Relations Committee held hearings
on the subjects. The committee released reports and made recommendations both years. However, some sorority members said they had not received and recommended had yielded few chances.
Since the Pi Beta Phi sorority, the first at KU, opened its doors in 1873, no blacks have been full-fledged members of a KU Panhellenic sorority, according to Ann Evansle, director of student organizations and activities. One black woman was a social affiliate member of the Alpha Phi house in 1979.
"That's just by memory." Eversole said, looking at the records like that are allowed to be kept.
Two weeks ago, Panhellenic, the governing body for KU sororities, voted to grant Zeta Beta membership.
Sheila Immel, Panhellenic adviser, said that discrimination did not occur in KU's sororities. She said that the reason that she was selected for KU was because they did not go through rush.
"We encourage everyone who is interested in sororites to go through rush," Immel said. "Because of the Regents policy on membership, the musically people won't terminate."
ALTHOUGH BOTH the Kansas Board of Regents Policy on Organizational Membership and individual sorority bylaws both recognize some in the Greek system say it still exists.
The Regents policy, which applies to all KU student organizations, states that
'discrimination on the basis of race, religious faith or national origin within the institutions of government'.
Typical of sorority bylaws are those of Alpha Omicron Pi, which states, "The Phi chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi does not practice racial, social or religious discrimination, but reserves the right to select its own members."
Two weeks ago, Panhellenic delegates added to iylaw similar to the Regents policy to
In both 1977 and 1979, several black women began rush, but only one completed it each year. Formal rush is a series of parties held in January through which each sorority recruits its new members. Like many women who went through rush in those years, the blacks were not asked to pledge a house. In 1886 and 1887, black women went through rush, Eversale said.
However, in a January 1977 letter to the University Daily Kansan, Nancy Tollesford, then a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, contended that the issue of race had been behind her house's decision not to pledge Debbie Edgerton, a black woman.
ISA pays for damages from Kansas Union fight
ROLEFSON WROTE: "A black girl went through rush recently. Her treatment as a person and as an issue was discouraging. Excuses ranged from 'I couldn't live white black' (the only honest one) to 'We shouldn't have in a position of being ridiculed by others.'
In a recent interview, Tollison said she
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The Iranian Student Association has paid part of the damages to the Kansas Union caused in a fight Sept. 12 with a pro-Khomeini Iranian group, an official director, of the Union, said yesterday.
"They've made a $75 payment toward the matter," Burge said. "The other $25 was paid directly."
The ISA was charged $10 for damages that occurred during an 120% between the Muslim Student Association (Persian Speaking Group) and the ISA during an ISA meeting.
As a result of the fight, the ISA must register all open meetings with University officials 72 hours in advance and must discuss meeting arrangements with officials.
The ISA paid the $75 last week, Burge said, and will probably pay the remainder within the next month.
"I think things are going to work out all right," he said.
Kamran Vakili, Tehran junior and an ISA member, said the ISA raised the money by soliciting donations from its members at a table in front of the Union.
"We got each of them to pay some money," he said.
Vakill said the rest of the money would be paid soon.
He said each ISA member would pay what he could.
'I can't tell you when exactly but may be very soon,' he said. 'It depends on the other mem-
The ISA has not had any more serious problem with the MSA (PSG) since the Sept. 12 fight. Vakirli
"We have not had really important problems with them," he said.
Reagan knew early on of Allen investigation
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - President Reagan has known for months that the Justice Department was investigating national security adviser Richard Allen for taking $1,000 from a Japanese侨商.
The White House Press Office previously insisted that Reagan learned of the payment only after it became public in the news media late last week.
"I subsequently learned that he knew of the fact that the matter had been referred to the Justice Department prior to that time . . . approximately at the time the money was discovered," said David Gergen, White House communications director.
"The proper procedures were followed, period." he said.
Because the Justice Department is prohibited from disclosing an ongoing investigation, it is not unusual that neither Reagan nor anyone else in his administration spoke of it publicly prior to last week's accounts in the Japanese press, Gerzen said later.
Gergen said he did not know whether the president had discussed the incident with Allen specifically since he first found out about it, but I don't think that would have confidence in his national security adviser."
The money was found in a safe in September.
Alen has acknowledged he accepted the $1,000 Jan. 21 as a "thank you" from Japanese reporters who interviewed Nancy Reagan the day before inauguration, but he has denied any wrongdoing.
His secretary put the money in the safe in his office in the old executive office building and he forgot about it. Allen said. The money was left inside the office moved into his present office in the White House.
He said he took the cash because it was customary for Japanese reporters to make such payments and he did not want to embarrass them.
Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes indicated Monday that Allen would stay on the job at least until Attorney General William French Smith decided whether to appoint a special prosecutor in the case. Smith is known, in principle, to oppose such a step.
The White House said Friday that White House counsel Fred Fielding had determined that an FBI investigation had exonerated Allen, but the Justice Department swiftly issued its own statement, saying it was still looking into the matter.
Gergen would not reveal the exact date Reagan learned that Allen had accepted the money. By law, the Justice Department has 90 days to determine whether to recommend that the attorney general appoint a special prosecutor in the case.
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The president recently called Allen and Secretary of State Alexander Haig into his office to order a halt to the infighting after Haig complained publicly that a high White House official was waging a "guerrilla campaign" against him.
It was the second time this month that the national security adviser had been involved in the investigation.
A LITTLE COOLER
Today's forecast from the KU Weather Service is for partly cloudy skies with winds from the south at 12-20 mph. The high will be near 65.
Tenight, strong winds will be from the northwest and skies will become mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. It will turn colder with the low draining.
Thursday will be cloudy and cold with a high of 40.
Loneliness compounds alcoholism
Loneliness compounds alcoholism Alcoholics meet for support, help
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
About seven months ago, a KU junior phonograph of his professors and made an audition for
Rick (all names in this article have been changed), a KU professor and alcoholism counselor, immediately offered to meet the student, Chuck, at an all-night diner in Lawrence. Rick, $2, had made a similar plea for help eight years earlier. Over breakfast, Chuck agreed to accompany Rick to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
"I need help," he said. "I can't quit drinking."
"When I called Rick that morning, I didn't believe I was really an alcoholic," said Chuck, a 22-year-old honor student. "I knew he was a good man." And he was an alcoholic! "That's pretty final—and scary."
The idea that he was alone with his problem scared Chuck. But now he is convinced that
According to a 1979 report by the National Council on Alcoholism, two out of three Americans drink, and 10 percent of those who do are alcoholic. These percentages suggest
unat as many as 1,500 KU students are suffer-
ed or some day will suffer from
stomach ulcers.
YET CHUK is one of fewer than 15 students who meet on campus each weekday to discuss their common disease. He said the problem was that alethinism must be self-diagnosed.
Rick, a part-time volunteer at the Counseling and Resource Center, 2449 Iowa St., said it was hard to monitor the problem at the University because "intellectuals were more prone to deny their problem, than members of society at large.
"If 10 to 15 students on campus are meeting to discuss their self-admitted disease, one could guess there are 10 times that many students already seriously suffering from
Although each student at the meetings is as different as the circumstances that led him or her to seek help, each agrees on one point. Each responds with what understand and overcome their problems.
Rob, an older student who helped start the meetings in September, said the no sessions were valuable to an alcoholic student who might be experiencing a rough day.
If someone at the meeting is troubled, he or
she can choose a discussion topic that somehow relates to his or her problem and to what he is interested in.
THE TOPICS usually deal with what Rob called "the cluster of typical, self-defeating character traits that we end up with by the time we sob up.
At a meeting last week, for which the topic was “people-pleasing,” one student said, “We alcohols desperately want people to love us as a substitute for loving ourselves. But when we consistently neglect our needs to satisfy, we go weaken resentful, which leads to drinking.”
"The alcoholic is like a farmer who throws stones into his field so that when his plow breaks down, he has an excuse to drink. If you merely take the liquor away, his bad habits persist. At meetings, we help each other get back to regular farming."
As a child, she spent every free moment eating junk food and watching TV, she said.
Some alcoholics say they possessed these character traits long before they started drinking. Ann, a 21-year-old student who attends two campus meetings a week, said she had always been addicted to "overdoing and overdrinking."
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Brisk ticket sales point to KU-MU sellout
Fanatic football fans are no fools, Rich Konzem, acting ticket manager, said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
Rv EILEEN MARKEY
They have been flocking to ticket booths early this week to guarantee themselves seats for this Saturday's Kansas-Missouri football game.
‘We sold 750 Mizuzu tickets across the window on Monday,’ Konemis asserted a normal day it could get to 195 or 150.
Local retail stores and other ticket outlets
have also reported they are selling out quickly, he said.
"I've had a couple of stores call today," he said. "I think they're really moving them."
University of Missouri fans are also devouring their share of the tickets for Saturday's game. Konezm that gave he Missouri 3/79 tickets. The team reported yesterday that all but 100 had been sold.
"They're gonna sell out their share by the end of the week," he said.
THE QUESTION is, will the game be a sellout on the University of Kansas end?
Konzem could not say for sure, but he predicted that a sellout was likely.
"I think it be real close since we're selling so "many across the window," he said. "But you never know what your walk-in crowd is going to be, although it's got all the makings of a great hall."
The game, Konzem said, will be a battle for a bowl bid.
Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, has indicated the club will host an annual Hall of Fame Bowl or the Tangerine
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Rigorous
EARL RICHARDSON/Kansan Staff
Driller Steve Orr shows that coordination is vital around a drilling rig. "I’ve never been hurt," he said. "But if you’re not careful you can lose an arm or worse." See related page story 6.