Friday, January 19. 1979
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Delays leave equipment unused
By BARBARA JENSEN
Staff Reporter
Even though the University of Kansas has taken steps to comply with Title IX, Jacqueline King, head trainer for women's athletics, still stalls in her office amid training equipment she is unable to use.
"I have a new whirlpool that's been sitting in boxes for three months and a storefront of new equipment. But there's no place to put them, so we can't use them," King said Wednesday.
TITLE IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 states that equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes" *means*
AN INSTITUTION risks losing federal grants if it does not comply with Title IX provisions.
"In August," she said, "I moved from the women's locker room into this office and I was told I wouldn't have to be here more than five weeks. Then they said I would be able to work on my computer definitely by being moved by the first or second week in January."
King said she had been told new training facilities would be completed before classes been last fall.
The women's training equipment will be moved to the physiology laboratory in Allen Field House. But William Hogan, executive vice chancellor in charge of women's athletics, said yesterday that the physiology lab had not yet been moved to the second floor of Allen Field House because of construction delays.
"ONE REASON it has taken so long," Hogan said, "that construction work can be done only at certain times of the year."
He said the physiology lab should be moved within the next two weeks so that construction could be completed to meet requirements.
Hogan said there also had been delay because neither a training facilities nor the construction for the physiotherapy clinic was available.
The new training area is part of a commitment made in the University's Title IX self-evaluation study.
The director of the post-secondary education division of Health, Education and Welfare in Kansas City said Wednesday that even though the new training facilities had not been completed, a case involving a complaint made a former teacher for women's athletics, had been closed because the University had made plans to improve the facilities.
The former trainer, Rebecca Burke, filed a complaint in August 1977 alleging that training facilities for women were inadequate, that staffing for the women's training program was insufficient, that salaries for the men's and women's head trainers were not equal and that financial funding for the women's training program was minimal.
“WE PLAN to monitor the progress at KU and make sure they follow with the commitments they made,” the teacher said.
The complaint prompted an HEW investigation in January 1978 at KU.
Burke received a letter, dated Jan. 11, from Taylor the regional director for HEW, asking KU was complying with the rule.
"THE LETTER from August makes me look foolish."
Burke said. "But at the time I made the charges, the University was not in compliance. No one should have had to pay."
The University's Title IX self-evaluation study, completed by 19% of made commitments that were to be fulfilled by July 1, 1978.
The commitments included new women's training facilities that would be equipped with stationary equipment and a women's area; the addition of a graduate assistant and a student instructor in the training program; salaries for women student assistants that would be the same as for men student assistants; and a training program of the women of the head trainer would be adjusted to $11,400.
Hogan said that as soon as the women's training facilities were completed, KU would have compiled with the com-
Anne Levinson, a member of the women's team ten years team, filed one of the complaints and said she expected to find out the results of an HEW investigation within the next three weeks.
REPORTS HAVE not yet been released concerning two other complaints filed last year with HEW alleging discrimination between the men's and women's athletic facilities. HeW also accused campus cuts, facilities, training, scholarships and travel funds.
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"I hope that they eventually will find my charges to be no longer valid either," she said. "That would mean they forced the University to take action to eliminate the discrimination."
FacEx wants larger role in replacing administrator
Members of the Faculty Executive Committee passed a resolution yesterday condemning a process used to form a selection committee to find a replacement for Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Calgaard has accepted the presidency of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
The FaceEx resolution was aimed at Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, who had asked FaceEx to nominate several people for the committee.
F. Hutton Barron, professor of business,
said at the meeting that FaxEc should have
had a more active role in the selection
of the team members and adequately represented on the committee.
members and took recommendations from FacEx and other groups for the remaining members. But Barron said Shankel should not interfere with FacEx to discuss the nominations.
Shankel chose several committee
The resolution charged that Shankel had "and" common courtey, but not conferring her authority.
Shankel said the selection process was fair and said he had chosen several members of the committee because the list of names should contain any women or members of minorities.
"I think it's a good committee," Shankel said. "I'm sure the faculty would like to see more representation than five out of 12, but more representation would like more representation also."
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