Foreign students cite KU discrimination
Bv KATHLEEN M. CONKEY
Staff Reporter
"They're okay, but there's just too many of them here. They stalwag their girls away."
The young man, a 1975 graduate of the University of Kansas, was talking about foreign students.
Most people are not as open in expressing their prejudices but it is not uncommon at KU to hear phrases such as "camel jock" and "sand nigger" when Americans are referring to foreign students.
Both administrators and the students involved tend to agree that discrimination against foreign students
As of Aug. 28, 1978, there were 1,244 foreign students enrolled at UMK, about 4 percent of the student population, according to James Stinson, assistant director of the national average at universities it about 4 percent.
Judy Woolfe, assistant to the dean of foreign students, said last week, "Overly. I don't see discrimination against foreign students as a big issue if we go on, but students don't talk to us much about it."
"WHEN FOREIGN students demonstrate politically, it draws a lot of baiting and resentment from American students. You hear Americans saying that foreigners should go home."
She said many students did not want to room with foreign students and some professors did not want to help them. She said there could be more baltant students and housing discrimination were uncommon at KU.
"If foreign students do 'tell our customs quickly it's held against them." Woelfer said, "Americans don't care if the rules are changed because it takes an extra effort to talk to foreign students. That may not be discrimination, but it is."
Statistics seem to back up Woolf's contention that discrimination is subtle. Administration agencies have little record of foreign-student complaints of students. Students complain if there are, are sometimes dislabeled as "black"
Eric Richards, chairman of University judiciary,
said his records since January 1977 showed no
problems.
Pat Henry, mediation facilitator in KU's affirmative action office, said that out of 46 discrimination complaints filed with the office since December 2015, nine were handled during 1977, three cases out of 43 were based on national law.
1' think they sometimes think there is discrimination when really it is just a lack of communication.
KU OMBUDUSMAN William Baulfour no foreign students had judged discrimination complaints based
Francis Lever, assistant director of minority affairs, agreed. He said he had received four complaints in the past year. He said that the problems usually did not turn out to be actual discrimination.
Still, there are those at the University who contend discrimination exists.
Norman Forer, faculty adviser to the International Club and the Iranian Student Association, said students did not complain to University offices about discrimination.
"They don't think they can get a fair hearing." he
Forer cited a long list of problems foreign students have had in the past that had been resolved. Virtually every year the International Club has trouble getting funding from the Student Senate, he said.
said. "They feel they can't get justice from the same system that gave them the injustice."
However, Reggie Rihonson, body vice president, and the International Club did not have any meeting.
"SENATORS HAVE told me that there is an antiphary towards International Club because of the politics of its Iranian members." Forer said. "When you have a number of such problems that American students don't seem to have, you begin to see the problems as discrimination."
"They have the largest budget of any club," Robinson said. "The problem is that they spend money on things which we had no idea they were going to try to put on safeguards against that happening."
Interviews with foreign students often seemed to favor Foster's theory that problems exist but go unnoticed.
Some foreign students would not talk to a Kansan reporter at all. Others would only say that they had come into contact with prejudice and often felt disappointed that their ideas did do anything about it, nor did they want to go into detail.
Woolfel said, "I don't think they complain except among themselves. They just stug, it off. It's so subtle in many cases that it would be impossible to prove."
FOREIGN STUDENTS who were wung to问 about discrimination indicated that most of the problem was in American attitudes towards foreign students as problems as being unable to get jobs or housing.
Wannee Charoenpong, president of the TNAI Student Association, talked with six or seven members of the association who had been at KU more than a year. They agreed that they did not feel discriminated against but that Americans sometimes had bad attitudes toward foreign students.
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"In class it is hard for us to communicate," Chenapoenp said. "We sometimes feel that the
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
A LITTLE COOLER
Vol. 89, No. 13 Wednesday, September 13, 1978
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Malfunction hits phone system in county offices
By BILL HIGGINS
Staff Reporter
In a stuffy room in the basement of the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center yesterday afternoon, four apparently frustrated southwestern Bell repairmen sat trying to fix the $43,000 phone system that serves the city and county offices.
The phone system, a computer-run model called the "Dimension PBX," broke down yesterday morning, leaving only the police and sheriff emergency numbers working.
Phone company officials would not say why the system malfunctioned.
Francisco Sierra, a switchboard operator for the county, said the city-county phone system went out of order at about 8:15 a.m. yesterday.
Captain Verner Newman of the police's technical services division said the phone system was shut down shortly after 9 a.m.
LATER IN the morning, Newman said, 80 percent of the service was restored, but the county offices still were without phone service. By 5 p.m., Newman said, about 90 percent of the offices had regained service.
Several employees in various county offices said phone service had been sporadic Monday afternoon.
A Bell Telephone spokesman in the Topeka marketing office said the telephone system was owned by Southwestern Bell, which leases it to the county.
The 'Dimension PBX' cost the county $43,000 when the system was installed about two years ago in the Douglas County Law Office at 11th and New Hampshire streets.
No one at the Southwestern Bell business office in Lawrence was available yesterday for comment on the phone system problems.
They said they had started working on the problem about 11 a.m.
The workers in the computer room in the basement of the Law Enforcement Center said they did not want to be bothered and did not know when the system would be fixed.
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Bicule accident
Peggy Welch, 30, 1116 Randall Road, was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of 15th and Kasid road at 7:49 p.m. yesterday. She was transferred from Lawrence Memorial Hospital to the University of Kansas Medical Center with a serious heart injury.
and was listed last night in critical condition. Saying he was blinded by the driver, Richard A. Smykowitz, helped the firefighters retrieve him.
KU begins audit-advised changes
Bv DAN WINTER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-University of Kansas administrators attended a hearing yesterday of the Legislative Post Audit Committee where they discussed an audit report on corporate corporations at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The report by the Division of Legislative Post Audit says the contractual relationship between the Med Center and the CARES program was weak.
The administrators, including Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and David Waxman, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center, were at the hearing to answer the committee's questions on the report. The execution of several recommendations the report made.
Richard E. Brown, legislative post auditor, said yesterday that the division "did not find any serious problems with the 15 physicians' corporations at the Med Center."
The report recommended eight changes in the University relating to the administration of the physicians corporations. Dykes and Waxman told the committee they already had started carrying out the changes.
All Med Center physicians are members of one of 15 corporations, organized along department lines.
THE AUDIT report was released two weeks ago.
These physicians teach, conduct research and also maintain private medical practices at the Med Center.
The report mentioned that through their medical practices, physicians at the Med Center provide a greater part of the total revenue for operating the School of Medicine and the Medical schools with similar private practice arrangements.
When the physicians treat a patient, that patient pays the Med Center instead of his attending physician or physicians. The physicians are, in turn, paid by the Med Center.
The report also says that the fringe benefit programs the corporations provide give the physicians advantages and incentives that may encourage them to generate high revenues.
The corporations' contract with the Med Center remains on effect until 1980. Brown does not expect his staff to change.
Legal contracts between the 15 corporations and the Med Center define the relationship between the physicians' interests with the patients.
THE FIRST sentence of the report, which analyzed six of the 15 corporations, says the agreement with physicians' corporations is "the most complicated relationship between the State of Kansas and any people working for it."
The report says that the problems it mentioned revolved around one common conclusion: Contracting with 15 different corporatons poses difficulties for the effective management of the Med Center.
Waxman said part of the problem was simpler.
Some of the report's recommendations are the establishment of rates for equipment use by the corporations, improvements in the budget structure, the establishment of a single billing service for patients, better documentation of physicians' salaries for accounting funds and more administrative controls on department funds.
The right recommendations in the audit report do not pose severe problems, Brown said, and he and the committee are pleased with the way the University responded to them.
"Doctors are sometimes hard to work with in any situation, especially the surgeons. They can be prima
According to the report, the internal medicine and pediatric corporations earn much less than specialty corporations, such as anesthesiology, radiology and survival.
STATE SEN. Norman Gaar, committee member, asked he would have a practice on doctors who might have a practice on the same topic.
Brown said the audit showed some employees were earning less as Med Center physicians than physicians exclusively in private practice, but most are in line with the yearly earnings of other physicians.
Dykes said that regulations insisted that money from the practice of a Med Center physician must be turned over to the provider or nurse.
Buildings to get ramps at doors
By DEBRIECHMANN
James Canole, assistant director of facilities planning, said construction to aid handicapped students entering Twente and Watson Library would cost about $3,000.
Staff Reporter
In order to comply with federal law, construction on three projects to make the University of Kansas more accessible to students will begin in about two weeks.
According to Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, federally funded institutions such as KU must remove architectural barriers to the disabled by 1980.
The three projects are part of an effort by the University to compile with federal access
The third improvement will be the grading of an incline that leads to a slope.
A ramp was constructed to the basement entrance of the Twente Hall Arena.
One of the three projects will be grading the main entrance to Twente Hall and increasing the area between the two doors that lead inside. Wheelchairs can enter the first door, but there is not enough room for wheelchair ramps for a handicapped person to enter easily.
WHEELCHAIRS CAN be easily
maneuvered down the inline, but it is much harder to come up. Anita Silver, 10 W. 27th
Siler used the basement entrance in spring 1977 when she was attempting to get her job.
Siler enrolled in an independent study class at KU but did not complete the semester because of problems she encountered parking her car, attending classes and especially in gaining entrance to Watson Library, she said.
Identification card cameras were set up in the basement of the library, but she had trouble getting to them to have her ID placed on them. Later, Library after furniture was removed from the passageway, but never had her picture taken until she stepped steps prevented her from reaching the door.
In spring 1977, students in wheelchairs had to call ahead to make sure a library staff member could help them with a basement door to let them in. Silier said. A student could then enter the library after passing through the gate.
A BUZZER AT the basement door was installed at about a year and a half ago to notify library staff members that a student needed to be let in through the basement.
Jim Ranz, de the library, said that See ACESS book page.
City fire department speeds up inspections
Staff Reporter
By CORIE BROWN
Harold Mallonee, city fire inspector, said yesterday that the inspections were being stepped up to bring the fire department into contact with a state law requiring the inspections.
A fire that killed five students at a Baker University fraternity in Baldwin City, two years ago has intensified the fire inspections, Mallonea said.
The Lawrence Fire Department is speeding up its inspections of all apartment buildings.
Mallonee, the only fire inspector checking apartments, said it would take a couple of years to complete the job. He already has 32 buildings, all of which had violations.
"GENERALLY, it was nothing more than a missing fire extinguisher or a lack of smoke alarm," Mallonee said. "We're going to hear future to check on up the improvements."
A roaming house at 1145 Louisiana St. was cited by Mallaine on more violations of the state Life Safety Code than any other. According to Mallaine, the landlords have missed the deadline for either correcting the victims or submitting a plan for correction.
Among the violations listed by the city were a lack of fire escapes and encased stairwells, hazardous wiring and unauthorized gas piping.
"We had to move, redo the apartments and move all the tenants. I told him there was no way to get that done, too, in 60 days," she said.
Mallone said he was concerned about the outstreme Street house because of its lack of security.
"These people have had a lot of time to get these things done," Mallonee said. "All they had to do was ask for an extension, but they never did."
JOANN QUANDIL, owner of the house at 114 Louisiana St., said she told the city at the time she received her notice last spring that she would need an extension to get a job. The city said she hired a lawyer, Hana Peterson, to officially request the extension last July.
Right before the notice was served last spring, the Quandil had a fire in another
apartment building they own, which also was their home.
She and her husband bought the building eight years ago and, she said, they had it built by the architect.
"How in the world can they expect you to redo something that was already done because they change the code," Quandii said.
John Spurgeon, Wichita senior, said that he and the other tenants of the Quandil apartment house were unsure whether they would have a place to live.
"TVE BEEN calling around to see what our legal rights are. The guy at the fire department said to start找 another place to live," he said.
Paul Markley, state fire safety and sanitation consultant, explained that the State Fire Marshal's office was responsible for enforcement of the fire inspection notices.
"If the landlords are slow in complying or don't comply then the local people take it to the state. The state then sends a letter to the landlord and gives them additional time to complete the safety improvements. If they comply, the landlord is given a cease-and-desist order is issued." he said.
"A cease-and-desist order is a last resort. we don't want to put a hardship on someone, we don't want to."
"THEER COULD be some pending cease-and-desist orders in Lawrence."
Markley said he had just received Quandil's plans for improvements years ago.
"We will be asking for a complete schedule of when she will be completing the project."
Both Markley and Mallonee indicated that the University and the KU fraternity and sorority houses had been working on updating their safety standards.
"I don't suppose that we will ever achieve perfection, but I'm very pleased with the result."