University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 23, 1978
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Senate passes measure for D.C. vote in Congress
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate passed and sent to the state legislatures for ratification yesterday a constitutional amendment that would elect voters to elect voting members of Congress.
The vote was 67-32—one more than the required two-thirds majority of the 99 seats.
Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., missed the vote because he was on vacation in the Far East. Eastland voted against full republican control and district the last time it came to a vote in 1971.
Republican Sens. Robert Dole and James Pourison of Kansas voted in favor of the amendment.
THE MEASURE must be ratified by 38 state legislatures, three-fourths of those in each state.
stitution. The legislatures will have seven years in which to act.
Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., assailed the proposal, calling it a "gift on the morning breeze" to the 700,000 residents of the nation's capital.
He said it would be unfair to states to allow the district to have two senators "without the corresponding responsibilities and obligations of a state government."
BUT DOLCE reminded Senate Republicans that both national political platforms endure.
"The time has come for action and if a political platform means anything, it means
Republican National Chairman William Brock, a former Tennessee senator, was on the floor seeking support for the measure as the vote neared.
Mayor Walter E. Washington and other officer candidates who will serve in the city government watched from the gallery.
A FEW minutes before the final vote, the Senate rejected 65-32 a point of order raised against the amendment by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Uttah. Hatch maintained the amendment. It violated a constitutional limit that the House denied equal suffrage without its consent.
The amendment was approved by the House on March 2 by a vote of 289-127.
President Carter lobbed personally for approval of the amendment, calling it "a major human rights priority of my administration."
700,000 Washington residents. This would increase the size of the Senate to 102
IF APPROVED by the legislatures of 38 states after clearing Congress, the constitutional amendment would provide for two senators to represent the approximately
The amendment also would give the district one, or possibly two, House members, depending on population trends. House membership would be temporarily imposed if any member back to its limit of 435 members in the reappointment following the next census.
representation in either house of Congress since it became the capital in 1800. Constitutional amendments to change this have introduced in Congress off and on since 1888.
A CONSTITUTIONAL amendment proved in 1961 allowed citizens of the nation's capital to cast votes for president and vice president. Congressional action in 1971 gave them a single non-voting delegate in the House.
Supporters of the measure said it was unfair to deny voting representation in Congress when seven states that have representatives than the district have representatives.
However, approximately 70 percent of the district's population is black, and this has led some to contend that congressional action to amend a product of racial bigotry.
The district has been without voting
Women charge that KU athletics violating Title IX after deadline
By KERRY BARSOTTI Staff Writer
Although the deadline for compliance with Title IX regulations passed July 21, at least two persons at the University of Kansas will violating Title IX in the area of athletics.
According to HEW spokesman J.L. Thomas, complaints filed by Anne Levinson, Winchester, Mass., junior, and Elizabeth Banks, University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board member, will be investigated this fall.
KU had been scheduled for a compliance review by HEW in July to investigate possible violations of Title IX, which states that athletic opportunity for men and women must be equal. However, the review proposed because of a backlog of cases.
Thomas, regional chief of higher education of the HEW office of civil rights, said HEW would be able to begin its in-training program, because the backdoor of cages had been reduced.
"We've been very happy about what
we've accomplished in getting back
into the way," he said.
The complaints said inequities occurred in couchers' salaries, team cuts, facilities, and training.
BOTH COMPLAINTS charged that there are discrepancies between the men's and women's athletic programs, despite administration efforts to provide equity.
In her complaint, Banks criticized the University for distinguishing between revenue-producing sports and non-revenue-producing sports. The argument of equality of opportunity in athletics,
"The University's position in separating
revenue-producing sports means that
it is more important for the university to
develop its own team."
when they are compared with men's non-revenue sports," Banks said.
"The standard that equity is measured against has to be established clearly and unquivocably, and then you can progress from there," she said.
BANKS ALSO cited inequities in scholarships available to men and women. Under a five-year scholarship plan, the Williams Educational Fund will not provide equal scholarship funds for women in non-revenue-or-producing sports until 1980.
"Not only are revenue sports excluded, but the money will be provided only as long as the funds are available over and above the total men's athletic budget," she said.
"If the contributions go down and the funds aren't there, they have an out," Banks said.
Banks said funding for women's athletics, which had been cut from an original request of $420,000 to $285,000, was inadequate. Because of the cut, she said, the position of academic coordinator in the women's program was eliminated.
"The academic coordinator keeps track of eligibility and tries to make sure that the people who get into academic trouble get the help they need," she said. "The men's department has a full-time academic coordinator."
BANKS SAID the elimination of the economic coordinator was a violation of Title XII.
In an effort to increase funding for women's athletics, the Kansas Board of Regents recently approved, effective this week, that each student to be used for women's athletics.
Mike Harper, student body president, opposed the fee increase. He said that students were not affected.
dacintone funding women's athletics, students would again be paying for the program.
"We felt it was improper, after students had already voiced their opinion by voting to eliminate Senate funding of the program, for the administration to override that decision and go ahead and impose a fee increase to cover it," he said.
LEVINSON AGREED with Banks that he would toward equity by the University have begun.
"What administrators have to realize is that if the men's and women's athletic programs and the University ad-hoc athletic programs come about much more quickly," she said.
Mike Davis, University General Counsel said that although administrators were aware the complaints had been filed, no response to the complaints would be taken.
"The University has certain plans about men's and women's athletics, but those are not the core."
Davis said investigation of the complaints would be conducted by HEW.
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