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Iranian foreign minister to meet with Kansas pair
By JUDY WOODBURN and
JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Record
Norman Forer and Clarence Dillingham, two RU faculty members on a private trip to Europe to study the crisis, have scheduled a meeting Sunday with Imran, foreign Minister Sadegh Badrani.
A U.S. State Department spokesman contacted last night would not confirm that a meeting had been scheduled, but held on the grounds of private attempts to resolve the crisis.
"Officially, the State Department does not see this type of thing as constructive," said we. "We are trying to speak to the people in our country who voice to secure the release of the hostages."
Forer's son Robert said his father had telephoned yesterday and said that since their arrival in Iran Tuesday night, Mr. Forerer has been traveling to Iranian officials, including Globethadez.
FORENS' SON identified Muriel Paul, a Lawrence social worker and black community leader, as another member of the five- or six-member delegation of Kansas citizens who had gone to Iran. He said he did not know whether these persons had arrived
Reading from a statement prepared by Forceer on behalf of the Committee for American Defense, Forceer's son said that Forceer and Dillingham had scheduled a preliminary meeting with Forceer to discuss the compound, where 50 Americans are being held hostage. He did not say when they would arrive.
The statement said that the two had been received "as friends" by delegations of
Iranian workers, students, business men and professionals.
These groups "expressed feelings of affection toward the American people," Forer's son said.
"OUR INITIAL IMPRESSION is that there is a strong desire for a peacefully negotiated settlement." Fonder said in the interview, "I thought that initial talks would be continued.
Forer's son said the delegation would visit prison priors and torture chambers and suspect members of the cult. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's secret police. The delegation also would meet withSurah al-Fatwah.
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Forer has said that during 1977 he traveled to Iran as a representative of several international human rights organizations. He argued that violations violations under the shah's regime.
While in Paris after the trip, he became acquainted with Abol Hassan Bani Sadr, former foreign minister of Iran, and Gholzbadeh.
DEL SHANEL, the vice chairman of the Department of Kansas officials had begun the paperwork necessary to place both Forer and Dillingson without-pay status for all of their benefits of that law.
"We have until Dec. 17 to complete the paper work," Shankel said, "That's when we have to submit the payroll that will be distributed in January."
Shankel said administrators wanted to gather more information on the trip and its effects on classes, but would not specify what action the University might take.
Forer is an associate professor of social welfare and Dillingham is an instructor in social welfare.
David Hardcastle, dean of the School of Social Welfare, said all of Forer's and Dillingham's teaching and counseling responsibilities were being covered on a voluntary basis by professors in the school. FORER **teaches** four classes and Dillingham **teaches** four courses.
"Dillingham is not a full-time employee," Hardcaste said. "So far, his absence has not had a significant effect on students."
Although both KU administrators and Forer have said the trip was in no way sanctioned by the University, some administrators had voiced concern about the fate of the student bodies that were mailed nationwide seeking support for the crisis resolution committee.
Forer's son said Forer told him yesterday that a KU-Y board member had given permission to use the address.
Tracy Spellman, KU-Y coordinator, said that Forer may have received permission from an individual board member, but that they could not be charged on or officially brought before the board.
"Although individual board members may have felt inclined to support the letter through signing it, the KU-IY did not officially support the mission or the letter."
However, 20 students in social welfare have voiced strong support for Forer and the trip in a letter addressed to Chancellor Ardych Dykes, Shankel and Foreer's wife.
(He 'Forer) is not a man who, when he knows that he can offer his skills to help resolve a crisis or dispute, will sit idly by
(He) is a brilliant educator in his classroom and an example to his students in his involvement with controversial issues. From as we pray for his success and safety.
Regaae ruler
U.S. to ask Europe's help
Bob Marley had the near-capacity crowd dancing in the aisles when he brought his reggae music to Huey Audiotron last night.
Pat's Blue Ridder Band, a local reggae group, open the show, which was the first big campus concert in the year. See review below.
At the same time, however, it was reported that France was continuing to assist tran in this regard.
Because Vance is scheduled to see many of the same officials only a few days later at a NATO meeting in Brussels, the hastily
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter met with leaders of the West African Vance to four West European capitals next week to seek support for new diplomatic initiatives aimed at pressuring Iran into dialogue.
Vance will stop in Britain, France, Italy and West Germany "to solicit their views on the situation," said Hodding Carter, the State Department spokesman.
Meanwhile, sources disclosed that Britain, West Germany and Italy had decided not to supply IAF with military hardware part a move welcomed by the UK.
The hostages have been held since a militant Moslem mob overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, demanding
arranged steps indicated that they might be part of new economic and diplomatic moves against Iran that reportedly are under consideration.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF the Vance trip followed a meeting Wednesday night in which congressmen invited to a White House meeting were asked to isolate Iran in the world community. Carter said was to have helped the increase economic pressure on Iran.
U. S. officials have suggested that the administration has a number of economic and diplomatic means to use in the effort to force Iran to free the 50 American hostages.
that the deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi be returned for trial.
**VANCE WILL LEAVE** late Sunday, stop in London and Paris on Monday, in Rome and Bonn on Tuesday, and then go to the NATO meeting. There he will seek approval of a U.S. plan for deploying nuclear weapons to Syria, as the Soviet Union in Western Europe.
At the White House, meanwhile,
speakman Jody Powell denied that President Carter had told congressmen he was hoping a policy of economic denial—"turning the screws a little tighter" every year would induce Iran to free the hostages.
IN TEHRAN, IRAN, Ayatollah Ruhabullah
KHOHEHRU urgently appealed for national unity yesterday after two days of clashes between Iranians and supporters of Iran's Islamic constitution.
Engineer's qualifications disputed as derailment hearings conclude
By BRIAN VON BEVERN
Staff Renorter
Conflicting testimony marked the last day of the National Transportation Safety Board's hearing into the Oct. 2 deraliment of an Amtrak passenger train in Lawrence.
Gary Wear, a Santa Fe Engine and manager, said he would warn the United Transportation Union, to tie to warn the road foreman that Lawrence Graham, the train's engineer, was in charge of the railroad.
had been observed the last 12 years.
Graham could not testify as planned because he went into a hospital Tuesday in Kansas City with heart trouble.
However, James Lotz, the road manor,
named that Wear warned him about
their problems and asked whether any district two
engineers were qualified to operate in
he had not been over the route in more than a year.
operated in district two and Lawrence is in district one.
Wear said he suspected that Graham was not qualified to make the run through Lawrence because Graham normally
He said Wear mentioned no names.
bearing's chairman said she expected See HEARING page two
Earlier testimony revealed that Graham had not been over the route in 25 years.
SANTA FE RULES require an engineer to go over a route at least once a year to be qualified for that route, he said.
KU officials agree to implement proposals to stop discrimination
By DAVE LEWIS
Staff Reporter
A group of KU officials has agreed to support the implementation of 11 of the 15 recommendations set forth by a campus committee to discriminate at the University of Kansas.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday that the recommendations of a new Commission for including the office of minority affairs, the offices of student and academic affairs and the college of arts.
"It is clear that each of us within the University community has an individual responsibility to counteract any perishing instances of sex and race role stereotyping and that we as administrators have a particular responsibility in this area," he
The Campus Committee to Reduce Sex and Race Role Stereotyping, which is made up of administrators, faculty and students, made 15 recommendations in January that were aimed at "eliminating both personal and institutional racism" and harmed the university of Kansas.
THE UNIVERSITY APPROVED 11
This is the last regular Kansan for the fall semester. There will be no campus meetings, so the special holiday magazine will be distributed Wednesday, Dec. 12, for the first day of finals The Kansan will be held at the end of the semester and the first day of spring semester classes.
Kansan to print special final issue
recommendations calling for improvements in recruitment, placement, admissions and tutorial services of minority and women students.
KU officials rejected four of the 15 recommendations, including one which called for an annual training program to the harmful effects of stereotyping.
"We believe that our communications programs must themselves initiate such efforts and that efforts by the vice chancellor would be ineffective. Saakka said."
Shankel said the University also could not implement a recommendation to determine if students had received service programs to assist the faculty in better understanding the negative effects of stress.
"WE EXPECT THAT chairpersons and staff will take the initiative," he said. "If we can be of assistance to that wish to develop such in-service programs, we will be happy."
KU officials also rejected two recommendations that called for courses in career development and leadership to provide guidance on how to more effectively recruit and retain minority faculty and staff.
"The vice chancellor and I agree that a course could be extremely valuable, but the department is not approved in the normal manner by an interested department or school." Shankel
"It is our understanding that the School of Education has developed such a course and that it will be available during the spring semester."
office of affirmative action, was not available yesterday for comment.
The recommendations were in response to a self-evaluation conducted by the University in 1976 to determine whether KU required X, which requires equality for all students.
MIKE EDWARDS, acting director of the
After the study was completed, the Campus Conference on Race and Sex Role Sterotyping submitted 53 recommendations in June 1978.
Last January, the committee submitted 15 more recommendations that it said could be implemented during the current school year without great cost.
ACCORDING TO A statement released yesterday by Shankel, the University decided to approve recommendations call for.
- The Graduate School office to review how each graduate department recruits and admits students.
- The Graduate School office to assess the admissions criteria that are used to accept or reject students.
- A new student records information system to figure an annual number of students by sex, race and age in graduate probrams.
- The Graduate School office to determine which graduate programs utilize tests for admission and placement of graduate students.
- The offices of student and academic affairs to improve the quality of remedial and tutorial services.
- Undergraduate departments to provide a statement on the rationale for using placement tests to prevent discrimination against ethnic minorities and women.
- An annual survey of students to obtain student attitudes, expectancies and needs to provide better classroom instruction.
Gays seek acceptance. understanding from society
Rv AMV HOLLOWELL
But it is not.
Staff Renorter
The picture appears on a poster, and beneath it the caption reads: "Someone you love is gay."
Arm in arm, the family around the
cruel, everybody-together-happy and-
normal on-Christmas-Eve. snapchat.
It seems as though it should be in a family
"We're everywhere," Leesa Duby, Lawrence晨 and a lesbian, said. "It's just that we're not a visible minority. We don't wear signs around our necks."
But Duby and a growing number of lesbians and gay men are trying to change society's view of homosexuals.
"We're out to educate people," she said. "That's why we go to classes and speak. We want the same privileges that heterosexuals have."
have—things most people take for granted,
like freedom of expression."
GKSO IS DEDICATED to bringing about understanding of gay people through education and awareness. GKSO will differ. With the coming of understanding will come the end of stereotypes, Zwali
"I don't mustet little children and I go home for Christmas," Zewahl, a self-acknowledged gay, said. "People who don't gays don't perpetrate the stereotypes."
Slowly, things are happening in the movement to inform the public about gay people, according to Todd Zwahl, co-director of Gay Services of Kansas.
"Too often it's the very strange, nonnormal gay people who are exploited by the media."
GSOK is one means of achieving understanding, but Zwahl said the organization still was not what he would like to be.
GSOK is not recognized by the University as a legitimate student group, although it is the organization that created the Kansas Union. Recognition would allow the organization to apply for funding through its own programs.
BUT EVE WITHOUT GSOK, Duby and another lynn, Lysin Piesali, Salma senior, said society is becoming more aware of the existence of homosexuality.
They stressed that lesbianism crossed economic, social, racial and political lines, and that the only thing lesbians had in common was their sexual preference.
"I used to think everyone was together because they were lesbians." Piesch said. "But now I realize that's not true. All lesbians aren't my sisters."
Duby said that all lesbians and all gay men had a common bond, though.
LAWRENCE IS NOT generally considered an oppressive authority, according to Duby, Piechich and Zwady. They said that in some areas, the community for gay people was relatively liberal and had a large gay population - 10 percent of the whole population.
"In terms of coming out, the community is very supportive and relatively safe," Piesch said. "Compared to Salina, this is heavens."
"Coming out," is the term used to refer to gay people who do not hide their homosexuality, and is derived from "in the closet," the term for those who do.
Zwahl also said Lawrence was safe for gays coming out.
But Duby and Pieschl noted that there were not "good" or "bad" communities for
HE SAID KU had a national reputation for having a comparatively large gay community.
I've been harassed elsewhere, like in Wichita, for being gay, but I've never been harassed here, 'Zwail said.
"I wasn't really overly impressed with it when I actually visited it, though," he said.
Because San Francisco has an ordinance protecting gays, Zwahl said he thought the 'dav mecca' was a good city overall.
"The best community for anyone is where their thing is." Dabby said. "I mean, sure, people are doing that all the time, gay people, but if San Francisco isn't what youre into, then it isn't that good. So you have to plan your stuff."
lesbians, any more than there were good or bad communities for "straights."
when it actually visited it, though," he said. When I contacted the city's st. Paul Wachita for example when visiting San Francisco's lead by repealing discriminatory laws or establishing new
Leonard Matlivich, a former U.S. Air Force sergeant discharged because he was
The prime focus of the legislation is to halt discriminatory employment and housing practices, as well as police brutality aimed at graves, he said.
gay, has been instrumental in the gay rights movement, campaigning "as a gay militant-activist," Zwaali said.
Zwaali also credited avid anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant with much of the success of the bringing-gay-awareness-to-the-mobile caiman.
"THANKS TO ANITA Bryant, people are more and more conscious of gays and are thus less frightened by them," Zwani said. "I knew that misconceptions still were rarer."
Often people categorize transsexuals, transvestites, bisexuals and homosexuals under one title: "sexual devilns." They are totally unrelated. Zwaaid said.
He said most transvestites were heterosexual men who liked to wear women's clothing, something foreign to homosexuals. He also noted that bisexuals were not really transgender.
"I don't understand bisexuals," Zwahl said. "I think everyone inherently has a sex-
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