Title IX guidelines revised; effect on KU uncertain
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By BRETT CONLEY
The government announced new guidelines for ending sex discrimination in college athletics yesterday, but local athletic officials are still unsure of the effect they will have on the KU athletic team.
Patricia Harris, secretary of the department of Health, Education and Welfare, announced the department's new interpretation of Title IX guidelines.
The major provision of the interpretation calls for universities to distribute scholarship funds in proportion to the number of male and female athletes at a school.
For example, if 50 percent of a school's athletes were women, they would have to receive 50 percent of the scholarship money given by an athletic department.
Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, said he had not seen HEW's new interpretation yet, but it would take time to figure out all of the implications of the document.
"RIGHT NOW WE have approximately 211 men who spend approximately $130,000 on women's scholarships and $721,000 for men. We are definitely going to have to go out and try and raise money to meet the needs of our students."
"We only have so many dollars to work with and I know we can do it, but we care more, but I do not know how much more it will take us to sit down and consider all of the variables and look at the specifics of the HEW interpretation to figure it out.
Currently, 40 percent of athletes at KU are women, but they only receive 15 percent of the scholarship.
of men's scholarships remained the same, it appears that women's scholarships would have to be increased by $340,000 for KU to comply with the new Title IX interpretation.
THE GOVERNMENT also will evaluate specific factors such as the provision of equipment, coaching assignments and training facilities. Harris said, to prepare all students are discriminating in their athletic programs.
"It is important to note that HEW is not requiring that benefits such as locker rooms or coattail staffs be provided, nor are the programs to determine whether policies and practices provide equal opportunities throughout men's sports."
Phyllis Howlett, KU assistant athletic director, said she thought it would not be too difficult for schools to comply with the guidelines once they were completely understood.
"The Title IX law binds us to providing equal opportunity." Howlett said, "and this latest interpretation just provides us a standard to measure equal opportunity."
HOWLETTA that women and men athletes were not told the way how because in men's sports the number of people who were counted as participants and in women sports only the number of athletes playing when the season ended.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association strongly disagreed yesterday with HEW's latest interpretation, but has not decided what action it will take.
water Byers, NCAA executive director, said that the interpretation would not stand a legal test or the law.
Unfortunately, the new directive places a ex-dividual quotation system upon scholarships instead of
letting such money be properly awarded on the basis of merit.' Byers said in a prepared statement.
THE NCAA WANT individual institutions to be responsible for determining what steps should be taken to achieve nondiscrimination, Dave Caywood, NCAA assistant executive director, said.
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Harris said the new interpretations would give schools maximum flexibility in the development and maintenance of their athletic programs. It also would make it easier to ensure that programs are free from sex discrimination.
The interpretation handed down by HEW yesterday was requested by colleges and universities for the IX ACTs of the 1972 Civil Rights Act, which bars sex discrimination in federally assisted programs. The athletic department does not receive federal money from the University and the University does receive funds.
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KU prof goes to Iran to deliver 'fraternal message' to Khomeini
By JUDY WOODBURN Staff Reporter
(Copyright, The University Daily Kansan, 1979)
Norman Forer, KU professor of social welfare, departed for Iran early this week with the intention of delivering a letter to the Ayatollah Kuhaillah Khimeim, Forer's son
The letter, which was drafted several weeks ago by Lawrence citizens, expressed some private citizen's misgivings about the proposed resolution. Mohammad Rosa Haavihe. The letter proposed representations of "ordinary American citizens" to meet with Iranian leaders, as an addition to U.S. government efforts to resolve the crisis
In a note delivered to a Kansan reporter last night, Forer confirmed that he was on his way to Iran to deliver the letter. He authorized his son to sneak his behalf.
His son said Clarence Dilgham, instructor in social welfare, was accompanying Forer on the trip. They were back home two days earlier and did not early this morning. Forer's son said.
HE WOULD NOT confirm that Forer and Dillingham had gone to Iran.
Walter Ramsay, a press officer for the Iran Work Group at the State Department in Washington, D.C., said early this morning that several citizens had traveled to Iran on their own behalf, but that none of them were released, received sanction from the State Department.
Forer's son said Forer told him that "certain individuals in Iranian national life" were awaiting Forer and Dillingham in Iran, but he would not identify them.
Forer has said that during a trip to Iran in
$^{12}$ he became acquainted with Sadek Gholzbatthe, now foreign minister of Iran, and Abd-Albah Bansiadr, now a member of the Council and former minister of Iran.
Forer was one of a delegation of representatives from international human rights organizations to send in Iran in 1977 to investigate alleged human rights violations that attempt to save the lives of a Denaian army arrested by the shah's security police.
HOWEVER, there was no indication last night that Forer and Dillingham would meet Ghostzbadeh or Banisadr in Iran.
Forer's son said the letter was being delivered as a peace initiative from members of the Committee for American-Iranian Crisis Resolution. He said the committee, which was organized about three weeks ago, comprised Lawrence community leaders and KU professors who provided voicemail support for the letter to Khoromi.
Forer's son said that no official spokesman for the committee had been designated, and that he was unable to identify any of the committee members.
He would not say how many people had signed the letter, but said that the response was "good and sufficient to warrant the tril."
THE LETTER stated that it was written to Khomihei as a "fraternal message from the hearts of American people," and said, "I will wait with you in the center of the American content."
"It is unacceptable and unthinkable that the brave youth of Iran and of the United States should confront each other with weapons in their hands," the letter said.
"The world acknowledged the just claims
of the Jewish people when they kidnapped their tormentor and destroyer. Adolph Eichmann, and placed him on trial in Jerusalem. Similarly, the world demanded that Israel not place the shah's leadership in the dock at Nuremberg. We therefore find it understandable why the Iranian people would now seek to place on trial their tormentor, and given the protective measures afforded the shah by the United States as an obstruction of justice and, given the protective measures afforded the shah by the United States for the past 57 years, compose the composition of the shah on the Iran necropolis.
"IN THIS REGARD, we find understandable the passions of those Iranian students who occupied the U.S. Embassy and of the Iranian people who support them.
"We believe that if the situation were reversed and Iran offered a haven to a mass slaughter of American people, our nation would be similarly aroused."
The letter went on to say that the committee did not feel any loss of pride in acknowledging the error of lengthy U.S. summert for the shah.
"We therefore acknowledge through you, imam Kohmemi, to all the Iranian people, that it is already a matter of public record:
"That the U.S. government in 1953 overthrew the democratic, multi-party government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeg."
"That our government was implicated in the tragic events of June 5, 1963, when tens
"THAT THE CIA trained and organized the SAVAK in methods of oppression and torture designed to eliminate all opposition to the autocratic rule of the shah.
of thousands of Iranian citizens were massacred with American weapons."
The letter also alleged that the shah was used by the U.S. State Department as an agent in the killing of Iranian President Persian Gul area," and that ten billions of dollars of money was "imposed on" the shah.
The letter said that the cost of this weaponry, coupled with American economic intervention, created Iranian insurgency, imported food and widespread poverty.
THE LETTER ALLEGED that "the consequences of both exploitation and repression were annihilation of civil liberties . . . compulsory membership in a militia . . ." (The Washington Times, imprisonment or death, deaths under torture of tens of thousands, filling of jails with over 100,000 political prisoners, repeated massacres in the streets, the universities and factories, and numerous or huge crimes in the summer of 1978 in Abadan in the summer of 1978).
The letter also alleged that the shah gained billions of dollars in personal fortune as a result of these actions.
"We American citizens find it in conceivable that any rational person informed of these amply documented situations would not, in keeping with American jurisprudence, find probable the chance to dislash the Shah on trial," the letter said.
THE LETTER also claimed that the holding of the hostages impeded efforts to inform the American people of the shah's actions; and that the holding of the hostages had raised the passions of many Americans who obscured the underlying causes of the crisis.
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Iran declares trial of hostages
TEHRAN, Iran (AP)—The month-old U.S. Embassy crisis took a suddenumbler turn yesterday as Iran's foreign minister said it would be unacceptable to be put on trial and that their Moslem militant captors were reported to have threatened to shoot them if they did not.
At an emergency U.N. Security Council session in New York, the 15 members unanimously passed a resolution urging Iran to release the 50 hostages immediately and appealing to both Iran and the United States to untreat "innest restraint" in the critical situation.
PENTAGON OFFICIALS, said, mean-while, that a six-ship Navy force led by the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk had reached the North Atlantic and forced the carrier force. This put the ships, carrying
more than 135 planes, within reach of the entrance to the Persian Gulf.
President Carter has warned Iran of extremely grave consequences if the diplomatic row between the two countries is a trial of the diplomats will be an even more grievous violation of international law and international security.
The official, who asked not to be identified, said the hostages "have been threatened with execution if they fail to cooperate with their canvars.
THE REPORT OF threats to shoot hostages came from a White House official in Washington.
President Carter said last week that the Americans had been threatened at pistol point.
"You can assume that I don't mean cooperation just . . . in routine matters," he said.
THE WARNING OF **O** being trial of the hostages as spies came from Iran's acting foreign minister. Sadeeh Ghbotbadeh.
Iranian television said he told a French interviewer that the American captives would be tried "for sure."
Whether the hostages will be punished according to the verdict—they could be sentenced to death—would depend on Iran's leader, Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, who could overrule the sentence "if the United States allowed the slain," Glostzavad reportedly said.
The statement marked the first time a U.S. official has said the hostages have been threatened with execution, although
THE IRIANAN ACCOUNT of the interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro differed slightly from the version published in a 1937 issue, said such halfway measures as an international investigation of ousted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime would not settle the crisis.
It was evident from the minister's remarks as reported by Iranian television, which closely follows the official line, that he meant the hostages were tried in vain.
"Thus the hostages will be tried?" he was asked.
It appeared from Ghobzadeb's remarks that the ruling Revolutionary Council was stepping up pressure by offering a Khiemite loan to finance the price of the hostages eventual freedom.
PREVIOUSLY, Iran threatened to try the hostages on esponge charges only if Carter stood by his refusal to send back the shab.
State demos say Carter race is no surprise
President Jimmy Carter's announcement last night that he would seek re-election was followed by a statement it contained no element of surprise, according to Terry Scanlon, Carter's state representative.
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to run for re-election," Scanlon said yesterday. "The day (Sen. Edward) Kennedy announced was an event because he was a civil warrior that he wouldn't run for president."
Carter's announcement would have prompted a "gala affair," he said, but the event was dampened by concern about the situation in Iran.
David Berkowitz, Douglas County Democratic central committee chairman, said, "I don't think the Carter campaign is well organized locally."
HE SAID HE had not been contacted by anyone who wanted to work in Carter's campaign, but he had received several calls about Kennedy's campaign.
"Carter announced tonight so that he could meet certain deadlines for the primaries," he said. "Otherwise, he might have oostoned it."
"I've gotten a number of phone calls from people who asked how they might work for Kennedy, including one from a Republican.
Presently no formal organization for the Kennedy campaign has been formed. Kennedy has been holding for about two months. The most recent meeting for the Kennedy campaign drew more than 50
"On the other hand, in discussions there have been several people who have indicated that they would support Carter."
Scanlan said the number of about 40 or 50 members of a state campaign coordinating effort was about two weeks. There will be representatives from each area of the state, he said, and the teams will have to communicate.
SO FAR IN the campaign, Scanlon has been dealing primarily with Democratic leaders.
"I've found widespread support for Carter from them," he said.
John Montgomery, a member of the steering committee, said that more people in Kansas were interested in working for Carter than during this time in the 1862 presidential election.
"There is more than the usual amount of interest," he said. "A number of people have called and wanted to know how they help or how they could contribute money."
"I look for you to pop up all of a sudden and support Carter like they did during the last election," she said, "when they found out that he was for real."
Margaret Holperman, secretary of the state Democratic Party and a Carter supporter, said it was too early for people to show much interest in the presidential race.
Derailment hearing
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William Ham, fireman on the Amtrak train that derailed Oct. 2 in Lawrence, testified yesterday before the National Transportation Safety Board's public hearing on the accident. The NTSB is trying to determine the cause of the deraliment, which killed two persons and injured 69 others.
By MARK SPENCER
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Amtrak fireman cites faulty safety devices
The fireman on the Amtrak train that 2 in Lawrence testified yesterday is in charge of devices failed to warn him and the engineer that they were approaching a bridge.
William Hand appeared before more than 100 people at the National Transportation Safety Board's public hearing at the Holiday Inn, 209 Iowa St.
A Santa Fe Railway official also appeared and testified that the train's engineer was unfamiliar with the route.
Hand testified that a "slow" sign that should have warned of the 30 mph speed zone was not in place.
"We were looking for the slow boards that weren't there." Hand said.
Speed recording devices in the train's engines showed that the train roared into the curve at 78 mph.
Hand also testified that an automatic train stop mechanism failed to warn him and Lawrence Graham, the engineer, and Lawrence Graham, approaching the curve at an unsafe speed.
"BY THE TIME I realized what was going on," he said, "we were into some more curves.
"My first thought was that this just was not happening; this couldn't be going on."
The automatic train stop mechanism should have been triggered by a track-side device.
witnesses testified that if the train triggered the device and the engineer did not, a second sound would be heard. The engineer then would have 48 seconds to acknowledge the whistle.
Hand testified that railroad practice was for an engineer to tell "ball" when the warning was acknowledged. He said
Graham did not make any verbal response and there was no whistle.
HAND SAID that after the accident, Graham first asked him whether he was hurt. When Hand told him he was hurt I thought he was wrong. "Well, I hurt and I think I hurt me."
Hand said Graham then asked about the sign.
Although Graham was expected to testify today, NTSB member Patricia Griffin said that she would be present that Graham could not appear because his doctor had advised him to go to a hospital.
"I didn't see the slow board. Did you see it?" Graham asked according to Hand.
A spokesman at St. Lake's Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., confirmed that Graham had been admitted to the hospital morning and was in stable condition.
AN NTSB SPOKESMAN said that "at this stage of the game, it appears unlikely that he will appear."
Goldman said the NTSB might try to arrange to question Graham in his hospital room.
At the advice of their lawyer, neither Hand nor Graham had spoken to investigators before the hearing.
The first witness to testify at the hearing was John McPherson, Santa Fe division superintendent.
McPherson's testimony was delayed for about half an hour by a bomb threat that was shone on the Holiday Inn.
At 9:38 a.m., a Holiday Irm clerk said she received a call from a person she thought was a teen-ager "who sounded serious and upset."
"FOR WHAT YOU AND Amtrak did to my family, I am setting a bomb in the room and killing everyone," the caller said, according to the clerk.
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