Monday, October 22, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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SenEx delays support to alter academic policy
Staff Reporter
By DAVE LEWIS
The University Senate executive committee voted Friday to delay reauthorization of the grantment that could alter the focus of the Kansas Board of Regents academic colleges.
Academic planning calls for a comprehensive study of the University's projected enrollment shifts and performance assignments during the next five years.
The current academic planning policy bases future personnel changes on enrollment projections.
The amendment would focus the study on credit-hour projections instead of enrolment projections. The Regents approved the amendment, and officers proposed the amendment Sept. 28.
The proposed amendment was referred to the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee, which will review the amendment and report back to SenGn.
Under the amendment, the Regents would base future changes in personnel and academic programs on distribution of credit hours at each institution.
FOR EXAMPLE, if the University has two hours taken by students in one school projecting a decrease in another school, appropriate academic and personnel training may be necessary.
Lawrence Sherr, professor of business and a member of SenEx, questioned the effectiveness of the academic planning policy, with or without the amendment.
"This proposal does not deserve the name of a comprehensive study," Shern said. "It only produces data for forecasting."
The academic planning policy was approved by the Regents in 1972.
KU's study is scheduled to be completed April 1, 1980.
THE REGENTS policy says, "The probability that there will be general enrolment decreases in the early 2010s with the only posses a problem for public institutions
"There will be not only significant enrollment declines at some institutions during the 1808's but substantial shifts in faculty and program to another at all institutions."
The comprehensive study would prepare Regents schools for these shifts.
By TONI WOOD
Crusaders debate points of ERA
Staff Reporter
or those Kansans persisted last week by Phyllis Schulz to oppose the Equal Rights Amendment, their last hope to have passed. We would rescind Kansas' approval of ERA.
Schlaffy, who has led a nationwide anti-ERC crusade, was in Kansas City, Kan. Friday night to debate Maggie Tripp, a New York writer and lecturer who supports
Kansas was the seventh state to ratify ERA in 1972. However, a bill to rescind that action was introduced during the 1979 Legislative session by State Sen John Fermiland. It would permit the State to vote on to the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, where it remains.
Sen. Edward Reilly Jr., R-Leavendown, who is the chairman of the committee, will decide whether members will take any action on the bill.
He said the bill might be ignored during the 1800 session. "But there are no assurances that the bill won't come up," he said. "The legislative process is unpredictable."
BEFORE ERA can be added to the U.S.
Constitution, it must be ratified by 38 states
by 1986. Thirty-five years have approved it,
including Kansas but excluding Missouri.
The Equal Rights Amendment, which would be the 27th amendment to the Constitution, states, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
The Schlaffly and Tripp debate drew a crowd of more than 375.
"I thought it was a great debate," Schlafy said. "I changed many minds—people have already come up and said so."
TRIPP, HOWEVER, was less satisfied with the debate. She said, "That's the first time I've debated Phyllis Schlafly and the last time."
"I can't debate her, because she uses such illogical arguments, and I think she does it purposely.
"I don't mind being challenged, because I think women's issues are very important. But I have a very logical mind, and this kind of stuff is silly."
The issues debated were based on questions from the crowd of men and women, many who wore big buttons that said, "ERA YES" or "STOP ERA."
Throughout the debate, Schlafly contended that existing state laws were adequate in protecting women, and that some of the proposed amendment a "free ticket" to intermingling laws.
ONE WOMAN IN the audience asked why only 3 percent of the women who were
granted child support continued to receive money after six months.
Tripp said state laws in that area were inadequate, but she cited different statistics: of all women who receive child support, only 35 percent actually getting any money two years later.
Schlachly did not refute those statistics, but she had also asserted laws "make-neutral." She also said that she joined with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to "destroy the
Another member of the audience asked whether women were ready to accept the political and social pressures of equality.
**TRIP SAID.** "I would be presupposed to speak on behalf of American women, but I do think they are ready to take on equal status and equal responsibilities."
Schlaffy said women already have political equality.
"No, I don't think women want the same treatment," she said. "You didn't hear women during the wars running to the line and running back to take my brother, you have to take me."
One of Schlafly's primary arguments against ERA is that women would have to be drafted into the national armed services.
Tripp said women would not be drafted
because there is an all-volunteer army. For
those people who do serve in the military,
they get 1 percent go into actual combat,
she said.
ONE MAN WEAING a "STOP ERA" button asked how the ERA would affect children's schools, such as Boy and Girl Scouts, that are for boys or girls only.
Tripp said, "ERA affects the law. It does not affect social customs and social mobs. There is no reason why the children's cougues could not continue."
Society said that such children's organizations would be affected because they sometimes meet on school grounds or in buildings. ERA would affect dorms, the girls' clubs, GIRL Girls, Cub Scouts, mother-daughter gardens and father-son groups, she said.
The debate was sponsored by the Wyndotte Mental Health Clinic in conjunction with a "Women in 1980" workshop held Saturday.
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