Lookina good
BILL FRAKES/Kansan star
how you look at a tennis ball may influence the way you hit it, and hitting it is hard enough when you can watch it with both eyes. Tracey Coca, Leawood junior, practices he looks and her strokes on the courts behind Allied Field House.
KANSAN
Thursday, September 13, 1979
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 90, No. 14 free on campus
Senate backs campus fundraisers
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
Staff Reporter
The KU Student Senate passed a resolution last night support the right of non-profit student organizations to have foundation events on the KU campus.
The meeting was the first of the fall semester.
The resolution follows a recent controversy over whether a plant sale sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women was unfair competition to Lawrence
A local marchant, Fred Pence, complaind to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, the
Lawrence City Commission, the Board of Regents and Gov. John Carlin that the plant sales was competing unfairly with local plant shops. Pence said the Commission on the Status of Women did not have to pay the costs of such training on other expenses incurred by the merchants.
In an amendment to the resolution, the Student Senate held the KU administration responsible for defending students' rights in accordance with actions against the Lawrence community.
THE SENATE ALSO voted unanimously to recognize and support the classified senate as a University organization. The
classified senate will represent 1,300 classified employees on the KU campus.
After the Senate voted on the resolution, Joseph T. Collins, chairman of the classified senate steering committee, said he was "elated" by the vote.
"I would hope this shows the University administration that we have support from the other segments of the University," he said.
A RESOLUTION supporting a proposal to have the state fund University faculty and administration use of the Kansas Union also was passed by the Senate.
Collins said the classified senate would not make any decisions about possible interaction with other University governing bodies, such as Faculty Senate or Student
Senate, until its senators were elected in November.
student fees pay for the cost of running the Union, with University faculty and academic advisors. A proposal by the Student Advisory Committee to the Board of Regents would include the tuition fee.
The resolution will be sent to Dykes, the Council of Presidents, an advisory board to the Regents, and the Regents.
Men, women ponder future of KU sports after Title IX ruling
By BRETT CONLEY Staff Reporter
A federal civil rights commission recommendation that Title IX guidelines be implemented immediately has KU officials pondering the future of athletics here.
"I don't think there is a school in the country that wouldn't be in financial trouble if we had to implement equal per-capita salaries for all students," associate athletic director, said yesterday.
Susanne Shaw, associate dean of the School of Journalism and KU faculty representative to the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for women, said, "I don't know how they expect per capita expenditure from our government help. We've got to have some sports, because we all want to have equal sports."
The United States Commission on Civil Rights requires that schools provide education of Health, Education and Welfare require immediate equal per-capita funding of men's and women's incomes.
The commission's ruling was a turnaround from its original ruling last January which said athletic departments should have five costs when incurring per-capita spending.
Because several women's groups objected, the commission reviewed its original decision.
Although Marcum was unavailable for comment he had stated earlier that a ruling by the Court of Appeal would spending could jeopardize non-revenue sports, which do not earn enough to support teams.
Terri Anderson, women's track coach,
said she thought both men's and women's non-revenue sports would have to cut back in such a situation.
"I don't like to see any sport cut," Anderson said, "but if they cut women's then they will also have to cut men's."
To comply with Title IX guidelines, which were issued in 1927 as part of the Education Amendments, athletic departments must provide an amount for each male and female athlete.
"We'll just have to raise the money through the Williams Fund or whatever to cover the extra cost."
IF HEW follows the commission's recommendation it could cost the University of Kansas at least 41.1 million to pay for the monitors by Bob McMurray, KU athletic director.
The Williams Fund solicits money for KU athletic scholarships.
Howlett said, "I don't know whether we
even have that many dollars available to ever comply with equal capita funding.
"I have never been for exactly equal spending, but rather for the equalizing of opportunities. I do think we are fairly close to achieving men's and women's non-revenue sports."
Marcum earlier said that many athletic directors wanted HEW to rule that equal money must be spent only in the non-revenue sports. That would exclude men's football and basketball, which spend much more on their athletes than other sports do.
Charles Erickson, director of communications for the commission, said, "We were originally asked by HEW last December to comment, and in January we received an excellent speech from the expert except not include football to which we gave a five-year phase-in."
"After we sent our report to HEW we were contacted by the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, and we met with them last April 11. They said the five-year phase-in would be perceived as just a short period and asked that it be dropped."
Erickson said the commission then talked to the National Collegiate Athletic Association the association of Informatics and Computing and coaltion of college athletic directors.
the commission decided unanimously last Monday to call for immediate equal funding, Erickson said.
"We usually don't get entangled in the politics of what we recommend," Erickson said, "so the commission felt that it would be inappropriate to consider cost as a factor."
"The commission weighs only the constitutionality of an issue, not the cost. We are sort of the federal conscience."
One argument that swayed the commission, Erickson said, was offered by Dr. Christine Grant, director of women's athletics at the University of Iowa, who said the original ruling was based on women's athletics at universities that had strong women's programs.
That would occur, she said, because some women's sports programs had a greater per-capita funding than men's until football was funded in her.
Also, Ericsson said the commission discovered that football's average cost of $9,858 per athlete for Division I schools was $12,450 per athlete for basketball players.
The tournail cost was not as disparate with the averages of other sports as the commission thought. Erickson said.
Classified reps seek recognition for senate
Staff Renorter
By JEFF SJERVEN
Representatives of the classified senate steering committee yesterday requested formal recognition of their organization at University of Kansas administration.
The representatives, Joseph T. Collins, committee chairman and a vertebrate zoologist with the Museum of Natural History and the secretary and an account clerk in the department of human development, made the request in a letter to Chamberlain Archie
Formal recognition would allow the classified senate to use the campus mail system and to use University facilities to communicate with other government bodies.
In the letter, the representatives said, "Clearly, the classified employees on our campus desired the creation of this senate, and expressed that desire by forming it."
The letter said classified employees knew the proposed senate as an authority for effective system of communication between classified employees and the ad-
SUPPORTERS OF A classified senate have said that while students and faculty
members have senates to represent their interests to the administration, 1,300 classified employees at KU have little influence on policy decisions.
Also delivered to Dykes and other administrators were the senate's code and a petition signed by **B2 University** employee and students who support the classified
The classified senate's code was approved Sept. 6 by about 100 classified employees at a meeting in the Forum Room at the Kansas Union.
The code calls for a senate of 30 members, representing employees in the seven Equal Employment Opportunity categories, except for members of the AFL-CIO Public Service Employees Local H22. The AFL-CIO represents about 400 KU employees.
DEL SHANKEL, executive vice chairman of the state's department. Dykes would respond to the senate's request whether administrators would talk directly to senate representatives before making a decision.
"One area of concern will be the amount of release time from work an employee would require to participate in the senate," Shankel said.
Shankel also said that possible time conflicts might have to be worked out before Dykes approves recruitment.
ID card delivery delayed
By DAVE LEWIS
Staff Reporter
It was a subtle change, but we wanted to make sure there were no conflicts between the two programs. It would be a pattern on the back for library use," he said. "It was better to make the decision now."
KU officials have set Oct. 3 as the date to distribute the new student identification cards. Edward Julian, director of Special Programs, said yesterday.
The original date was Sept. 15, but University officials decided to delay production of the L.D.s to change graphics on the back of the card.
Julian said a company in Garrison, Md., would finish the production of the cards Sept. 25. The delivery date will be one to three days later, he said.
Gil Dyck, director of the office of admissions and records, said yesterday that the expiration date would cause no problems.
THE NEW L.D. cards will facilitate a new program of checking out the books in the KU library system. In addition, they can be used to count the number of students who
Temporary student I.D. cards, which were issued to students at enrollment, are dated to expire Saturday.
"It doesn't apply because no one has a new card," Dyck said. "Something can't expire until we replace it."
pass through a food service or bookstore line.
Dyck said the distribution of the I.D.s would not be difficult.
DYCK SAID he did not know where the cards would be distributed.
The I.D. cards possibly could be distributed at the Kansas Union, the Satellite Union, or Wescoe Hall, he said.
By JENNIFER HOLT
Varied talents,office chaos mark KU prof
Staff Reporter
The office of Zamir Bavel, professor of computer science, looks as if chaos had struck.
He is surrounded by a five-year accumulation of books, papers and unopened boxes stacked knee high on the floor and shelves.
However, the appearance of his office can be deceiving because Bavel still finds time from the paperwork to excel in teaching, sports, writing and music.
"There is plenty of time to do what you want," he said, "if you don't waste it.
"It may look like I never have time to myself because of the appearance of this room. Well, my desk is beautiful now, I can work on it," he added. "The stack of paperwork used to be higher."
The piles of paper suggest Bavel has accomplished much; a look at his past confirms it.
BAVEL WAS A child prodigy who ran away from school in the second grade. While in college, he earned three bachelor's degrees, and a master's degree in mathematics in three years at Southern Illinois University. He qualified for the United States team in his native Israel, and he is an author and a composer of symphonic music.
Before coming to the United States in 1962 at the age of 23, Bavel was an alumnus of The University School in Israel. He performed as first violinist with the Israeli Symphony Orchestra, qualified for the long jump in the 1956 Olympics, and was a radio announcer and silversmith.
He also composed a symphonic work, "Israeli Rhapsody," which Leonard Bernstein once described as "delightful and effective." And Bavel has written numerous mathematics and automata theory, an example of abstract mathematical structure.
Bavel came to the United States after he was awarded a one-year scholarship to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill.
"ACTUALLY, COMING to the U.S. in those days was considered a dream; it was not that I was a banker," Bavel said he didn't know the scholarship was renewable; he had not come to town yet.
"But when they saw I was getting As in my classes, they won in track and was playing an instrument to the federation of Southern Illinois reviewed it," he said.
Bachelor graduated in two years with three bachelor's degrees, one music, one in education and one in mathematics. He finished his master's in mathematics the
following year, and continued to teach at SIIU.
He joined the faculty at the University of Kansas in 168 even though his wife, he met at SIU, was not enthusiastic about Kansas.
"If you take the job in Kansas you'll go by yourself," his wife, Patt, said.
SHE HAD worked in Colorado and thought Kansas would be flat and unimpressive, Bavel said.
So he showed her pictures and pamphlets of Kansas and the University, where she worked. He spoke people to her, he said. Bavel prevailed, and he, his wife and their three children met in a small room.
"Kansas people," he said, "are so honest and forright. They not only are cultured and knowledgeable, they are outgoing and sincerely interested."
In Lawrence and Topeka, Bavel has continued his interests in music and athletics.
He was concertmaster for the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra two years ago and is now a violinist with the Topeka Symphony Orchestra.
Topeka's music is challenging, he said,
and the rehearsal schedule is not as frantic
as it was in Lawrence.
1974 HE organized the Lawrence Track Club. This year he is helping with nine cross-country track meets on Saturday at Haskell Inlet Junior College.
In Bavel's opinion, being a teacher is similar to being an actor or playing an instrument for an audience.
"you have to shed your inhibitions," he said, "and coax your audience into sharing your enthusiasm for the subject.
"I think teaching is the most important part of my life right now. I try to facilitate and encourage learning of students, and when you have as many as I do, that can
"But, no matter how many I have, I think I should teach anyone who comes through the door to my classroom, not just those in the one-tone third of the class.
"SURE I M'BUSY, but I don't panic about it. Damage is done from inner panic. You have to derive pleasure from what you do from the inside. I have fairly long periods when I can just sit around or be alone and a great deal of time with my family."
"However, being smart was no fun," he said.
Bavel started the second grade at age five and was considered a child prodigy.
"At the time I thought it was the most stupid question I had heard, but he was only testing my mathematical skills."
Bavel he also remembered being scared of one of his teachers.
"I remember an interview with the principal of the school," he said, "in which he asked me a question like, 'How many are on two cows?' and then, 'How many are on two cows?'
"The teacher would go up and down the rows hitting the hands of kids with a ruler," he said.
So I ran away from school that day, walked home across Tel Aviv by myself and never went back to school that year."
"BEING SO SMALL and young, I suffered terribly because I didn't know what was expected of me," he said. "The kids made fun of me.
Although he qualified for the 1962 Olympics in Helsinki, he did not get to compete because he used a haraming tool. In Karajan, Kara, Turkey, one week before the Games.
Bavel said he regrets not having more time to compose music or to finish a violin concerto.
"If I could get by by myself without anyone on my attention, if I could get completely immersed and if I could not hear on the music, I could finish it," he said.
"I hope to get away this summer and do just that," he said with a twinkle in his eye.
Reflective pause
JEFF HARRINGIKansan stat
Dr. Zamir Bavel pauses a few moments before starting a new activity. The multilentented professor claims that while his office organization may not be neat, he has so much to do.