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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, September 11, 1979
Committee to discuss ways to end discrimination
Bv DAVID LEWIS
Staff Reporter
A new committee made up of administrators and professors will meet tomorrow to discuss the fulfilment of recommendations calling for the elimination of body personal and institutional barriers and racism at the University of Kansas."
The committee comprises vice chancellors and representatives from the University Senate executive committee and the Association of American University.
James O'Neil, assistant professor of counseling, said yesterday that he thought the committee would handle the situation fairly.
O'Nell was chairman of the new defa-
committee to Reduce Sex and Race Role
Stereotyping, which made the recommen-
dations.
The committee formulated 53 recommendations in 1978, but after a request from administrators, selected 15 that needed immediate attention and had no budgetary support.
The committee will examine those recommendations to determine which could be carried out without great cost during the 1979-40 school year.
THE COMMITTEE will report to SenEx after concluding its study.
"The report rests with the administration. 'Oni and strong women' are strong in a responsible way, as they have in the past, on moving toward a constant assessment in the monitoring of how our country can expand its potential to discriminate against people."
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday that the new committee would approve some of the recommendations.
"I think we will able to implement a number of them." Shankel said.
Shankel said he thought the committee's actions would take care of KU's Title IX commitments.
MEMBERS OF SenEx, however,
criticized the report last week.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction, said parts of the report were poorly written.
George Worth, professor of English, said the report was muddled and called it an unfortunate document.
O'Neil said he was not surprised by some of the negative reactions.
"I've heard the objections to the report and I expected that there would be objections to a report of this kind," O'Neil said.
O'Neil emphasized the need for University community discussion of the recommendations.
SenEx criticized the recommendations that called for a review of all course work and an annual sensitization of journalism
classes to prevent stereotyping in KU's media.
"IT IS IMPORTANT to the committee that the recommendations are received to be discussed and debated by the University community," he said. "The report's goal was to provide recommendations and have them discussed by the students and
The former committee was established in October 1977 to follow up on a self-evaluation released in the fall of 1978.
The self-evaluation was in response to the University's commitment to Title IX, which calls for equal funding for both men and women's agramms.
Shankel said that the stereotyping evaluation was only a part of the Title IX self-evaluation.
The 15 recommendations ask that University:
- Review how each graduate department recruits and admits students.
- Assess what admissions criteria are used to admit or reject students.
- Review all academic course work (graduate and undergraduate)
- Provide an annual report of the total number of students in graduate programs by sex, race and age.
- Conduct an annual census of students to obtain information on student attitudes and expectations of courses.
- Assess how each department provides remedial services for those students failing because of lack of necessary skills.
- Ascertained which departments could copson in-service programs for their faculty related to how sex and race interact with health services, the advising and instructional processes.
- Implement an annual training program to sensitive all journalists that perform or write in KU's media to their potential audiences in the papers that can be communicated in the media.
- Implement an in-service program for all residence hall staffs to sensitize them to negative effects of stereotyping.
- Establish specific responsibilities of sensitization in job descriptions of all residence hall staff members.
- Hire an expert consultant(s) to give advice on how to more effectively recruit and retain minority faculty and staff.
- Survey all academic departments using placement tests to place or admit students to any academic department.
- Gather student evaluation research on the impact and helpfulness of these services.
- Appoint a three-to-five-member central steering committee to implement the above 'ecommendations'.
KU law graduates do better on bar exam
By JENNIFER HOLT Staff Reporter
KU School of Law graduates fared better this year on the Kansas bar exam than last year, according to statistics from the Kansas Supreme Court.
Of the 16XL law students who took the exam in 101, July, 101, or 95 percent, passed and five failed. This figure compares favorably with those when 12 students out of 99 failed the exam.
Deanell Tacha, associate dean of the KU
law school, said yesterday that the increase in the number of students who passed the exam was encouraging, but not surprising.
Alumni Association given land for proposed center
"The number of passes and failures on Kansas bar exams varies from year to year, and historically there always have been ups and downs like that," she said.
The Kansas University Endowment Association will assist KU alumni in raising funds and finding land for a proposed campus. The Board of Trustees of the Alumni Association, said yesterday.
Law graduates from other schools in the Midwest also performed better on the July bar exam.
A clerk in the office of the Nebraska State University from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Creighton University at Omaha and out-of-state students passed the Nebraska bar. He is a graduate of
is offered, either in July or February, some classes just seem to do better than others."
Norma Strange, deputy clerk of the Missouri State Board of Law Examiners, notes an increase over last year of students who passed the Missouri bar exam.
Tacha said she did not know what had caused the decrease in exam failures this year.
board room before we can estimate square footage into accounts," he said. "Then we will have to find out how much we can realistically afford from funds."
He added that 11 out of 12 passed the Kansas bar exam, and called the scores pretty good results.
Of 562 students from law schools at the University of Missouri at Columbia, the University of Missouri at Kansas City and Washington University at St. Louis, $14, or 91 percent, pass their July exams, and of 832 students, 482 out of 562, who passed in July 1978.
The number of students from the university who took the Iowa bar exam and the number who passed barely changed from last year's total, according to figures from the office of the state commissioner.
The Alumni Association has run out of room in the Kansas Union and would like to expand its offices to a separate building, Wintermute said.
Improved test scores could not be attributed to changes in the way the tests were given or the changes in the difficulty of the test. We did not report Kansas Board for Attorneys.
WILLIAM B. ANDERSON, associate dean of the UNK School of Law, said he also criticized the policies of out 116 UNK students who took the exam, 106 passed.
Wintemote said the executive committee of the Endowment Association agreed Sunday to give the land at 13th and Oregon Ridge a green lot, for the site of the proposed building.
"INCREASES AND decreases in the number of pass-fails do not reflect a change in the way he test was administered or graded," he said. "No matter when the test
Of the 318 who took the test this year, 273,
or 86 percent, passed, while last year 86
percent, or 274 out of 317, passed.
KANSAN On Campus
July results of bar exams from Oklahoma and Colorado were not available.
"We are still in the preliminary stages for the concept of the new building." Winterside said. "We don't still know if the alumni board will attend the Alumni Association Board ok it."
TODAY: SU GRAFICHT ART SALE AND EXHIBITION will begin at 10 a.m. in the south lounge of the Kansas Union. A student's room will be held at 11:30 today in Cork tl of the Union. THE HMY ROTC STUDENTS will be held at 11:30 today in Cork tl of the Union.
The Board will meet Sept. 28 and 29 to discuss the proposal, Wintermote said.
*FONGHT: There will be a meeting of the STUDENT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE at the BUILDING OF THE PUTER SERVICES SEMINAR, “Introduction to Computing at KU,” will meet in the Auditorium. The PANHELLENIC COUNCIL will meet at 7 in the Council Room of the University, James Cahill from the University of Chicago, and Wang Yun-chi! “Taochi and Wang Yun-chi!” A Contrast Between Method and No-Method in Chinese Language in the 8 spencer Museum Art Auditorium.
Wintermorte said no estimate had been made on the cost of the new building because the plans were still in preliminary stages.
"First we have to decide how much space we will need for our offices and a large
NOTICE Energy Efficient Study Programs
Notetaking
September 11
Testing
September 13
All programs will be held from 6:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
In the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
If you wish further information, call the Student Assistance Center at 884-4064 or come by 121 Strong Hall.
No charge. No registration required. Please come.
Presents
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"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
Alan Arkin
sua films
Technicolor
Tonight, September 11
Woodruff Auditorium; 7:30 p.m.
$1.00 admission.
—No refreshments allowed—
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What's Your Racquet
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Enter the Intramural Racquet and Paddle Championship
4-ACTIVITIES
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Deadline Tues., Sept. 11-5 p.m. 208 Robinson.
There is a $3 entry fee.
All events will take place during the week of Sept. 15-23
Participants must participate in all four activities.
Additional info. 208 Robinson 864-3546.
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Over a thousand baskets to choose from.
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- Swedish Ivy
- Wandering Jew
- Airplane Plant and many more
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