KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Wednesday, November 19, 1980 Vol. 91, No.62 USPS 650-640
Chancellor's list includes few minorities, women
BvCINDICURRIE
Staff Reporter
A list of nominees and applicants for the position of chancellor at the University of Kansas contains only 10 women and at least six blacks out of 165 candidates...
The list, dated Nov. 3, is incomplete because
Those numbers are below the national percentages of women and blacks in administrative, executive or managerial positions at the nation's largest employers. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
the chancellor's search committee accepted nominations postmarked before the Oct. 31
AT LEAST 15 candidates are not included in the list, Richard Von Ende, executive secretary of the University, said last week, but it contains at least 20 candidates being considered by the search committee.
The committee conducted the search con- fidence that good candidates would apply. We reply.
The Kansan acquired a copy of the master list of chancellor candidates last week.
The chancellor controls a combined budget of
more than $280 million for the Lawrence campus, the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., the University of Kansas Medical Center in Tampa, Fla., and other programs in Topeka and other Kansas cities.
The chancellor receives an annual salary of
£70,000 and the use of the chancellor's residence
The chancellor search committee began soliciting nominations for chancellor in August after former Chancellor A. R. Dykes left to work for a Topela-based insurance firm.
Advertisements for the position were placed in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the
committee invited anyone to nominate candidates, Von Ende said.
The committee will narrow down the candidates to five by March and will submit the five names to the Kansas Board of Regents for a final decision.
Interviews between finalist candidates and the committee will begin next semester.
THE 12-MEMBER COMMITTEE met last week and began narrowing the list of candidates, according to Von Ende. He would not say, "How many candidates had been eliminated."
Von Ende said that four candidates had
dropped out since the Kansan acquired the names of the applicants and nominees.
According to the list, 33 people have applied for the position of chancellor and 132 were nominated. 28 have accepted the nomination, 28 have not yet sent the chancellor resumees and 46 declined their requirements.
"It was an open answer," Von Ende said. "We did not specify any requirements because we did not know what they were."
Of the 165 candidates who were nominated or applied for the position, 10 are women. Two are men.
Dillingham downplays possible suit for wages
Bv RAY FORMANEK
See CHANCELLOR page 5
By RAY FORMANER Staff Reporter
Clarence Dillingham, former KU instructor, is discounting reports concerning a possible lawsuit against University of Kansas officials to reain wages lost when he was visited Iron last year.
Dillingham said yesterday that he would not file a lawsuit simply to recover the money he lost after being placed on leave of absence without pay.
Both Dillingham and Forer were placed on leave of absence without pay by the University administration for the three weeks they were in Iran.
"It would be ridicuious to file suit just over the wages," he said yesterday. "The issues are much uneven."
Dillingham, former instructor in social welfare, went to Iran last December with Norman Foner; associate professor of social welfare, who were taken hostage by Iranian militants.
DILLINGHAM SAID he had scheduled a meeting with Forer last night, to explore possible areas of action. The meeting, however, was not to discuss a lawsuit, be said.
"This meeting is in no way representative of any legal action against the University," he said.
Dillingham has been unemployed since he left
KU in May. He said he had been unable to find a comparable job because he had been unemployed and lost his training.
Dillingham had the main issue was the lack of due process when he and Forer were placed on leave.
"This is a disciplinary action." he said.
Dillingham, former acting affirmative action director at KU, said he and Froer should have been granted a public hearing to present their side of the story as outlined in the faculty handbook.
The KU administration, however, has maintained that the action was not disciplinary in nature.
JUNE MICHAL, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said last week that the faculty handbook states that any instructor may be placed on leave of absence without pay when they leave without making prior arrangements with the administration.
Dillingham maintained he would still be working at KU had he not gone to Iran.
Dillingham had been employed by the University since 1975. He signed a nine-month contract for the 1979-1980 school year, but was not offered another position at the University.
"There were opportunities available for this fall," he said. "The bottom line is that in days of affirmative action, there was no effort to rehire me."
Ross no longer 'Hawk; transfer plans unknown
Sports Writer
By KEVIN BERTELS
For nine months Ricky Ross' future with the KU basketball team had been uncertain. The question was finally answered yesterday morning.
But that answer has left even more questions. Head Coach Ted Owens announced yesterday that Ross was off the team. It is not known whether Ross, a 6-foot-6 sophomore from Wichita, quit the team or was dismissed by Owens.
Owens refused to answer that question, and Ross was unavailable for comment, as he has been since he left Lawrence for Wichita last Friday.
"Ricky has left the team for personal preparation statement." He will not be retrained to do that.
Moss had been absent from practice since Friday, when he cleared his locker and went back to his hometown. He apparently decided to leave after it was reported that he and at least two other members of the team were involved in a scheme to obtain a credit card of Assistant Coach Leafley Norwang.
ROSS' CAREER at KU was short but stormy. He came to KU as one of the most highly recruited high school players in the country. Before he had completed his freshman season he already had threatened to transfer to either Wichita State University or the University of Georgia because he was displeased with the KU team and fans.
Ross nearly signed a letter-of-intent with Wichita State after his senior year at Wichita South High School and he has friends and family there. He also said he has been speculated that he will go to Wichita State.
Gene Smithson, head basketball coach at Wichita State, refused to discuss whether Ross had contacted him about playing there, and was secretary that he had no comment on the subject.
Ross would be able to play for another school in the spring semester of 1982 if he transferred at the end of this semester, under the National Collegiate Athletic Association's transfer rule.
According to Ross' girlfriend, Dondra Maloney of Wichita, he will return to KU to finish classes this semester and then will probably transfer to another school to play basketball.
"He will be back at KU to finish the semester."
Maloney said. "He wants to play basketball with
their team."
MALONEY WAS not sure whether Ross quit the team or was dismissed by Owens for skipping practice, but she knew that the decision was made. at least in part, by Ross.
"He made the decision." she said.
Ross' spot on the team will be difficult for Owens to fill. Ross had an inconsistent season last year, but still was the second lead scorer for the Jayawhacks with an 11.7 average. He was expected to handle the point-guard duties when Darnell Valentine, KU's Olympian guard, was on the bench. He also was expected to play the big guard position.
Maloney said she did not know when Ross would return to KU.
SENIOR BOOTY Neal, a 6-foot-5 guard, will now be expected to pick up the slack at the big guard, but finding a backup for Valentine will be more difficult.
"Tony (Guy, 6-5foot 3 junior guard) has played there some," Owens said. "Jeff Kencke and Mark Welch, two new people in our program, will help there. We hope to develop them."
Once that position is filled, Owens said that the problems brought on by the discovery of the telephone misuse, a violation of the NCAA's special benefits rule, would end.
The matter may not be ended in the minds of Maloney and Ross' mother, Rosa Smith of Wichita. Both said that Ross was given permission to play soccer with her high school team, lie with the department officials or the basketball coaches. Neither Smith nor Maloney would say who gave the permission.
Konek is a 6-foot-2 freshman and Welch is a 6-foot-2 sophomore walk-on.
The athletic department discovered the credit card misuse several months ago, officials said, and implemented a repayment plan for the players involved.
"It's over as far as I'm concerned," Owens said, "and that's property in the case. We can't do more than that."
Miles Stotts displays the alino crow that was supposed to go to the winner of football games between Baker University and KU. The Jayhawks won the last game between the two schools, played in 1918, but the crown remains perched in the Old Castle Museum in Baldwin.
Football crow finishes career in museum
By BILL VOGRIN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
BALDWIN—a mysterious piece of KU football history, an albino may, have nested in the wrong tree. The crow was stuffed in 1906 and has been cooped up in a Baker University museum for the past half century, possibly its illegitimate home.
The crow was preserved by a Baker professor and, according to Miles Stotts, the curator of the Old Castle Museum where the bird is housed, it was awarded each year to the winner of the KU-Baker football game. It was a tradition, Stotts said.
But it was a short-lived tradition. The teams only played three games in the 12 years after the crow was stuffed, and they haven't played since 1918.
The mystery surrounding the bird is how it got back to Baldwin after the last game. KU beat Baker, 20-6, and according to the tradition, the bird should rightfully be perched in Lawrence.
"As far as I know it was always passed on to the team that won," Stotts said yesterday. "It has been here at the museum for at least 50 years."
The crow sits on a small tree limb, mounted on a wooden base. It sits at the end of a row of other stuffed birds, and is surrounded by various antique cameras, tools, furniture and a variety of knicknacks collected at the museum. It is one of more than 100 stuffed birds in the museum.
Stotts said the history of the bird was a story passed down from teachers at Baker, and was told in the 1920s.
"I heard about it from the curator before me; it is an oral history," the 80-year-old Stotsa said.
BAKER UNIVERSITY played a big part in the early years of KU football. Baker was KU's first opponent in football, in 1890, and played in KU's last season. The game, Baker won the first game and lost the second.
A KU sports historian, Edwin "Doc" Ebel, professor emeritus of health, physical education and recreation, said no one was sure who won the first Kansas home game. A "bantam" whistle
blown by the referee, a KU professor, supposedly
nulified a last-minute score by the Jayhawks.
Elibel said KU fans refused to listen and rushed onto the field celebrating, and the question was not resolved. KU sports information lists the attackers' victories. KU's all-time record with Baker is 6-3-1.
STOTTS CONSIDERED the bird quite rare, but Robert Mengel, curator of the Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall, said that albinos were not uncommon in any species.
"You just don't see them very often because they are very conspicuous in the wild and usually get knocked off pretty early," Mengel said. "They usually just don't last very long."
The only way to tell whether the crow was a pure albino would be to see its eyes, Mengel said. The Baldwin crow has a light back and chest and a dark head and belly.
"Since crows are normally black, an albino
crow seems strange but there is nothing terribly
natural."
Promised changes delivered, Schnacke says
BUD DIANE SWANSON
Staff Reporter
KU students began voting this morning for a Student Senate that will be the first to operate under several changes in the Senate made this year.
Internal Senate changes were promised and delivered, according to outgoing student government leaders, Greg Schnacke, student body president, and Matt Davis, student body vice president.
"By far the most important things we did this year were to cut Student Senate size and move the governor into office."
Applications available for Kansan positions
yesterday, "Senate is going to run so much easier next year."
Schnack said although there were a few more issues he would have liked the Senate to consider during his term, he thought that they had accompanied a lot.
Completed applications for Spring 1981 Kansan editor and business manager are due at 5 p.m. tomorrow in 105 Flint Hall. Applications are available at the office of Strong Hall, at the Senate Student Office in 108 of the Kansas Union and in 105 Flint.
Schnacke and Davis both said that they had laid the groundwork for a smoother, more efficient Senate, and that it was up to the next meeting to begin tackling student-oriented issues.
Weather
COOL
INTERNALLY, THE Senate cut its size from 120 to 67 seats, gave committees the power to veto legislation before it reached the Senate floor and moved the election date from the spring to autumn.
It will be mostly clear today with highs in the low 50s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Lows tonight will be in the mid-20s with light and variable winds continuing tomorrow. Tomorrow night's low will be in the mid-30s.
It will be clear and warmer Friday through Sunday with highs in the 60s and low 70s and lows in the 20s.
Schachre and Davis are leaving office three months earlier than previous administrations.
The Senate voted to move elections from the spring to the fall semester to give senators more time to learn Senate procedures before deciding on budget allocations, Schnacke and Davis said.
The Senate also increased the 'KU on Wheels' bus fares to 30 cents and bus passes to $30, voted for optional student health insurance and for optional driver's license. Schnecke and Davis took office last February.
"There are some other things I wanted to do, like a thorough revision of the Senate rules and regulations, but there was just not enough time," Schnacke said.
ACCORDING TO Snackne, it was only fair that because the Senate moved the election date, the governor could not participate.
He added that because their term was shorter, however, they had less time to work on issues.
"We campaigned on the promise of internal reorganization, and I think we've done that." Schnacke said. "I guess it's up to the next administration to take on the issues."
Davis said, "We've done some important things this year. Unfortunately, it's just not that exciting to sit around and discuss strengthening and changing the date of Senate elections."
One controversial issue the Senate attempted to discuss turned in area of the major dispute with the state.
pollution of the year," he said.
"The canceling of the Student Senate-sponsored debate on divestiture in South Africa was a real bipartisan disappointment," he said.
The debate was scheduled for the first week of November, but was canceled because the South African counsel-general in Chicago, who was to speak against divestiture, did not come.
Although the Senate withdrew its funding after the counsel-general's cancelation, Dennis Brutus, professor of English at Northwestern University, said he favored the reasons he favored divestiture.
See SENATE page 8