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KU officials awaiting affirmative action's fate
Bv KATHY BRUSSELL
Staff Reporter
UK officials are not worried about the future of the University's affirmative action program, despite a plan to abolish such programs proposed by a future U.S. Senate committee
Mike Edwards, director of KU's office of affirmative action, said this week that he was not sure how much significance to attach to a moment made recently by Sen. Orn G. Hatch, R-Utab.
Hatch, who is scheduled to become the next chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, said last week that he would push for a constitutional amendment.
programs the minorities at education
won't know the effects on his own program, he said.
Bob Fillmore, associate general counsel for the University, said he saw no reason for concern about Hatch's statement.
"I personally have seen or heard nothing to indicate that President-elect Reagan would not be committed to affirmative action at either the federal or state level," he said.
The constitutional amendment proposed by Hatch would have to be ratified by the states, and the influence of the Reagan administration enough to get the amendment passed, he said.
Because Congress cannot repeal state laws that require compliance with affirmative action regulations, passage of a constitutional amen-
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Nancy Moulding, owner of the Pentimento, stands in front of the coffeehouse and cafe which closed in September. Its contents will be sold by auction on Dec. 6. The Pentimento Cafe provided Lawrence with home-cooked food and home-grown entertainment for two and one-half years.
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were shrewd businessmen when they created the Pentiment in 1978.
"We just wanted to have a place that we would want to go to ourselves," she said.
The Mouldings furnished the Pentimento with pillows, wooden chairs and low-slung tables. They decorated it with Japanese kites and art work done locally.
work done locally.
The tables encircled a stage where local talent, including magicians, singers, dancers and haruists, performed.
See PENTIMENTO page 5
Weltmer petitions to regain job
By ARNE GREEN
Staff Reporter
John Weltmer, former women's sports information director, said yesterday that he had fided a petition with the University Judiciary to get his job back.
Weltner, 26, who was fired effective July 1, filed the petition against the KU athletic department, Bob Marcum, athletic director, and Don Baker, former sports information director, contending that the reasons for his dismissal were "unlawful, arbitrary and capricious."
r said that on May 20 Baker told him he
and that on May 28 he asked about his the university and the athletic his rapport with various coaches members and his competence in his
anlyly the reasons for my dismissal I Welterm said. "I am asking for nent and to be reimbursed for the loss 1 benefits since I was dismissed."
n and Baker both said they were of the petition.
't know anything about it," Marcum
said, "I'm not really aware of this act was a subordinate of mine prior to my on and I terminated him."
w said that if he did not win at the 'level, "we can count on it going to
See COMPLAINT page 5
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arth's weather is affected primarily by and the Earth's seasonal tilt in relation 1. The wind's effect, if any, is secondary derm. Armstrong said.
long said the theory that the solar windect the Earth's weather was "certainlyd track," but he emphasized that solarwind not help man in predicting next eather.
plications available Kansan positions
"Iypsus and Neptune are both total
is, and we'll just get one shot at them.
I will be Voyager I for Uranus and
"Armstrong said.
bt be able to tell us when the next Ice it be," he said.
Voyager 1 finishes its run at Saturn, its will be completed.
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Skies will be partly cloudy today, with a high in the lower 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Skies will be from the south at 10-15 mph.
Tonight it will be mostly cloudy with a low in the mid 40s. The high tomorrow will drop to the upper 80s, and skies will be clear and sunny. There is no chance of rain or snow by Friday.