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KU officials awaiting affirmative action's fate
By KATHY BRUSSELL
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Staff Reporter
KU 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 report.
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 statement made recently by Sen. Orin G. Hatch.
Hatch, who is scheduled to become the next chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, said last week that he would push for a constitutional
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Bob Fillmore, associate general counsel for the University, said he saw no reason for concern about Hatch's statement.
The constitutional amendment proposed by Hatch would have to be ratified by the states, and the influence of the Reagan administration should enough to get the amendment passed, he said.
"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.
Because Congress cannot repeal state laws that require compliance with affirmative action regulations, passage of a constitutional amen-
The Music, Arts & Entertainment Magazine for College Newspapers
VOL. IV, NO. 3 NOVEMBER 1980 * LADI VON IANKV
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.
BEN BIGLER/Kensan staff
The Mouldings furnished the Pentimento with pillows, wooden chairs and low-slung tables. They decorated it with Japanese kites and art work done locally.
were shrew businessman when they created the Pentiment in 1978.
"We just wanted to have a place that we would want to go to ourselves," she said.
work in town today.
The tables encircled a stage where local talent, including magicians, singers, dancers and harpists, performed.
See PENTIMENTO page 5
Weltmer petitions to regain job
By ARNE GREEN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
John Weltmier, former women's sports information director, said yesterday that he had filed a petition with the University Judicary to get his job back.
long that the reasons for its
'lawful, arbitrary and capricious.'
Weltner, 26, who was fired effective July 1, filed the petition against the KU athletic department, Bob Marcum, Bob Bakeney, Don Baker, and an information director, that the reasons for his dismissal
ainly the reasons for my dismissal I Weltmer said. "I am asking for and to be reimbursed for the loss benefits since I was dismissed."
- said that on May 20 Baker told him he fired for questions raised about his the University and the athletic it, his rapport with various coaches members and his competence in his
TER SAID that he gave the petition to seckman, chairman of the Judiciary, and idh she would put it on the dock. Idh not be reached for comment.
and Baker both said they were f the petition.
know anything about it," Marcum
aid, "I'm not really aware of this acwas a subordinate of mine prior to my t and I terminated him."
as sports information director for
s until he resigned in July to work for
my Life Insurance Co.
said that if he did not win at the level, "we can count on it going to art."
See COMPLAINT page 5
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Skiers will be partly cloudy today, with a high in the lower 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Skiers 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 50s, and skies will remain cloudy with an extended chance of rain or snow by Friday.