Thursday, September 25, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 24 USPS 650-640
The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
A saxophone serenade by Sean Santoro, 533 Walnut, does not seem to keep 2-year-old Myka Vlach, 1105 Pennsylvania, from reading a book on a benel outside Wescow.
14 more groups seek Senate funds
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
The Student Senate finance and auditing committee voted last night to examine four more student organizations to determine possible funding sources, before making supplementary funding decisions.
Tuesday night the committee voted to investigate the Latin American Solidarity Club in connection with a 2010 alpinia attack.
According to Senate rules and regulations, the Senate should not allocate funds for projects and operations.
The groups to be investigated are the KU Formosan Club, the Chinese Student Association, the Undergraduate Business Council and the KU Accounting Club.
THE KU FORMOSAN Club presented its request for $788.66 to cover costs of supplies and expenses, capital equipment, rent and personnel services. According to the club president, Martin Min-Tang, the club is open to everyone but is composed mainly of native Taiwanese.
The finance and auditing committee questioned the Formosan Club's similarity with the KU Chinese Student Association, an organization Min-Tang said served students from mainland China. The Chinese Student Association Monday night presented its request for $440. Neither group received spring allocations.
The Undergraduate Business Council missed its scheduled presentation Tuesday night but was allowed time yesterday to present its $41.40 cost of visiting speakers.
THE COMMITTEE voted to look into whether the Business Council duplicated services offered
by the RU Accounting Club, which presented its $8 Breathe Tuesday night.
Neither group received allocations for the spring semester.
The committee also voted to ask a representative from the University Daily Kansan to return for further questioning about its budget.
The Kanans presented its request for $2,200 Tuesday night. The Kanans received a $2 per student activity fee for a total $73,260, but is requesting supplementary funding to pay for another news service. The Associated Press wire service raised the Kanans's rates from a $70 a week educational rate to a $300 a week commercial rate.
Carol Beier, editor, said the Kansan had discontinued AP service and needed additional funding to pay for the Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service.
The committee said it did not have enough information to make a preliminary decision on its request, however, and voted to talk with club members for a clearer explanation of what the committee thought.
According to Robert John, treasurer, the organization is composed mainly of professors and graduate students in the sociology department. This provides an important perspective on political and economic issues.
BREN ABEOTT, Senate treasurer, said he wanted more explanation of the Kansan budget before making a funding decision.
All three other organizations considered in preliminary discussion last night received a response.
The Kansas Telos Club presented its request
for newsletter and con-
ference production certs.
DAN CUNNINGHAM, All Scholarship Hall
Council senator, said it was time for the committee to stop "nickle and dimine."
"The committee has so little money available for funding this year, it would be better to make a substantial contribution to a few groups than to give only a little to a lot of groups," he said.
However, Jim Borelli, Senate student rights and responsibilities co-chairman, said that to fund only a few groups was not fair to a majority of the KU students.
Other preliminary decisions cut the Music Therapy Club from $2,223.10 to $128.39. The cuts were made because of Senate rules prohibiting the funding of unauthorized expenses, travel funding of delegates to convention or money for speaking engagements.
The KU Water Ski Club was cut from $1,416.02 to $22.80. All money requested for a proposed trip to Florida to compete with other skiers was cut. Money was allocated for postage, printing and advertising. The club received no funding from Senate for the spring semester.
The nine remaining groups that presented requests last night were: Fencing Club, $294; Friends of Headquarters, $3,715.78; KU Crew Club, $1,549.34; KU Friose Club, $1,066; Orcadian Friendship, $1,000; Macrotrash Friendship, $738.50; KU Shotokahn Kargate Club, $265.80; KU X. 706.89.
LE CERCLE FRANÇAISE, the French Club,
had their $44 request cut to $50 to pay publicity costs. Money for proposed play productions was cut.
Tomorrow night is the fourth and final night for supplementary budget request presentations to the finance and auditing committee. Fourteen groups are scheduled.
KU officials preparing for Title IX investigation
The decisions are preliminary, Abbot said, and final decisions to present to the Senate would be made.
By ARNE GREEN
Staff Reporter
The wheels are starting to turn as the University of Kansas prepares for a Department of Education investigation into alleged sex discrimination in KU's athletic program.
Vickie Thomas, University general counsel,
has called a meeting of athletic department
officials and coaches for Monday morning to
inform them of what a Title IX investigation is.
Title IX is the 1972 federal law that is intended
to prohibit sex discrimination in education.
Thomas has said she expects the on-site investigation to begin the week of Oct. 13, but the department of Education office in Kansas City, where he was conducting the investigation, would not confirm the date.
"We will write the University a letter and appraise them of the date," I.J. Thomas of the department's Kansas City office said Monday. "It is still under discussion."
MILTON BRDGEWATER, also of the Kansas
state, said that Oct. 13 probably was
the previsitable date.
KU was one of eight universities picked by the Department of Education for the first round of investigations into possible sex discrimination in the department. The department named a total of 80 institution.
The investigation stems from discrimination complaints filed against KU in 1978 by Elizbaeth Banks, associate professor of classes, and Anne Levinson, a 1980 KU graduate.
In October 1978, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare conducted an on-site investigation at KU. According to Banks, HEW in Kansas City thought there was some justification for the charges, because after the study report on their findings was sent in Washington.
"They conducted a very thorough in-
ference into the situation, and there was a lack of outlines and nothing came of it."
ALTHOUGH TITLE IX took effect in 1975, HEW did not issue its final interpretation of the rules until last December. Title IX uridication捷至 the new Department of Education in May.
Since the 1978 investigation, the athletic department has steadily increased scholarship money for women's sports, but other changes have been minimal, said Sandy Buban, assistant women's basketball coach and assistant academic adviser.
"Improvements have been pretty cosmetic." it said, like putting a new squirrel machine in the saffron.
Bahan also said several women athlete had complained about not receiving equal treatment. The lawyer said there was no evidence.
men's and women's athletic departments in 1979, the same tutoring sessions were open to both
Banks, a former member of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board, said she would like to see women's basketball get better practice times and women on athletic scholarships get a training table as in some men's sports.
BOB MARCUM, athletic director, said he was satisfied with the athletic department's progress.
"I think we have done everything we can with the resources available," he said. "I think we need to do more."
"We are making somewhat similar strides as other schools," Stancliff said. "I'm trying to stay competitive at a national level. If I couldn't, I wouldn't still be here."
Bob Stancilff, softball coach, said he had no real complaints with KU's handling of women's
"It is unfortunate that the University of Kansas was one of the ones singled out," he said. "You can find inequities at just about every school."
Improvements have been made in the amount of scholarship money available to women's sports.
According to Susan Wachter, athletic business manager, this is the last year of a five-year plan to put women's scholarships on the same level as men's non-revenue sports.
Bahan also acknowledged that progress had been steady with respect to scholarships.
When the Department of Education arrives at KU for the investigation, it is not certain whom they will talk to. They will meet with Mariana and other staff members to discuss what has been as women's athletic directors before the merger.
WASHINGTON SAID she did not want to comment on the investigation after later she had spoken to the police.
Banks, who filled the original complaint two weeks ago, she had not been contacted about the investigation.
She said she would try to get in touch with the Department of Education, however.
"I'm interested in seeing that they talk to the right people," she said. "I hope the woman get a fair opportunity to compete. That's all I ever wanted."
If KU is found to be in violation of Title IX, and
the federal aid, which last year totaled about $27 million,
it was
Marcum said he was not sure where funding would come from if violations were found by the police.
"If they ask for more money, I don't know what we'll do," he said. "They may tell us we need to change our priorities in which case we would make adjustments."
By United Press International
Iraqi forces advance in Iran; oil refineries bombed, burned
BAGHADAD, Iraq—Iraqi forces moved up to 10 miles into Iran on three fronts yesterday and claimed the capture of a major town on the road to Tehran.
Ferice fighting escalated on land and sea and added to the number of planes to attack the other's installations.
Both sides spoke of heavy casualties on this; the troops of the underdeclared war between the two.
Iraq continued to claim military victories and Iranian radio stations repeatedly broadcast appeals for blood and for volunteers to fight the fires. Iranian radio reports said fires were destroying its oil refineries and pipelines around the sprawling Persan Gulf refinery at Abadan, which was bombed for the second day by Iraqilets.
AN IRANIAN REPORT said four Americans were captured by Iranian forces meeting an attack near Shalamsharai. Earlier, unconfirmed reports had said four Americans were feared
Tehran Radio said Iraqi planes had bombed and set fire to the oil installations on Kharg Island, at one time the world's largest oil exporting terminal, in the Shatt-Al-Arab Waterway. Iraq said it had captured 351 Iranian soldiers.
ON LAND, Iraqi forces claimed to have captured the Iranian trading center of Qasr-e-Shirin, on the border about 300 miles west of Tehran, and to have pushed 10 miles down the highway to Sardil Zahab in an advance on one of three fronts.
killed in an Iranian air strike Tuesday against the Iraqi trench of Basra.
Iran for the first time admitted to losing some ground in a military communique that said "a few Iranian border posts have come under the control of the Iraqi army." It said the Iranian forces in the Qasr-e-Shirin area were "fighting hard to stop the enemy penetration."
The U.N. Security Council appealed for an end to the fighting, and President Carter summoned Secretary of State Edmund Muskie to the White House for an urgent meeting.
See CONFLICT page 5
Off-campus courses often duplicated, report says
Rv CINDI CURRIE
Although a recently released legislative report says more than 40 percent of KU's off-campus courses are duplicated by other area schools, the University will not change its course offerings. Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday.
The report, written by the Legislative Division of Post Audit, was presented to the Educational Planning Committee of the Kansas Legislature earlier this week.
Staff Reporter
The post audit division examined off-campus courses offered by regents schools and community colleges in Kansas to determine whether courses were duplicated.
However, Hutchison said, the courses offered by KU were not duplications of courses offered elsewhere because more than one course was required for a full program or accommodate high student interest.
The report said that 18 of the 231 off-campus courses offered by KU were duplicated by parity inquiry.
HE SAID THAT KU and the post audit report had different definitions of course duplication.
Hutchison said that duplication of courses often occurred when off-campus offerings were so popular that two classes were needed to handle the high enrollment.
Duplication of courses also could occur if their requirements were similar and they were being offered in either two off-campus courses or an on-campus course and an off-campus course.
A course is considered duplicated if an identification offered by another institution within 30 days.
Jeff Brewer, director of performance audits,
said the report defined duplication in several
Brewer said that KU had only two identical duplications, both Western Civilization courses.
He said that enrollment for off-campus institutions of the Regents Center in Overland Park, Pa.
More than 2,000 students now are enrolled in off-campus courses, Hutchison said, and the number has increased by 10 to 15 percent each year.
BREWER SAID THAT any action on the
The report also will be sent to the House and Senate Ways and Means committees, he said.
report would have to wait until the full Legislature convened in January.
Brewer said that the Ways and Means committees allocated money to Kansas universities and colleges and that the Legislature had funded $73,000 for 634 courses offered by state schools.
"They're potential money makers," he said.
The money taken in is two to two-and-a-half
milions.
Cutting funds to determine whether any course changes could be made by schools was suggested.
The committee also proposed stricter definitions of lawsuits against a school with a history of suspension in course of an indictment in course of an
Hutchison said that the boundaries designated by the Regents had not resulted in changes in
THE BOARD OF REGENTS last week appeared specific boundaries in which each Regent was to be appointed.
KU's course offerings, and that neither would any boundaries designated by the Legislature.
Brewer said the post audit report recommended that a central legislative body be created that would coordinate and control offences. Brewer said he planned to coordinate programs for small communities.
However, the committee was told that the Board of Regents Extension Officer, Gene Kasper, reviewed all off-campus courses offered by the universities before they began.
Hutchison said that the University was careful about scheduling courses and that it made good use of them.
Brewer said that universities and colleges would redesign their programs if the legislature found it necessary.
*"They (the off-campus courses) are serving a*
*large number of students. I just have to*
*decide the best way to serve the need.*
Hutchison said that the courses available at the off-campus areas served adults who were interested in being "recertified, rejuvenated, recycled, or whatever."
THE COURSES OFFERED by KU are mostly
See AUDITS page 5
Weather
There is a slight chance for rain this
moon with variable winds of 10 to 18 mph.
Today's high temperature should be around 72.
Tonight should be clear and cold with a low near 42, according to the KU Weather Report.
Friday should be mostly sunny and mild with highs in the low to mid 70's.
The forecast for Saturday and Sunday
will be in the low 89's
and mostly sunny skies.