Vol. 91, No. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1980
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
The University Daily
CHRIS TODDIKansan staff
Hashinger Hall. Krull is one of more than 150 students awaiting permanent housing in KU residence halls.
Kelly Krull, Shawnee freshman, sits on a counter top in an ironing room of
KU residence halls overflowing again
It may be Country Club Week in Lawrence, where a Bachelor's life is far from a Fawry Hill existence.
KU residence halls are overcrowded, as ex-
ample of the problem of housing. But the pro-
blems are not unheard.
"Part of the challenge (of this job) is trying to shoehorn those extra students into rooms, making them as comfortable as we can during the week and then near bathrooms," Wilson said Tuesday.
Late arrivals and dropouts cause the housing problems. Wilson said, but this year's overflow into the activity and ironing rooms is not as bad as last year's.
"We had a few more extra students last year than this year. I think we are peaking a little early this year," he said. "It took us until Thanksgiving last year to get all the extras placed in rooms, but I don't think it will take that long this year."
KELLY KRULL, Shawne freshman, moved into a converted ironing room in Hashing尔 Hall Sunday, but she said she liked it. It is small and has an ironing counter. Krull shares a bunk-bed with her roommate, but a good view and a large closet make her want to stay.
"It doesn't have a phone, but it's a nice room and I would like to stay here," Kruil said.
Fred McElhene, director of Residential Programs, said no one would be allowed to stay in temporary rooms when regular rooms became available.
"As regular spaces become available, the students will be move out according to who got the job."
McEhenie also said that temporary housing was available for all women who requested it, but that there were 20 men unable to find even temporary housing on campus.
McCOLLUM HALL is housing 48 extra
students. Oliver Hall has 30. Gertrude Sellars
Pearson and Corinbh halls have 28 and Ellsworth
and Hashinghalls both have 24. None of the
regular rooms are overcrowded.
Wilson said the housing crunch was an annual problem, but not one that his office dreaded.
"It helps us in our budget matters if we have a full house." he said
The rates charged to the extra students are not lower than regular residence hall rates, he said. The students are charged on an interim basis and pay by the day. If the housing office can find a room, the students can sign a permanent contract or are free to find off-campus housing.
"None of these students has signed contracts," Wilson said. "They are most last-minute enrollees and students who had their contracts canceled for missing payments."
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U.S. to investigate KU on Title IX
Staff Reporter
By KATHY BRUSSELL
Continuing controversy generated by complaints of sex discrimination in athletics at the University of Kansas could finally be resolved. The educators begin a study of the charges next month.
KU's is one of eight university athletic departments chosen by the Department of Education for examination of alleged violations of the Fair Play and Discrimination in schools that receive federal funding.
Theoretically, KU could risk the loss of part or all of its federal aid if it does not work to comply with Title IX regulations. Last school year, KU received about $27 million in federal funds.
Jane Glickman, spokesman for the Department of Education in Washington, said this week that a team of investigators from the department's Kansas City, Mo., civil rights office would assign a judge to investigate an inability to conceal concerning the school's athletic program and to make an on-site investigation.
THE INVESTIGATORS WILL look for "overall equivalence" between men's and women's sports in 11 areas, including scholarships, equipment and facilities, numbers of coaches and their salaries, practice times and types of games, travel funds, publicity and recruiting.
The seven other schools that will be included in the initial investigation are Cornell University, the University of Hawaii, North Texas State University, Washington State University, the University of Akron, the University of Michigan and the University of Bridgesport (Conn.)
Glickman said that the criteria used for choosing the schools in order to compete in the athletic department.
The cases also were "the strongest cases with the broadest implications," she said.
ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATIONS will follow the ones begun in September, eventually encompassing 84 schools to respond to more than 120 complaints filed over the past few years.
Complaints were filed against KU's athletic program more than two years ago by Elizabeth Banks, a professor of classes, and Ame Levinson, a 1980 KU graduate.
Levinson, a now a law student at Northeastern University in Boston, said this week that she had started the work as an intern.
compliance with Title IX with regard to athletics.
Lavinson enrolled at KU as a freshman in 1976. She was promised a full scholarship to play on the women's field hockey team, but the team was frequently cut from the athletic program, she said.
She filed her official 10-part complaint in June, 1978.
"I found out that you can only press charges in areas about which a complaint has been filed," she said. "So I filled a very general complaint, and I was fired." Education and Welfare allowed at the time."
ALTHOUGH TITLE IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became effective July 21, 1975, and all schools had three years from that date to eliminate discrimination in women's athletic programs. KU had done little to begin the process of equalization between the two sports departments at the time she filed her complaint, Levinson said.
"The men said that the regulations were too ambiguous," she said, "that they couldn't comply with the rules because they didn't know what they were saying.
"But we were so far from being equal, didn't matter. They didn't even begin the effort."
An investigator from HEW's district office in
London, he wrote an inquiry into Lavinson's charges in October 1978.
He completed his study of the accusations and sent the information to Washington, D.C., where the issue got bogged down amid HEW's conversion to the Department of Education and over the application of TITLE IX regulations to intercollegiate sports, Levinson said.
GLICKMAN SAID final regulations concerning Title IX and sports were issued in December 1979, and investigations now are underway. The schools are complying with the revised guidelines.
Glickman said the Washington office would no- know the length of the investigators' stay at KU, but they probably would remain on campus for a few months to must complete their investigation within 150 days.
If the KU athletic department is found in
regulations, it will have 60 days to
deposit, and
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Committee seeking chancellor Separate trials set for demonstrators who can 'do everything well' The controversy spawned at KU commencement May 19 when 12 persons were arrested for scuffling with KU police after being stand trial together, but Colt Knutson, city prosecutor, had the trial dates spread over a Regents to re-examine its policy on banners. will be acted on this fall.
i. e. the search for someone who "should be able to walk on water" continues as nominations for a new chancellor at the University of Kansas are accepted by the University's search committee.
Committee member George Worth, chairman of the University Senate executive committee, said this week that the new chancellor not only has to perform miracles but "should do everything extremely well and get along with everyone."
Worth is one of 12 members of a search committee comprising students, faculty and alumn appointed in the past to the board for replacement for former Chancellor AArchie R. Dykes.
DYKES LEFT THE University Aug. 15 to be president and chief executive officer of the Security Benefit Life Insurance Co. in New York. As executive vice chancellor, is acting chancellor.
The committee has met once during the summer and will meet again Monday.
Nominations for chancellor will be accepted until Oct. 31, Jacob Kleinberg, committee
After considering the nominations, the committee will submit a list of five candidates to the Board of Regents, which will make the final decision.
chairman and professor of chemistry, said, and may be submitted by anyone.
are said there was no specific deadline for submitting the list to the Regents, but said he expected the entire process to be completed by the end of the school year.
Nominations are a statement of consideration for selection in a particular position and nominies are considered to ensure their interest.
The committee will not reveal how many people are being considered, but Kleinberg said
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there had been a reasonable amount of response to the search.
THE SAID THE committee had advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education and had written to other important education publications for candidate suggestions.
According to reports, possible candidates for the position are former Kansas Gov. Robert Bennett and former Sen. James Pearson, who has lectured at KU.
Initial plans to advertise in major national
positions in the position have been dropped
because of the cost.
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The controversy spawned at KU commencement May 19 when 12 persons were arrested for scuffling with KU Police after an investigation into a courtroom in late August and early November.
The demonstrators, originally scheduled to stand trial together Aug. 28, will go to court on 10 separate dates beginning Aug. 29 when Mark Palmer, an senior lawyer, will face criminal trespassing charges.
The 12 demonstrators were arrested after they scuffled with KU police on the top row of Memorial Stadium after displaying a banner in violation of a policy set by the Kansas Board of Regents. The 12 were part of a group of about 30 sympathizers and members of a coalition that distributed leaflets at the commencement proceedings.
THE GROUP, members of the Academic Freedom Action Coalition, climbed to the top of the north end of the stadium at commencement. Their 5,000 leaflets and several banners protested what they called free speech restrictions.
The group displayed one banner that read, "Protect First Amendment Rights at KU." When seven protesters were led away by police, the officers were called, "Help. We're being arrested," was opened.
Bonna Yoder, defense attorney for several *c* the protesters, had asked that the 12 defendants
Knutson said it would not have been feasible to all 12 defendants in one trial and denied that the city feared that one large trial would attract demonstrations in support of the defendants.
SEVERAL OF the defendants disagreed with Knutson, however, and said they thought the separate trials were scheduled to discourage interest in the trials.
"My feeling is that the reason is to disperse any efforts or interest in these trials," said Tim Miller, lecturer in religious studies at KU and one of the defendants.
The demonstrators were upset with the Regents policy that prohibits the display of banners at non-political situations. Miller said he thought the situation would improve with the departure of former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Miller said he was more comfortable with Del Shankel, former executive chancellor who chancellor of Auckland for 45 years.
"Del Shanker is a more moderate and sensible person." Miller said. "I'm more optimistic."
Jim Scaly . Shankel's administrative assistant was told that the University had asked the Board of
DANIEL WILDCAT, a Lawrence graduate student who also was arrested at the commencement disturbance in Edinburgh. Miller's education shows that he is possible despite the separate trial dates.
"It's very possible that demonstrations will be held with people exercising the right to free speech," Wildcat said. "We're a group of individuals, and a couple of things could happen."
The defendants all were charged with criminal trespassing, disorderly conduct or both, and face possible maximum sentences of a $100 fine, 90 days in jail or both.
An investigation also has been completed by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation into charges by Ron Kuby, former KU student and Lawrence resident, of alleged cruelty by KU police during the incident. Results of the investigation have been sent to Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney who is on vacation and unavailable for comment.
are one nine persons scheduled to stand trial and the charges against them are: Gail Hamilton, disorderly conduct; Shelley Miller, criminal trespassing; Eric Kirkendall, criminal trespassing; Jeffrey Miller, disorderly conduct; Laurie Schultz, disorderly conduct; Arron Handel, disorderly conduct; Laurie Hanley, disorderly conduct; and Mary Lauer; disorderly conduct.
KU counseling services help ease student stress
By SHAWN McKAY
Staff Writer
Available to the distraught freshman and any student or faculty member experiencing an emotional problem are a wide range of counseling psychiatric services at the University of Wisconsin.
He sat alone on the steps. Laughter could be heard behind the illuminated windows of his residence hall only a few yards away. He looked like a statue with his forehead resisting in his
After choosing the steps descending from Daisy Hill, he settled there to cry. He related his heartache. He was a freshman, and this was his first time away from home. Unable to make friends, he felt trapped in a world of strangers. "I need someone to talk to but who?" he asked. "Sometimes I just need help, but I don't know where to go."
Nora Zimmer, director of the assistance center, said most of the calls came from people unaware of the counseling resources available to them at the University.
THE FIRST STEP for many is the Student Assistance Center in 121 Strong Hall.
"The bulk of our calls begin during orientation week and continue through the end of September," she said. "Most are from people new to the campus who don't know where else to turn."
"The vast majority of students already have some coping skills and some willingness to put forth the effort to figure things out," she said. "But there is a group that has real trouble coping with the transition. Many of them come to a point in their life when it isn't clear what comes next. There is indecision about going to college, what college means and what comes next."
The transition between home and university life brings many freshmen into the center, Zimmer said.
"Our role is to listen to whatever it is that person is saying and help them figure out what the question is that they need. We have questions and where they might go to help them find the right decision to make."
"The center doesn't do what we call counseling," she said. "The extent of our service is being sensitive to the needs of students and helping them find the options available to them."
EVERYONE WHO COMES to the campus experiences some anxiety, Zimmer said. Some adapt and cope while others experience confusion.
One of the places students can go for career or personal crisis counseling is the Counseling Center.
"We serve students, faculty and even a few people from the community," Richard Runnall said.
About 60 percent of the Counseling Center's contacts involve people who need some sort of career counseling or help deciding on a major. The Center also helps students' responsibilities and others with more personal problems."
"The other 40 percent come here with a mixed bag of questions," he said. "Some come with concern about relationships and others with more personal problems."
RUNDUST SAID the center's heaviest case
leads 41 percent, was composed freshen and
bend.
"They come because they are facing the kinds of things they haven't had to deal with before," he said. "Coming to college is a big challenge to people who have not had to manage their own affairs or plan their own lives. A lot of learning has happened, and sometimes the things aren't easy to learn."
The counselors at the center advise students
to seek advice before they
their problems worsen.
"A lot of people come in when they reach a pressure point," he said. "A lot of the time the problem has been pretty well fixed. If people have had to suffer, they would have a better chance of solving it."
"But people wait until the anxiety gets too much to handle and then try to find a solution overnight.
The counselors at the center advise students and faculty members to seek counseling before and after their graduation.
"But people wait until the anxiety gets too " "but you need to handle and then try to find a solution over a time period."
"A lot of people come in when they reach a pressure point," he said. "A lot of the time the problem has been pretty well fixed. If people are feeling tired, they would have a better chance of solving it.
"They have to be in love to make changes in their lives, and to willingness, we have nothing to work with. We are afraid."
RUNDQUST ADVISED students who come into his center to be ready to change.
Most of his center's work involves short-term counseling, and people with long-term problems are referred to the Psychological Clinic or the Mental Health Clinic.
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d that most students develop a better See COUNSELING page 11
The Psychological Clinic in Fraser Hall, established more than 25 years ago, is used to help train Ph.D. candidates in clinical psychology.
Michelle Edwards, social worker, said the student staff gave clients a chance to speak with students who were familiar with problems a college atmosphere could cause.
It will be sunny and cooler today with a lower percentage of humidity, according to the Topeka National Weather Service. The high today will be in the upper 80s.
The cooler temperatures will be brought about by a cold front approaching from the west. Winds from the southwest will be at 10 to 15 mph and should decrease Friday.
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There is little precipitation expected for the weekend. Highs will be in the 80s, and lows will be in the upper 60s.
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