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Friday, October 17, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Affirmative Action plans sex discrimination study
Changing University of Kansas procedures to conform to federal guidelines against sex discrimination will be studied by a recently formed committee, Bonnie Ritter Patton, director of the Office of Affirmative Action, said last night.
At a meeting sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women, Patton said all discriminatory practices, except those related to athletics, must be end by July 21, 1976, one year after federal guidelines for preventing entering the Higher Education Act of 1972.
Athletic departments have an additional two years to conform to the guidelines, she said, mainly because of the large amounts of money involved in a major change.
Names of committee members will be released today.
Patton said that there were no full professorships and only three associate professorships offered to women for this academic year. At the level of instructor, women were offered an average of $33 a year more than men, she said.
Figures for the country's entire work force show that women must complete five years of college to make more money than those who have finished high school, she said.
Full-time male employees who have completed high school earn an average salary of $9,567. Full-time female employees with the same education earn $5,580. After five years of college, the average female's salaries rise to $9,581.
Even male clerical workers are paid 40 per cent more than females.
Polly Pettit, mediation facilitator for the office, said that this year there have been several discrimination complaints a week. Most are informal inquiries and are dropped before the final step of bringing the complaint before the University Judiciary.
"Our only power and authority lie in our ability to say or refuse to say whether equal opportunity hiring procedures were followed." she said.
The office's main role in handling complaints is mediation and reconciliation, Patricia.
Patton said the problem in achieving nondiscrimination in hiring procedures is that employers confuse having been told to do something with having done it.
Clarence Dillingham, assistant director of the Office of Affirmative Action, said he thought most University officials did the same action with affirmative action's hiring procedures.
A computer date match program was discussed last night at a general assembly meeting of the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH).
AURH discusses computer date service
The program would be a joint venture between AURH and the Interfraternity Council (IFC). It would be advertised for two weeks. Interested students would fill out a questionnaire and then be matched by computer with four other persons.
Harry Wigner, AURH president, said the University of Indiana, which has an enrollment of 47,000 students, had a similar number of 47,000 students had signed up for the service.
No final decisions were made about the program.
AURH members voted on and approved a 2017-2018 operating year. The total budget was $456,000.
A beer contract between the Jayhawk Cafe and AURH was approved by AURH members. The contract would save residence halls $2.50 a keg if the halls purchased kegs of beer from the Jayhawk Cafe.
A speaking appearance by Gene Rodenberry in February in Hoch Auditorium that she also discussed. It was the purpose of the speech to aid by AURH and IFC.
In other business it was announced there would be an energy-saving contest in the event that a local company had been
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It was announced that the steak night dinner, which had previously been once a month and had been discontinued because of the rising costs of steaks would be started again in November because the price of steaks had decreased.
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