Page 10 University Daily Kansan, November 3, 1982
Director hopes to prevent violations
By VERONICA JONGENELEN Staff Reporter
Department heads at the University of Kansas should have more information on affirmative action programs in order to prevent violations of federal regulations, the new director of the office of affirmative action said yesterday.
Robbie Ferron, who will assume her post Jan. 11, said the affirmative action office should not be seen as a departant because people to do what they did did not want to do.
The office should tell departments how to meet the guidelines before finding them in non-compliance, she said.
"How I'm going to do that, I don't know," Ferron said.
The U.S. Department of Labor last spring found KU in violation of several affirmative action guidelines. In the spring 1981, KU was cited for violations
of Title IX, which prohibits federal aid to colleges that practice sex, discrimination in athletic programs.
BECAUSE THE University is working to remedy these problems, it is considered to be in compliance with the guidelines.
Ferron said the federal government's conclusions were based on availability figures that had not been updited in recent years.
"What is happening is that we're not really sure how many people are there."
Besides detailing violations of hiring guidelines, last spring's report said the University did not have a visible affirmative action director.
Ferron said she intended to be very visible in her new position. Her plans include meeting with people in both academic and administrative departments, as well as possibly meeting with students during orientation sessions.
"The first thing I need to do is assess
what other people have done before," she said.
Then, Ferron said, she will find out what went wrong and correct it.
Departments have now established hiring goals and timetables for meeting them, she said.
FERRON SAID THAT being visible as a director would help students and employees with complaints to know where to go for help.
Ferron visited Lawrence earlier this week and said she was impressed with both the University and the town.
"I love it," she said. "I went to the football game and I think you have some real talent on your team. I think the KU fans were very hospitable."
On campus
Ferron, who is part Indian, now lives in Billings, Mont. and is an assistant professor and coordinator of native American studies at Eastern Montana College. The position is partly academic and partly administrative, she said.
TODAY
STUDENT SENATE will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will be at 12:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel.
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CLUB
have a games meet at 7 p.m. in
the museum.
NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENT
Organization lunchmeet will be at
10 a.m.
GERMAN CLUB will have a program on Summer Institute in Germany at the University of Washington.
ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS will discuss the Episcopalian Perception of Orthodoxy at 8 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION will have a talk, "The Palestinian
Question," at 7:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union.
MARANATHA MINISTRIES will meet at 8 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Executive Lecture Series, featuring William Wail, chairman and chief executive officer of the company. It will be at 1:30 p.m. in the Satellite Union.
"TALKABOUT", with Seamus Han-
oe, will be at 7:30 p.m. on KANU
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GERMAN CLJB will have lunch at
the Cottonwood Room of the
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KU SWORD AND SHIELD will meet at p.m. in the Oread Room of the Ua
SEN. NANCY LANDON KA-
SSEBAUM will speak at 12:30 p.m. in 104 Green Hall.
WOMEN'S SELF-EXAM WORK-
SHOP will be at 7 p.m. at GAP-Corbin's
hospital.
PRE-PHYSICAL THERAPY CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. at Watkins Hospital Cafeteria.
KU MOUNTAINEERING ASSOCIATION will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
KU CREW will have an invitational meeting at 4:30 p.m. in 202 Robinson Center.
UNIVERSITY COUNCIL will meet at 3:30 p.m. in 108 Blake.
"THE AMERICAN PAST" with Calder Pickett, featuring "Some American Popular Singers — Part II," will be at 7 p.m. on KANU 92 FM.
Razor blade discovered in Halloween taffy pop
A razor blade was discovered in a piece of candy given to a 12-year-old trick-or-treater on Halloween, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Loveland said Robinson was not sure where her son had received the tampered candy because three or four had given vanilla taffy pops as treats.
The child's mother, Claudia Robinson, 323 Minnesota St., discovered a singly-edged razor blade in a vanilla taffy pop, Lawrence Police Sgt. Larry Loveland said. The piece of candy was 3 inches by 1 inch.
ROBINSON SAID the razor had been discovered when the candy could not be broken in half. She said she had told her children to break their candy before eating it in case anyone had tampered with it.
She said her children had trick-or-treated only in their neighborhood and at a Lawrence skating rink.
A Lawrence Memorial Hospital official said there had been no cases related to trick-or-treating at the hospital.
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GPAs affect financial aid eligibility
KU students who have not met academic standards for certain financial aid programs this semester will be ineligible for aid in the spring, officials at the office of student financial aid said last week.
Jerry Rogers, director, said that under the federal regulations of Title IV aid programs, students must have demonstrated reasonable academic progress in order to participate in aid programs the next semester.
number of credit hours he has earned and his cumulative grade point average, he said.
The academic requirements for an undergraduate student are based on course credit.
HE SAID most students should be familiar enough with their records to know whether they met the minimum requirements for academic progress. Any student who has questions about the requirements should request a copy of his transcript and see a financial aid counselor, he said
Rogers said that last year several hundred students did not meet the standards.
The requirements also apply to the State of Kansas Scholarship program, Rogers said.
Title IV programs include National Direct Student Loan, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, College Work-Study, Health Professions Student Loan, Basic Educational Opportunity Grant, Guaranteed Student Loan and Auxiliary Loans to Assist Students.
"We don't want people disappointed mid-year because we don't have a check for them," he said.
Rock music evil, minister says
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Brooks also attacked abortion, calling it "genocide," and said that more than 400 people died in one year in America than all the lives lost during Hitler's Germany.
His response to critics, he said, was,
"Don't argue with me, I didn't write the
bible."
By BONAR MENNINGER Staff Reporter
Condemning homosexuality, Brooks said, "God didn't create Adam and Steve."
A Christian minister preached to an audience in the Kansas University day about the decadence of American society and the evils of rock 'n' roll.
"The imagination of all men's hearts is only evil — continually," said Rice Brooks, a minister with the Maranatha Ministries, as he fired with emphatic force. Ten strident tones at abortionists, homosexuals, rock music and youth culture.
Using slides and recorded songs to drive home his point to an audience of approximately 30 people, Brooks said, is either for the Lord or against Him."
Maranatha Ministries is an international organization of campus ministries.
"backward masking," in which purported messages of the devs were
He quoted a Biblical proverb that referred to dogs choking on their own vomit, and noted that the lead singer of Alicia Keys had died in this way.
Brooks asked members of the audience whether they could hear the messages, including one that he said in his words, "start to smoke marijuana."
Brooks also played several songs backward to reveal a process called
Several members of the audience who left the presentation after an hour and a half commented on the message of the fundamentalist Christian
The minister showed album covers of bands such as Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and Earth, Wind and Fire, and explained that many satanic messages and symbols were visible, both on the album covers and in the music.
BROOKS SAID that according to Christian dogma, the devil was originally a musician in heaven before he battled against God. He said this explained why he was musically and its rebellious nature because it was directly controlled by the devil.
"The wages of sin is death," Brooks said.
Brooks played several songs by the Australian group AC/DC, including cuts from a record titled "Highway to Hell."
"I thought it was great," said Rob Swirbul, Overland Park senior.
HE SAID he had recently converted a gay to Christianity.
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