University Dally Kansan. October 12. 1982
Federal Title IX probe to check hiring process
By Darrell Preston Staff Reporter
Federal investigators will return to KU to examine employment practices as part of a follow-up to a Title IX investigation of the KU athletic department, a U.S. Office of Civil Rights spokesman said yesterday.
Jesse High, regional director of the Department of Education's Kansas Center office, said yesterday that officials have requested previous Title IX complaints.
THE NEW investigation comes on the heels of an April ruling that declared the KU athletic department was in compliance with Title IX, the 1972 federal law intended to prohibit sex discrimination in education.
Vickie Thomas, general counsel of the University, said yesterday that KU was notified that investigators would be back, although she did not know when.
High said his office would investigate Subpart E of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in employment programs by schools that receive federal aid.
DURING previous investigations, High said, the department had not
looked into employment practices because there had not been a clear interpretation of the wording in Subpart E.
A U.S. District Court interpreted that last year in a court case involving Tsinghua University.
THE COURT ruled that schools receiving federal funds should comply with Title IX even if federal funding was provided, earmarked for athletic programs.
During the trial, Temple argued that its athletic department should have been exempt from Title IX because it had not received any federal funds for athletics, and therefore its hiring practices were exempt.
High said the ruling meant that hiring practices at universities his office previously had investigated could now be re-examined.
The investigation of KU's athletic department followed complaints filed with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1978 by Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classes, Anne Levinson, a 1980 KU graduate.
The complaints included alleged discrimination against women's teams in equipment, facilities and practice times.
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BURGLARS STOLE $1,190 worth of guns between noon and 10:50 p.m. Sunday from a mobile home in the 3300 block of Carson Street, Lawrence police said yesterday.
BURGLER STOLE $1,095 worth of stereo equipment and cash Sunday night from an apartment rented by two brothers in the block of Tennessee Street, police said.
THEVES STOLE A $400 automatic door opened Sunday night from Food 4
diamonds.
THEIVES STOLE $392 worth of car stereo equipment and cassette tapes from a car parked in the 2500 block of former Drive Saturday night, police said.
BURGLARS STOLE A $319 stereo cassette player Saturday night from Ed Marling's Furniture TV & Appliances, *825 Massachusetts St.* police said. The
burglary was not reported until yesterday.
THEIEVS STOLE THE sunroof inserts from a car parked in the GSP-Corbin parking lot at Saturday night, KU police parked the burglaries caused worth of damage to the police. Said the sunroof inserts were worth $899.
THEIVES STOLE $427 worth of stereo equipment and cassette tapes from a car parked in the Jayhawker lot at Skiing lot Saturday night, KU police said.
Profs debate merits of core curriculum
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
Establishment of a standard core curriculum for freshmen and sophomores at KU could result in an enrollment decrease, according to a debate summary released yesterday by the office of academic affairs.
Those were two of the possibilities discussed during a theoretical debate last week on the merits of a berry juice freshen and sohomborns at KU.
But the summary also said such a curriculum could better educate students and make going to school more of a community experience.
THE DEBATE was at a meeting of the core curriculum committee, a group studying the feasibility of setting up a core curriculum at KU, said Al Johnson, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Four KU professors on the committee took turns picking apart the pros and cons of a core curriculum. Two professors were assigned the 'pro' stance and two were assigned the 'con' position.
JIM CAROTHERS, an associate professor of English who was assigned the negative side of the debate, said that establishment of the curriculum could mean a loss of students at KU.
"Any radical change will discourage initial enrolments and encourage substantial substitutions to other institutions," Carothers said, according to the summary of the debate.
Carothes also said that a core curriculum would not differ greatly from the general requirements now available at Liberal of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
But Michael Young, associate professor of philosophy, said the
“AS I SEE it,” Young said, “a core curriculum has to be substantial to be worth doing.”
core curriculum could be an improvement if it was done right.
He said he envisioned a 25- to 30-hour core of classes, of which five to eight hours could be in the natural sciences.
Besides focusing on education, such a core curriculum could probe common human problems, he said, and educate people for a broader role as citizen.
Most students now are getting the basic requirements, but little harmony exists among the different courses, he said.
"I see it mainly as a restructuring and improvement of what students are already doing," he said.
THE CORE curriculum could provide that harmony. Young said.
He cited basic English composition courses as an example. The courses should be taught to apply to this form of writing just for composition's sake alone.
Subject matter for the whole curriculum should be interrelated, instead of applying only to individual classes, he said.
YOUNG SAID one of the biggest advantages of a core curriculum \*would be the common bond it would develop as to the University community.
"It would provide us with topics of conversation other than football and the weather," he said.
The push for a core curriculum at KU begin with the release last year of the Report on the Improvement of Undergraduate Education.
The report recommended, among other things, that the University provide its curriculum and a committee to study the possibility of such a program.
New funds increase work-study options
Additional work-study funding has been made available this semester for students who are eligible for the work-study program, Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said yesterday.
Rogers said his office received an additional $60,000 in federal work-study funds last week, which would fund 80 percent of the work-study awards for students, based on an average award of $1,000 for each eligible student.
The remaining 20 percent of the award is subsidized by each department's student employment budget, he said.
Bob Adams, associate dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences, said the work-study program was strong in recent departmental budget reductions.
"We're giving higher priority to work-study people." Adams said. "We are in a possibility that we will be giving additional work-study hours to students."
Rogers said the total amount of work-study funding for this academic year was now about $497,000, compared to $566,000 for the 1981-82 academic year.
Although this year's allocation is smaller than last year's, it's more than the $428,000 that was expected earlier this fall, based on federal estimates of the allocations for schools across the country. Rogers said
The federal government's change in the financial need formula earlier this summer made educational funds outweigh the reach of many students this fall.
Pam Houston, assistant director and coordinator of KU's student employment center, said her office had been working with students since the allocation arrived last week to determine their eligibility for work-study positions and to place them in available positions.
Houston said that many work-study positions still were available, and that it was not too late for students to apply for them.
Two professors recuperating from auto accidents last week
Two KU professors are recovering from injuries they suffered in separate traffic accidents last week, officials at two hospitals said yesterday.
Gordon Alley, professor of special education, was in critical condition last night at the University of Kansas Medical Center, a Med Center official said.
Also, an official at Lawrence Memorial Hospital said Don Stoll, associate professor of anthropology, was in satisfactory condition last night.
Drive when a car pulled out from 19th Street Terrace and hit him, police said.
Because of the severity or its near injuries, Alley was transported by Life Flight helicopter to the Med Center.
The automobile driver involved, an 18-year-old Lawrence High School student, was given a citation for failure field right of way, Lawrence police said.
Stull, 36, 940 Jana Drive, was injured in a two-car accident at the corner of 15th Street and Lawrence Avenue during a heavy rain Friday afternoon, police said. Hospital officials would not specify his injury.
Alley, 49, 2743 Alabama St., underneur neurosurgeon Thursday after he was struck by a car at 8 a.m. that day. Alley was riding a moped on Naismith
Police issued no citations.
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