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Vol.87 No.43
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, October 21, 1976
Uneven path
Kansas turnipkie median. These two maintenance men were about 10 miles west of Lawrence yesterday morning, inching their way to Topeka.
By JERRY SEIB
KU acts to comply with Title IX rules
It's a long road from Lawrence to Topeka, especially for those who mow the
Staff Writer
The University of Kansas has begun to make the changes recommended this summer to bring the University into compliance with Federal Title IX regulations banning sex discrimination.
Some of the minor changes suggested in the University's self-evaluation report released in July have been made. There will no longer be requests for marital status information on applications for admission to KU programs, for example, and Delaware residents required to perform a task for sex on bias called by the report.
In most cases, however, work has only begun in making the changes the report orders to eliminate discrimination in employment, admissions and the treatment of students. Shankel said last night that he had sent letters to all vice chancellors and deans required to make changes.
THE SELF-EVALUATION report was the work of a Title IX Steering Committee that examined conditions on the Lawrence and Kansas City, Kan., campuses, KU, like all institutions that receive federal funds, was required to make such a report and eliminate them. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) funds.
Here are the major recommendations of the report and the progress that Shanker said had been made so
*Create a task force to expose traditional stereotypes in career opportunities. Shankel said he expected to finish forming the committee within two weeks. It will, he said, "examine how various operations of the University might now contribute to sexual stereotyping."
- Discount requests for marital status on admission information. Shankel said that the general admission application had already met this requirement, but that some departments' forms required it. All departments and the Division of Continuing Education have eliminated marital status questions.
Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, confirmed that the law school, which was only recently not in compliance, had changed its admission forms to meet the requirement.
- Request the director of the University Counseling Center to identify and eliminate scholarship test questions that discriminate on the basis of sex and race.
- The School of Education, is the official administering group for all tests for competitive KU scholarships. Shankel did not know what changes had been made.
Richard Rundquist, director of the center, said his office was examining implications of the report but was not ready to release the findings.
*Instruct the vice chancellor for student affairs to devise a solution to correct current inequities between men's and women's scholarship halls. There is more money to operate women's than men's halls but this is not always the case, so a result in the differences in the sizes of the wills and bequests that had formed the scholarship halls.
Don Alderson, vice chancellor for student affairs,
did a committee of students and members of his study
group. They had six members who were discrepancies.
The group will make a report to him.
Alderson said, and the report will be passed on to
Mary Kunzler.
- **Instruct the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to review the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program to insure that it doesn't discriminate.**
- **Instruct the Dean of the College, to begin the investigation.**
- **Instruct the vice chancellor for student affairs to analyze single sex organizations, such as honorary societies, to determine whether assistance given by the university is appropriate to an organization subject to Title IX regulations.** Alderson said a committee of members of his office staff, formed earlier this month, were beginning to study single
KU-MU game in KC opposed by Senate
See TITLE IX page three
By CAROL HOCHSCHEID
The Student Senate passed a resolution last night expressing opposition to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation's (KUAC) proposal to hold the annual football game between the University of Kansas and Stadium of Missouri at Arrowhead Stadium
KUAC is looking into the possibility of holding the game in Kansas City, Mo., beginning next season, and offering students the option of buying a ticket for the MU game when student season tickets are bought.
The five home games would still be included on the regular 1977 football season ticket, and the price for that ticket wouldn't be reduced, Jill Grubaugh, chairman of the Senate Sports Committee, said last night. A single eight game replace would the MU game.
AN EXACT PRICE for the proposed MU game ticket hasn't been set. But Grubbaugh said, a $5 charge in addition to the cost of the regular season ticket was a possibility.
Grubbaub said that Clyde Walker, athletic director, had told her that a separate student ticket would double the KUAC profit for the MU game.
At this time, MU is against the proposal,
but the committee has until Dec. 1 to
give aid.
The Senate resolution cited additional costs to students and a loss of spirit for the
University athletic program as reasons for apposing the move to Arrowhead.
IN OTHER legislation, the Senate voted to
increase the number that represent
organizations living overseas.
The Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee recommended that the University be held by the presidents of the Association of University Residence Halls, the Pannellinic Association, the Interfraternity Council and the All Scholarship Hall
Steve McMurry, chairman of the committee, said it was inconsistent to have only four senators, indirectly elected, representing living groups, when the rest of the Senate was elected on the basis of academic representation.
"YOULL ARBTRARILLY wipe out the primary source of communication between the Student Senate and about one-half of the faculty," said the president of the Interfraternity Council, said.
Twenty per cent of all representatives from Nunemaker College must now be elected in the fifth week of the fall semester from the freshman class.
Two bills were passed to clarify fall election procedures and the selection of candidates.
A resolution prohibiting smoking in the Senate meeting room was passed after a meeting of the Senate.
Local debate raises issues,ire
Staff Writer
Five local political candidates waged political skirmishes against one another last night in a debate at the Kansas Union.
About 80 people attended the two-part debate. Taking part in the first part were Mike Glover, Democratic state representative from the 44th district, his Republican opponent, Nancy Hambleton, his American party opponent, Tom Horn.
The second part was a debate between State Sen. Arden Booth and his Republican opponent for the 22nd district seat, Arnold Berman.
THE KANAS budget surplus, the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed medium security prison in Kansas, post-secondary education, nuclear power and morality were the major issues discussed by the candidates for the 44th district.
Before the first debate, Hart told the audience that he intended to make the debate lively. He seemed to live up to his promise as the antagonist throughout the debate.
He replied to a question about the surplus in the state budget by ignoring it and then saying, "I will work to take a book for every law I put on the books."
Glover and Hambleton were more specific.
GLOVER SAID that the state legislature should be held accountable for all of the money it spent to insure that people receive money to benefit the people who needed it.
Hambleton said she didn't think it would be possible to return state surplus money to taxpayers in the form of a tax relief package suggested. Instead, she said, she would support the use of the money for improvement system and the new unified court system.
When the E.R.A. issue was raised, Hart said, "I am opposed to the E.R.A. because it takes away the right of the candidate to determination and gives it a federal base.
"I AM OPPOSED to abortion on demand, but not when the mother's life is at stake. When I go to Topeka in January, I will work for recension of the E.R.A." Glover said he supported the E.R.A. credit rating to supports his arguments.
"Women have done just as much to earn that credit rating even though the husband has the job," he said.
Hambleton said she supported the E.R.A. but she thought many people didn't understand the spirit of the law. She said that even with the E.R.A., many
women still faced discrimination because the law wasn't understood.
If you're looking for a job and you're discriminated against of you you're looking for a house and you discriminated in that issue. You're up to that issue a year later," she said.
ALL THREE candidates supported, for different reasons, the building of a new medium security prison in Kansas.
They all pointed to their experience as reasons for voters to elect them.
He said, "I obey the law I respect. I have no respect for that law and it doesn't have any business on the books."
Glover received negative reaction from some members of the audience when he commented on Kansas marijuana law. He said that although he was a lawyer, that didn't mean he obeyed all of the laws.
In their debate, Booth and Berman disagreed on every issue ranging from taxes to voter apathy.
TWO ISSUES they discussed in detail were the rights of citizens vs. the rights of utility companies, and the amount of experience each had in community afairs.
A utility consumer bill of rights adopted in Missouri that prohibits security deposits and fines for late payments unless the person is a bad
credit risk isn't needed in Kansas, Booth said.
He said he wouldn't be interested in introducing a similar bill of rights because he thought the industry was regulated well now.
Berman, however, said it was time to protest against the utility companies.
"IF WE GIVE them that money why shouldn't we be getting interest on it?" be said.
Berman said that his training as a lawyer and an engineer was needed in Topena legislature. He also said he was responsible to vote needs than was his opponent.
Booth defended himself by stating what he called Berman's lack of service to the community.
Booth said that his record in community affairs was good and spoke for itself
He said, "We had not met, we had not crossed paths until we became political opponents."
THE DEBATE ended with questions from the audience. The questions were heated, as each candidate defended his or her case and made accusations about one another.
When Booth accused Glover of having talked to the same people every week about community problems, Glover had been told by a lawyer, Arden Wood, that Arden Wood, a total fabricated lie.
Meditation gives prisoners mental freedom, relief
Pententiary karma
Samuel Posenik, third from left, leads a group of Leavenworth
Photo by GAIL SMITH
Federal Penitentiary inmates in a meditation exercise. Pesnik, an inmate, has taught meditation at several prisons.
By MARILYN HAYES
Staff Writer
It was a cold and rainy day. The sky was gray and Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary looked even more austere and unapproachable than my preconceived notions -notions derived from Truman and Dagwood shots of prison rioters and grim bearsay.
After passing inspection, I was led through big white gates with signs that read "Danger. Stay clear of sliding gates." The door closed behind me and I found myself "inside."
At that moment I felt like running home with my fears and stereotypes. What assertiveness I had with me was beginning to fade, as were my desires to write a story about the Leavenworth prison meditation program.
"A jail is this immense material world. Across each room stands a stone enemy. It will fight."
But, before we could have second thoughts, we were ushered to a "reel" room and I soon found myself sitting on a wool blanket in a pseudo-Luston position. Around me sat six men, all with their eyes closed and all with thoughtful and serene expressions.
"My mind is free from every thought,
"Listen, listen, listen to my heart song. I will never forget you. I will never forsake you . . ."
Nothing in the myriad realms can move it." Han Shan
The quiet soon ended and the sounds of conga drums, a tambourine and chants
The chants were followed by the "omen" in which the men joined hands and did ill.
Isaia Prima (meaning one who seeks the supreme goal), one of the students, said he was a graduate. “I love working in this space.”
"I start with myself here, then lift myself from my immediate environment to the state of Kansas, to the United States, to the world, to the universe," he said.
The prisoners had various reasons for meditating, but the reasons all centered on escaping—putting their minds in a place other than prison.
"I'm never in prison in my mind," he
said. "My physical thing is in prison, but my
mind."
Most of the prisoners who were interviewed preferred to be identified by their spiritual names. Others are identified by their first names only.
Istha Prima also said he thought of beaches, the sounds of the ocean and how the sun felt. Imagination plays a great part in meditation. he said.
"Locked in jail, with a jail—my mind is still free." George Jackson.
Othab, another meditation student, said he learned yoga on the street from a lady in New York.
"She had a little studio in New York City called the Broadway and I used to go to
"Meditation does help me to relax just in case I do have a problem. I can sit here and meditate and relax my mind. I can control my world."
"The clear water sparkles like crystal, You can through it easily right to the bottom."
"I spent two years in solitary confinement and got into meditation then," Juj Kumar (meaning victory prince) said. He has had 24 hours to yourself and I just automatically fell into it.
"When I meditate, I think of freedom, of being completely free. I'd like to leave my body here and lift my mind into higher places, get into the subconscious."
"Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor from bars a cage." Richard Lovelace, Ravi (meaning one who bears the truth and light), another student, said he had been practically mediation for about nine years.
I don't think when I meditate," he said
See MEDITATION page three