AWS president on rules changes
(Editors' Note: New AWS regulations affecting junior and senior women go into effect at 11:30 p.m. today, Cindy Hardin, president of the AWS, takes this opportunity to explain the new regulations and the ideas behind them.)
Last spring in a regulations convention held in March at which every women's living group on campus was represented, the women of KU expressed their desire for a program in which junior and senior women could enter or leave their living groups at their own discretion.
The AWS regulations as amended and approved by the AWS Senate and the Council on Student Affairs last spring require only that a "junior or senior woman who leaves or returns to her living group after security hours shall sign out and in personally." The sign-out procedures, the system of cards or keys and the administration of the program are left entirely to the living group.
THIS NEW regulations program places increased responsibility upon the individual and the living unit, as each group must design its own program which will best satisfy the needs of its individual members as well as the group as a whole.
These plans formulated by each women's living group on campus have been submitted to the AWS Regulations Advisory Committee which is now in the process of reviewing them. The committee will carefully consider each program, offer suggestions for improvements and recommend the completed programs to the dean of women for approval. After approval of the dean of women, the programs will be ready to be put into effect.
SOME GROUPS have been working for many months on their proposed regulations programs and have them nearly completed. These groups will not be penalized by other living units who are slower to submit their plans, but will be able to start functioning under the new system as soon as approval is obtained.
Just as the main responsibility of formulating a program has been left with the individual living unit, so has the regulation of these programs. Groups dealing with the regulations programs within the individual living groups are encouraged by the AWS Board of Standards to handle any problems involved with the administration of the programs.
AS THESE NEW regulations go into effect this fall, the philosophy governing them is also undergoing a revision. As the term "security hours" implies (which has now replaced the formerly used "elosing hours"), the university's principal concern is for the security of the living unit itself. This places an added responsibility upon each woman for her roommates and neighbors, and on each living group for its members. The 1966-67 AWS regulations for women, then, stress the maturity and responsibility of the KU women.
Cindy Hardin AWS president
"Both Sides All Ready?"
To the editor:
The people say.
As residents of Oliver Hall, we were deeply concerned about the extremely misleading account in the UDK of the events which took place here Wednesday night.
The primary issue which concerns us is the article's intimation that the women of Oliver Hall, Centennial College in particular, not only instigated, but pre-planned said "panty raid." In reality, the entire affair was completely spontaneous and arose from mutual hillside curiosity toward the fanfare of blinking lights (the origin of which remains unknown) between the various dormitories.
IT REMAINED unmentioned in the UDK account that the students dispers immediately upon instructions from the authorities and before closing hours.
The article made some confusing statements (in the first two sentences) concerning meetings among CC students at Oliver Hall. There was, in fact, a meeting of representatives of the entire hall, but only after the incident. Obviously, some of these people were members of CC as these students occupy three of the seven floors involved. We feel that the UDK's article implied that CC staged the affair. Mentioning Centennial College in this manner insinuates that this fine program may in some way be to blame.
WE WOULD LIKE to thank the reporters of the UDK, however, for not indulging in the farfrom-credible reporting done by certain Topeka news agencies. For example, the account that flashed news of an exotic dancer having performed on Oliver Hall's tenth floor window ledge.
Halina Pawl
Topeka freshman
To the editor:
My counselor tells me it just isn't worth it to play the "rebel" role at Kansas University. The truth of the matter is that the men of Ellsworth, for the most part, wish to play no such role. But while the administration and dormitory director allow and encourage a Wednesday night funfest to be blown up ridiculously out of proportion, it is easy for the men of Ellsworth to appear as if they wanted trouble.
From this point on, any trouble or serious repercussions stemming from the single harmless incident which took place Wednesday night may be almost directly attributed to the poor moves made on the part of the director of dormitories and the school administration. The campus traffic security officers were not needed at Oliver Wednesday. After all, it was after women's hours and all the officers had to keep in mind was the fact that most of the women at Oliver would have classes the next morning and would have to wear something. They couldn't keep throwing garments all night long, could they?
Fortunately this minor incident isn't a serious repercussion, but it is hoped that school administration will assume the student's role just once, in two respects: by playing it a little cooler, perhaps, and by learning the lesson well.
John H. Willing
Omaha, Neb.
freshman
Daily Kansan Wednesday, October 5, 1966
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"BY THE WAY, ED. SOME OF TH' PROFS AROUND HERE ARE REAL, STRICT ABOUT CLASS ATTENDANCE."
At other schools...
THE KENTUCKY KERNEL reports that the Interfraternity Council of the University of Kentucky has reversed a week-old ruling that fraternities cannot serve alcoholic beverages to rushees outside their chapter houses.
Although the IFC president wanted to let the ban stand, it was voted down by the IFC members. The ban had been put into effect only one week before. The reversal of the ban on drinking outside houses does not change the rule on alcohol inside the houses—it is still prohibited.
THE IOWA STATE DAILY reports a change in women's key rules at Iowa State. Senior and 21-year-old women will no longer be required to return key cards by 6:30 a.m.; keys may be checked out for the entire quarter instead of daily.
Under the old rules, women had to check keys out between 8 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. and had to check them in by 6:30 a.m.
The committee which passed the new rules was composed of five students and five faculty members.
THE IOWA STATE DAILY also reports that a proposed mealtime dress policy for a men's residence association at Iowa State has been rejected.
The code would have required men to wear shoes (not sandals), long pants or dress bermudas and sportshirts or sweatshirts at meals. It would have prohibited cutoff shorts and cutoff shirts.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM of West Virginia University reports a 10-student committee has been appointed by the school's administration to formulate a code of conduct for the university community.
The committee is to act as a central coordinating group in the study of disciplinary processes and regulations. Its work will include discussions of academic freedom, conduct outside the classroom with regard to honesty and morality, the drug problem, civil violations and civil disobedience.
THE CRIMSON-WHITE of the University of Alabama reports that the first Negro to go through sorority rush at the university found the experience "exciting."
Although she did not receive any sorority bids, the woman said, "I didn't feel inferior or anything like that . . . just like one of the other rushees."
A man at the University of Oregon placed a want ad in the OREGON EMERALD to find an ideal date.
The ad: "Superintelligent, unbelievably beautiful superfemale who deserves to make me the center of her universe. To be native of earth, unnecessary; however, must be English-speaking humanoid. 746-4939 between 11:50 p.m. and 12 p.m. this evening."
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