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Tuesday, May 6, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Affirmative Action course strewn.
From Page One
Most administrators, although dissatisfied with affirmative action red tape, said they wanted to help further the cause. The team been haranged by their sex or race.
Charles Sidman, chairman of the department of history, is one who has tried to remain antibureacratic in the face of University paperwork.
"We followed the guidelines the University had established," he said. "I find them in a way fortunate because I don't have a consciousness of bias one would like to be aware of, or, more religion, sex— these things shouldn't make any difference.
"Sometimes in trying to observe the legal aspects we lose the spirit."
The legal requirements include that University-wide goals and timetables for affirmative action progress be created. The Board of Trustees and Goals and Timetables" report was made in
1973-74. It compared the number of women and men employed by all buturgatory hospitals in the city.
In that report, which used admittedly sketchy national information, more than 60 per cent of all University job categories fell short of the national averages. Among the few units in line with national availability were the Office of Admissions, the department of Oriental languages and literature and the department of African studies.
Bonnie Ritter Patton, director of the Office of Affirmative Action, said there could have been several extinguish circumstances to explain the shortcomings. She pointed to the department goals for the situation as an indicator that the situation should improve.
To make sure that improvement comes, the office is working on a computerized program to annually determine utilization of women and minorities.
However, in trying to increase the number of women and minorities, the university leaders tried to transform them to KU. Charles Kiesler, chairman of the department of psychology,
estimated that it took $2,000 to $4,000 more to hire a black than to hire a white male because blacks are in a seller's market. Nichols agreed.
"We lost a number of minority people who have gone to other universities with higher salaries," he said. "To get a qualified black person you may have to pay more than you would for a white person. That's reverse discrimination."
Another problem was mentioned by Earl Nehring, the chairman of the department of political science, who said he had talked to blacks who preferred to go to a school where they would have a wider range of black associates.
Women also present special problems. They, like minorities, are in limited supply and they frequently have husbands who also need employment.
A revision of the plan is now under way. According to Vicki Hlamer, the former affirmative action director, the trend is toward tightening the plan. The revisions have been made to the search searches are conducted, the addition of an affirmative action plan for the mentally and
physically handicapped and stopping in-
patient that discriminate because of propto-
ses.
. .
The revisions committee is also considering several sections of the plan that have been dormant since its beginning. Such sections include the formation of an undergraduate women's advisory unit that was canceled after no one showed up for an organizational meeting, provisions for organizations to conduct programs and the office of a Contract Compliance Officer which has never been filled.
Hamer predicted the revisions would be completed before the start of the next school
Regardless of what changes might be made in the plan, affirmative action will continue to face obstacles. As Robert Cobb, acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Missouri, would be done until the Office of Affirmative Action disappears for lack of business.
"Affirmative action will be a way of life when the Office of Affirmative Action administers the program."
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