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Thursday, May 1, 1975
University Daily Kansan
CPA elects officers, okays name change
New officers were elected to the board of directors of the Consumer Protection Association (CPA) at its annual meeting in New York City. The officers were approved by the CPA membership.
The group also overwhelmingly approved a proposed name change. Consumer Affairs Association will legally become the CPA's name in about 60 days.
Sue Smiley, 518 Fireside Drive, was elected president of the CPA Board of Directors. Ken Dodson, first-year law student, was elected secretary and Roger Bielefeld, Lawrence graduate student, was elected treasurer.
Karen Blank, Wichita junior, Ann Yettman, wife of Norman Yettman, associate professor of sociology, Gerry Little, said that she was approved as CPA board members.
Carol Boone, CPA director, told the members that a record number of cases
were handled by the CPA during the past year of operation, and that she thought both the University and the community were becoming more aware of the services available through the Consumer Protection Association.
Boone said the CPA had saved the Lawrence community, including University of Kansas students, over $18,500 since the CPA began operation three years ago.
Boone gave a statistical breakdown of the cases handled by the CPA, pointing out that the largest single block of cases handled dealt with landlord-tenant problems. Landlord-tenant cases make up about 25 percent of the CPA's 150 cases, she said.
In the past year, the CPA has also started the "Consumer Advocate" series on Sunflower Cablevision, sponsored the Consumer Forum, worked with the Consumer Affairs and sponsored several radio shows carried on three stations, Boone said.
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Mever's letter suggested that the power over publications should be eliminated rather than transferred. It said the board wasowerless to enforce any guidelines.
The Senate extended the life of the Commission on Classroom Teaching and allocated $750 to the commission for a research assistant. The commission already has received $750 from the University administration.
The commission, which was originally proposed, now has no until it must make its final report.
CHRISE ILFEF, COMMISSION chairman,
submitted a report on the commission's
activities, to date and read a list of
preliminary proposals.
Proposals included increasing the salaries of all award-winning teachers, abolishing the Chancellor's Teaching Awards, mandatory training courses for teaching assistants and assistant instructors, and all symposium on classroom teaching.
Hiff said the commission had interviewed deans, department chairmen and past winners of teaching awards as well as surveying University faculty members.
The survey showed that a substantial percentage of the faculty think research has been more important than teaching both in the departments and in the University as a result, even vast majority of faculty members thought teaching was inadequately rewarded.
A bill to create a special Minority Affairs subcommittee was sent to the Student Rights and Responsibilities Committee. Tedde Tasheff, committee chairman, suggested that the bill be sent to committee after debate as to whether it would be better to create a standing Minority Affairs Committee.
THE SENATE ALLOCATED $4,903 from its contingency fee in addition to the $750 allocated to the Commission on Classroom Teaching.
A total of $2,943 was allocated to People's Yellow Pages, a free informational guide published by the BKU Information Center. The committee also received Auditing Committee, said the committee had considered the book worth funding during the Senate budget hearings, but had decided to refer the matter to the Senate for a possible lack of funding for the guide.
Senators were told that the book could be
financed through advertising but that the book's unique aspect would destroy the book's uniqueness.
The Senate also allocated $1,150 to itself for purchase of an electric stencil maker. According to Tom Curzon, Senate executive secretary, the machine will enable the machine to save money and to make more elaborate stencils than in the past.
The Senate also sent a petition to Del Shankel, executive vice chairwoman, asking him not to make a decision regarding the closing of the Hawkett in Summerfield Hall until student groups could review alternatives and make recommendations.
Mark Bennett, Tupake junior, who submitted the petition, said he hadn't even heard about the proposal in the Kansan. He said there needed to be more student input.
The Office of Affirmative Action wants to become more directly involved in helping search committees fill vacant University positions. The Office of Affirmative Action, said Wednesday,
In a plan still under study, the Affirmative Action office has considered providing a set of nondiscriminatory hiring practice guidelines to search committees to be followed from the time the position is filled until the position is filled, Pattern said.
Affirmative Action would also provide information about previous search procedures and possible violations to avoid, she said.
Search group guides proposed
The task of filling vacant administrative and academic department positions could be facilitated if search committees were formed, in which case the procedures at the outset of the search, Patton said. Members of search committees are frequently unaware that discriminatory violations exist in the job market. When consideringizations of job candidates, she said.
Affirmative Action intends to make committees aware of possible violations before they occur, thus avoiding procedure delays to correct the violation. Patton said.
She said that search committees should know how to conduct a legitimate hiring procedure in order to avoid violations which cause unnecessary delays.
In response to allegations that Affirmative Action appraisals of hiring practices often delay the hiring procedure, caution says they delay is not caused by Affirmative Action involvement, but because of a lack of Affirmative Action involvement."
Patton described the present role of Affirmative Action in search procedures as somewhat passive because the office wasn't there until there was a procedure violation.
Present hiring procedures require each search committee to submit a copy of the job qualifications to Affirmative Action before the vacant position is advertised. Qualifications must be nondiscriminatory, and the search must include an adequate
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The composition of search committee also is under consideration in the formulation of the Affirmative Action plan, Patton said. Women and minority groups should be represented on each search committee to further assure non-discriminatory procedures during the search, she said.
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