THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.116 Tuesday, April 1, 1975
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KUAC by-laws labeled unfair
By JIM BATES
Knansan Staff Reporter
The newly revised by-laws of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation discriminate against men and non-men. The new rules according to Ed Rollins, student body president.
The new by-laws, which were approved at an athletic board meeting March 12, require the student membership on the board to include one woman and one minority person. There are four students on the 21 member board; the student body president, the chairman of the Student Senate sports committee, and two students appointed to two-year terms by the student body president.
Each new student body president appoints one new member to the board.
Rofs said Friday that he would attempt to change the by-inks at the KUAC meeting.
"I THINK this goes far beyond what Affirmative action really means," he said.
"I don't see how I, as student body president, can tell someone they can't apply for a position because of their sex or race," Rolfs said.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor and a member of the board, said he didn't know what his reaction would be if moves were made to repeal that section of the by-law.
"I don't believe in quotas either," Shankel said. "but I do believe in representation."
"I think there is a need for us to insure that all segments of the University community get some representation on the athletic board," he said.
There is a particular need for women on the board since women's athletics is making such headway at the University, Shankel said.
BONNIE RITTER PATTON, director of the office of Affirmative Action, said she thought the by-laws were in the spirit of Affirmative Action.
"It's definitely in compliance with the plan," she said, "and it's certainly not in
Patton said the by-laws to answer the Affirmative Action plan's call for "stronger protections for non-Hispanic women."
"I don't intend to do something that I don't consider legally or ethically correct," he said.
"The KUAC has shown itself to be a good bit ahead of many of its peer organizations on campus," she said.
Clifford D. Clark, former dean of the KU School of Business, has been appointed president of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. He has been acting president of SUNY-Binghamton since September.
Clark was dean of the School of Business at KU from 1968 to 1973. He is a graduate of KU and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago.
Rolfs said a failure to get the two-thirds vote necessary to change the by-laws could eventually lead to legal action.
Clark served on the faculty and administration of the New York University Graduate School of Business. He was research director of former Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's Workmen's Compensation Review Committee and consultant for the New York State Legislature.
The Affirmative Action plan forbids University organizations from transacting business with organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry, he said.
Only one of the nine people who have applied for the student KUAC position could be considered a minority, Rolfs said. He said he wanted to be free to appoint whomever he thought was most qualified.
SUNY selects Clark as head
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
ROLFS SAID he had objected to the bylaws when they were introduced at the March 12 meeting. He said he had read the board an HEW memo which said the use of quotas was illegal and beyond the bounds of Affirmative Action but had been told the memo was referring to matters of employment only.
"The question of whether the by-laws went beyond the bounds of Affirmative Action was never really addressed," Rolfs said.
Rolfs said he didn't think the new by-laws could be justified.
"No one I've talked to has been able to prove justification either legally or ethically." he said.
However, women and minorities must be represented on the ballot, he said.
The new bylaws also require one woman and one minority person among the six alumni members of the board, but there is no such requirement for the six faculty members on the board. This is because the faculty positions are elective rather than appointive. Shankel said.
Jauhawk relocated
Workmen lower a 1,000-pound Jayhawk bronze sculpture onto a concrete base in front of Strong Hall Monday. The sculpture, which was located in the underpass of the
Kansas Union, was a gift of the class of 1956. The Jayhawk was designed by Elden C.
Tefft, assistant professor of design.
Dance has been a way of life for Elizabeth Sherbon, who has been teaching dance at the University for the past 45 years. That way of life, which will come to an end this fall, is one of the many forms of dance offered in the studio.
Pay plan repeal possible
A bill to repeal a bi-weekly pay plan for state employees will be introduced in the Kansas Legislature this week, Fred Carman, reviser of statutes, said Monday.
The bi-weekly pay plan, which is to go into effect in September, allows state employees to be paid every other Friday rather than once a month. The plan was passed by the legislature last year, but met with opposition from state colleges and universities
because of the unnecessary costs and paperwork involved in implementing the
The Kansas Board of Regents, at the request of the University of Kansas, recommended that unclassified employees be exempted from the plan. Kansers have said. Affiliates said.
At a hearing Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee asked Carman to draft a bill to repeal the bi-weekly pay plan.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said the University would be "very pleased" if the repeal of the bi-weekly pay plan was enacted.
"We had two alternatives, really," Shankel said. "Either we'd need a lot more money to process the extra payroll, or we'd see the bill repealed."
"Repealing it would, in our view, save money that could be used for other things. We at the University will be very pleased if you allow the pay plan is passed by the legislature."
Bad check writers will be prosecuted
By BILL GRAY Kansan Staff Reporter
Because the bad check situation is getting worse, the county attorney's office will soon increase its prosecution of insufficient funds and no account checks.
There are many more such checks being turned over to the Douglas County Sheriff's office than ever before, David Berkowitz, Douglas County attorney, said last week.
The increase in the number of checks is an important reason for the increase in prosecuting, he said. A reorganization of the check prosecuting procedure by the sheriff's and county attorney's office is also an important reason for the prosecution increase, he said.
The county attorney's office has hired a special investigator to handle bad check cases. Berkowitz said. The investigator's job was made available through the federal government's emergency job program. The investigator was paid by the federal government, he said.
"If the investigator's job produces well,
and we're able to prosecute more check cases, then the government will probably do it.
Frances Kennedy, 25, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the local 45th Kansas legislative district, was hired two weeks ago as the investigator. Applications were received on Friday and days, Berkowitz said, and Kennedy was chosen from a final field of five candidates.
See BAD CHECKS page 6
Ron Hamilton, University comproller,
estimated in February that it will cost $121.44) to make the initial change to the bi-
bicide system and $89.44) annually to operate the system.
According to a survey conducted in February by the Office of Affirmative Action, more than half of the University's classified employees opposed the plan. The plan would double the paperwork requirement, employee intake, and the twelve sheets now kept.
The new bill, Carman said, would also provide for partial state funding of new employees' paychecks. New employees would receive 80 per cent of their first paycheck after four weeks' employment instead of after the present six-week delay.
Lewis gets lesser charge
A charge of aggravated battery against Steven Lewis, assistant professor of social welfare, was reduced in Douglas County Court Friday to a charge of battery.
Judge Mike Elwell also reduced Lewis'
bills to $10,000 to $200 and a set trial date
of 10.30am.
Lewis is charged with the battery on Feb. 5 of a Security and Parking patrolman,
William Morrill. Lewis reportedly argued with Morrill when he found Morrell ticketing his car in front of Twente Hall. Lewis then began to drive away, allegedly hitting
Lewis was arraigned on the lesser charge after Eilwil ruled that the state had failed to prove the degree of intent required for a charge of aggravated battery to be upheld.
Many bills pending as legislative session nears end
(Editor's Note: This is an analysis of actions taken in this session of the Kansas Legislature.)
By RICHARD PAXSON
Kansan Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-With only two weeks remaining in this session, many of the important issues that have come before the Kansas Legislature are still unresolved.
The House and Senate will attempt to deal with such controversial items as differential assessment of farm land, the creation of a state department of transportation and the financing of elementary and secondary education, before their planned adjournment on April 12. Both houses will reconvene a week later to give consideration to matters still pending before conference committees.
The legislature has taken final action so far on very few major pieces of legislation. The first major issue to confront legislators this session, whether charitable organizations should be allowed to conduct bingo games, was widely publicized and disposed of early in the session.
More than in recent times, this session has been notorious more for what it has decided not to do than
Next, amid a flurry of lobbying by temperance groups, the Senate refused to place on the 1976 general election ballot a constitutional amendment that would make it easier to decide whether they wanted liquor by the drink.
for what it has done. A proposal to cut state taxes, promoted by Democrats because of predictions that there will be a large surplus of state revenues at the federal level, would have housed both houses of the Republican-controlled legislature.
More recently, the House refused by a wide margin to approve a bill that would have restored the death penalty in the state for persons convicted of killing law enforcement officers and prison inmates. The Senate voted during crimes and prison inmates. The Senate, however, persists in consideration of the matter.
Some of the bills still before the legislature are fiscally important because they have effects on taxation. They are also politically important for representing the campaign platform of Republicn.gov, Gov. Robert E. Washington.
Debate about the funding of elementary and secondary education will probably take much of.
the House's time this week. At issue is Senate Bill 480 which sets the funding formula, including the amount of state aid, for local school districts.
In an unusual twist, the funding of elementary and secondary education has become an issue in the funding of higher education. Controversy over the bill may threaten the proposed 10 per cent faculty salary increase at the state colleges and universities.
Both Bennett and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes predicted last week that legislators who weren't especially interested in higher education might challenge the pay increase if they didn't get what they wanted on elementary and secondary education finance. What they want is an increase in college fees, which to the increase given the state colleges and universities, an increase they say the bill doesn't provide.
House Minority Leader Pete Loux of Wichita said last week that the full house probably won't consider the recommendations of the House Ways and Means Committee on the University of Kansas budget until next week. The committee has recommended the salary increase and a 15 per cent
increase in operating expenses for the state colleges and universities.
Senate President Richard Rogers, R-Manhattan,
has said the Senate will probably debate the bill
A bill that would change the basis for tax assessment of farm land from its market value to its ability to produce income has already been passed. The new Law will encourage Corporate Assessment and Taxation Committee, Friday.
The bill provides for a constitutional amendment to be placed on the 1976 general election ballot. The amendment would change that section of the Kansas Constitution that requires that all land must be assessed for taxation purposes on the same basis, and thus allow "differential assessment."
The House and Senate have passed widely differing bills that provide for reorganizing the State
The concept of differential assessment has caused a break in party lines and a division between rural and urban legislators. The proposal would almost certainly reduce farm taxes and shift more of the burden for the support of state government onto urban areas.
Highway Department into a Department of Transportation. The conflict centers on who should have ultimate authority in making the state's highway policy, including the location of new roads.
The original bill, which was favored by Bennett, would have created a six-member highway commission that would act as an advisory group to the newly created Secretary of transportation. The secretary would have final authority in all policy matters.
Rural legislators expressed fears that the commission and the secretary, who would be appointed by the governor, would be dominated by urban residents. They say, would be new highways in rural areas.
When the Senate passed its version of the bill, it enlarged the size of the commission to 12 to increase rural representation, but it didn't concur in the House's major change in the original bill. That change was to give the commission final authority on all policy matters.
A conference committee has been appointed to work out the differences between the bills. The committee's report is expected next week.