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KUAC questions role in merger
By BARBARA JENSEN Staff Reporter
Members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board expressed concern in yesterday's meeting about the impact of the women's athletic programs on the men's and women's athletic programs.
Under the merger, which Chancellor Archie D. Rykes said probably would be approved within a week, the board would be reduced from 21 to 15 members.
Elizabeth Banks, KUAC board member,
said the by-laws of the corporation stated
that the board was policy-making and
not just an advisory board.
"I almost feel like something is trying to be slipped in on someone," she said.
At a March 5 meeting of the women's advisory board, Dykes had emphasized that the new KUAC board would be strictly advisory.
"THE BOARD HAS always been advisory," Dykes, who has ultimate authority over KUAC board decisions, told members of the board yesterday. "It is more of an issue now because under Title 10, University is mandated to do certain things. The RUAC board exists because the University permits it to exist."
Title IX states that equitable athletic opportunity must be provided to members of both sexes. An institution risks losing funding if it does not comply with Title IX.
Dykes said the KUAC board had no legal
authority, and for that reason it was necessary for it to remain advisory. If a suit was brought against the University because of TITLE IX, the chancellor, not KUAC, would be legally responsible, Dykes said.
"THERE'S REALLY no need for much change," Dykes said, "except for the ambiguity in the language of the by-laws."
"It is not required that the women's advisory board be consulted." Shankel said. "After theATER, their board goes into existence and this one is restructured."
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said the women's advisory board was an ad
hoc board that had never been officially
recognized by the chancellor.
Bob Marcum, director of men's athletics, said he had suggested the reduction in board members as part of the restructuring of the board. He said one reason he suggested the reduction was that Big Eight schools had smaller boards.
But Gerhard Zuther, KUAC board man, disagreed with Marcu's rumors.
"TD LIE TO be shown that there is something cumbersome in the number of members on the board," he said. "Saying that other schools had problems with such a large board is not a good enough reason to reduce this one."
In other discussion, Dykes said even though he would probably approve the
"We're going to make a commitment to proceed with the merger," he said, "but we need to talk about it."
merger within the next week, detaux would be worked out later.
Mike Harper, former student body president and KUAC board member, asked Shankel if dissatisfaction about the merger expressed by staff members of the women's athletic department had been settled.
SHANKEL SAID not all the problems had been settled, but that "progress was good."
"We're hoping that the word will give us additional funding," he said. "But salaries will not be equal nor based solely on merit." He added that the program enables us to make continued progress.
Banks said she was concerned that there had not been meetings between the men's and women's departments when budgets were determined for fiscal 1979-40.
"The only thing I care about is that things be equitable," she said, "but the men are not equal."
Shankel said he had advised Marcum not to combine men's and women's athletic budgets until he had control over both departments because there could be some differences. But the merger, Marcum will be director of men's and women's intercollegiate athletics.
BOARD MEMBERS approved a
$3,840,610 KLIA budget for fiscal 1979-80.
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scholarships from the Williams Educational Fund.
Under a five-year William's Fund program, women's athletics are to receive $100,000 in scholarship funds for 1979-80 and $130,000 the following year.
Banks moved to increase that amount to $278,130, which is the full amount allowed under guidelines of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. The schools are provided for one-half of the scholarships for out-of-state tuition and the remaining in state.
"The men's athletics have been highly subsidized by students," Banks said, and "women have contributed to that in past years. I also like to point out that the team has allowed to raise funds on a large scale and on the Williams Fund for scholarships."
"WE'RE SERVING men's athletics right now, not the women," Sam Evans, a board member, said. "If I serve on the board after the merger, I will support 100 percent. But I think this is an irresponsible motion."
But board members voted to table the motion.
Dykes said that under Title IX, KU would be required to fund university's athletics at the full AIAW scholarship level.
"I haven't the slightest notion where the money will come from," he said, "but it will have to come from somewhere else we have $3 million in federal funds."
Bee abode converted to storage
By DAVID SIMPSON
Staff Reporter
After 17 years of bees and waipes, the old schoolhouse on the corner of waipes and 22rd streets will be getting some new occupants soon.
The schoolhouse has been used by the entomology department for experiments and research. As the last insects are moved out to a new location, building will be taken over by Recreation Services to use for storage, Tom Wilkerson, of Recreation Services, said Monday.
Wilkerson said that although there were no concrete plans for using the space for anything but storage, Recreation Services would look into other uses for the building.
"We'll be looking into using the building for possibly a locker room area for visiting soccer, rugby and cricket teams." Wilkerson said. "Other uses might be a service area, with restroom available, or a concession area."
"It would take quite a bit of work to clean up the building but it is structurally sound." Perkins said. "The roof is only three to four meters old and the upper level floor is 'sound.'"
Funds for preparing the building for Recreation Services will come from the Recreation Services capital improvements Fund Student Senate funds Recreation Services.
Richard Perkins, director of plant maintenance, said that much special lighting and air conditioning work for the entomology department's experiments had been done a few years ago, but that it would not be difficult to change the systems.
Rodger Oroke, director of Facilities Operations, said he questioned the use of the
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building for anything more than storage space.
"The building's pretty much a mess," Oroke said. "The appearance, especially the exterior wood trim, needs a lot of work." Oroke also said that if interior remodeling were needed, he did not know when it could be done.
"We couldn't have any remodeling work done out there by next fall because our crews are so snowed under now," Oroke said.
Charles Micheen, professor of entomology, said his department had moved out of the building because the University made two trailer buildings available for the department's use near the Botany Research Center on the West Campus.
"We're very happy we're moving"
Michele said. We had two floors in the
building.
Michener said most bee and wasp experiments were conducted in the spring and summer. Each spring he and his students go to the field to catch new species for experiments, he said.
Michener said entomology department students and faculty had removed all of the bees from the building and there would be no more bees to the remaining wasps in the next few weeks.
"The wasps are in cardboard boxes with transparent windows," he said. "There is only one room in the building where wasps are good, big ones, and will be easy to catch."
usable. The new buildings are are conditioned and we're not by the dusty streets."
"There are 20,000 kinds of bees and we is always trying to catch new species," he said. "We learn most by comparing different species."
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Michener said there was little chance of getting stung on the bee huns because the bees caught were not colonial and lived in small groups.
"The honey and humble bees are aggressive because they have honey and it must be defended," Michener said. Most other species of bees have no honey reserves and have not developed aggressiveness because there is nothing to protect, he said.
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Arson suspected in fires
Arson is suspected in two fires that caused a total of $600 damage early yesterday to Stephenph Schoolship Hall, 1441 Alumni University and Kappa Alpha fraternity, 2000 Stewart Ave.
According to Jim West, Stephenson proctor, a rolled-up newspaper was placed between a screen door and a solid wood door on a screen. He said the fire occurred about 3 a.m.
KU police and Lawrence fire officials are investigating the incident.
The screen door was destroyed and the wood door was badly damaged, West said. KU Police Chief Mike Hill said there were no suspects.
The second fire occurred at the Pt Kappa Alpha fraternity at 3:30 a.m. yesterday.
Brian Greenlee, a house officer, said a 1932 model fire truck owned by the fraternity was set on fire. He said fire officials told him that the fire was extinguished. Greenlee estimated the damage at $500.
Debaters go to nationals
Armed with 20 briefcases of evidence, two debate teams from the University of Kansas will travel April 20-23 to the University of Louisville to compete in the quinte at the National Debate Tournament.
Only 16 of the approximately 1,400 teams in the nation were invited on this basis.
The other KU team of Tim Dollar, Raytown, Mo., sophomore, and Paul Johnson, Denver sophomore, qualified for the tournament at a district meet in Emporia.
Stevie Griffin, Lawrence senior, and Kevin Fowler, Leavenworth senior, were invited to the national tournament because of their debate record for the year.
Sixty teams will compete at the nation's tournament. The topic this year is Resolved to provide federal government opportunities to all U.S. citizens in the labor force.
KU history students print first edition of magazine
A semiannual magazine about history, which includes work by KU students, published its first issue at the University of Kansas last week.
Historicus: A Journal of History is the result of five months of labor by doctoral students in KU's department of history. The editorial board is composed of KU students.
The magazine is an attempt to bridge the gap between professional, scholarly journals and student magazines. Raymond J. Reynolds is a graduate student and editor of the magazine, good for students.
He said it often was difficult for students to get their work published in professional
journals because those journals preferred the work of established scholars.
Historicus solicited the work of doctoral students from 30 colleges and universities across the United States for its first issue of *The Doctoral Review*, from any doctoral student for additional issues.
The magazine, which cost $430 to start, is funded by the Graduate Student Council, the Graduate Association for Studies of History grant from the KU department of history.
Raymond said he also hoped to fund the magazine through subscriptions, which are $10 for institutions and libraries, $6 for individuals and $4 for students.
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