THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
BLAZING
Vol. 87, No. 154
Old stone houses holding their own
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, July 5, 1977
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Changes in sororities' rush recommended
By PEGGY SPENCER
Staff Writer
Although University of Kansas sororites don't openly practice discrimination, their membership rush program may have the effects of discrimination by discouraging minority participation in sororites, or by making them less likely to join.
Hobart Jackson, chairman of the University Senate Human Relations committee, said the committee conducted a series of hearings last spring with sorcity representatives to determine if any changes in rush procedures could be made to avoid a discrimination problem in the future.
HIS REMARKS FOLLOWED a release last week of committee's recommendations to agencies陆续发布。
The committee's recommendations call for changes in the manner in which rush is conducted.
Jackson said that when, where and how the information about membership drives was distributed had the effect of omitting potential minority membership.
He said the information programs conducted by the Panhellenic Association prior to rush avoided the residence halls on Daisy Hill, an area where many minority students live.
Jackson said most sorority activity centers on GSP and Corbin Halls.
However, Mary Turnay, Panhellenic membership chairman, said that the sorbites had made an increased effort to reach the residence halls on Daisy Hill.
"WE HAVE FOCUSED mostly on GSP and Corbin because those are the all-freshmen dorms. Freshmen are usually more interested in joining sororities," she said.
Jackson said the individual hearings also focused on sorority membership selection procedures. The council held its second hearing in June.
Turney said that the in-house policies on membership yokes were never released.
Jackson said, "We're recommending changes in procedures that will be possible without the zorotolerance of the previous protocol."
Another committee recommendation also calls for all sorcerers to place current charters, constitutions and laws in writing.
"SOME HOUSES CLAIM their charters are already on file," Jackson said.
Turney said she thought most of the charters were on file at the Dean of Women's office.
on life at the Delta of Woman's store.
"If we don't have it, it's because the national
chapter doesn't allow the rules to be made public," she paid.
Jackson said that if the charteres remained secret, recognition of sorceries by the University as official character was not possible.
"There is no place within the administrative
network for groups with secret charachters," Jackson said.
He said that although many sorority chapters did not list a specific race as a qualification for membership, the fact remained that none of the sororites at KU has ever had a black member. And, only a few could indicate that they had had any minority students as members, Jackson said.
He said the reaction of sororites to the hearings on racial bias varied from house to house.
SOME GROUPS AND PANELIENE were very much
organized and have already organized to
correct effective use of the materials.
"Others were a little more defensive. They insisted that there was no problem and that the University has no authority to insist that they implement any changes." Jackson said.
However, he said that he thought as a matter of law, because of recognition and support, sororites
would be held to be a part of the University and thus come under its jurisdiction.
Jackson said he didn't think there had been any effort made between some sorority members and minority students to get to know each other across racial lines.
Turney said that black sororites and fraternities had been invited to participate in Greek Week last spring and that the three black sororites on campus invited to join Panhellenic as associate members.
She said that rush procedures for black sororites differed from the current membership drive of principals.
TURNEY SAID THAT panhellenic had not heard from the three sororites about whether they would join because their members had not met since the invitation was given.
An answer is expected in the fall, she said.
Jackson said that Panhellenic didn't have any authority to force its members to comply with the law.
He said, however, that he thought Panhellenic could choose to reject a particular house's affiliation and not allow it to take part in the organized rush activities.
Turney said the authority of Panhellenic had never been tested or questioned. She said, however, that the association was undergoing some reorganization that would smell out its exact authority.
The committee also recommended that the black sororites and fraternities on campus be given guaranteed representation in Student Senate, just like Panhellenic and the Interfraternity Council.
"THE BLACK GROUPS need to be included or the others eliminated." he said.
Jackson said he was not overwhelmingly optimistic about the possible compliance with the recommendation.
"Some sororites have been resistant and I expect they will continue to be so," he said.
Jackson said that possibly in the future, individual conglomerals could be taken to a court of law.
"A high potential for legal action was found,
however, we're improving and correcting the stage of
the lawsuit."
A final copy of the recommendations will be sent to all the sororites and fraternities on campus along with a copy to their national offices. Various administrators will also receive the report. he said.
Jackson expected the full report to be released by the end of the week.
The big and small of it solar energy discussed
By DIANE WOLKOW Staff Writer
There are two ways to go about solving energy problems through solar energy, according to Louis Burmestner, professor of electrical engineering. One can think big, or one can think small.
Burmeister is attacking the problem from both angles.
For the past two years he has worked on
ideas of using solar ponds to heat and cool
buildings.
For the past six weeks he has been helping Ron Wasserman, a Washburn graduate research program, design a small, rubber band-driven engine. The engine, which will be fueled initially by solar energy, could be used in individual
"I'm new at the solar game." Burmester said, "and I think most people are."
He said that solar energy was an important topic at the turn of the century and is still a major source.
away. But a small band of enthusiasts kept going, Burmeister said, so that new ones were formed.
Burmeister is now working with an idea that people have known for centuries—when sunlight hits water, the water becomes warm.
According to Burmeister, shallow ponds of about one foot in depth can easily absorb sunlight. They can be used when sunlight hits the bottom of a pond could be pumped into underground wells during the summer and then pumped out again to heat houses during the winter, he added.
The idea is attractive, Burmeister said, because it's easy and cheap. But right now the idea is out of reach.
Burmeister said that in a solar pond filled with normal water, the heated water at the bottom of a pond rose to the top and was cooled by air. He said the only solution he was to stratify layers of salt water to warm water at the bottom of the pond.
Tuesday
Black Panther in jail after exile
From our wire services
OAKLAND, Calif. -Black Panther
HOAKY Newton, back in his native land
after a 2%-year exile, spent the Fourth of
July in a jail cell where police said he
was being treated "just like any other
prisoner in on a murder charge."
Sheldon Ols, attorney for the 35-year-old cofounder of the Black Panthers, said Newton hoped to win his freedom on bail when he is arraigned today on murder and assault charges in Oakland Municipal Court.
Newton, who fled to Cuba early in 1974.
returned here Sunday after stopping in Canada for a week to help arrange his return. He was greeted at San Francisco International Airport by 500 supporters chanting "justice for Huey" -a reminder of the crimes committed on it as the Oakland courthouse steps during his 1968 trial in the slaying of an Oakland policeman.
Newton told the airport crowd that he was innocent of the charges, which he said stemmed from a government contract to destroy the Black Panther party."
Anti-Nazis, not Nazis, march
For weeks, Nazi leader Frank Collin had promised to march his tiny band of storm troopers through Skokie, a village
SKOKIE, I. -All-Although Nazis kept away from this predominantly Jewish community yesterday, 2,000 anti-Nazis turned out for an orderly demonstration.
MONTREUX, Switzerland - Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian-American author of Lolita, was regarded as one of the great writers in modern literature, is dead at 78.
of 69,000 that includes about 7,000 campers of Hitler's concentration camps. Colin had said he wanted to draw attention to the Nazis' right to freedom of speech.
Nabokov, author of Lolita, dies
They moved here after the world success of Lolita, the story of a 12-year-old girl who bewitched the staled New York City skyscraper displayed his stylistic tricks, using puns
Village or dinances and pending court suits forbade a legal march by Collin and his followers.
Vera Nabokov, his wife of 52 years,
said the writer succumbed to a virus
infection Saturday.
The book was initially shunned by shocked American publishers and was eventually published by Paris' Olympia Press, an early promoter of what was later known as the most sensual stories ever told, the book does not have a single four-word letter.
Kansas City 1, Texas 0; Pittsburgh 54,
St. Louis 21; Los Angeles 4, San Fran-
disco 3; Montreal 19, Chicago 36;
Minnesota 5, Milwaukee 0; Boston
9, Toronto 6.
In addition to his literary work, including almost 20 novels and a memoir, Nabokw was a respected lepidopterist, a botanist, and a collector of his name to a moth and two butterflies.
and allusions to support Nabokov's belief that the world was a created reality.
Baseball
There will be clear slides for the rest of the week, according to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka. Today and tomorrow will be hot and humid, the temperatures ranging from the upper 90s during the day to the 70s at night.
Burmeister is now exploring ways to overcome the difficulties involved in stratifying water. He said he had been exploring the possibilities of downward convection, a process in which cool water is mixed with warmer water from a porous water drawn off through a porous bottom.
Weather
"That method has promise," he said, "may make cheap solar ponds available."
According to Burmester, the problem in this solution is finding mechanical energy of the rotating mass.
Burmeister said his research was analytical because KU did not have the facilities for experimentation. But most solar research is analytical, he said, because most engineers can figure out on paper what will work.
Like Burmester, Wasserstein is doing his research on paper. He is exploring the possibilities for a rubber band-driven engine that would also run on solar energy.
"You're not ever going to drive a car with it," Wasserstein said, "but you might airlift it."
Wasserstein explained that the engine, which is still in the design stage, was an interesting possibility because only small temperature fluctuations were required to make bands expand and contract, making the engine run.
The 'bands' expansion and contraction would drive a flywheel or a crankshaft.
Wasserstein said a good example of the engine design, though one that was wasted a lot of fuel and cost more than the stakes in it. Rubber bands were stretched from the stakes to a rod in the center of the
The contraption is placed in a black tank heated by air heated by solar energy and cooled by air.
Several rubber band engines that run and are nice to look at have already been built, Wasserstein said, but they don't give off much power.
Wasserstein said the most powerful engine designed as of yet was strong enough to drive a car or an aircraft, but mathematically that an engine 10 times as big as the original produced only 10 times as big with power. He wants to design one 10 times as big with 100 times as much
"When you work on problems in your normal school work, someone else has worked them out before and the answers come out really nice," he said.
Wasserstein, who has had no previous engineering experience, said he had learned a great deal during his six weeks of research.
"With this you don't know what to expect.
It's entirely new and there's no place to go.
If you get stuck you just have to stick with it until you get unstuck."
The touch of a torch sends a rocket rushing from Memorial Stadium into the sky. It explodes into a hundred twinkling fireballs, and onlookers sit in awe at the celebration of . . .
The Fourth
Senate funding policy reviewed
Certain campus organizations would be denied the opportunity to apply for Student Senate funds if guidelines now under con- diction were applied. Affairs were approved later this summer.
The guidelines, proposed last spring by Donald Alderson, acting vice chancellor for student affairs, would deny official University recognition to political and groups as well as clubs organized around personal and customarily private activities.
Because only "recognized" clubs are eligible to go before the Student Senate with funding requests, the guidelines, that yet remain under consideration, chancellor for student affairs, would
prevent certain KU organizations from receiving funds.
Alderson, who was part of a special committee that formulated the written policy guidelines, said it wouldn't change the process—only clarify it. Clubs that have been refused recognition under current policy would not be recognized under the new other.
Under current policy, the decision is
The policy would create a committee consisting of the vice chancellor for student affairs and three students from the Student Executive Committee. Together, they would decide, using the proposed plan, which KU clubs would be permitted
made by Alderson, in consultation with the Student Executive Committee.
*If students are going to pay student fees, students, or their representatives in the
Brian Salvay, director of HILLEL, disagreed with Alderson about who should decide an organization's chance to receive funds.
HILLEL, a Jewish religious organization, was one KU group refused recognition last year and therefore ineligible to apply for funds.
UNDER EITHER POLICY, organizations that are denied recognition are not eligible to request funds from the Student Senate.
Steve Leben, student body president, said he didn't know about the proposed policy but thought the entire process should be dropped.
Senate, should have a say in what organizations are recognized," he said.
"Any student group should have the right to come to the Senate with a request," he said.
BY ELIMINATING the recognition
organization could be judged "in their music."