Despite rejection, black glad she went through rush.
By DEB MILLER
Staff Reporter
At the start of this semester, 468 women followed a tradition of thousands before them—they went through rush to try to join one of the 12 sororities at University of Kansas. Of the 466, 285 were accepted.
Ann (not her real name) is of the women who was not pledged. That is, she was not accepted. Her story wouldn't be unusual, except that she was the only black woman to so through rush this semester.
Ann's experience caused one sorority member, Nancy Tolleson, Lawrence senior, to write an angry letter to the University Dalkan Kansen. The letter was published Jan. 26. Tolleson said that Ann hadn't been pledged because she was black and that members of Tolleson's sorority had made such a claim that can't live with a black," and "We shouldn't place the house in the position of being ridiculed."
But Ann, a freshman, said Wednesday that at first
but hadn't thought of herself as the only black
woman.
Had she been accepted into a house, she would have had the only black woman to live in a KU
Every woman going through rush first visits all 12 hours. Houses invite back those they are interested in. Women can be invited back up to three times without being asked. Women invited back back to seven houses and
Ann, at first was invited back by seven houses and then again by two. Then she was cut.
At first, she said, she didn't feel discriminated against. In fact, the sorority members seemed to look at her as a sort of breakthrough, because she was a black穿 come through rush, she said.
"I COULDN'T handle that attitude," she said. "It made me very nervous."
Am heard, from friends also going through rush,
am sorority sisters said her presenations made them
famous.
"I know the system isn't set up this way, but I wish I had had time to really talk to those people and get to know them, so they wouldn't classify me just as a black," she said.
Caryl Smith, associate dean of women and兵
the Panhellenic Council (the ruling body for
sororites), said there were no clauses in its by-laws
whitewould prevent any sorority from pledging
blackwould prevent any sorority from pledging
THE BOARD OF Regents' Policy on Organizational Membership states that there would be any "discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religious faith or national origin with the institutions under its jurisdiction." The institutions fraternal and campus-related organizations.
A member of one sorority that had asked Ann to
return said she thought Ann had received a fair
credit.
She said that although she had heard many positive comments about Toleflein's letter, if rush were held again tomorrow, the outcome would be the same.
"The way to help the situation is to have workshops with the dean of women's offices, just to put them on hold so we can focus."
SHE SAID rush was strictly a game game. SHE said race on whom to pledge, she said, there may always be a few frightened or uneducated members who will vote against a black.
Cinda Osness, president of Panhellenic, said she
thought there wasn't any discrimination during rush this semester.
"I think the scorpions look for a woman who can be in their homes," she said.
No black women live in KU's live-in sororities and Oness said that could be because there were three dark sororites on campus-Alpha Kapa AlphA, now inactive, Sigma Gamma Rho and Delta Sigma Theta. Each has a national chapter, but none have organized houses here.
Bonn Franklin, president of Delta Sigma Theta,
said her sophomore has had a KU chapter since 1925.
THE BLACK sororities are for the advancement of blacks, Franklin said, and they do community service work. She said whites could join, and had joined other chaplets across the nation.
"It is a tradition in some black families to join our sorority," she said. "Perhaps members enjoy the company of other blacks, or perhaps they just never think of rushing the other sororites.
"When I came to KU," she said, "I knew what I wanted to do. I lived in GSP, and some of my friends asked me if I was going to go through rush. I thought about it, but I already made up my mind.
Ann said she hadn't heard much about KU's black securities.
PANIELLENIC AND the scarlet sororites work together on some projects, such as the annual blood drive.
It is possible for the black scorers to affiliate with Panhellenic. Horne said, because Panhellenic has a higher percentage of scorpions.
However, Pam Horne, resident director for Gertrude Turtleards Pearson Hall and former panselline adviser, said, "There has never been enough interaction between the two to suit me."
But Gwen Young, past president of Delta Sigma Theta, said that possibility had been discussed.
"I met a lot of people, and most of the I talked to were very nice," she said. "I think the I liked to go through next fall, just so I could sit down with them and talk again."
Am, who in high school was head troller, a baker, number of Kayettes and pop club, a Student Union leader, and a friend, had 4 per cent of her graduating class, said she was in spite of her rejection, that she went through
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Candidates express views debate 'issues of the dav'
By SANDY DECHANT Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
If the student body presidential candidates had the power to solve the "issue of the day," as one candidate called the day, "the most whistle, it would be unanimously approved.
But at a Senate-sponsored debate last night among the three teams of presidential and vice presidential candidates, opinions on issues including the ticket subsidy, limits on campaign spending, parking problems in the Senate's size, weren't so clear-cut.
In a 10-minute opening statement, Randy McKernan, presidential candidate for the Democratic Senate was student representation and communication. He said these could be provided only by experienced candidates. Katie Rhodes, Leawood sophomore,
"Unless you have the experience to draw on, it does no good to emphasize the issues," McKernan said, "because you would have no means to implement them.
To improve communication, the Avanti team proposed a weekly column in the University Daily Kansan summarizing Senate activities.
McKernan and Rhoads said that they would improve student representation by requiring Senators to meet with their students. "I'd be happy to tell students who their senators were."
Steve Leben, presidential candidate for the Reflection coalition, said in his opening statement that he hoped to make the Senate more representative of student opinion by conducting frequent opinion polls, holding town hall meetings and involving executive councils of living groups and continuing to distribute the Senate newsletter.
Sherri Grey, Spectrum presidential candidate, emphasized her qualifications and those of her running mate, Don Green, Abilene sophomore, in her opening statement and said she had the most diverse of the three coalitions.
"I will match my qualifications with anyone's." Grey said.
For the next hour and a half the candidates were questioned by a panel committee consisting of Mr. President; Jim Bates, Kansan editor; and Eldon Fields, SenEx chairman and professor of political science. Kathy Tucker, a member of Information Center, was the moderator.
Throughout the questioning, the fate of a $108,000 surplus in Senate funds was batted hard.
Association, where the interest would be used for a Senate-sponsored scholarship
McKernan said he would transfer the money from its State of Kansas account to a federal agency, but it was not clear.
"I'm opposed to the liberal, spend-it philosophes of my opponents," he said. Leben and Grey didn't accept McKernan's idea.
Leben said the money should be used to give the students tangible benefits from extracurricular activities.
He said he would use the money to improve recreational facilities and to reinstate teacher evaluation. Unlike Feedback, used until 1974, the new evaluation would include course requirements and a summary of student critiques of courses and assignments.
Grey said the money should be used to improve recreational facilities, and op-
eration facilities.
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Assembly members differ on drop policy
By JOERADCLIFFE
Staff Reporter
Student and faculty members of the College Assembly disagree over a new class withdrawn proposal being voted on by mail and the proposal receiving all thing—the proposal will probably pass.
Robert Friau, professor of physics and astronomy and chairman of the Undergraduate Educational Policies and Procedures Committee (UPPC), which presented the proposal, said, "It will probably pass. It is a very hazardous
"I have no doubt (it will pass)," he said.
"Even if all the students vote against it, enough faculty will return their ballots to pass the proposal."
PHIL KAUFMAN, a student member of the UPPC, was not so cautious.
Tasheff asks faculty for more Union funds
Faculty members make up 75 per cent of the College Assembly.
proposition predicting what the College Assembly will do."
By JOHN MUELLER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Faculty use of the Kansas Union is a fringe benefit that deserves more financial support from faculty members, Tedde student body president, said yesterday.
Tasheff, addressing the University Council, said the next Student Senate might reject giving more student money to the university to contribute contributions weren't similarly increased.
Faculty payments for the Union are now $25,000 a year, provided by administration funds. Student payments make up $50 of each student's annual activity fees.
Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism, said, "It's far from what I consider a fringe benefit. It's like the beautiful trees out there on campus—that's
Tasheff said the next Senate would consider increasing the student amount to $1 a student each year, but she was concerned the Senate might not pass the $1 increase if the faculty amount was kept at its current level.
Faculty members of the council immediately responded to Tasheff's statements, saying faculty use of the Union wasn't a fringe benefit at all.
The result of such a rejection, she said, is that the team in the level of services the United States provides.
THE ACTIVITY FEE pay for retiring
union debt and building the satellite
union.
Similarly, Roy Laird, professor of political science, said, "My immediate gut
response is, I don't think the Union is a fringe benefit. It's a place where we and the people are at work.
TASHEFF SAID that she'd not "bcome here to ask you to pay for this thing," but that faculty members eventually would consider increasing their contributions.
LAIRD SAID that increased faculty support might generate interest in reinviting a faculty club, which he said would cut down on faculty-student communications.
If the proposal passes, which won't be known until the March 22 College Assembly meeting, students in liberal arts and sciences next fall will have only seven weeks in which to drop a course and still graduate. Students would have to petition the UPCP.
Tasheff and council members agreed, however, that an increase in faculty funding wasn't necessarily a faculty responsibility. The extra funds, they said, could come from administration money or from direct state support.
Arno Knapper, associate professor of business, said that because the Union occasionally was used for classes, "I feel confident that I have the capability of the state," to help pay for it.
No Big Eight school supports a student not through funds paid directly from faculty.
"The Union is used for PR activities" he said. "May the administration should keep it that way."
"I wanted to inform you of the fact you're not napping very much," she said.
But Bernie 'Williams, Hoyt graduate
student and he though administration
work was too difficult.
"Let's put the bite on Archie," Williams said.
Council members took no formal action on Tashfeef's request.
Kaufman said his main complaint about proposal was that petitioning a commission is unacceptable.
"I don't like the idea of a central board that doesn't know who you are," he said. "The people know nothing about how you've progressed through the course. All they're looking at is a letter or possibly your transcripts."
"I FEEL that the instructor-student relationship will be left out with this
Both Fagges and Kaufman expressed concern about whether faculty members of the UPCH had the right to look at a student's resume. They were certain whether a drop should be approved.
Gerald Feagles, another assembly member, agreed.
Friau, who is serving his last year on the UPPC, said the committee might have to look at some files to see whether a student is taking a drop for personal or academic reasons.
"WE'RE FUNCTIONING as an elective faculty body," he said. "If we need information on student's records, then conference of records by the committee is appropriate."
"Our real hope is that this policy will cause a considerable decrease in the number of drops," he said. "The trouble is that we have to wait later, a lot of his work down, the draw down."
"I would suspect that in most cases there would not be the need."
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Frieda said faculty members were trying to cut down the number of withdrawals.
Friau also said that he didn't think the student-instructor relationship would be jeopardized by the proposal. He think it might not have been the case before they dropped a course and might possibly
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Faculty Council, FRPR disagree over proposed sabbatical changes
By JOHN MUELLER
Staff Reporter
The Faculty Council decided yesterday to send proposed changes in sabbatical policies back to the Faculty Senate Committee on Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities (FRPR), which had recommended the changes.
The FRPR had recommended that sabbatical policies be more decentralized, a reduction in the number of Committee on Sabbaticals (UCS) of power to award leaves of absence. It also criticized UCS for putting too much stress on competition among faculty members and staff.
The FRPR will clarify its recommendations and submit a new report at the next council meeting. It was decided to send the proposal back to the FRPR after council members couldn't agree on what to do, so the decision has been have been called unacceptable by the UCS.
RON CALGARD, vice chancellor for academic affairs and UCS chairman, said he didn't see the logic behind parts of the FRPR prosoal.
Another council debate centered on which county should further consider the PRIME LEVEL.
He urged council members not to "make an ad hoc committee to consider one of the boroughs."
Faex decided Wednesday to set up a new sabbaticals committee which will in-
vestigate the issue.
But T. T. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics and FRPR chairman, opposed the FacEx decision. He said, "If you don't believe that the committee doesn't like the committee, replace it."
HE ALSO criticized the 10 faculty members on UCS, saying, "When you are in that committee, we have to colleagues" UCS has 12 members—the 10 faculty, Calgard and
William Argeringer, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies.
Srinivasan said UCS consistently favored definite research proposals over sabbatical requests in which research wasn't emphasized.
The council sent the report back to FRPR after voti-g to reject the FacEx plan to form a new committee. But council should modify its proposal. how FRPR should modify its proposal.
Saying UCS was too centralized and put too much stress on definite proposals, Srinivasa speculated that “if Gallile had been asked to sumit a proposal on the sun, UCS would have said, ‘fascinating but too tentative.’”
HE ALSO SAID UCS had overemphasized competition in its decision-making. Com-
munity leaders responded by saying they were not
the Faculty Senate Rules and R-gulations which states that the primary criteria for awarding sabbaticals should be the merit of an applicant and the candidate's academic record.
A UCS memorandum, dated Sept. 1, 1976 states that "candidates applying for a leave should prepare their application as an offer and propose for any other competitive award."
Council members disagreed on whether anything, could replace competition as a basis for making awards. Elden Fields, professor of political science, asked, "Where do you draw the line—how do you cut off applications?"
M. Erik Wright, professor of psychology,
draw straws. That's a reasonable
possible.
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14-year-old held in killing
By CHUCK WILSON
Staff Reporter
Police are holding a 14-year-old male in connection with the stabbing death yesterday morning of Mary Cox, 43, of 2440 have been accused for the crime has been found, police said.
Cos's body was found in her apartment by an unidentified neighbor who then called物业。
Mike Malone, Douglas County attorney, said last night that he would file a formal plea of delinquency today against the youth in connection with the killing.
The KBI lab team was called in by local police to investigate the crime scene, Lawrence police and the Douglas County sheriff's department also asked the University of Kansas security police to help in the investigation.
Malone said that he had suspected burnicide from the outset of the in-vestigation.
During a press conference yesterday afternoon Malone seemed to suggest that he had ruled out suicide because no weapon was found at the scene.
A neighbor, Hiroshi Samizo, Tokyo graduate student, said last night that Cox apparently spent most of her time at home. He said he didn't think she was employed.
This was the second murder within a week in Lawrence. In both cases the victim was dead, and then stabbed, and in both instances young, white males have been charged in connection with
Malone said he didn't think there was any connection between the killing and the killers.