Vol. 99, No. 49 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANAKO
Thursday November 3, 1988
Minority task force recommends goals
By James Farquhar
By James Purq
Kansan staff writer
If the Minority Issues Task Force report achieves all of its goals, KU students will incorporate race-related issues into their college education.
After seven months of study, the task force yesterday released a seven page report, setting the agenda to increase black Hispanic participation at the University of Kansas.
Students someday may be required to take a class about race or human relations; or they may attend special orientation sessions; or more cultural diversity may be woven into many classes across the University.
The report also suggested replacing the office of minority affairs with an office of multicultural affairs. If implemented, responsibilities of the office would expand, although the specifics of such expansion were not provided.
Much of the report avoids specifies
Much of the Chancellor Gene A. Budig suggested the University in February in response to concerns about a campus visit by the Ku Klux Klan. The task force brought together 23 members of the University community last spring who formed four subcommittees.
He said the report contained far-reaching goals and left the details until later.
process," he said. "I believe the task force report provides a necessary first step."
The task force's report set forth three broad recommendations to:
- increase the number of minority faculty staff and students
- increase the number of universities in
- The report said administrators now had a coordinated set of recommendations that could effect change at the University. It primarily proposes change at the administrative level, with an emphasis on recruiting and retaining minorities.
- encourage the success of minorities in these positions.
create an atmosphere that values cultural diversity, rather than one that sueschel it
Under those three goals are 25 plans of action. Yet, the report set no quantitative goals for increasing the number of minorities on campus
on campus.
Minority students, including American Indians, Asian Americans, blacks and Hispanics, make up about 6.6 percent of KU students at the Lawrence campus this fall.
The report did not address Asian American students and faculty. In 1987, 7.4 percent of KU faculty were minorities.
KC faculty. Budig said target numbers of minority students might be forthcoming during the implementation of the plan. The next move belongs to Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor and chairman of the task force.
"The next step will be in the form of a implementation plan out of the executive vice chancellor's office." Budig said, "anticipate early action on the program."
For now, the task force will remain in place during the next year to monitor compliance with the recommendations.
Rosita Dorsey, director of minority affairs and a member of the task force, said she was upbeat about the report. The task force differs from five others in the last 12 years because this one would monitor progress for a year.
Report receives various reviews
Please see REPORT, p. 8; col. 5
By Katy Monk Kansan staff writer
Reaction to the Minority Issues Task Force report was mixed among the University and Lawrence communities.
Mohamed EI Hodir, a task force member, said he was pleased the report called for a Universitywide effort detailing the recruitment and retention of faculty, staff and students.
He said he was satisfied that the report had enough human and monetary resources allocations that it would "have teeth."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig also said he was pleased with the report and expected action to be taken toward implementing recommendations within this academic year
But the Rev. Leo Barbee, who had a vocal role in speaking out against the Ku Klux Klan's campus appearance in March, declined to comment after reviewing the report.
Others voiced at least some disappointment with the report.
pollution but he Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism, said he had fought racial problems for almost half a century — a perspective that may have made him cynical.
"In the University community, we have a habit of delaying addressing needs by setting something aside for studies," he said.
Some items were missing from the report that he would have preferred to be included.
"In all honesty, there isn't anything here which surprises me or which makes me optimistic," he said. "Great. Here's another report. How many have we had? I see no sanctions or no reward systems enunciated for achieving desired ends."
to be included. "I would have liked to have seen a provision there that says. For every new hire, the policy will be that underrepresented groups will be among finalists, or the position remains open until the hiring authority includes one," Adams said.
He said he also would have preferred requiring administrators to show progress toward making KU a multicultural institution.
Kellie Paris, president of Black Student Union, said she favored many of the task force's recommendations.
She was especially pleased with the proposal for recruiting more minority faculty, in part, because they would be an incentive for minority students to come to KU.
students to Paris strongly favored the report's recommendation of establishing a course about race relations. She said it would help alleviate students' misunderstandings of people with different backgrounds.
carried out.
But Rosita Dorsey, director of minority affairs, said that a provision for the task force to remain in office or a year to follow up its recommendations was a good move toward implementation.
However, Paris said she didn't see anything in the report to make her optimistic that its plans would be carried out.
toward impulse.
She is the task force's role was to down hard and fast rules
"Each area will come up with its own plan," Dorsey said. "Each area needs to make this their own thing for it to work. Everybody has to own it."
I have been very lucky.
Dorsey said that in a year she
would have a better grasp on how
good the report really was.
In the report reality will be
Kansas reporter James Farquhar
contributed information to this story.
Shipshape
Inspections are a regular part of the Navy ROTC program. Bob Flores, space themselves apart in preparation for an inspection yesterday in Riverdale, Ill., junior, Matt Hogan, Hutchinson junior, John Binder, front of Allen Field House. Ellis freshman, and Darren Glaser, Arlington Heights, Ill., freshman,
Gary Hart may give speech at KU
Bv Craig Welch
By Craig Welch Kansas staff writer
A representative for Gary Hart said yesterday that the former presidential candidate would be visiting the University of Kansas as a guest lecturer — provided that KU's Student Senate finds a way to pay for the $10,000 visit.
Anne Wold, a representative from the Washington ton speaker's Bureau, said that the visit, tentatively scheduled for Jan. 31, had been confirmed.
huge pass a box on the floor. "The speakers we like to get are highly visible and highly recognized, and that costs money," he said.
tively scheduled for sale. Hart, a former hopeful for the 1983 Democratic presidential nomination, withdrew from the campaign after receiving media attention concerning a boat trip with model Donna Rice. He entered the race in December 1987 but withdrew again.
Jeff Bloskey, chairman of the Lecture Series Board, said that Hurt's visit would cost about $10,000 and that the money probably would have to come from Senate. However, before the funds can be released from the unallocated account, Senate must pass a bill in favor of the expense.
Bloskey said that Wold had mailed a contract for Senate representatives to sign. If a contract was signed, Hart would be speaking in Hoch Audito-
said.
Senate's unallocated account has a current balance of about $130,000, but $40,000 must remain as a minimum balance.
rium on the topic of media in politics
issue of media in a cultural affair. Dan Zevitz, the chairman of a Cultural Affairs subcommittee concerned with lecture series, said, "We wanted to get somebody who was involved in media and politics. Who could be better than Gary Hart?"
Hart?
Brook Menees, student body president, said Senate would be interested in finding a co-sponsor for Hart.
or that! "We can an option we're looking into," he said. "We'd like to make this a banner year by bringing in some of these popular speakers. It brings potency to the school."
"But it's going to take a lot of work to continue getting those speakers."
Dukakis backers optimistic; Bush says he's the one
The Associated Press
helping to elect Bush, the leader in all the polls, said there was a "great divide" separating himself from Dukakis on many issues. He proclaimed that his own election would mean a "mainstream mandate" for the next four years.
George Bush said yesterday that the next president should reflect the hopes and dreams of voters and proudly proclaimed, "I am that man." Michael Dukakis urged supporters to "keep pouring it on" in a drive for an Election Day upset.
The Democratic underdog also ripped into Bush's record on the drug war and said "I'll be
The national candidates made their rounds six days
damned' before giving foreign aid to countries not helping the cause.
GOP vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle, a foe of abortion, said he had no quarrel with a medical procedure he described as aimed at preventing conception after rape. Asked pointedly whether he would expect a rape victim to bear a child that resulted from such an attack, he said: "I would seek medical attention immediately, and under normal circumstances, life and conception would not even be."
Please see POLITICS, p. 6, col.
Offices tight in Strong as elbow room shrinks
Space race begins as departments put in requests
By Mark Fagan Kansan staff writer
Jeff Weinberg isn't sure where the space will come from, but he needs it soon.
"We hope within a few weeks to add another staff member," said Weimberg, associate director of the office of student financial aid in Strong Hall. "The already modest reception area may need to be reduced even more. As it is now, it's already tough for students to get in the front door."
Space is scarce on campus, especially in Strong. And with the math and computer science departments moving out of Strong by Fall 1980, the scramble already has started for the soon-to-bacvated space.
"If something isn't done soon, we may not even have a reception area. We'll have people waiting out in the hall."
be-vacated space.
An ad hoc space committee appointed by Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, has been examining the space situation on campus.
been examining the. Last month, the committee's Strong Hall sub-committee asked departments and agencies on this committee needed space in Strong. Responses are expected by the end of the month, and the committee could be ready to report to Ramaley within a year.
within a year
Student financial aid is one office that officials say will receive attention when the decision of who gets what is made
The office's reception area, in the basement of Strong, is home to 18,000 student financial aid
folders, three receptionists, and a seven-seat waiting area. And it's time to add another assistant director.
tant director) "The money is available to us," Weinberg said. "Our major concern is where to put (the new director) physically. The only answer is to reduce the reception area, which we plan to do."
Weinberg said his office was indeed cramped. Financial aid requires confidential conversations, which are difficult to have when only five private offices are available.
"Students come in the front door and yell their Social Security numbers across the room." he said
Still, Weinberg said he had received support from the offices of student affairs and the executive vice chancellor.
"There is a problem, but it's very comforting that a recognition of the problem exists," he said. "I really feel there will be results. I've never felt that way before."
that way that allows Brower Burchell, chairman of the Strong Hall subcommittee and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said student affairs in general, and paid particularly financial aid, desperately need more space. The offices of academic affairs and research, graduate studies and public service also are among the most crunched in Strong
Strong
The subcommittee's report will include a list of the candidates for space, ranked by degree of need. ___
Please see STRONG, p. 10, col. 4
KU, NCAA tried to withhold names of guilty parties
Brown discloses violators
By Arvin Donley Kansan sportswriter
In a phone interview with the Kansas City Times Tuesday, former Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown named the three people listed as institutional representatives who violated NCAA rules. They were, along with Brown, responsible for making improper recruiting inducements to a prospect, whom Brown said was former Memphis State guard Vincent Askew.
Neither Collins, Light nor Marshall could be reached for comment yesterday.
The three named wore Jerry Collins, who produced the Larry Brown television show at KU and currently shows Brown's TV show for the San Antonio Spurs. Ralph Light, president of RAL construction company in Kansas City, Kan., and Mike Marshall, a former Kansas player who worked in Brown's basketball camp in 1986.
Brown said Collins bought $231 in clothing for Askew and expected Askew to pay him back by working for him, which Askew never did.
Brown said that he had paid for a $366 trip-ticket for Askew to go home and see his grandmother who was ill and later died. Askew stayed in Lawrence during the summer of 1986 and was expected to transfer to Kansas before he returned to Memphis State.
Marshall, Brown said, bought a $183 plane ticket for Askew to return to Memphis after he had left his ticket at a hotel. Marshall was reimbursed by former assistant coach Alvin Gentry who turned in the cost on an expense account.
Brown said that Light was the provider of summer work named in the report. The NCAA said the procto, who Brown identified as Askew, was paid $297.12 for work not performed.
The NCAA report said that the serious violations involved one prospect and occurred within a 10-day period.
The Kansas Athletic Department and the NCAA had attempted to withhold the names of the violators
NCAA Director of Enforcement David Berst said the main reason for withholding names was that it was detrimental to investigations
"In the case of boosters, coaches and student-athletes, if we release their names to the press, they could make a comment that would after our proceedings and the way we would handle the case." Berst said
Bob Frederick, athletic director,
said the University withheld names
to avoid false accusations of people
who might eventually be proven
innocent
"Our reason has been based on the fact that we didn't want to cause any more difficulty for someone who might eventually be found to not guilty of any wrongdoing." Frederick said.
Department officials decided Monday night not to release the names of those involved in the violations although the NCAA had found them guilty.
"I think one of the unfortunate things about (not releasing the names) is, and maybe this is the other side of the coin, that it leads to a lot of speculation. It seems to me (the media) has figured out a lot of the people anyway."