The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1973 Page: 1 of 12
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Discrimination alleged ...
Rice misses HEW deadline; federal contracts threatened
by FORREST JOHNSON
Rice University was recent-
ly denied a $'33,000 federal
contract after failing to comply
with a discriminatory hiring
regulation.
The rule is Executive Order
No. 11246, issued by John Ken-
nedy in 1963. It requires all
federal contractors to have pro-
grams to prevent discrimination
by race, color, sex or national
origin.
Rice has such a program,
but it is run by Dr. John Mar-
grave, Dean of Advanced Stu-
dies and Research, and he has
full-time duties elsewhere.
A complaint filed last year
by the National Organization
for Women alleged that this
program did not prevent many
abuses. For example, one em-
ployment agency official said
Rice had specifically excluded
all females from certain man-
agement jobs. The head of an
employment agency for pro-
fessional women said she had
received requests only for food
service and maintenance em-
ployees.
According to NOW, employ-
ment of women and minorities
ins the faculty of all department0
is below national averages of
PHD holders available.
According to the UH Daily
Cougar, "a class action suit
(was) filed with that agency
(HEW) by Dr. Paula Latimer,
president of the Texas division
of the Women's Equity Action
League."
Barbara Settle, president of
the Houston chapter of WEAL,
said her organization became in-
terested in Rice personnel noli-
make
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volume 61, number 15
thursday, december 6, 197c
Students demand SWC add women's sports
by STEVE JACKSON
Student newspapers at the
nine Southwest Conference
schools have agreed to back
a petition asking the SWC to
institute a program of woman's
athletics. Presently, the SWC
has eight spoils programs for
men and none for women.
The original petition was
printed in the University of
Texas' Daily Texan on Novem-
ber 19. Student response was
enthusiastic. Texan assistant
sports editor Herb Holland then
contacted newspaper staffs at
each of the SWC football
schools, including UH, to deter-
mine the possibilities of run-
ning co-ordinated petition
drives.
Holland's letter gave the
background behind the cam-
paign. It read, in part:
"This summer, Sports Il-
lustrated ran a three-part series
dealing with the blatant sex
discrimination in athletics in
American universities and col-
leges.
"The Daily Texan then look-
ed at the situation existing at
UT and found that in every
instance, the discrimination
against women athletes was
worse than in the examples
shown in SI.
"At that point, we began
writing stories about the prob-
lem and eventually caused the
UT Athletic Council to set up
a committee to study the prob-
lem and make suggestions.
"However, it appeared to us
that the Council wasn't going
to do a damn thing about it,
so we wrote up a petition and
privately circulated the peti-
tion around campus dorms.
Within 18 hours, the petition
had been signed well over 1000
times . . .
"Texas will carry on its cam-
paign until finals begin defi-
nitely and, if necessary, after
the spring semester begins.
"The issue itself is simple:
the schools of our conference
should create a complete and
fully-funded program of inter-
collegiate athletics for women
— it's their legal responsibili-
ty. Because if they don't, they
are liable, to lose every bit of
federal funding they receive be-
cause of discriminatory actions.
"Besides, who in their right
mind will say that an athlete
should be denied (the right) to
further her athletic career be-
cause she's a woman?"
The Woman's Affairs Com-
mittee of the UT student
government adopted the cam-
paign, petitioning and leaf-
letting extensively. According
to them, UT provides a $1.8
million budget for men's in-
tercollegiate sports. The seven
UT intercollegiate women's
teams have a budget of about
$6000. At Texas A&M, with a
similar budget for men, the
Woman's Sports Association
runs on a $200 donation from
their campus store. Situations
at the other SWC schools arc
similar.
Rice has a $1.4 million bud-
get for men's athletics; foot-
ball is the only one of the eight
sports to make a sizeable pro-
fit. There are supposedly three
women's varsity sports: bas-
ketball, volleyball, and tennis.
Acording to H & PE instructor
Eva Jean Lee, who directs the
to1 v.-rr.'s p*,">gvaTP., their
$500 budget will not stretch to
cover tennis this year.
Says Miss Lee: "There are a
lot of girls interested, and
other sports we'd like to par-
ticipate in: swimming, Softball
They tell us there's no
money." Miss Lee receives no
pay as program director; she
uses her own car.
Petitions similar to UT's have
been circulated at each SWC
school. Texas' Holland hopes to
go before the SWC when it
meets December 6-8 in Dallas,
"to let them know what the
student bodies of all nine cam-
puses want."
The Thresher will he circulat-
ing the Rice petition Thursday
and Friday. It reads:
"We. the undersigned, urge
the SWC to create a program of
intercollegiate athletics for wo-
men. We also call upon Rice
University to give more equit-
able financial support to the
women's athletic program."
cies because of complaints by
several women former employ-
ees at Rice. In one ease, a 13-
year employee wa3 fired after
she complained of being discrim"
inated against."
Four individual complaints
were filed by faculty and staff
members with the Equal Em-
ployment Opportunities Com-
mission,. An investigation found
the program inadequate and
gave Rice until September 30,
1973 to file an Affirmative Ac-
tion Plan. Since no plan was
submitted by that date, the Of-
fice for Civil Rights of HEW
withheld approval of ongoing
Federal contracts. Rice Provost
Dr. Joseph Cooper says that
Rice was not informed until too
late.
Under a new agreement with
HEW, Rice will be eligible for
federal contracts, provided a
plan is submitted within thirty
days.
Carl Stokes to
speak at TSU
Texas Southern University
will sponsor ox-Cleveland Mayor-
Carl Stokes on its campus in
a series of seminars and
speeches December 8.
Stokes, who after leaving the
mayoralty of the Lake Erie
city in 11)71, migrated to New
York City to become anchor-
man of WNBC-TV's "The Sixth
Hour", recently had his auto-
biography, "Promises of Pow-
er", published by Simon &
Schuster.
At 10am, Stokes will address
a public seminar on the sub-
ject of "Black Mayor—Urban
Dilemma", with local black lead-
ers. The seminar is free, hut ad-
mission is by ticket only. Tick-
ets can be obtained by calling
528-2164 or 528-1665.
Beginning at 7pm, Stokes wiil
keynote the official opening of
the TSU fund drive.
Course evaluations continue
The time is at hand for stu-
dents to evaluate their instruc-
tors, instead of the usual re-
verse process. Evaluation forms
may still be picked up from
departmental and college secre-
taries, the Student Associa-
tion, or from Mrs. Collins in
AL 221. One form should be
filled out for each course or
lab, being certain to use the
correct data processing num-
ber (obtainable from the above
places or from your instructor)
and the three initials -identi-
fying the instructor in ques-
tion.
The forms are new this year,
so a few instructions are in
order. Check only one box for
questions 1 through 6 and rate
questions 7 through 10 qualita-
tively, checking the appropriate
box between the descriptions on
the right and left-hand sides.
Forms may be returned to
your instructors, or, failing
that, the source from which the
form was obtained. Any sug-
gestions or comments about the
evaluation may be submitted in
writing to any member of the
Committee on Undergraduate
Teaching, x448.
bill fultor
It's Dead Weak, and the library beckons .
KTRU: today stereo, tomorrow the world
by WENDY NORDSTROM
KTRU became a stereo sta-
they were not really working
properly, and there wasn't
tion last month. Not with a much hope that they would
bang, or any great festivities work for quite a while yet.
—it just happened all at once,
before it was expected;
Preparations had been go-
A lot of work was done over
fall break, much of it by Engi-
neering Director David Coving-
ing on for quite a while—the ton. On the Monday after,
stereo control board bad been there still wasn't much hope
acquired in Fall of 1971, and for the stereo equipment. Af-
the production room has been ter sign-off at 1:00, Scott
stereo-equipped for quite a
while, too. The last piece of
equipment was either bought,
Hoehlberg, David Covington,
Bob Mosely, and Tag Borland
started to work on the eqiup-
borrowed or built this fall, but ment—two in the top of Sid
Richardson College and two in
the basement of the RMC.
They continued to work until
4:30 in the morning, then went
back in the early afternoon.
Even as they quit on Tuesday
morning, they were pretty
hopeless after having worked
all night—a running conversa-
tion between the tower and the
basement was taped, then
deemed completely unairable.
At 4:02pm (two minutes after
sign-on at that time) the
equipment suddenly began to
work perfectly. The station
went on the air stereo Tues-
day, October 23. No fanfare, no
parties—just a great deal of
satisfaction.
The big project now is to
go to higher power—hopefully
next semester, after certain
pieces of equipment have been
built from- scratch. Acording to
program director Scott Hoch-
berg, this year's staff is the
largest ever, with some 70 ac-
tive members, and more wel-
comed whenever they come.
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