The Chronicle 76Th Year, No

The Chronicle 76th Year, No. 65. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Tuesday, December 2, 1980 ADW files Title IX brief charging discrimination By Scott McCartney comply with the Department's preceding year. B 1S80 The Chronicle findings. "We don't feel we should have The Association of Duke The complaint charged that to live in selective houses in Women today filed a complaint Duke has "a pattern of order to live on West," Kooyman against the University discrimination against women said. She said women — charging that Duke women that "indicates a policy of including members of sororities have been discriminated widespread and often blatant — prefer non-selective housing. against in housing, athletics sex discrimination justified as She said an equitable plan and recruitment of female being in the 'financial best would determine dormitory faculty members. interest* of Duke." assignments by the proportions The complaint was filed this Chancellor A. Kenneth Pye of each sex applying for on- morning with the regional said the University conducted campus housing, not by office of the Department of its own Title IX study 18 months selective/non-selective ratios. Education in Atlanta. and "found we were in Pye said the University would Christy Kooyman, acting compliance." not be in compliance with Title president of ADW, said the The complaint argued that IX regulations only if a sorority complaint was filed "for the since "Duke's housing policy requested on-campus housing. benefit and interest of women allows men to live on Westin far Fraternities are presently students at Duke." greater numbers than it does housed on campus. PHOTO BY SCOTT INMAN Norman Guttman. .professor of psychology and chairman "It's time that the women's women, it creates a discriminatory See ADW on page 2 of the curriculum committee. issues were taken seriously, impact among the women especially in athletics, and that students." the University abides by federal In addition to the inequalities laws and regulations," in male/female ratios between Committee suggests VA credit Kooyman said. the two campuses, the group The 47-page complaint of sex cited the selective/non-selective discrimination was filed under distinction in Pye's housing Title IX of the Education plan {contained in Directions for physical education courses Amendments of 1972. For Progress) as discriminatory. By T.J. Maroon report by an UFCAS subcom physical education department The curriculum committee of mittee that reviewed the According to Mary Brew, Pye's report to the Board of has recommended awarding the Undergraduate Faculty Department of Health, Physical credit for all courses "devoted to Title IX research director for Trustees stated that if "less Education and Recreation. ADW, the Department of Council of Arts and Sciences lifelong activities." space is requested by selective yesterday recommended that The recommendation, Education has, under law, 15 groups of one sex than the The department has classified days to acknowledge the one-quarter course credit be considered a compromise by most of its activity courses as determined ratio prescribes, the retained for some physical some faculty members, goes to a complaint, 105 days to space occupied by the selective courses that would serve a investigate the University in all education activity courses and vote before the entire UFCAS student throughout his or her groups of the other sex may that a physical education body today. areas of complaint and then increase." Pye suggested a 50 lifetime. make recommendations for program remain a part of The PE department was The report recommends that, percent ceiling be placed on Trinity College. what the University must do to selective housing, with the targeted for termination by after a critical review of the comply, and then Duke has space made available based on The committees recommenda Chancellor A. Kenneth Pye in course offerings, physical approximately three months to the male/female ratio of the tions were based primarily on a his report Directions for education theory courses Progress. Pye's report to the maintain full course credit. Board of Trustees recommends It also calls for the reorganizing the physical establishment of a special education department as a non- program of physical education, Dewar's academic unit under the vice accountable to the dean of president for student affairs, Trinity College. The ch;incellor's eliminating credit for skill report recommends placing profiles courses, transferring theory physical education under the courses to other departments jurisdiction of the Office of and giving only short-term Student Affairs, Johnston appointments to all faculty The committee's report members without tenure. suggests that the program could By John Ayers Norman Guttman, professor be staffed originally by the He is a former Duke student. of psychology and chairman of present faculty of the physical He is a "maverick small- the curriculum committee, said education department. Thf business entrepreneur," and the committee adopted all the number of tenured facilty wrote and illustrated a popular recommendations of its members would then decrease book in his spare time. His physical education subcommittee as staff members would be free scotch? Why, Dewar's White and "did not alter the wofding to seek joint appointments in- Label, of course. or substance of the recommenda other departments. Physical In fact, J. Phillips L. tions." education theory courses could Johnston, a Duke student of the The report recommends that then be offered in the other early 1960s and a High Point one-quarter course credit be departments. resident, likes the drink so much awarded for physical education Establishing a special that he appears with it courses "that sustain authorized program of physical education thousands of times a week, all critical examination." One-half would remove the burden on over the country. course credit is currently untenured staff members to Johnston is the author of awarded for activity courses. produce scholarly works in Success in Small Business is a The report does not specify order to obtain tenure • when Laughing Matter, an irreverent, what standards would have to they could concentrate on the commonsense guide to buying be met for courses to be supervision of physical activity, and running a small business. classified as credit courses. the report states. See Dewar's on page 9 However, it does note that the See UFCAS on page 5 Page Two The Chronicle Tuesday, December 2, 1980 . ADW files discrimination complaint Continued from page 1 Ninety-one ofthe University's 483 faculty members made to increase the numbers of women faculty Pye also said he hoped the University's housing are female. members at Duke University, rather than decrease the problems could be solved with proposals from groups Specifically, Kooyman cited the School of amount that we already have." within the community and not through the courts. Engineering, where more than 20 percent of the Regarding athletics, the complaint charged that the In addition, ADW said the University's student students are female, but there are no women on the health insurance policy violates Title IX statutes University discriminates against women because it school's faculty. does not supply financial support to women in the because it does not offer abortion services or The complaint also suggested that Pye's proposals pregnancy care. same ratio as the ratio of male athletes to women to terminate the Department of Education and the athletes. School of Nursing would cause a 37 percent decrease in "Title IX clearly says you have to provide those "Twenty-two percent of the money should go to the number of female faculty members. "We believe services," Kooyman said. women since 22 percent of all the athletes are women. that the proposed . discontinuance of academic She said that since all students are required to buy a But the actual percentage of money supplied to women programs in education and nursing will have a student health insurance policy unless they have is very low," Brew said. discriminatory impact on students." Pye's insurance through another firm, Duke must provide Athletic Director Tom Butters said the athletic report acknowledges the problem, and the chancellor abortion or pregnancy care. department is moving to allocate 30 scholarships to suggested that a special program be established with The student health insurance policy, administered women and 116 to men, or approximately 20 percent to funds saved by the retrenchment to recruit more by Higham-Whitridge of Wayne, Pa., excludes women. women faculty members. "pregnancy, except for complications of pregnancy as defined in the policy." "They are just starting a plan now," Brew said. "By Yet the ADW complaint said Pye contradicted this time, they should be in compliance." himself when he said, "The discontinuance of the The administration has not yet received a copy of In addition to the scholarship complaint, the ADW present degree (nursing) programs will effect the complaint, and therefore did not comment on its document, written by Kooyman and Brew, suggested significant savings . Furthermore, no significant details. that female athletes are not recruited vigorously addition of instructional staff will be required in the enough. freshman and sophomore years in Arts and Sciences." Brew said women nationally comprise 30 percent of The group wrote, "We believe that efforts should be college athletes. With 22 percent of the Duke athletes Kilgo Federation Presents: female," we contend that the athletic department directs less effort and fewer funds into recruitment of women athletes than do other universities." DR. BARBER As an example, ADW, a year-and-a-half-old group The Chronicle with approximately 20 active members, cited an The Chronicle is published Monday through Friday of on athletic department policy to cover all expenses the academic year, and weekly through ten (10) weeKs incurred by potential male recruits during visits to of summer sessions by the Duke University Publications Board.

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