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uesday, July 8' 1975 an independent student newspaper

 

 

 

Employes, administration

have communication gap ,

By WALTER IIIXSON
Assistant Managing Editor

An adversary relationship has apparently
developed between University employes and ad-
mmistrators.

Victor Gaines, employe counselor, and Bruce
Miller, personnel director, have recognized a
communication problem between employes,
supervisors and the administration.

Gaines has handled over 80 cases of employe
complaints since assuming his position last Oc—
tober. However, other employes are apparently
hesitant about seeking Gaines for routine matters —
promotions, evaluations, transfers, firings, etc.
Those employes either hold off on complaints or call
Gaines anonymously.

“I receive two or three anonymous calls a week.
If there‘s a problem, I tell them I can't do anything
if theywon‘tgive me their names," Gaines said.

“1 tell an employe that he won’t get fired or face
any reprisals for coming in with a legitimate
complaint. But some of them are afraid they‘ll get
fired for wearing different colored socks or

Similarly, many employes are afraid to use the
University‘s grievance procedure which offers a

stepby-step method for solving an employe com-
plaint.

“Many employes need their jobs too badly to raise
a complaint. They don’t want to rock the boat even
if they have a legitimate grievance," Gaines said.

“Maybe they see me as an adversary," Gaines
said, pondering the communication gap between
employes and management.

“()bvnousty communication is more difficult with
the large chain of command here, so we’re putting
additional emphasis on working with advisory
personnel," Miller said.

To help alleviate the problem, periodic meetings
are held for employes. The meetings deal with
employe concerns such as salary, policies andI
procedures.

However, employes are displaying little response
to the meetings. “We‘ve been disappointed in the

number of employes who have showed up," Miller '

said.

    
  

  

 

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VICTOR GAINES

Continued on page 3 Employe counselor

anything," he added.

Women converge on Frankfort for ERA hearing

By NANCY DALY
Editor-in-chief
and
SUSAN JONES
Managing Editor

The chamber of the Kentucky House of
Representatives has seen proportionately
few women pass through its doors over the
years.

However, Monday‘s hearing on the
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) drew a
capacity crowd which was almost ex-
clusively female

It was easy to distinguish ERA sup-
porters from opponents among the crowd
of 500 by buttons, applause and mode of
dress. Opponents wore pink mlyester
pantsuits and dresses to symbolize their
feminhity. The crowd appeared evenly
qdivided on the issue.

 

 

The hearing was held by the interim
Committee on Elections and Constitutional
Amendments in response to a drive to
rescind the state’s 1972 ratification of the
amendment designed to guarantee equal
legal status to women.

Women converged on Frankfort in cars,
church and school buses. Several women
camefrom out of state, including national
chairman of “Stop the ERA", Phyllis
Schlafley.

Committee chairman Rep. Lloyd Clapp
(D-Wingo), an ERA opponent, started off
the proceedirgs by asking leaders of both
sidesto‘ ‘come forward and flip” a coin to
determine who would speak first. ERA
opponents won the toss.

The committee previously set up
guidelines allowing each side to speak for
one hour with 20 minutes rebuttal time

 

each. A dispute over the hearing
procedure developed several days ago
when ERA supporters objected since 175
peopb signed up to speak in favor and only
27 asked to speak in opposition.

Rep. Nicholas Kafoglis (D-Bowling
Green) registered a complaint about
speaking procedures early in the hearing,
but Clapp followed the established format
anyway.

Almost all those speaking against the
ERA prefacedtheir remarks with, “I am a
mother and a housewife." The women,
who came from a few Western Kentucky
counties, believed ratification of the ERA
would create societal chaos.

They listed everything from integrating
restrooms to forcing women out of the
home to sending women into combat to

legaiza'ng homosexuality as possible
effects of ERA ratification.

Oneopponent said, “The ERA will allow
homosexuals to marry and therefore allow
them to enjoy benefits married people
have such as joint tax returns or the
adoption of children. To use the laws to
give such rights to homosexuals is in—
terfen'ng with the rights of the citizens of
our country."

Another said, “This would reduce the
woman to a lesser state than a farmer’s
work mare—he at least has sympathy for
her before and after foaling. I am
liberated, and I have been liberated, but I
will notbe liberated as you women (ERA
suppa'bis) want to be liberated."

Schlatley, who has testified at 15 state

Continued on page 8

   
  

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Kelly Spence d Circleville.
Ohio appears totally en-
' thraled with the movement
exercises she and other
~ . cheerleaders are practicing at
the Seabn Center. Kelly is
one of over 200 junior and
senior high school students
from Kentucky and
surrounding states par-
ticipating in first day ac-
tivities of the summer
cheerleading camp.

  

 

  

Editorials

  

 

Swarms of “pink panthers"

Group supports ERA rescission

Pink panthers
and the trespasser from Illinois

Clapp(D-Wingo),whojusttoshowan
open mind, began the match by

Committee on Elections and Con-
was

descended upon Frankfort yesterday stitutional Amendments.

in church and school buses with a
definite mission in their pretty little
heads.

The purpose of these ladies, dressed
in a uniform of pleasingly pink

 

Fear of homosexuality,
the draft, the breakdown
of the family structure,
abortion and, yes, even
the Red Scare was
dredged tip for this one.

 

double-knit uniforms (apparently a
symbol of their témininity), was to
voice their support of rescission of
Kentucky’s ratification of the Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA).

This extravaganza, which was put
on by the General Assembly’s l nterim

ostensibly a hearing to aid committee
members in determining whether
they should recommend rescission of
the ERA to the 1976 General
Assembly or let the1972ratification of
the 27th amendment stand.

The whole circus lasted ap—
proximately four hours, with ERA
supporters debating and rebutting
arguments propounded by the pink
panthers, most of whom identified
themselves as Western Kentucky
wives and mothers and members of
the “heretofore silent majority."

Phyllis Schlafley, national chair-
man( sic) of Stop the E RA got into the
act, making the afternoon all that
more exciting. Schlafley was
described by Katherine Peden, an
ERA supporter, as “that trespasser
from Illinois.” Schlafley makes it her
business to travel all over the country
saving America from the ERA.

The whole show was orchestrated
by Committee Chairman Rep. Lloyd

flourishing pro-ERA mail (opened
and not quite filling a basket) and
anti-E RA mail (unopened and piled
high in a basket) before the crowd.
Clapp opposes the ERA in case you
haven't guessed.

All in all, much money and time
were spent for a result of very few
changed minds in either direction.
”The day was not a total loss,
however, for those who enjoy “Bible

Belt” rhetoric. The ladies in pink
appealled to every emotional issue
they could think of and apparently
used quite a few others thought of for
them. Fear of homosexuality, the
draft, the breakdown of the family
structure, abortion and, yes, even the
Red Scare was dredged up for this
one. All of that over what is really a
very fundamental right and simple
amendment: “Equality of rights
under the law shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by
any state on account of sex."

 

 

 

 

Letters

Wall Street
war machine
is feared

and hated

Eiitor;

Wall Street’s war machine is feared
and hated around the world. It’s
nuclear arsenal has the capacity to
wipe out all human life on the earth
many times over. The millions of
casualities and the massive destruction

KEN TL‘CK"
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Editor -in-Chiet
H Nancy Daly

 

Managing Editor
Susan Jones

Associate Editor
Jack Koeneman

Arte Editor
Dona Rains

 

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Assistant Managing

of homes, crops and ecology in Vietnam
were just a small demonstration of the
devastation American imperialism is
prepared to inflict in pursuit of its
interests.

But some of the most wasteful and
destructive results of ”Pentagon capi-
talism” are to be felt within the U.S.
itself. You see, it’s a remarkablv

inefficient animal which operates un-
der a special set of rules that seem to
conflict with normal business princi~
pies. War contractorsmaximize costs

and maximize subsidies from the state.
Complexity in design is pursued for its
own sake, while many projects are
junked before completion.

But doesn't spending ‘billions of
dollars on missiles, planes and ammu-
nition keep the economy afloat, give
Americans jobs and increase the
national product? No. In fact, the war
economy has been a major factor in
undermining prosperity and in genera—
ting social decay in the U.S.

There is a sharp distinction between
the parasitic growth represented by
war production and productive growth
of goods and services that either are
part of the level of living or can be used
for further production. This distinction
is overlooked by most economics
textbooks and is blurred by a Gross
National Product figure that counts all
money-valued output of goods and
services as a contribution to wealth.

it’s clear how the spread of slums, the
cutbacks in social services and the
deterioration of public transit are
linked with the needs of the war
economy and how the war economy is

an inevitable result of advanced capi- .

talism. The investors and profiteers
concentrate their wealth(capital) in
fewer and fewer centers, which means
there are fewer markets elsewhere that
make for profitable investments.

The capitalists could care less what
they’re making so long as it turns a
profit. And so the period of greatest

growth in American history, 1950-1970,
also saw the growth of incredible social
decay. ”Growth,” you see, is measured
in terms of Gross National Product,
much of which simply represents
pouring billions and billions of dollars
down the military drain.

We in the Young Socialist Alliance
believe that capitalism must be re-
daced by a socialist economy of
production for human need, instead of
private profit. Until this occurs, capi-
talists production for private profit
hreatens to destroy us all. in the 1976
dections, the candidates of the Social-
ists Workers Party are running on a
datform that calls for immediate
mclear disarmament and elimination
d the war budget. Help build the
socialist alternative by supporting this
.mpaign.

 

 

Nbrk Manning is a member of the
Young Socialist Alliance and a UK
alumnus.

 

 

 

 

 

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Malpractice

$4 million policy for Med Center
is six times higher than last year

 

 

By STEVE BALLINGER
Kernel Staff Writer

A new malpractice insurance
policy for the University Medical
Center will cost six times as
much as last year, said Charles
Emerson of the University In-
surance Department.

At their June 20 meeting the
University Board of Trustees
recommended approval of $4
million total malpractice policy
with the Indiana Insurance
Company.

The University will pay for
claims up to $1 million. The new
policy coverage insures in-
dividual claims of more than
$500,000 and group claims ex-
ceeding $1 million.

The substantial rate increase
for malpractice insurance was
not unexpected. “We knew it
would be three to six times higher
than last year," Emerson said.

An expected $1 million will be
paid in premiums this year. The
University paid $160,264 last year
to the Hartford Accident and
Indemnity Company last year for
the same coverage.

Despite national rate increases
for malpractice insurance,
Emerson said increases for the
Med Center aren't totally
justifiable.

“Insurance companies apply
national statistics locally where
malpractice suits aren’t as
frequent," he said.

Judge Calton, administrator of
the University Hospital, agrees.
“Based on our individual record
with malpractice suits. the
premiums should not have been
raised so much. The problem in
Kentucky is not as acute as it is in
other states," Calton added.

There is no hospital policy
attempting to guard against
possible malpractice claims by
purposely ordering extra tests
and X-rays, Calton sid. However,
“the individual physician may
take additional measures if he
wants to." he said.

Known as “defensive
medicine.“ the additional
measures are a precaution
against a patient challenging his
medical treatment in court.

Calton questioned some of the
procedures used in dealing with
malpractice suits. “I think some
of the awards are too high," he
said.

Conditional awards, deter-
mined by development of the
patient’s health after trial, could
be another solution, he said.

Calton doubted that the
growing occurance of
malpractice suits would hinder
the development of new
techniques in surgery and
medicine in general. “Physicians
will use every avenue to find
ways to improve a patient’s
health," he said.

A more serious and immediate
problem is that doctors still
enrolled in or just graduating
from medical school will be
unable to begin practice because
of inflated insurance costs.

“I‘ve already heard that some
new physicians have had dif-
ficulty getting insurance," Calton
said.

There is more than one cause to
the malpractice dilemma, ac-
cording to Dr. Ward Griffen,
chairman of the department of
surgery at the Med Center.

“Doctors are not talking to
their patients very much any
more. There isn’t any close
communication between them,”
Griffen said. “The patients see
shows on television like Marcus
Weiby and perhaps expect too
much from doctors,” he added.

Lawyers who seek malpractice
claims for contingency fees (a
percentage of the award if they
win the case) are another aspect
of the problem, Griffen said.
“They stand to lose very little or
nothing by instituting a suit," he
said.

One solution offered by Griffen
would be a board composed of
lawyers and doctors that would
evaluate cases and decide
whether they should be heard in
court.

Such an arrangement would
save time and could settle claims
early. “In any case,some kind of
arbitration arrangement before
litigation is necessary," he said.

Employes. administration
have communication gap

Continued from page 1

No employes have initiated
discussions with Gaines con-
cerning the current drive to
unionize with the American
Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employes.

“I‘ve spoken with one or two
employes about unionization but
it has just been a side issue. No
one has come in and expressed
anything on it directly,” Gaines
said. ‘

“From a nemploye standpoint I
don‘t see anything wrong with
unionization." Gaines went on.
“But everything depends on the
leadership they get." he added.

“From an administrative
standpoint. it would be very
expensive.“ Gaines said citing a
$1 per hour wage increase

demand for all non-academic
employes made by the union
organizers.

ln d'scussing the question of
unionization, Gaines said
establishment of a union for UK
employes is “almost inevitable.”
However, Gaines said con-
servative standards in Kentucky
may prevent establishment of a
union for some time.

“Things happen here by
evolution rather than
revolution,“ he said.

“I’m not sure all the employes
know what a union is all about.“
Gaines continued. “I think,
generally those who know about
them. want them. ()thers
associate a union in Kentucky
with coal miners and that means
blood and violence.“

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