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KKENTUCKY

T
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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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

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és-Rgh rah rah

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.