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Tuesday, April 13, 1976
University Daily Kansan
associated press digest
State faces Medicaid loss
WASHINGTON—Sen. James B. Pearson, R-Kan., introduced a bill yesterday to repeal an amendment of the Securities Security Act which might jeopardize state laws in his district.
passed. The Kansas senator said there was a possibility that his state could lose $24
million in federal money this year...
Hospitals may take states to court under the Social Security Act to contest prices set by a state for in-patient services performed by hospitals for Medicaid
"If Kansas chose not to comply with 60,000 patients could be without these services," Pearson said. "Should the state force to comply, part of its sovereignty will be waived."
This requires the states to forego their immunity from being sued, as provided in the 14th Amendment. The secretary of HEW was required by a recently enacted amendment to the Social Security Act to withhold 10 per cent of a state's Medicaid money if it refuses to waive the immunity.
Rape bill protects victims
TOPEKA—The admissibility of evidence concerning a rape victim's past sexual conduct will be restricted by a bill signed into law yesterday by Gov. Robert F. K
"This is progressive legislation that does much to protect the legal rights of rape victims." Bennett said.
Under the bill, evidence of a rape victim's sexual history would be inadmissible as evidence unless a judge in a hearing out of the jury's presence, determined the
The hill was introduced in the 1975 legislative session by Sen. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park.
Bennett proposes pay plan
TOPEKA - A proposed state employee pay increase which grants raises only on the basis of merit for certain Kansas public employees is designed to reward hard work.
Bernett made the comment in defense of his recommendation to grant pay hikes to state employees making more than $1,000 a month on only the basis of merit as
Some have criticized the suggestion, declaring state employees would be scrambling to please their boss and rewards would only go to "apple polishers." Bennett said he didn't think department secretaries heading the various state departments were vulnerable to "apple polishing."
Under the governor's plan, state employees making less than $1,000 a month will receive a flat five per cent increase effective July 1.
Legislation to implement the governor's plan was introduced in the Senate just before the legislature adjourned until April 20.
Grade inflation . . .
through the first 12 weeks of a semester. Previously, a student could withdraw only if he or she had completed the course.
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Christoffersen said that meant about 140,000 withdrawals from courses were processed each semester, so many that he changed a change in the withdrawal policy.
THE STUDY did show that the number of students withdrawing from classes had risen sharply since the new policy was adopted, and now nearly 10 per cent of all classes are dropped by the end of the semester.
The cost of the policy has been too great to the University in clerical expenses and too great for students in time wasted in courses never completed, he said.
Christoffersen said he thought the University would adopt a policy in the next few years allowing students to withdraw through the first eight weeks of the semester.
THE STUDY showed the GPA is highest in the Schools of Social Welfare (3.437) and Education (3.368), followed by the Schools of Engineering (2.987), Pharmacy (2.948), Fine Arts (2.972), Business (2.894), Journalism (2.898), the College of Liberal Arts Sciences (2.842), the School of Architecture (2.827) and the School of Law (2.651).
Over the five-year period, the School of
Architecture GPA increased the most, 0.178, while one school, the School of Education, experienced a GPA drop of 0.022.
Christopher said there wouldn't be changes in specific departments as a result.
"We've asked the deans to check the study, then to look at individual courses and try to make their grading uniform throughout the departments," he said.
THE DEANS of two schools were reluctant to predict any changes were made in the school system.
"I think it would be premature to try to reach conclusions on what those data say." Dale Scannell, dean of the School of Education, said.
Scannell said the changes in the withdrawal policy made it hard to evaluate the
He did say that he thought the GPAs both in the University and his school were too high, and that the School of Education had looked into ways of reducing its GPA.
Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he had anticipated that the study would show GPAs were declining.
Cobb said the College Assembly was considering adopting a class withdrawal policy to allow students to withdraw from school through the first six weeks of the semester.
"I don't know whether it's good, bad or different. he said you can make what you want."
Eadward Mybridge became known as the "father of the motion picture" for his development of one of the first camera shutters that enabled him to show the pose of an animal in rapid action. Gordon Kessler, author and historian, said last night.
The Assembly will vote on that later this month. he said.
Muybridge's development of stop-action photography resulted from an 1873 bet between former Calif. governor Leland Keele and his friend James Robert Keene.
Speaking in the Kansas Union, Hendricks gave a biography of Muybridge (1830-1904), an inventor and pioneer of the motion picture.
Muybridge, by this time, was well known
w of high-quality photography and had done
few important work.
Thinking it an impossible task in the beginning, Muybridge took less than a week to prove Stanford correct by making two boards slide past each other at the touch of a spring, thus developing one of the first camera shutters.
Stanford, owner of race horses, bet Keene
that when a horse is running there is a point
when all four of its feet are off the ground.
Photo pioneer lauded
Hendricks won the Venice Biennial Prize in 1965 for distinction in historical writing. He has written biographies on artists Thomas Eakins, Albert Bienstadt and Eadward Muybridge, and is working on a book about another artist, Winslow Homer.
America's 'nuts' honored
Most Bicentennial celebrations honor only the more stately figures of American history, but a show tonight will honor the "nuts" of our history.
Michael Brown, professional actor and song writer, will present his widely acclaimed "The Great American Nut Show: The Musical," at Moors in the Karaus, Hallway Bell.
The show was previously in New York and is now on national tour.
Mike Miler, activities adviser to SUA,
aid yesterday that the show was 'a light-
weight experience', he said.
characters with costume, song and anecdotes.
Those examined in the show range from the little-known Emperor Norton—who, in his own words, "was a man of great importance in the United States in the 1800s"—to such people as John Dillinger and Calvin
Brown began his career at LeRuban Bleu, which was at one time New York's most popular playground.
Before his first engagement ended, he had established a record 45 consecutive weeks.
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TONIGHT: A LATIN AMERICAN STUDENTS' round table on "The Role of Today's Youth in the Future of Latin America" will begin at 7 at the St. Mary's College of Arts and Technology Road. RICHARD DIETRICH, German architect, will speak on "Meta City and New City Building Systems" at 7:30 in the Forum Room of the University. SUA FORUMS will present actor Michael Brown and "The Death of the Foursome" derers, Frumps and Frauds at 8 in the Union Ballroom. A FREE STUDENT RECTALT will be given at 8 in Swarthout Hall. Performing will be Daryl Jones, Topea teenager; Diane McCarty, Lawrence graduate student; Keren Kendall, Leawood teenager; Beauford Woods Va., sophomore; Beafound Woods, Kerberonkson, N.Y. senior; and David Orn堡, Lawrence junior.
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