University Dally Kansan
Tuesday, January 31, 1978
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Staff Photo by TIM ASHNEI
Wrong way
Installation of fire escape scaffoldings hit a snag yesterday when workmen for the Kansas Construction Co. incorrectly attached the structure to the side of Battenfield Hall, 1425 Alumni Plaza. The workman had to remove part of it from the building to be reinstalled. Scaffoldings will be installed on both ends of the residence hall to comply with the state fire code. The building previously had only one fire escape in the rear. Workmen said they lost an hour of worktime because of the mistake.
Suit unlike Bakke case, Med Center counsel says
Staff Writer
By NANCY DRESSLER
A label suit involving former University of Kansas Medical Center officials and students does not compare to the Alan Bakke reverse discrimination case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, David R. Hancock Jr., a member of Health Sciences and Hospital, said recently.
The suit, in Wyandotte County court,
Kansas City, Kan., charges libel but does
not directly relate to the U.S. Constitution.
Dysart said.
The Bakke case involves reverse discrimination in the admission practices of a California medical school. Alan Bakke, a white male, was denied admission to the University of California at Davis medical school last year.
Bakke charged the school with passing admission in favor of a minor university.
Jury selection for the K.U. Med Center trial was completed yesterday. Evidence also was presented by Reid F. Holbrook, attorneys for Dante G. Scarpelli, former dean of academic affairs and chairman of department of pathology at the Med Center.
Scorpillé fitted the suit in 1975 and seeks damages from each of five defenders
Scarpelli, now a professor at Northwestern University, alleges he was labeled a racist by four Med Cerdan students and the former affirmative action director at the Med Center.
Dysart said the students, all of whom are now doctors, said in the complaint that Scarpell discriminated against minority students in training and other practices.
The students demanded Scarpelli's date, and he arrived before Med Center faculty resigned in the of the complaint after the four students walked out of the hearing before its com-
Dyssart said the libel suit brought by Scarpett was against the KU but was bet-
"This is a civil lawsuit for damages," Dysart said. "It has to do with affirmative action because it is against the affirmative action officer for carrying out his office."
Dyart said that Chester Rempson, the Med Center's affirmative action director at the time, had taken the side of the four teams when he headcarhed the complaint against Scarpelli.
The Bakke case directly involves the admission practices of a university. Dysart said KU's involvement in the libel suit was strictly that of witnesses.
Several KU officials including David Waxman, the Med Center's executive vice chancellor, and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes have been asked to testify in the case.
Waxman is expected to appear in the trial tomorrow, Dysart said. Dysart will attend the case in any legal problems involving the Med Center arise.
"I'll be there to be sure the Med Center's name is not defamed." Dyass said. "We'll be here for the day, and we don't care."
National survey reports increase in adolescent sex, pregnancies
NEW YORK (AP) — A nationwide report on adolescent sex shows a one-third increase between 1972 and 1976 in both births and pregnancy among girls 15 to 19 years old.
Because of this and the fact that women living in college dormitories were not reflected in the survey the authors said they do not provide a margin of error for the results.
The 1976 study is based on 2,193 interviews nationwide; the 1971 study on 4,392. But the authors warned that the 1976 data on blacks were too much to ignore and underreported the incidence of abortions.
"Far more study is required before we can hope to explain and understand the sexual and reproductive behavior of young Americans," they concluded.
However, the authors of the report said that learning about the dimensions of sexual behavior among female teen-agers did not help to explain that behavior.
The study, by sociologists Melvin Zelinik and John F. Kantner of Johns Hopkins University, was published Monday in Family Planning Perspectives—the journal of the Alan Guttman Institute, an affiliate of Planned Parenthood.
THE AUTHORS said they reached this conclusion because estimates of the number of children born based on the survey would be higher than the actual number of births.
The percentage of white girls 15 to 19 who
had experienced prematrial intercourse rose from 26.3 in the 171 group to 37.2 in the 179 group, the report said. The percentage having a first pregnancy rose from 6.4 to 9.3.
- Eight out of 10 premarital pregnancies among teen-eagers who did not marry before the outcome of the pregnancy were unintended, about the same as among the 1971 group. Just one in seven of those interviewed used contraception.
of all whites who had a premarital first pregnancy, only 36 percent married before the outcome of the pregnancy in the 1976 group, compared with 52 percent in the 1971 group. Only 9 percent married after the pregnancy in the 1976 group, compared with 12 percent in 1971.
Insurance questioned
- Adoption and foster placement declined substantially from an already low level. In the 1976 survey, all but 7 percent of the children were wolfled livestock with their teen-age mothers.
Rv MARY-ANNE OLIVAR
Among the sexually active teens, out-of-wedlock childbearing declined by more than one-fifth between the two survey periods. The principal factor in this decline appeared to be the wider availability of abortion, the authors said.
Pritchard explained that students did not need life insurance at their age because they usually did not have to pay off debts, such as a mortgage on a house, and did not have to provide for a family. These two reasons, he said, were the ones a person would want to consider before buying a life insurance policy.
University of Kansas students should not buy life insurance policies that hard-pitch salesmen to sell, Leeland Pritchard, professor of economics, said recently.
Many insurance companies try to sell life insurance to graduating seniors, offering them lower rates because of their low age burden.
Staff Writer
- The proportion of first pregnancies terminated after 17 group was doubled in 17 group to the 197 group.
The "average student does not need life insurance when he graduates," Pirtchard said.
"They started with the sales pitch that I was going to graduate soon and that I wouldn't be covered by my parents' policy anymore," she said.
- Four out of five pregnancies among teen-agers were conceived on wedlock.
The 1976 study also reported:
Terrie Ferguson, Overland Park senior,
life insurance company
inhaber called her.
Margaret Martin, agent for Fidelity
Management, is the science,
is one of the agents who contacted KIU.
"Young people should buy life insurance when they are young and take advantage of it."
Under the CollegeMaster program,
priority is given to insurance
offerings. With college life policies,
With the CollegeMaster program, a 20-year-old male student could buy life insurance that would cover him for $10,000 and it would cost him $120 a year. After five years his policy also would have a cash-value benefit of about $350.
But Pritchard said it was useless to buy a police when one is young, although the rates were lower.
"You're not saving money by taking out a policy younger than you need to," he said.
As a result, if the policy holder would die five years after he purchased the policy, his
Although this may seem to be a lot of money to a student, $10,000 is not enough to cover a student's needs, if he needs life insurance. On the March 1977 issue of Consumer Reports.
beneficiary would receive $10,350, Martin said.
If the policy holder surrendered his policy after five years he would get back $350.
"The most advantageous policy is the 20-year decreasing term." Peltio said.
With a 20-year decreasing term policy, Pritchard said a 35-year old male had to pay about $22.10 each year to be covered for $10,000.
The value of the policy decreases each year, while the premiums remain the same.
With a term insurance policy, the policy holder would not receive any cash if the policy expired during his life time. In order to buy a term insurance policy, you must buy a term policy than a whole life policy.
One should be covered for about $100,000 he said. With a term insurance policy the premiums for a 35-year-old male would be about $1,720 for a 35-year-old male, Marlyn from a Kansas city life insurance company, Pritchard said. With a whole life policy for $100,000, the annual premiums would be about $1,720 for a 35-year-old male, Marlyn from a Kansas city life insurance company, said留意er.
Pritchard said term insurance was a good way to invest one's money.
For instance, he said if a 30-year-old man invests the difference in premiums between the two $100,000 policies into Series E and Series F, then he would bring back $88,000—up to four times the cash surrender value of the whole life insurance policy for the same period of time.
Besides offering too little of the wrong
bond of policy the CollegeMaster program
must be improved.
Because students usually do not have enough money to pay for the premiums, Fidelity Union lend the student money to pay the first year's premium. The loan must be paid back within the next five years at an interest rate of 5 percent per year.
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