University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1984 Page 8
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KU Mortar Board honors five professors
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
Five KU professors were selected yesterday by the KU chapter of the Mortar Board national senior honor society as the most outstanding educators at the University of Kansas for 1983-84.
Anne Sheehan, president of the KU chapter, said the honor was presented annually to five KU professors who recognized the ideals of the University and "advanced a spirit of scholarship on campus."
The recipients of this year's awards are Craig Martin, assistant professor of botany; William Gilbert, professor of history; James Seaver, professor of history; and Elizabeth Civilization program; Elizabeth Schultz, professor of English; and Sue
Conoley, assistant professor of allied health sciences.
THE RECIPIENTS will be guests of honor and receive an award at the Higher Education Banquet on April 15, in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"I'm sure that a lot of other people on campus may deserve the award as much as myself," Seaver said. "It has definitely made my year."
Seaver, who has been teaching at KU since 1947, said that his job as a professor was not to impede students' learning.
"I don't think one has to be a performer in front of the class," he said. "But one has to try and make the subject palatable.
"Getting this award is very rewarding because it says that people are getting something out of my class and something out of my teaching."
WILLIAM GILBERT, a professor of
history at KU in 1949, said the award helped prove that his relationship with the president was strong.
"A teacher's reward is the same as that of the student," he said. "Namely, that the relationship has contributed something to the student's growth."
The recipients are chosen by the 32-member Mortar Board society, a student organization made up of college teachers and grade point average of or higher.
Sheehan said the board recognized in its membership the qualities of scholastic ability, outstanding and continuous effort, and commitment to the college or University community.
DURING ITS MONTHLY meetings, board members present five suggestions for the professors that they thought would exemplify the qualities of a Mortar Board educator. The
nominees are discussed and the five best are selected.
The KU chapter was founded in 1924. It was formed out of a sorority called the Torch Society.
The national Mortor Board society was started on Feb. 16, 1918, by Ohio State University, Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Penn., the University of Michigan, and Cornell University. The 188 national societies recognize outstanding educators during the week of Feb. 16, known as Mortor Board Week.
The KU chapter has presented the outstanding educator award since 1976.
Further Coffeyville budget cuts leave 20 jobless
By United Press International
COFFEEVILLE — Struggling to avert bankruptcy, the city laid off 20 more employees yesterday, bringing to 29 the number of workers who have been issued walking papers within the county, the deputy city manager said.
Mayor Jack Anderson said he did not expect any more layoffs, although reductions in city services still loom on the horizon.
"This should take care of the general fund." Anderson said of the city's beleaguered finances. Officials estimated that the city would be nearly
750,000 in the red by 1985 unless drastic action was taken to slash the southeastern Kansas community's budget.
NINE FIREFIGHTERS received layoffnotes last week, and the City Commission recently closed one of Coffeyville's two fire stations. The layoffs to date represent about one-fourth of the city's workers.
Yesterday's action resulted in 13 layoffs in the public works and street department, two each in the police and engineering departments, and three in the finance department, Deputy City Manager Bill Clairborne said.
Officials earlier had speculated that 24 employees would be laid off, but Clairborne said a review of finances
indicated that many cuts were un warranted.
Coupled with the earlier moves, Anderson said the city would save $567,000 in wages, as well as $200,000 in health insurance payments. The city's general-fund budget was set at $3.4 million before the cuts.
THE LAYOFFS were effective immediately, but Anderson said that the city would continue to pay the latest rate of jobless workers through March.
"It certainly was a tough decision," the mavor said.
"We will be reviewing the electric power plant, which is separate from the general fund," Anderson said. "We'll
be looking at the efficiency of that unit. While we are looking at all our expenses we may as well look at the entire city."
He said the commission had left the layoffs up to the discretion of City Managers.
Anderson said that the layoffs would not dramatically affect city services.
He said the town's population dropped by nearly 2,000 people during the past three years as the result of a large number of three of the city's biggest employers.
"We are in a stressed economy here in Coffeville." Anderson said. The area's jobless rate regularly ranks among the state's most depressed.
Hyatt victims criticize actions of lawvers in case
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In the first comprehensive review of litigation stemming from the 1981 Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster, a university law review takes a number of attorneys to task for contacting hospitalized patients.
All 10 articles in the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review's winter issue, which will be published in the summer, contain spectives in the July 17, 1981 skywalks collapse in which 114 people were killed and more than 239 others were injured.
Law students Jim Pietz and Phyllis Accugliano sampled the opinions of 200 students.
survey. They said the biggest single complaint they found involved the actions of some lawyers who the students said descended on hospitalized victims "just like a vulture" to sign up clients.
Victims also told the two students that attorneys charged too much and refused to explain the litigation in plain English.
U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE Scott Wright, mental health specialists, law students, lawyers for victims and attorneys for defendants discuss issues in a number of the articles in the quarterly publication.
Defendants have paid $90,984,793.18 to settle 1,944 claims since the disaster in the lobby of the luxury hotel,
according to the Kansas City Times, which published a story Monday about the upcoming articles in the law review.
"We felt we almost had an obligation to try to look at the Hyatt litigation and express the major points of view to promote some discussion about what happened and what impact this litigation should have." Ed Payton, editor-in-chief of the law review, told the newspaper.
The Times said that according to the law review articles:
- Many of the victims complained of poor communication with their lawyers, and of having little understanding of the lawsuits.
- While some attorneys praised the
speed with which most claims were settled, most said their cases could have been settled at an even faster rate.
- Reporters and editors had little regard for the effect of news reports on litigation and made little effort to determine whether settlements were fair.
- A number of survivors of the skywalks collapse are still troubled by psychological reactions to the disaster, mental health workers said.
*Wright and an attorney who represented a particular grouping of the Hyatt victims disagreed with attorneys for individual victims on the merits of a class action.
Cynthia Pistilli/KANSAN
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Lobbyist urges Senate panel to pass multi-bank measures
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The chief lobbyist for the multi-bank holding company campaign in Kansas yesterday told members of a Senate panel common sense should direct them to approve the legislation.
Patrick Hurley, executive director of the Kansas Association for Economic Growth, told the Senate Commercial and Financial Institutions Committee that they should ask themselves two questions when considering the legislation.
citation Chairman Seen. Neil Arasmith, R Phillipsburg, said a vote could be
"IF ALL THE bad things that opponents say will occur, why has every state nevertheless decided to abandon pure unit banking and, two, if all those bad things predicted to occur did then occur, why hasn't a single one of the 49 states returned to unit banking?"
Hurley said KAEG and supporters of the multi-bank theory were not asking the Legislature to "referee a dispute between banks."
"Rather, we are asking you to address a question of major state policy which affects the entire state banking system and that affects the entire economy of this state," he said.
The committee heard from five supporters of the bill and is scheduled to hear Tuesday from opponents, led by the Kansas Independent Bankers Asso-
THE REAL ISSUE facing Kansas lawmakers is how the state could provide the protection and flexibility needed by the banking industry to let it meet changing competition in the financial world, Hurley said.
The continued deregulation of financial institutions has allowed savings and loan associations, credit unions and finance companies to compete directly with banks by offering the same services to customers in their banks' domain and, further, by giving them free rein on where they can locate their businesses.
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