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The 125th Anniversary Logo Contest
The university invites students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends to submit ideas for a logo that will be used during the 1990-91 academic year in celebration of KU's 125th anniversary August 1990 will mark the 125th Opening Convocation; the university opened its doors September 12, 1866.
The theme of the celebration will be "Building on a Great Tradition: 125 years at the University of Kansas."
Art may be one-color or two-color. If a logo is two-color, it must be usable in one color as well, and a one-color PMT must be provided. Color placement for two-color art must be indicated on tissue overlay.
All entries must meet the following guidelines:
Logos must be submitted as camera-ready art, mounted and centered on 8.5"x11" white board. Logos should be shown in 6" and 1" versions.
Entrants should include their name, address, and telephone number on the back of each piece.
All entries become the property of the University of Kansas.
Entries should be mailed to The University of Kansas, Attn: Robin Eversole, Office of University Relations; University Relations Center, Lawrence, KS 66045-1630
Prizes are season tickets to KU performing arts and athletic events during the 1990-91 year.
ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1989.
Winter proposes surrogacy legislation Motherhood contracts would be considered void if bill passes
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
By Derek Schmidt
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Contracts for surrogate motherhood would become void under a bill considered yesterday by a legislative committee.
Surrogate motherhood would not be outlawed by the proposal, sponsored by State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence. However, no surrogate mother could be compelled by a contract to surrender the child she had carried for another couple.
"The notion of this bill is that you do not subvert the interests of the child to the contractual arrangement." Winter said.
warner said he drafted the bill after the widely publicized "Baby M" case in New Jersey, in which a surrogate mother fought a court battle to retain the child she had carried for another couple. That surrogate mother won custody of the child.
No Kansas laws specifically address surrogacy, Winter said, but most attorneys who have examined surrogacy contracts agree that they are unenforceable.
By acting now, he said, the Legislature would prevent the courts from having to make policy decisions when cases arose.
The bill mandates four things:
▶ Surrogacy contracts in which the surrogate is paid are made unenforceable.
▶ Surrogacy contracts in which the surrogate is not paid can be voided by the surrogate or by the couple for which she is bearing the child.
Custody of any children born under a surrogacy contract would be determined by the best interests of
the child, not by terms of the contract.
▶ Promoting or mediating a surro gacy contract would become a misdemeanor.
Nancy Hughes, a representative of Hagar Associates Inc., a Topeka firm that arranges surrogacy agreements, said her firm's careful screening of potential surrogate mothers minimized the possibility of conflict about custody of the child.
Hughes skid that she was aware of about 40 surrogate births in Kansas and that no contracts had been broken.
"There will be situations that will arise that will come under contest," she said. "It's just unavoidable in such an emotional type of situation."
State Rep. Alex Scott, R-Junction City, a retired physician, said that improved fertility techniques would decrease the demand for surrogacy.
inter said action still was needed. "While we may not have a rampant advocate for the public policy issue, and the Legislature should make some," he said.
Charles Andrews Jr., a Topeka attorney who has handled several surrogacy contracts, agreed that a policy was needed.
Andrews attacked the bill's proposal to prohibit promoting a surrogacy contract.
"I believe that any court in Kansas would not force a mother to give up her child," Andrews said. "But there needs to be law. There needs to be codification of what we're doing with this."
"It makes no sense to take the professional people who work in this area out of it," he said.
By removing professionals, who screen and counsel people who want to enter a surrogacy contract, the bill would make legal conflict more likely. Andrews said.
Hughes said it cost about $25,000 for a couple to arrange for a surrogate to bear a child for them. About $10,000 of that typically goes to the surrogate mother, she said.
Kenda Harris Rodger, a surrogate mother, told the committee she agreed to carry a daughter for a couple because she had wanted to be a surrogate mother since she was in college.
"When somebody intimates that I did this for money, I have to take issue with that," she said. "I don't feel any emotional confusion that this is somehow my child."
Three other surrogate mothers, who did not identify themselves, testified that they agreed to bear children for other couples because they wanted to help the couples.
"I feel this is God's way of helping me give these people the baby they want," said one of the surrogate pregnant with another, mother's child.
Opponents of surrogacy said the state should not sanction it by permitting contracts to govern it.
"That's the real issue here, whether or not the state should sanction this contract and the acceptance of money," said Sharon DiAngelo, co-founder of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy, testifying by speaker phone from California. "In our opinion, surrogacy is the greatest threat of our time to human dignity. It's reducing childbearing to another form of commercial agreement."
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