University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1982
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Regents Center offers new programs
By JIM LEHNER Staff Reporter
Three new degree programs offered this spring at the University of Kansas Regents Center may help people who want to continue working while pursuing their degrees.
The new degrees, offered at the Center in Kansas City, Kan., are a master's degree in health services administration, a master's in nursing education and a bachelor's degree in social welfare.
"An attempt to provide a more generalized background in health services administration with knowledge of the environment."
degree programs," Ray Davis, associate professor of political science, said recently.
"The degree received would not be a medical one but it would be used to benefit students who are likely to drop out."
The degree requirements will include 49 hours, leading to a degree in public administration with an emphasis in specialized and health services administration.
Davis said a health services administrator could fill a growing role in the organization and direction of cooperative associations of hospitals. Such hospital associations attempt to provide more regional and more effectively targeted health care.
The School of Business will offer an MBA to
students who want to take courses in the area of health services. The courses will be similar but have different requirements.
Another new program being offered at the Regents Center this spring will lead to a masters degree in physical therapy.
Mary Gersh, Regents Center director, said the master's degree in engineering management could be completed in 1½ years on a full-time basis or in two to three years on a part-time basis.
Another program new at the Regents Center is the bachelor's degree in social welfare. The BSW degree program provides practical training and experience interested in entering the profession, Gersh said.
Observatory offers free night viewing
Astronomy buffs have found an unusual way to spend their Friday nights—star gating at the Clyde W. Tombaugh Observatory in Lindley Hall.
Although the cold winter months may make dressing warmly a necessity, the observatory is open to the public every clear Friday night at 9:30 a.m. The observatory also associates professor of physics and astronomy.
Visitors to the observatory can see galaxies, stars, planets and meteors more than two million
Named for the 1930 alumns who discovered the planet. Pluto in 1930, the observatory is
equipped with a 27-inch Newtonian telescope with a photometer to measure the color and light spectrum.
One of the more easily seen constellations, appearing directly overhead at midnight, is Orion the hunter, represented by three stars in this belt and three stars below forming his sword.
The sword is raised to strike at Taurus the bull, the constellation that appears directly west of Orca.
Several planets are visible to the naked eye during January, although Kanaans may have to see through clouds.
Mercury can be seen at sunset, but Mars will not rise above the eastern horizon until just after midnight, and Saturn, the ringed planet, appears about an hour later.
Jupiter will now rise at about 3 a.m., and by the end of the month at about 5 a.m.
Shawl said that the earth was the shortest distance from the sun during the winter months, but that the cold temperatures were caused by the tilting of the earth's axis away from the sun.
"The seasons are determined by the tilt of the earth's axis," he said. "If the sun's rays strike the earth at a wide angle, the heat is less concentrated, causing lower temperatures."
Hyatt insurers willing to provide $151 million
By United Press International
KANAS CITY, Mo.—Company insuring defendants in what the court calls "the skywalk case" will provide at least $151 million for out-of-court settlements for the Hyatt Regency Hotel lobby collapse, a county judge said.
Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Timothy D. O'Leary announced an agreement has been reached among attorneys representing six of the insurance companies, the Kansas City Star reported yesterday.
The $151 million pact may affect a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to consolidate the Hyatt-related lawsuits under one class action. That suit claims there may not be enough money to cover all the claims arising from the July 17 disaster.
The Star said a transcript of a Dec. 30 meeting between O'Leary and attorneys for the Hyatt Corp, Hallmark Cardes Inc., the insurance lawyers during which the agreement was made—reflects a frank discussion on insurance coverage, the potential impact of the class action request to court-court settlements that have been reached so far.
To date, 18 victims or their survivors have agreed to structural settlements and the rest of the 74 out-of-court settlements were lump sum payments, the largest being $600,000. The total guaranteed payout for all the settlements is about $13 million
"I think I have to be able to determine at this time how much coverage is available for the settlement of these cases," she said. "I hope you have commitment here to settle cases on a reasonable basis up to a certain amount, like $150 million, for example, and everybody pretty much agrees that that will dispose of the assets, and we have a limited fund, do we?" O'Leary asked.
O'Leary said he was pleased with the settlements made so far and added, "Wouldn't it be terrific if this community and these companies and the profession of legal profession in this town, within a year of this tragedy, could have most all of these cases disposed of without trial, probably all of them ..."
John Townsend, a new York attorney for Hallmark, said he believed Hallmark, Crown Center and Hyatt were far removed from liability for the skywalk collapse but noted their insurance firms were bearing the brunt of the settlement costs.
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