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ART FOR ALL—Mary Rudloff, a Music and Art camper from St. Louis; Judy Seirer, a visitor on campus from Lucas, and Loretta Nauman, Natoma senior, view the latest exhibit of work
by art students attending the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. A new display appears in the South Lounge of the Kansas Union each Saturday.
Article Reviews Legal Reversal
Time was in Kansas law when it may have cost a negligent businessman less if someone died from injuries suffered on his property than if the injured person lived.
But no longer. The little-known story behind a dramatic reversal of judicial opinion concerning liabilities of Kansas property owners is told by Ronald K. Badger, Kansas City third year law student, in the June issue of "Kansas Business Review," published by the KU Center for Research in Business.
The reversal, which broke with more than 80 years of Kansas legal precedent, was handed down by the Kansas Supreme Court in 1959 in a case which Badger cites as "Prowant v. Kings-X, Inc."
Grounds for the case originated in 1955 when Prowant walked into a Kansas restaurant, took a seat, and fell to the floor when the counter stool on which he was sitting suddenly collapsed.
Two concepts dating from English law produced these diverse Kansas alternatives. As Badger describes them, "Under the concept of wrongful death, damages are allowed for the victim's death; under the survival (concept), damages are allowed for expenses, pain, and suffering, incurred during the course of the victim's injury."
For a year and a half, Prowant suffered from the injury and in late 1956 he died as a result of the accident.
Kansas law at that time allowed Prowant's widow to sue the restaurant owner for a maximum of $25,-000.
But, writes Badger, "If Mr. Prowant had not died, the law would not have limited recovery for the injury to $25,000 but would have awarded the amount of damages incurred."
kansas enacted a survival statute allowing unlimited damages, as
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Alaska and Hawaii Featured in Films
"The New Alaska" and "Hawaii—The Island State" will be the featured films in the regular film series at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon in Bailey Hall.
The film on Alaska shows how the National Forests of Alaska, through timber, water, recreation and wildlife and the multiple use management of the resources, contribute to the expanding economy of the 49th state. The second film is a study of the Hawaiian people and their life in the 50th state.
For the period today through Saturday temperatures will average near normal northwest slightly below normal northeast, central and southwest and 4 to 8 degrees below normal southeast. Normal highs 91 to 94, normal lows 61 northwest to 70 southeast.
Weather
MOSCOW —(UPI)— The Soviet Tass news agency has announced that the trial of American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers will begin Aug.17.
Powers Trial Starts Aug.17
Powers, 31, of Albany, Ga., was shot down by a Soviet rocket on May 1 near Sverdlovsk while making what the Russians called a spy flight from Pakistan to Norway.
Tass said the case would be "an open court session" of the military college of the nation's supreme court.
Powers was charged officially with espionage a week ago. The decision to try him was made by the military college of the supreme court, Tass said.
The charge carries a maximum sentence of death and a minimum of seven years imprisonment.
Women Again Top Grade Point List
If the women go to college to catch husbands, they also find time to capture some good grades in the pursuit, according to the University of Kansas report of grade point averages for 1959-60.
Women led men in scholarship ability at KU. The grade point average for women was 1.60 compared to 1.32 for men. The grade point scale is 3 for A, 2 for B and 1 for C.
Male students at KU might salvage their pride by pointing out there are many more men than women at the University, making it more difficult for the men to maintain a high over-all average.
The all-University average was 1.41, exactly the same as the preceding year. The men's average stayed the same, also, and the women's average dropped only .01.
Straight down the list of 62 organized living groups, the averages are almost identical with those of the preceding year, although several houses switched places in the race for grades.
Highest averages by categories were for the scholarship halls—1.99 for the women, 1.74 for the men. The all-soriority average was 1.72, compared to 1.37 for the all-fraternity average. Women's residence halls averaged 1.35, compared to 1.07 for men's residence halls.
In only one of these categories did the highest male group do better than their female counterparts. Beta Theta Pl, the highest social fraternity with 1.99, was slightly above the highest social sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, with 1.97.
The two top houses in each category: National social sororities, Kappa Alpha Theta, 1.97, and Pi Beta Phi, 1.92; national social fraternities, Beta Theta Pi, 1.99, and Alpha Tau Omega, 1.72; women's scholarship halls, Douthart, 2.09, and Miller, 2.02; men's scholarship halls, Foster, 1.84, and Buttenfield, 1.81; women's residence halls, Grace Pearson, 1.64, and O'Leary, 1.52; men's residence halls, Carruth, 1.40, and J. R. Pearson, 1.09
Three Students Get Cherokee Awards
One sophomore and two incoming freshmen at the University were announced today as recipients of Cherokee County alumni scholarships totaling $600.
They are Emerson Tjair, a sophomore from Baxter Springs and freshmen William J. Robinson and John Deakins, both of Columbus.
Regents to Reauest Increase
Requests from general revenue for the year beginning a year from July 1 will be $32,406,390, compared with $28,895,583 for 1961, Brighton said. Capital improvements would add $755,050 to this figure.
TOPEKA —(UPI)— The Kansas Board of Regents will ask the next legislature for a 12.2 per cent increase in appropriations from general revenue for the 1962 fiscal year, Executive Secretary Hubert A. Brighton has announced.
Total 1962 fiscal year requests, including general fees and all operating funds would be $49,369,585, or an increase of 7.5 per cent over the 1961 budget of $45,902,185. This does not include buildings, auxiliary enterprises or capital improvements.
An addition of 76 new positions will increase by $516,207 this year's figure over that of the 1961 fiscal year.
Brighton explained that new positions are to be added at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University on the theory that a new instructor will be needed for each 17 new students.
The Board forecast a total increase of 1,377 students during the 1962 fiscal year.
Regents also will ask the legislature to approve an $895,312 allocation for a contributory retirement fund. The state's current retirement fund does not require the employees to contribute and is included in the 1962 budget request at $441,265, compared with $401,901 for the
This must be continued, Brighton pointed out, for teachers already retired.
The new fund would be based on 5 per cent matching contributions from the employee and the state.
Merit raises would boost faculty
pay at all colleges by an average of 5 per cent per faculty member and total net salaries for the 1962 fiscal year will be $36,022,281, under the regents, plan. This compares with the 1961 figure of $33,781,408, an increase of 6.6 per cent.
The board shaved $812,562 off requests from the institutions and cut out all new projects or programs. Brighton said.
Total operating budgets for the University of Kansas and Kansas State are the biggest items. The KU figure is $14,263,053, of which the legislature is to be asked to allocate $10,426,124. At Kansas State the total is $15,121,703, but requests from the general revenue are only $8,643,575.
Twenty-four new faculty positions are to be added at KU and 21 at Kansas State, under the requested budget.
Living Group Grade Marks
GENERAL STANDINGS
All University
All Women
All Men
SOCIAL SORORITIES
WOMEN'S SCHOLARSHIP HALLS
Douhart
Miller
ALL WOMEN SCHOLARSHIP HALL
Sellards
Watkins
ALL WOMEN
ALL UNIVERSITY
WOMEN'S RESIDENCE HALLS
Grace Pearson
ALL WOMEN
OLeary
ALL UNIVERSITY
GSP Freshman
ALL WOMEN RESIDENCE HALL
North
GSP Upperclass
Cotton
SOCIAL FRATERNITIES
Beta Theta Pi
Alpha Tau Omega
Sigma Chi
Delta Upsilon
Alpha Kappa Lambda
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Kappa Tau
Theta Chi
Lambda Chi Alpha
ALL UNIVERSITY
Kappa Sigma
ALL FRATERNITY
Triangle
Phi Gamma Delta
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Delta Tau Delta
Alpha Epsilon Pi
ALP MEN
Pi Kappa Alpha
Theta Chi
Phi Kappa Psi
Delta Chi
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Acacia
Sigma Pi
Phi Kappa Theta
Delta Sigma Phi
Sigma Nu
Phi Kappa Sigma
Alpha Phi Alpha
Kappa Alpha Psi
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MEN'S SCHOLARSHIP HALLS
MEN'S RESIDENCE HALLS
ALL UNIVERSITY
Carruth
ALL MEN
J. R. Pearson
ALL MEN RESIDENCE HALL
Oread (Fall Only)
Templin
Lewis (Spring Only)
1.84
1.81
1.80
1.74
1.65
1.64
1.41
1.22
Close Friend of U.S. Elected in Japan
TOKYO —(UPI)—The Japanese Parliament elected Hayato Ikeda, a leading economist who has a long record of close cooperation with the United States, as the new Prime Minister of Japan yesterday.
He replaces Nobusuke Kishi forced to resign by a violent left-wing opposition against Japan's military ties with the United States.