THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 8 Wednesday, September 6, 1978
Enrollment totals hold KU's future
Lawrence, Kansas
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Student loan agreement boosts Kansas program
By PHILIP GARCIA
Staff Reporter
HELP, the Higher Education Loan Program of Kansas, will receive some help of its own.
A nationwide marketing association, the Student Loan Marketing Association, has agreed to buy up to $12.7 million of insured loans during the next three years from HELP, Paul Lombardo, executive director of HELP, said yesterday.
"The $12.7 million sold in loans to the association will be turned back to loans to give to students." Lombardo said.
Known as "Sallie Mae," the federally financed association enters into loan buying agreements to help finance higher education. Similar buying agreements of insured loans have been filed by the association with loan programs in Minnesota and Michigan.
Lombardo said the agreement did not necessarily increase the amount of funds available to students, but allows HELP to meet
For example, Lombardo said, if student loan requests totaled $10 million but HELP was to disperse only $5 million, the
the "agreement is a secondary market in that it will keep the dollars flotting, receive the money back into loans," he said. "It's not going to be as good for us."
marketing association would purchase enough loans to meet the demand.
Lombardo said HELP financed its loans last year through the sale of $7.7 million in corporate bonds. At the end of August, $15 million in bonds had been sold to meet this year's loan requests, he said.
Lombardo said about 150 loan applications had been filed every day for the last month.
The HELP program, which began last November, allows students who are unable to obtain a guaranteed loan from a commercial bank to borrow as much as $2,500 a year, but not more than $7,500 in four years.
The program is open to all students regardless of family financial circumstances. It is guaranteed by the Higher Education Loan Foundation of Minnesota. A 1% interest rate is charged on loans beginning nine months after graduation.
"There is such a variation in loan requests and until all figures for one year are available, it is going to be hard to predict how much money will be needed."
Malpractice suit settled
BvDEBRIECHMANN
Staff Renorter
A check for $74,000 yesterday settled a malpractice suit that was filed against the University of Kansas Medical Center by a child who was born with severe brain damage.
The out-of-court settlement, approved by Johnson County District Court Judge Lewis Smith, ended the suit, which was one of the plaintiffs' suits ever brought against the Med Center.
The malpractice suit was filed in June 1976 by Lacretia Bryan of Shawnee, who charged that her son, James Bryan, suffered brain damage as a result of improper care she received before her son's birth and the care she son received after birth.
Larry McMullen, defense attorney who represented six doctors and three physician corporations at the Med Center, said he was surprised by the fact that showed the mother had an infection in
her third month of pregnancy. This could be the brain damage, but nothing could be proved.
SHE ALSO had symptoms of a flu infection or a German Measles-type infection that could have accounted for the brain damage. McMullen said.
When James Bryan was born at 11:33 P.M. on July 28, 1942, he no pulse and had only a faint beetlebeat, said Reid Holrook, attorney who represented the Kansas State of Regents and the Med School.
The baby immediately was put on a respirator and was released after about four minutes.
Since January 1977 the boy has been
reached at the Kanasa Neurological In-
stitute in Toronto.
Michael Norris, one of two attorneys who represented Bryan, said that the boy was mentally retarded and suffered severe brain damage. He said that the boy's arms
and legs were paralyzed and that he was experiencing some functional blindness.
THE SETTLEMENT will be paid by the Professional Liability Insurance Co. for the medical insurance which three separate physician corporations comprising obitrarians, anesthesiologists and pediatricians at the Med Center will pay part of the $470,000.
Bryan will use $87,000 of the settlement to purchase a sub-standard annuity contract from Centenial Insurance Co. which will provide monthly payments to the Kansas Neurological Institute for the boy's care the rest of his life.
In addition to the settlement, $27,000 worth of medical expenses, which Bryan
According to Holbrook, the original settlement request was about $5 million.
Edward Boyle, an attorney for Bryan, said that she might have received more money if the case had gone to court and a judge would have made it clear that she also might have gotten nothing.
Photo by CHRIS TODD
"WE FEEL that it was a good settlement
to them, and we think that they are pleased
with it."
Holbrok said the suit was settled out of court because attorneys believed a jury would be swayed by the appearance of the five-year-old boy in a courtroom.
The boy, who has an IQ less than 10 and is not expected to live more than eight more years, would have represented "a fantastic sympathy factor" to a jury, he said.
Holbrook added, however. "I'm sure she would have preferred to have a normal job," Holbrook said.
Hot wheels
Terry Baugher, 11, 279 Leary Road, practices whelies in a cuvert along U.S. 59. Baughter said he hoped to do the same with motorcycles someday.
Waitina for Flip
Christine Schmidt came from Olathe with her hand-embroidered
sign to see Flip Wilson and the Jayhawk football team make a television show and end up snoring. See page six.
Football ticket sales going well
Staff Renarter
Bv BARR KOENIG
Despite a $3 price increase and a low big Eight football season rankings this year, student season football ticket sales are going well, according to Doug Messer, assistant athletic director and business manager.
Messer said yesterday that although no exact figures were available, ticket sales to date were keeping up with those of the 1977 season.
"I think it's really fair to say that we don't see a drastic change from previous years in terms of number of tickets sold," Messer said.
Although the $3 stadium surcharge raised this year's student ticket price from $20 to $23, Messer said the price of a KU season ticket is about $68, and the price tickets价 at the other Eight schools.
"OUR SEASON ticket price is very comparable," he said. "In fact, it's in the $10 range."
The surcharge was added last spring to help pay for a $1.8 million renovation of Memorial Stadium, to be completed by Saturday's name.
Messer said he had not heard many complaints about the price increase and speculated that the Jayhawk's home stadium may have a major attraction for season ticket buyers.
The home schedule will bring Texus A & M, UCLA, University of Miami, Oklahoma, Iowa State and Nebraska to Memorial Stadium.
Messer said that although this year's ticket sales may not surpass last year's 8,600 total, he thought the student body was "very satisfied" with the new tickets and ticket sales would reflect that interest.
THE SALE of alumi季训 tickets also is going well. Messer said, even with a slight increase in price over last year. Alumi季训 tickets are $250 for $100, to $3.80 for a game, or $6.50 for the season.
"There is a possibility, but it's going to be very close," he said.
Although alumni ticket sales are running close to the amount sold at this time last year, Messier said, there still is a possibility that an extra surplus last year's raced of 14,000 tickets.
Messer said tickets would be sold for the remainder of the week at various residence halls from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the Student Union Activities box office in the Kansas Union from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and in the field of the field house from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Student season tickets, which went on sale last week at Allen Field House, can be purchased until Saturday, when KU opens for the game against Texas A&M. Messer said.
Season tickets also can be purchased on the day of the game at the field house from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and at stadium tickets below the rest of the morning, Messier said.
Art professor leads double life
By EVIE LAZZARINO
Staff Reporter
Al Loving, visiting associate professor of
University of Kansas, had a hectic
Labor Day.
Friday night he flew to New York City, where he visited with his roommates, a French chef and a French horn player. On Saturday he went upstate to Kersenhoven, an urban-based off-Broadway repertory group, the Fourth Wall, of which he is a member.
Back in Manhattan on Sunday, he spent the day working on a landscape painting and putting the finishing touches on the SoHo gallery he and some friends are opening
Loving, 42, will be at KU for one semester. He teaches life drawing to seniors and graduate art students and gives career counseling in art.
"It sounds like a lot," Loving said. "But, actually, it takes me almost as long as 40 miles through New Jersey as it does to get from me and fly from Lawrence to New York City."
On Monday, he flew back to Lawrence.
Although his schedule may sound exhausting, Loving does not think it is. In fact, he commutes to The Big Apple every weekend.
AS HE EXPLAINED the reason behind his decision to come to KU. Loving looked at him with curiosity.
"This is just beautiful," he said. "Kansas provides an extremely comfortable and unrestricted environment."
Loving said KU*v visual arts building had the best working atmosphere he had ever been.
"I'm envious," he said, stretching his arm. "Whoever designed this building realy had the artist in mind. All this fantastic work must be made wide enough to move a huge cave behind."
Loving began teaching in 1965 at the
University of Eastern Michigan, after art degree in art from the University of Michigan.
In 1968, at the urging of artist Frank Stella, he moved to New York.
By 1899, Loving was invited to have a meenam show at the Whitney Museum of Americana. He died in 1905.
LOVING'S CAREER began with painting still life, but he has experimented with mixed media.
Some of Loving's experimental styles were paintings of cubes and hard-edge painting. Later he began creating sewn canvases with wood, paper, or cardboard structures and manner collage.
"I am very interested now in painting not simply landscapes," he said, "but landscape that also depict people being productive within them, such as the landscape near the theater group workshop in upstate New York."
LOVING SAID the reason for his return to imagery in art, rather than abstraction, may be a reflection of society's need to start "connecting with people again."
"My last four years in New York, I was creating extremely abstract art," I loved said, "I think I was the only one who would have wanted to hang any of it."
Loving described his recent work as having come full circle from his earlier abstrac-
"If an artist does something, it is to articulate the needs of the people that are created."
"You might compare the last century with a Gothic period," Loving said. "Society was wrapped up in the industrial revolution and resulted somewhat in the alienation of people."
Loving laughed when he recalled the description of him as a Renaissance man, because of his interest in theater and dance, as well as art.
"Having one-man shows in New York is
"Dont mind understand me; I like living in New York," Lowe said. "But also like living in Texas."
LOVING SAID he would continue to accept teaching offers at schools across the country.
the most dazzling feeling possible for an artist," he said. "But after the dazzle there is bound to be some feeling of let down. So, I always have other interests, other things to keep me busy besides art. I am so busy, I would never have time to be depressed."
Lovina art
Staff photo by BRUCE BANDLE
AI Loving, visiting art instructor at the School of Fine Arts, viewed slides of his work during a break in his schedule yesterday afternoon.