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Tuesday, October 2, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Liability Insurance Plan Studied
By LARRY FISH
Kansas Staff Reporter
The 800-member Teachers and Employees Association (TEA) at the University of Kansas is considering a group list. To allow such a list to a life insurance plan the group already has.
"We've been looking into the matter of getting a liability policy for members of the faculty and administration," TEA president Charles J. Beer said yesterday.
Baer, professor of mechanical engineering, said that the insurance was needed because of what he called a great increase in the number of lawsuits being brought against faculty members and students. He said it ranges across the country in recent years.
liability as a result of an accident in a lab or on a field trip under his supervision. A student who fails to comply with a result in a suit against him for slander, Baer said, or a student could sue an advisor for damaging advice given during enrollment. An administrator could be sued in connection with the equal opportunity laws, be sued.
Baaer said he had studied a liability insurance policy that employees at Kansas State University had recently purchased and he said the TEA was looking for broader coverage than K-State had obtained.
"We are in contact with three agents to see if broader coverage is available at a reasonable price," Baer said. "I think we should do two or three weeks whether it is available."
"If it is, the TEA will make a decision,
possibly in conjunction with someone in the
street."
Charles Oldfather, University attorney, said one of the major benefits a faculty member or administrator would realize from the coverage would be that protection against legal action. If a lawsuit was brought against a faculty member, Oldfather said, the insurer would pay court costs and defend him in court.
"The main thing a policy buys for you is defense," Oldfather said. "The duty of an insurer to defend a client in court is a very important insurance insurance most people don't think about."
Oldfather said many faculty members had insurance liability as part of their home owners policies, but those policies often had coverage excluded coverage of job-related liability.
"I recurrente that those who run labs get a training written out of their policies," claifafher wrote.
By doing that, he explained, they would be covered for liability on the job.
He said that such coverage through the TEA would not cost the University anything and would be paid for entirely by premiums of members.
Keith L. Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, agreed with the need for liability coverage for faculty and administration, and said that a group plan would give members protection at a much lower rate than individual policies.
Bær expressed fear that legal action could be encouraged when it became known that professors had sizeable insurance policies.
"As soon as we get its insurance and publicize it, it will invite legal action," he
School District To Use Levy For Facilities
A new four-mill capital outlay levy for Lawrence School District 497 will provide $250,000 a year for district school facilities, according to Ken Fisher, assistant superintendent of business and facilities.
An additional $250,000 for a fund that could be used for long term projects was another part of the levy. Fisher told the department of education at its meeting yesterday.
Fisher, who is also chairman of the district's facilities committee, said.
facilities meant desks, chairs, sidewalks,
audio/video equipment, air conditioning
His committee worked on alternative plans for the district's future, he said. The committee makes recommendations and establishes closures and use of available facilities.
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A revision in the district's child abuse policy was passed by the board to make the policy consistent with the law related to child abuse.
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KU Lacks Trained Person For Disposal of Chemicals
The University of Kansas doesn't employ anyone trained to remove toxic or flammable chemicals, and that created a problem when a bottle of acrolein, an
THE LAWRENCE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS will have its annual orientation meeting at 7:30 tonight in the home of Betsy Joy, 522 Abilene.
ROD HANNA, the official photographer for the Kansas City Royals, the Kansas City Chiefs and the new hockey team in Kansas City. (Courtesy) am.am. Thursday in room 206 of Flint Hall.
THE SIERRA CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the South Park Recreation Center, "Development, Com- and Environment" will be the theme.
ROGER STONER, visiting lecturer on the trumpet, will present a recital at 8 p.m.
THE DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES will offer a 10-week, non-credit course in conversational Japanese beginning today at Johnson County Community College in Kansas City, Kan. The course will meet every Tuesday through Dec. 4 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in room 119 of the Science Building at JCCC.
THE DEAN OF MEN'S OFFICE and the University Counseling Center will sponsor a vocational seminar for pre-law students at the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
THE KU MOUNTAINEERING AND BACKPACKING CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. Slides of backpacking in the Swiss Alps and the Colorado Rockies will be shown.
THE KU COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN will show the film, "Growing Up Pernale," during an orien- tion at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Ewells Hall永华
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irritant used in the manufacture of tear gas, exploded Thursday in Snow Hall.
Jackie McLain, biological sciences manager, said yesterday that she made five or six calls immediately after the accident to contact someone to dispose of the bottle.
Chemicals are picked up by persons trained to handle radioactive wastes but McLain said she thought KU needed a handgun and had the hygienist to handle dangerous chemicals.
"Having a person on campus in this capacity would serve in two ways. First, it would allow a department to get rid of disposed chemicals immediately and not have to wait for the radiation biophysics personnel. Second, it would give assurance to have some person familiar with the side effects of these materials," she said.
Guy Oldfield, a radiation biophysics instructor and director of the Health Physics Group, said the Health Physics Group provided radiation safety services for KU and most of the problems the group envisaged were similar to the problem of toxic chemicals.
"We tried to get appropriations to hire a director last year," he said, "but the budget was so tight that we had to go."
"I hope we get one. The accident last week was a little more spectacular than usual but there is always a problem with chemical wastes."
Explosion Kills Experimenter
The victim, Earl Saw, was killed instantly in the blast behind his home.
Fred Baker, a friend and neighbor, told authorities Shaw was experimenting with a technique that he had drawn from library resources developing a commercially saleable gas.
A contraption made from gas pipes and sealed at both ends was placed in a three-by-four foot hole in his back yard and encased in red brick. Undertitled chemicals would be fumelled into the pipes buried in the bricks with charcoal brikes, Baker tips.
Following the explosion, Shaw's glasses were found high in a tree and had hat was broken.
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