Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Campus/Area
January trial date set for accused gambler
A trial date of Jan. 9 was set yesterday in Douglas County District Court for a Lawrence man accused of running an open saloon, allowing his premises to be used for gambling, possessing a gambling device and gambling
The charges against the man,
Burgess Rennels, 446 Maine St.
stemmed from incidents that occurred Oct. 17 at 633 Vermont St.
Bond was set at $500, but Burgess was released on his own recognition.
Coors to honor twins
Twins Brad and Kristen Claflin, Overland Park sophomores, will be honored at a reception Saturday as the Kansas recipients of Coors Veterans Memorial Scholarships.
Metro Distributors, Coors supplier for an eight-county area in Kansas and Missouri, will honor the Kansas and Missouri recipients of the renewable $1,500 scholarships, which were awarded in August by the Adolph Coors Company. The recipients were chosen after applying last summer.
The scholarships are two of 50 national scholarships awarded to sons and daughters of U.S. war veterans.
Tim Miller, lecturer of religious studies, will speak about "Silkville: A Commune on the Kansas Prairie," at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow at the University Forum, sponsored by the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Commune talk set
Miller has taught at KU for 17 years and visited many communes throughout the United States. His presentation will include slides of communes in Kansas.
Monday is the deadline for applications for people interested in selling their wares at Student Union Activities' Annual Arts and Crafts Bazaar, Dec. 4-6 in the Kansas University Gallery.
Bazaar forms due
A hot lunch-will be served. The cost is $3.
Applications may be picked up from the SUA office on the fourth floor of the Union and should be returned by 5 p.m. Monday.
A variety of handmade items will be sold at the bazaar. For more information, call Robin Stevens, 864-3477.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny but cold. The high will be between 40 and 45 degrees, with variable winds at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be increasingly cloudy with a chance of freezing drizzle and lows in the mid- to upper 20s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain, possibly freezing. The high will be in the mid-40s.
From staff and wire reports
Corrections
Because of a copy editor's error, a headline in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly said a KU student was arrested after an investigation into local cocaine trafficking. The person arrested is a former student.
Because of incorrect information supplied to the Kansan, an item in the Week Ahead at KU calendar in Monday's paper incorrectly reported the time for tonight's Women's Resource Center workshop. The workshop, "One Couple Plus Two Careers," begins at 7:30 p.m.
KU's employees remain uninsured
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
The search for a liability insurance policy for KU employees is continuing but the prospects are bleak that an insurer will be found, the University associate director of business affairs said yesterday.
Martin Jones, the associate director, said that since KU's liability policy expired in June, it had been nearly impossible to find an insurer who would underwrite a policy for the University.
"Because of the size of the claims that have been awarded recently, there has been a problem created across the country." Jones said.
Liability insurance protects KU
employees if they are sued for an action that occurs while they are on the job.
Under KU's old policy, employees were protected from personal injury suits including libel, slander and defamation of character, according to Margaret Walters, an agent for the University's insurance company.
"We've tried every suggestion that has come up," he said. "We've even contacted Lloyd's of London. They wouldn't handle the policy either.
Jones said the search to find an insurer had become frustrating.
"We are making every effort to obtain the insurance for the University. But getting the attention of insurance companies is difficult when you're talking about liability insurance."
"I Insurance companies are not as willing to take the risk any more," she said. "We've been trying to find an insurer for the University but it's been very difficult."
Walters said that uneasiness in the insurance industry has led to the scarcity of group liability policies.
Jones said the few companies that offered liability coverage charged premiums that were five to six times more expensive than KU's previous policy.
"It would be unreasonable to pay those kinds of prices for insurance," he said.
"The situation is not too bad for it. It's not like we're not covered at all."
The Tort Claims Act provides coverage from the state for KU employees if they are sued for an action that occurs within the scope of their job, according to Vickie Thomas, University general counsel.
We are afforded protection by the Tort Claims Act."
However, there is confusion among the faculty about how far the state coverage will protect them, said Sidney Shapiro, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee.
"There is some uneasiness on the part of the faculty." Shapiro said. "If the University would like them to undertake service activities that might incur liability, they would like
the university to make sure that the necessary coverage exists. At this point, they don't really know."
Arno Knapper, presiding officer of the University Council, said concern over the lack of insurance surfaced during last week's Kansas Board of Regents meeting.
"There was some discussion among the presidents of the senates of the schools," he said. "They felt uncomfortable with the Tort Claims Act. There was some question as to whether it provided all the coverage that was needed."
Prof killed flying plane near home
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Leland Miller, a former KU professor of occupational therapy, died Sunday in a plane crash near his home in Lubbock, Texas.
Mr. Miller, 58, was killed when an experimental plane he was flying crashed. Federal Aviation Administration officials are investigating the cause of the crash.
Judy Bachelder, assistant professor of occupational therapy, remembered Mr. Miller as an ingenious and inventive man.
"He could build anything," Bachelere said. "He developed some adaptive equipment for eating for children who have disabilities."
Bachelorel said Mr. Miller used to build airplanes and once built a high-powered telescope. He also built a fugree, wigreed-iron car, she said.
Student sketches cartoons for profit
Alex Boyle, professor of design, said the car was built on a Volkswagen frame.
"It was almost completely a lattice-type of thing put together with linear steel," he said. "It was quite an oddity.
"He'd do things like that."
Mr. Miller came to the University in 1958 and was the former chairman of occupational therapy. Boyle said he knew Mr. Miller more than 25 years. Mr. Miller was successful in building the KU occupational therapy program, he said.
Mr. Miller did a lot of work with handicapped people to ease their lives. Bovle said
"It's a real tragedy," Boyle said of Mr. Miller's death.
He was a professor of occupational therapy in the School of Allied Health at Texas Tech University at the time of his death.
Mr. Miller was involved with the department of design in his early days at the University, Boyle said. He won second prize in the Pacific National Exposition in 1963 for a woodcarving, "A Pocket Full of Posseys," which depicted his four children.
Miller received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Park College, Parkville, Mo. in 1951. He earned a certificate of occupational therapy at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1953. He received his master's degree in 1955 from Bradley University, Peoria, III.
He is survived by three daughters: Dianne Miller, Maripsima, Calif., Kim Miller McBride, Portland, Ore., and Shelley Miller, Washington, D.C.; a son, Byron Miller of Lawrence; his mother, Henrietta Miller, and a brother, Donald Miller, both of Ankeny, Iowa.
Funeral services are pending and will be at Rix Funeral Home in Lubbock.
Dave Uhig, Wichita senior, drew a caricature of President Ronald Reagan yesterday after completing an industrial/research presentation.
By Bob Tinsley
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
A KU industrial design student with a talent for drawing has found a way to turn his talent into profit.
Dave Uhlig, Wichita senior, draws cartoons for the editorial page of the Christian Science Monitor.
Uhlig returned to the University this fall, fresh from an industrial design internship with Baugh-Deines, a Wichita consulting firm.
"I was geared up from everything I did over the summer, and when I came back to KU, I got this call from the Monitor." Uhlig said yesterday.
So Uhlig, whose work has been featured in the University Daily Kansan, began to contribute what work he could to the Christian Science Monitor.
The Christian Science Monitor is published in Boston and has a circulation of about 150,000.
"It's really an honor to work for a paper that size," he said.
A friend told him last spring that a full-time cartoonist soon would quit at the Monitor. The friend encouraged him to send some of his work to Boston.
Uhlig said he used to draw cartoons for his high school newspaper, and he submitted work last spring that was published in the University Daily Kansan.
"I was just doing it to be doing it," Uhlig said. "I didn't really think I had any chance of getting a iob."
But then he received a call from Richard J. Cattani, chief editorial writer for the Monitor.
Uhlig's clear style and sense of humor are the qualities that the Monitor appreciates about his work, Cattani said.
"I think it relates well to a general audience," he said. "Those are requisites for a successful cartoonist."
Uhlig said the themes of his work were international and domestic political affairs.
"I guess I take a little more liberal
slant on my cartons," he said.
"That kind of works against me at the Monitor because they don't really want to make anybody mad."
The Monitor's editorial standards are influenced more by how an article or cartoon addresses an issue, Cattani said, rather than its ability to stir up a dispute.
"We're radical on issues of principles, morality and ethics," he said. "We tend to be moderating where there are bitter public disputes."
Uhlig sends four or five cartoons at a time to the Monitor for its consideration, he said.
Cattani said he and the editorial board reviewed all material for the Monitor's editorial page
The Christian Science Monitor board of directors also reviews the material, he said. The board is the top governing authority for the church and newspaper, he said.
This is Uhlig's fifth year at the University. He will complete a bachelor of fine arts degree in industrial design in May 1987, he said.
Richard Branham, professor of industrial design, said Uhlig brought sensitivity and emotion to his illustrations, and yet could remain objective and logical in his industrial design work.
"Those students are hard to find," Branham said.
"I've designed everything from cigarettes to gas stations to a J.C. Penney," he said.
Industrial designers deal with the way people interact with machines, be said. They try to make them look appealing, yet serve a function.
"Given his abilities and skills, he would qualify for a wide range of jobs." he said.
Uhlig is too busy pursuing his degree to do much work for the Monitor this year, he said.
Vent causes fire on Watkins' roof
By a Kansan reporter
A fire yesterday afternoon at Watkins Hospital was apparently caused when an emergency generator vent heated up and ignited the roof, a Lawrence firefighter said yesterday.
Damage was estimated at $100 and no one was injured, Capt. Larry Woydziak, the firefighter, said.
Firefighters were called to the hospital at about 3:45 p.m. and worked with axes and pry tools for nearly an hour to clear an area around the vent pipe and extinguish the flames, Woydziak said.
He said a wooden frame that was built around the vent as part of the roof ignited when the vent became hot.
Regents enter tax conflict
The Kansas Board of Regents will submit a brief today to the State Board of Tax Appeals saying that a tax board decision last month contradicts legislation passed last year intended to exempt alumni associations from property taxes, the Regents general counsel said yesterday.
Of the Kansan staff
Bill Kauffman, the general counsel, said the six-page brief supported the University of Kansas Alumni Association on the issue of its membership.
The 1985 Legislature granted property tax-exempt status to alumni associations status, but the Board of Tax Appeals in September denied the Association property tax exempt status in Douglas County. The 3-2 majority said the Association was not a true alumni association because its membership was not restricted to alumni.
By Jennifer Benjamin
That definition of an alumni association is contrary to the practices of alumni associations. Kauf-
The tax board granted the Alumni Association a
"The decision of the Board of Tax Appeals is contrary to the best interests of higher education," Kauffman said. "Other state schools most certainly would be affected by the Board of Tax Appeals' decision.
"That's exactly why we chose to write the amicus brief. The implications go beyond the KU Alumni Association."
When the tax board made its original decision, it stated that the Alumni Association used its building for non-alumni activities.
The Regents voted Friday to submit the brief before the tax board made a decision on the rehearing. The decision is expected in January.
"We're not making any statement as to the use of the building," Kaufman said. "We think it's appropriate for the KU Alumni Association to make its own policies."
Nearly $65,000 in property taxes for 1984 and taxes for 1985 and the following years are at stake.
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