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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, Sept. 13, 1985
Jobs in arts exist,profssav
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Although job opportunities for fine arts graduates are tough to find, the market for competitive, creative students is fairly stable — and for舞大师，the market is expanding， according to KU professors of fine arts.
"There are jobs to be had in all the disciplines," Fritz Reiber, director of basic studies in fine arts, said yesterday. "Those students who are competitive don't usually have much trouble finding jobs."
Reiber said the greatest job opportunities were in the applied arts such as graphic, illustrative, interior and industrial design.
"The advertising market has an insatiable appetite for young, creative people," he said. "The market rarely fluctuates because during economic recessions, advertisers become more aggressive. When the economy is good, advertisers have lots of money to spend and aggressively compete for consumers."
The University's association with Hallmark Cards also helps some students get jobs. Hallmark hires several graduates every year, and other said.
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For painters, printmakers, and sculptors, full-time jobs in those specific fields are rare, he said.
"These students have to be very dedicated because they won't necessarily get a job based on their degree
He said artists of crafts such as metalsmithing and ceramics could usually find jobs in foundries or small firms, where they used technical knowledge of the medium in their work, but not much creative thought.
or education," Reiber said. "Most of them will have to work in other areas and restrict art work to a professional hobby for evenings and weekends."
Janet Hamburg, chairman of the dance department, said demand for dancers had increased with the advent of video music, cinema choreography and a renewed public interest in concert舞.
Dancers have a variety of job choices, from music videos to professional dance companies on the East
Coast, Hamburg said. In 1985, five KU students graduated with dance degrees.
One graduate landed a job with the Shelly Sheppard Dance Company in New York. Another graduate works in Atlanta with a regional dance company. Two graduates pursued master's degrees, and the remaining graduate teaches dance in an elementary school.
Jobs in movement analysis, dance history and philosophy, critical and newspaper reviewing and teaching have also increased, Hamburg said.
"In a competitive market, people need to make their own opportunities," she said. "But, the opportunities are clearly increasing because people are more aware of dance."
Inquisition approved to examine arson case
By a Kansan reporter
Flory said the inquisition was an investigative tool used to examine witnesses and documents.
The Douglas Country District Court on Wednesday approved an inquisition into the suspected arson that occurred Monday at a Lawrence apartment building, Jim Flory. Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday.
"I can't say much about it," he said. "It's investigative, and it's a closed session."
Flory said that he asked the court on Wednesday to approve the inquisition and that it had been
approved by Associate District Judge Jean Shepherd.
The Douglas County arson squad, composed of investigators from the Lawrence fire department, the Douglas County sheriff's office, the KU police and the Lawrence police, was appointed Monday afternoon to investigate the fire.
"We're still interviewing and running, out leads," Marilyn Steele, sheriff's office spokenwoman, said yesterday.
The fire occurred about 5 a.m., Monday in a stairwell at Pinecrest Apartments, 2026 Redbud Lane.
Malpractice costs continue upward
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TOPEKA — The medical malpractice insurance situation is continuing to deteriorate, according to statistics the Kansas Medical Society presented to a legislative committee yesterday.
Jerry Slaughter, KMS lobbyist,
sald Kansas doctors were expected to
pay $48.5 million in malpractice
insurance premiums in the current
fiscal year, nearly 4.5 times the $11
million spent on premiums in fiscal
1982
In a hearing by the Special Committee on Medical Malpractice, Slaughter updated earlier estimates on insurance costs, saying they had climbed even higher than expected, especially for higher risk practitioners, such as obstetricians.
Shlaughter said the number of malpractice claims filed had continued to increase. He said it is estimated that 300 claims will be filed against the state's Health Care Stabilization Fund in 1986, a 12-fold increase of the 26 claims filed in 1979. The fund was created by the
Legislature to pay malpractice awards that exceed the amount of a health care provider's insurance coverage.
"The amount of money paid to claimants is also increasing at an alarm rate," Slaughter said. "We estimate that over $22 million will be paid in awards and settlements during 1985, up from $3.6 million in 1980, a six-fold increase."
he said the average size of claims paid had increased from $23,700 per period to $113,800 in the same period.
"As our October 1984 survey showed, increasing numbers of physicians are stopping high-risk services such as obstetrics," the lobbyist said.
The Medical Society and others in the medical community are urging the state to put caps on malpractice damage awards, create screening panels to review potential malpractice claims before they go to
trial and take other steps to limit doctors' vulnerability to malpractice suits.
Number for unions puts menus on line
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
The menu hotline, which is updated daily, is similar to time-and-temperature recordings.
Carol Dengel, media-promotions coordinator for the Kansas and Burge unions, said Wednesday that she got the idea for the hotline this summer. The hotline started last week.
Finding out what's for lunch at the Kansas and Burge union cafeterias is as easy as 1-2-3 — or 864-4567 — now that the menu hotline is available.
"Our secretary would get lots of calls about the menu so we decided to do something about it," she said. "If you eat at the cafeterias regularly, the information could come in handy
instead of trying your luck every day."
Before the hotline began, a monthly menu for the unions was published in a month's Kansas and Burge union newsletter called the Union Cable. The menu worked well, she said, but they could not get the soups and entrees a month before the newsletter was published.
Before the cafeteria closes at 1:30 p.m., the recording will tell the caller the five entrées and two soups being served in the Kansas Union and then will give the soups and entree available at the Burge Union.
After 1:30 p.m., the recording will tell the caller which yogurt and ice-cream flavors the Kansas Union will serve that day.
Two films depicting American turmoil in the 1920s and '30s will be shown at the Spencer Art Museum this weekend as a complement to a KU student's graphic exhibition of the highly charged political climate of the Depression era.
"Artists at Work" is an awardwinning film that chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal effort to spread art to millions through the country's first comprehensive art education project in the 1930s.
The exhibition, "American Scene," which opened at the museum in July, will continue through Sept. 29.
"Manhattan," a silent film directed and photographed by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand in 1921, is an impressionist record of New York after World War I.
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
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"I was intrigued by the correlation of thought between the two mediums at that time." Wright said. "It's interesting that they chose to realistically show both the ideal and the real aspects of the time, while European artists worked with cubism and impressionism."
While artists such as Grant Wood and photographers such as Ansel Adams portrayed a grander, idealistic view of the country, Reginald Marsh and Walker Evans depicted the effects of the Depression in a
Elizabeth Wright, Topeka graduate student and curatorial intern at the museum, organized "American Scene" this summer. The exhibit features pictures and prints that depict artists' views of the Depression.
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Next weekend, the exhibit will be accompanied by a documentary film of 1930s dance and a talk and discussion about Kansas in the Depression.
Wright will talk about the exhibition in the White Gallery of the museum at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Twila Tharp and dancers perform "Sue's Leg" in a documentary film with music by Fats Waller juxtaposed with scenes from 1930s popular dance.
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tortnight, realistic manner, Wright said.
The office of student records sent computer printouts of the tentative courses to the 60 departments for a third and final revision, Gary Thompson, director of student records, said yesterday.
Final decisions about course offerings for next semester are being made this week by the University's departments and schools.
She said a determining factor of artists' themes during that time was the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, an outgrowth of social consciousness and political realism as the part of artists and intellectuals.
From 1935 to 1943, artists received federal paychecks that allowed them to devote their full energies to art. Consequently, many artists chose to work in the realism of the American Scene style.
The documentary film "Artists at Work" is composed of actual film footage from the 1930s that was recently discovered in various archives of that era, Sally Hoffmann, program coordinator, said.
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Thompson said, "It helps to start out with the previous year's schedule. You're 60 percent done right away. Departments are used to offering a class at a certain time, so it will probably work again."
But problems always surface in the scheduling process, he said.
"It's usually when a department goes through changes in their curriculum or in their faculty," he said.
Charles Reynolds, professor and scheduling officer of the chemistry department, said scheduling was not difficult, just time consuming. The 1966 spring schedule for the department will be very similar to the 1985 spring schedule.
Students can expect to see the result — the spring timetable — the week of Oct. 21, one week before advising starts.
"We look at past trends and
freshmen enrollment figures," he said. "It's very predictible."
**Women in Communications will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday in 209 Stauffer-Flint Hall.**
The University Placement Center will present a workshop. "Beginning the Job Search: Getting Down to Basics," at 3:30 p.m. Monday in 4023 Wescoe Hall.
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