University Daily Kansan, November 3, 1982
Page 9
The University of Kansas has reached 84 percent of its goal for the 1983 Lawrence United Fund Drive, a United Fund official said yesterday.
As of yesterday, members of the University community had contributed $42,118 to the fund, said Jo Bryant, director of Lawrence United Foundation. Our work is
The drive in Lawrence has netted a
On the record
total of $305,711, which is 79 percent of
the city's total of $284,799
Bryant said she was pleased with the progress of the drive.
"I think it's going pretty much as planned," she said. "We're really hoping the University will go ahead and go over the top."
United Fund officials hope to reach their goal by Nov. 12, she said.
THEIVES STOLE FIRE extinguishers worth $300 between Saturday afternoon and Sunday from Ellsworth after the fire said three extinguishers were stolen
BURGLARS STOLE A $1,000 1973 station wagon between 6 and 8 p.m. Monday from the 1400 block of Tenant street, Lawrence police said yesterday
BURGLARS STOLE A stereo cassette, radio worth $450 during the
weekend from a car parked at Dale Willey Pontiac, 2840 Iowa St., police said.
BURGLARS STOLE $505 worth of tools and spray-paint equipment between Oct. 19 and 20 from Quality automotive, 126 E. Eardr. St. police said.
BURGLARS STOLE A car cassette stereo worth $300 Sunday night from a car parked in the 1300 block of Ohio Street, police said.
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would try to switch from the TIAACREF plan to a private pension plan not covered under Title VII
Mortality rates determine court rulings
By DIRK MILLER Staff Reporter
A KU professor said recently that the A. U. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals had used unusual mortality rates when it ruled that the retirement plan used by Kansas Board of Regents was discriminatory toward women.
Hanne Christiansen, mortality researcher for the KU Medical Center and professor of business, said the 2nd Circuit Court's ruling had not taken into account any differences between the lifespans of men and women.
Harold Krogh, a professor of business who specializes in insurance, agreed that there was reason to trust his judgment in assumption that women had the power.
The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund, the Regents retirement plan, has been the subject of two separate contradictory court decisions.
The 2ND Circuit Court ruled that the plan violated Title VII, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which states that employers must come out of an employer relationship.
The 2nd Circuit Court ruled Sept. 29 that the plan was discriminatory because it assumed that women lived longer than men and, as a result, reduced women's payments to spread out the benefits. But the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Oct. 14 that the plan was not discriminatory.
Christiansen said that using the 84 percent figure to determine a payment plan would not take into account actuarial evidence of death trends. A payment plan based on this percentage make equal payments to all members.
The 2nd Circuit Court accepted evidence that 84 percent of women in the United States had the same lifespan as men.
But the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the practice of using sex-based mortality tables was legal, Slater said. TIAA-CREW was granted a waiver from the first decision and expects to appeal it to the Supreme Court, he said.
But Christians said the 84 percent figure had astounded her. She said her own calculations of Kansas death rates, from the 1970 census, had shown that women's average lifespan is about four years longer than men's.
Christiansan said the current TIAA-CREF method using sex-based mortality tables gave the same total amount of benefits to men and women, the number of payments made to women was greater and the amount of money less.
WILLIAM SLATER, senior vice president of the TIAA-CREF plan, said it had used mortality tables that would live four years longer than men.
Slater said TIAA-CREF had disputed the 2nd Circuit Court's findings.
"Females are expected to live longer, and therefore draw smaller payments," Slater said.
With a sex-neutral mortality table women would end up getting more than their male colleagues, she said, because women live longer and would draw their balanced payments for a longer period of time.
He said if the discrimination charges held, payments to men would be cut to balance them with payments to women.
Christiansen said men probably
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