Monday, April 21, 1986
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News Briefs JDI sponsors movie about bomb scares
The Jayhawk Defense Initiative is sponsoring a special showing of the movie "Atomic Cafe" at 7 o'clock in the Hashinger Hall theater.
The movie features film clips of 1960s Soviet Union atomic bomb scares.
Students recognized
JDI members will be dressed as survivors of an atomic bomb explosion. The showing is open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Thirteen students were inducted into the Crimson and Blue Chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary at a banquet Friday night in Oliver Hall. NRHH was reestablished at KU in March.
Students are selected and nationally recognized for their outstanding achievements, leadership potential and dedication in the University residence and scholarship hall systems.
The new inductees are: Drew Blossom, Topeka junior and Ellsworth Hall resident; Brenda Burkett, Wyandotte senior and Ellsworth resident; Ken Frank, Westphalia sophomore and Pearson Hall resident; Kyle Ann Gibbon, Haviland junior and Lewis Hall resident; Robert Greenwood, Chanute senior and Ellsworth resident; John Hanson, Lincoln, Neb. senior and Hashinger Hall resident; Judy Hellwege, Creo Moir, Mophomore and Lewis resident; Michael Cearson, Winchester senior Grace Pearson Hall resident; Bake Oakes, Olathe junior at Joseph R. Pearson Hall resident; Laura Reid, Mission sophomore and Oliver Hall resident; Bill Sheehy, Leaventown sophomore and JRP resident; and Lucy Webb, Gardner freshman and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Corin Hall resident.
Soprano Nikki Li Hartlep will be at the University of Kansas today through Friday in an affiliate art regidency.
Opera star to visit
just rest. who won the San Francisco Opera Merola Grand Finals received the 1984 San Francisco Opera's Adler Fellowship, will give a free public performance at 8 p.m. Thursday in the First Christian Church, 1000 Kentucky St.
She will also give several informal performances and discussion sessions throughout the week. Hartlap is being brought to campus by the KU Swoorthawk team in front of the Reader's Digest Association.
For information about Hartley's residency, call the Swarthout Society, 864-3469.
Managers to meet
The 39th annual City Managers Conference will be April 23-25 at the Kansas Union.
City managers and other officials from around the country will attend the conference. Topics will include economic development of small cities and the meaning and obligations of public service.
public service
The conference is sponsored by
the Institute for Public Policy and
Business Research and the Edwin
O. Stene Graduate Program in
Public Administration.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high near 60. Winds will be northerly at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be most clear with a high in the upper 30s. Tomorrow will continue mostly sunny and warmer with a high in the mid- to upper 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Tony Vourax/KANSAN
This mummified object couldn't be identified by Tim Sanders, tenant of an apartment at 1624 W. Sixth St. Terrace. The plaster figure rested in the trash can outside the apartment yesterday. Sanders said he thought it might be a flower pot stand that a former tenant had thrown away.
More than 1,000 people flocked to the KU museums yesterday for the six annual Museum Day, said Cathy Dwigans, associate director for membership and public relations for the Museum of Natural History.
Cast away
Museums' visitors hunt fun and facts
By Debra West
Staff writer
The theme for this year was "Gizmos and Gadgets." Most displays showed the tools used in collecting and preserving items in the
Displays at the Museum of Natural History included microscopes, traps used to collect plankton and fish from Clinton Lake, computer graphics, a film about bats and a telescope to view sunsets.
An alligator snapping turtle was a popular display at the museum. The turtle, which is 20 inches long and weighs 60 pounds, was found crossing a road near Independence two weeks ago. it is only the late summer that has been found in Kansas, Jeff Whipple of the KU animal care unit said.
After information about the turtle has been recorded, it will be released in the area where it was found. Whipple said.
"We'll attach a tracking device to it and see where it goes," he said. "That will tell us a lot more about where it lives."
where it lives.
The snapping turtle isn't dangerous as long as it is under water, he said.
The anthropology museum had a table where volunteers taught children to make string figures with their hands, another when they were teaching them together, a display of tools and a film about dating archaeological finds.
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Jean Yonke, 257 Pinecone Drive,
took her daughter and a neighbor's
child to the museum.
climbs to the chair.
"We always try to go to new exhibits," she said. "They've had fun today."
"All the known attacks made by snapping turtles have been on land," he said. "They feel vulnerable. Under water they feel safe and will run away rather than fight."
The Spencer Museum of Art also participated in the event. At one display, visitors could make a dry-mounted bookmark. Dry-mounting is a method of mounting a picture or label to something else without using liquid glue or adhesive, said Anne El-Omani, director of education.
Olinda Seeger, Kansas City, Kan. junior, participated in the activity with her son.
"This is really good today," she said. "I'm a student and a single parent and don't get to spend much time with my son."
Lawyer questions malpractice bill
The KU Museum Day is part of International Museum Day, which is May 18. KU activities were yesterday because of commencement May 18.
By Lynn Maree Ross
Staff writer
The Museum of Entomology was also open to visitors.
Star
Go to John Carlin may have pleased Koehler physicians when he signed a controversial malpractice bill Friday, but some of the bill's provisions may be unconstitutional, a Topeka attorney said yesterday.
The bill, which takes effect July 1,
limits the amount a court can award
in a malpractice suit to $3 million.
It also limits awards for economic
because it singles out the. The Legislature hasn't passed bills limiting malpractice settlements in other professions.
Jerry Palmer, a Topeka attorney and a former member of the state insurance commissioner's task force on malpractice insurance, said the bill might be unconstitutional because it singled out doctors.
damages to $1 million, including a $250,000 limit for pain and suffering
Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said the law would give the state more control over mparactice awards. A professor of law from leaving the state to practice elsewhere
Palmer also said the law was unconstitutional because one provision violated doctors' rights to a jury trial and prevented money from being awarded directly to the injured party.
"We feel we were losing a lot of young doctors," he said.
hole provision.
If the patient can prove that $1 million is not enough to cover long-term medical expenses, he can request up to $2 million more in a pinch.
not put in.
Part of the amount of money awarded under the pin-hole provision is determined by a judge and not a jury, he said.
Any amount the court awards beyond the $1 million in economic damages will be used to buy an attorney's license. If the patient over a period of time.
"You don't have the money on deposit to do with what you want," he said.
The patient suing for damages also is restricted by the law, he said.
jury, he said. "The right to trial by jury is inviolate," Palmer said.
Phillip Godwin, a Lawrence physician, said he was pleased Carlin signed the bill even though Carlin had said in previous statements that he
would veto it.
"I think he finally heard the will of the people." Godwin said.
Clawson also said he was pressed to hear Carlin had signed the bill. "With a serious stern forward."
"It is a major step forward," Clawson said he thought Carlin signed the bill because he understood the problems doctors experienced because of high malpractice insurance and awards.
surface and another. Another possibility is that Carlin wanted to avoid an overturned vet. Godwin said some people might think an overturned vet wasn't an important part of the issue.
Although the Legislature has never overturned a Carlin veto, Palmer said it was possible with the malpractice bill.
"It is for Carlin," he said.
Speaker finds need for family emphasis
By Grant W. Butler
Staff writer
"The main issues are economic," Hartman said.
"The main thing that is needed at this point is to support rather than cut services for the family," said Ann Hartman, the speaker. Hartman, a professor of social work at the University of Michigan, was recently appointed dean of social work at Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Most of society's problems have their foundations in the family, creating a need for further emphasis on family development, the keynote speaker for Social Work Day 1986 said Friday.
Current budget cuts, such as the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction law, will have a destabilizing effect on the families, she said.
"Congress" expression is a very dramatic retreat in concern for people and families and an increase in concern for Wars and the budget."
Social Work Day was sponsored by the School of Social Welfare and the Social Work Alumni Society as part of the recognition of the school's 40th anniversary, and included workshops on the changing face of the U.S. family.
While many people consider the average family to be a married couple with children, she said, this definition was being changed by increases in the number of divorces and single-parent families.
About 400 people attended Hartman's speech on 'Family Centered Social Work Practice' in woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
People who cohabitate should also be considered a family, she said.
"The American system is very individualistic, and the family system is in direct contrast to this system," she said.
Part of the problem with family development in the United States is the nature of the society, Hartman said.
"In America, the nuclear family is only 10 percent, so it's definitely the deviant family form today."
"A family is really any two people who live with each other and perform for each other." Hartman said.
Kansas Legislature to tackle KU budget
By Mark Siebert Staff writer
Stan Writer
The University of Kansas and Board of Regents fiscal 1987 budgets are among the snags Kansas legislators have to work out when they return to Topeka on Wednesday for the wrap-up session of the 1986 Legislature.
When legislators left for a 10-day recess April 12, there were questions of how much money to budget for higher education and when and how much to increase the state sales tax.
sales tax. Both chambers have passed what amounts to a 1-cent sales tax increase, but they can't agree on when the increase should be implemented.
The Senate passed Gov. John Carlin's full-cent version scheduled to take effect July 1. The House's version calls for a half-cent increase May 1 and the other half cent Jan. 1.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said the State Chamber of Commerce, a large number of House Democrats and some House Republicans supported the governor's version passed by the Senate.
"It makes little sense to me to have two sales tax increases." Solbach said yesterday. "It makes little sense to me to delay implementing the sales tax."
The House and Senate Ways and Means conference committee got a head start on the full Legislature with an 8 a.m. meeting today to discuss an omnibus appropriation includes higher education budgets.
burgers. The omnibus bill is a catch-all bill that includes final spending measures of the 1986 session.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-D Lawrence, said the Legislature had much work ahead of it in the next three to five days.
before the bill that would admit Washburn University at Topeka into the Regents system is on the House calendar, but Branson said she thought supporters would try to avoid the bill's demise by not bringing it up for a vote.
Regents OK WSU plan for degrees
Staff writer
By Lori Polson
Legislators now have a chance to work on bills that stalled on House and Senate calendars before the break.
Staff writer
The Board of Regents approved a training program that would allow Wichita State University to offer classes toward two new doctoral degrees, Stan Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said yesterday.
Although students will be attending classes at Wichita State, the degrees may be granted to the University of Kansas or Kansas City. The two degrees are a doctorate in chemistry and a doctorate in applied mathematics.
KU and K-State already offer doctoral degrees in mathematics and chemistry. Granting the degrees from either of those schools would save on expenses, Kolpik said.
However, classes will be taught at Wichita State by the faculty there, he said.
"There's a chance that faculty from KU and K-State also may be teaching some classes," he said. "But it's not definite."
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
The Regents are expected to decide in December which university will grant the degrees, Koplik said.
Wichita State will begin offering doctoral classes in chemistry and mathematics this summer, he said.
The original plan called for adding three degree programs to those offered at Wichita State. The Regents decided to defer action on a proposed doctoral degree in geology until a later date, he said.
Wichita State now offers only two doctoral degrees, in engineering and speech pathology-audiology. Officials at Wichita State requested the additional degrees in order to supply Wichita area businesses with qualified students to work in highly technical fields, Koplik said.
It takes about three years for a student to earn a doctorate in either of the two areas of study, he said.
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