Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1986
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Three Kansans die in New Mexico crash
DULCE, N.M. — Three members of a Kansas family returning home from a skiing trip were killed and two others were injured Monday when their single engine Cessna crashed on an Indian reservation in northwestern New Mexico.
Pilot Reginald Boothe of Wichita, one of the two survivors, told New Mexico state police that the plane's engine failed.
Killed in the crash were Reginald Boothe's wife, Judith, 43; Matthew Boothe, no age available; and Vance Boothe, 16, all of Wichita.
Reginald Boothe and the other survivor, Thad Clemens, 16, of Wichita, were airlifted early today to the University of New Mexico Medical Center in Albuquerque. Both were in undetermined condition.
Students honor prof
Takeru Higuchi, Regents distinguished professor of pharmacy and chemistry, was honored last night in Topeka for promoting higher education.
The Associated Students of Kansas honored Higuchi at the Capitol as a part of the association's Higher Education Week.
"I appreciate that," Higuchi said. "Especially from a student group."
Higuchi, chairman of the board of Oread Laboratories, said he worked with state legislators to show the value of higher education in Kansas. Despite proposed cuts in Board of Regents school budgets, Higuchi said, support for higher education should increase.
"The state fundamentally has taken a very positive stance towards the role of the University," he said. "I'm very optimistic as to the future."
Board sets deadline
The deadline to return Mortar Board information sheets is 5 p.m. Thursday, Linda Beville, senior adviser to Mortar Board, said yesterday.
Students who qualify for Mortar Board, a national senior honorary and service organization, may pick up and return the information sheets at Room 214 Strong Hall.
The information sheets are available for all undergraduate who have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 and are scheduled to graduate in December 1986, May 1987 or August 1987. Beville said
The Kansas University Endowment Association recently received an $8,500 bequest from the estate of a couple who never attended the University of Kansas, the association said yesterday.
KUEA receives funds
The association said the W.H. and Rosamond Alexander Student Loan Fund was established from the estate of Rosamond Alexander.
Todd Seymour, endowment association president, said, "It is very gratifying that a person who did not attend the University of Kansas chose to benefit KU through a bequest."
Weather
Today will be partly sunny with temperatures in the mid- to upper-60s. Variable winds will blow at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight should be fair with the low temperature in the mid-30s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with temperatures in the mid- to upper-60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Insurance changes hurt, help
By Lynn Maree Ross Staff writer
A proposed $1 million cap on malpractice insurance suits could save doctors money on insurance premiums. But the loss of liability insurance may cause the state to lose money.
Thomas Sloan, an administrative assistant to State Sen. Robert Talkington, R-Iola, said malpractice insurance and liability insurance covered different types of suits.
Malpractice insurance covers suits in which someone is at fault, he said. Liability, on the other hand, covers suits where no one is at fault, but a claim of injury still is valid.
For example, if a doctor knowingly performs an operation that a patient does not need, the doctor is at fault. He then can be sued for medical malpractice.
If a patient trips and breaks his leg in the doctor's office, the doctor is not at fault. Therefore, he only can be sued for medical liability.
The proposed cap on malpractice awards would stabilize insurance premiums because companies no longer would have to charge high rates to cover exorbitant awards.
But although the cap would benefit physicians, said Steven Ruddick, legal counsel at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the loss of
Lliability insurance, until 18 months ago protected doctors in their roles as teachers or administrators. Before that time, doctors at the Med Center could get liability insurance from the Meade Co. Inc. in Topeka.
liability insurance leaves them vulnerable as teachers and administrators and makes the state liable for the damages.
Bill McBride, president of the company, said Midland, a company in New York, wrote the insurance policies and his company only acted as the agent. Last year Midland decided to discontinue the policy.
Margaret Walters, McBride's administrative assistant, said, "It
wasn't our choice.
She said that no company would write a liability policy like the one Midland had written for them. Most colleges in the country have the same problem.
Now the doctors' only protection as a teacher or administrator is the stare.
Ruddick said that under the Kansas tort claims act, doctors were protected, as teachers or administrators, when acting as within the scope of their job.
One backdraw is that the doctors can't choose their own lawyer. And if the case is lost, the state remains liable for the damages.
Planning of exhibit takes time
Bv Debra West
Staff writer
Before the new exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology opens March 2, employees of the museum will have spent many months in the planning and design of the project.
The exhibit is called "Santos: The Cult of the Saints in Hispanic Folk Culture."
Ann Schlager, who designs the exhibits at the museum, said yesterday that each exhibit went through three stages before opening.
The first stage is research and planning. The second is consultation and design and the final stage is production and installation.
Robert Smith, curator of the museum, has spent five months researching and planning for the santos exhibit.
The exhibit is meant to illustrate the influence of the saints on the lives of Hispanic people, Smith said. It comprises santos collected from the Philippines, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador and New Mexico.
A santo is a religious object in the image of a saint, Smith said. It is an object of power and the saint is believed to be present in the santo at times.
The traditions and beliefs surrounding the santos stem from a detailed process, Smith said.
Several different types of religious objects in the form of saints, called santos, will be displayed at the Museum of Anthropology. The exhibit, "Santos: The Cult of the Saints in Hispanic Folk Culture," will begin March 2.
First, a saint must be identified and aligned with a social value. For example, the Virgin Mary is identified with compassion, love and fortiveness.
The next step is the making of the
santo. Usually they are made by a santero, or folk sculptor, who is concerned with making the figures according to tradition. It is believed that the santos gain power from the santeros' knowledge of tradition and from the holy life of the santero.
People can pray to the santos in
times of need. For example, it might be worshiped in order to heal the sick or to prevent a flood.
After Smith researched the santo,
he consulted with the designer and
conservator. The conservator cares
for the artifacts and repairs them if
necessary.
After the design has been agreed upon, the designer takes command. Repair work is done and mounts are constructed for some artworks which are installed in display cases.
Schlager said she was both the designer and the conservator, so consultation was easier.
Sunshine brings out students
By Brian Whepley Staff writer
Friebles, shorts and untanned legs came out of hibernation yesterday when unseasonably, warm weather made an appearance in Lawrence.
The high today should be about 70 degrees with mostly clear skies, Smith said. Tomorrow should have a high of 72 degrees under mostly sunny skies.
KU weather observer Aaron Smith said the warm temperatures should continue until the end of the week. The unseasonable weather was caused by upper-level weather patterns bringing warm air from the west and southwest.
Students were soaking up the rays all around campus, and some were even trying to study while working on pre-soring break tans.
The temperature should drop by Thursday and Friday into the 60s, Smith said, although he didn't know what the long-ground forecast was.
Bill Hoag, Wichita graduate student, said he was glad to get out of his stuff apartment to study, but didn't think the sunshine was motivational.
"People get outside and hang around and just don't want to do their homework," he said.
Hog was sitting on the hill west of Potter Lake. He said he feared he would get wet sitting on the damp ground, but the sunshine and his jacket had taken care of the problem.
Others were undaunted by the remaining signs of winter.
"There's a lot of dogs around," he said. "They're running on the ice."
As he spoke, a brave Frisbee player crawled on his stomach onto the thin ice over Potter Lake to retrieve his Frisbee.
Carol Jones, Lenexa freshman, sat with two friends on the stone bridge near the pond. She said they had been looking forward to wearing shorts for the first time this year.
"We're preparing ourselves for Daytona," she said.
Denny Powers, assistant manager at Gibson's Discount Center, 2525 Iowa St., said the store also benefited from the weather.
Powers said, "We just got the Copperone display set up."
Sales of Frisbees, kites and spring clothes always picked up when there were several days of warm weather, he said.
Staff writer
Radar detectors a hot item
By Brian Whepley
The detectors are easy targets for thieves because they are kept on dashboards within easy sight, said Detective Lt. Wayne Schmille.
Radar detectors have become the trendy thing to steal the way citizen's band radios and 8-track players used to be, a Lawrence police detective said last week.
Schmille said Lawrence and other college towns were havens for thieves because many students had expensive cars with expensive stereos.
Lawrence police usually get reports of radar detector thefts about five times a week. Last summer was an especially popular time for detector and car stereo thefts.
Officer Gary Sampson, who investigated the thefts last summer, said that in one night there were about 50 reported thefts.
Sampson said about 30 people were involved in the thefts last summer and the thieves ranged in age from 14
Most of the detectors have not been found, Schmille said. The detectors are easily sold from hand to hand.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police, said radar detectors thefts first started about two years ago. The KU police didn't have as many reported thefts as the Lawrence police last summer because there weren't many students around.
to 27. The majority of the thieves were teenagers, he said.
Jim Denney, director of KU police, said last week that seven people had been sent to jail last fall in connection with the thefts but that it hadn't stopped the problem.
Since the beginning of the year, the department has been using uniform crime reports which provide information about specific items such as the detectors, said Lt. Mike Hall, crime analyst for the department. Information from the reports should be available to police departments in about four months, Hall said.
"It definitely was a growing problem so we decided to include them," she said.
The KBI recently listed radar detectors on the crime forms, said Mary Lou McPhail, research analyst for the KBI.
He said radar detectors and any other stolen items only would be listed on the uniform crime reports if there was an identifying number available.
It is hard to find the detectors. But if they are found the police rarely find the owners because they didn't record the serial number or etch an identification number into the detector, Schmille said.
Thieves also can be discouraged by taking the detector off the dashboard and putting it under the seat while not in use, Schmille said.
The police have thousands of stolen items that can't be returned because they don't know who they belong to, he said.
When someone can get a $250 radar detector for $75 to $100, there is a ready market for them and they rarely show up in pawnshops, he said.
"Every once in while you get lucky and return one," Schmille said.
People could help the recovery process by marking their detectors and other items, Schmille said. The department as well as the KU police have etching machines that can be used for identification purposes.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Students of business who want to expand their experience beyond the borders of the United States have a new option with Baker University's International Business Program, the only one of its type in the nation.
The international business emphasis will include four courses and an internship with a U.S. company that conducts business overseas or a foreign company doing business in this country.
Internships also will be sought for foreign students with U.S. businesses, said Thomas Boyd, executive vice president for University Relations of Baker in Baldwin City. Most of the foreign students at Baker seek degrees in mathematics or business management.
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Baker program aims at world experience
"It's going to be fascinating for American students, and equally fascinating for the foreign students," he said. The program
Boyd has spent the last four to five months meeting with alums in business who could offer internships, and met recently with consults in Kansas City, seeking additional international connections.
Boyd said he knew of no other such program by U.S. universities, and credits Baker's international ties with helping to launch the program.
The courses will be taught by adjunct professors from the business community.
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The private university wants initially to establish 100 internships, and that experience should provide Baker business graduates with "that critical difference," he said.
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Students applying for the internships must demonstrate a proficiency in a foreign language or in the language of mathematics, he said.
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