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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1986
Mary Burger/KANSAN
Jubilation
Ann Bush, Omaha, Neb., junior, welcomes the new Delta Gamma pledges to the sorority. Bush, the assistant rush chairman for the house, was at the Lawrence Holidome, 200 W. Turnpike Access Rd., Monday night for bid night. On bid night the women receive their invitations from the various sororites. Chris Sinatra, Woodland Hills, Calif., senior, and Panhellenic Association vice-president for membership selection, said that 890 women went through rush and that 580, about 70 percent, pledged. See related story on page 17.
Carlin kept some surprises
United Press International
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlino, who carefully unveiled most of his main legislative initiatives weeks before the Legislature convened, delivered a few surprises yesterday in his formal budget message.
Carlin recommended to the 1986 Legislature that occupants of automobiles in Kansas be required to wear seat belts and that automobiles carry both front and rear license plates.
On the explosive issue of medical malpractice, Carlin said he would oppose efforts to limit malpractice damage awards to victims. He also called for a reorganization and strengthening of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, which oversees the licensing of the state's more than 4,000 physicians.
In his prepared message to the
On other topics, Carlin endorsed branch banking, recommended that the constitutional prohibition on internal improvements be repealed, urged passage of a state contamination cleanup fund and asked for $250,000 to pay for a full-time trade office in Europe.
Legislature, Carlin said he disagreed with those who said adults were entitled to make up their own minds about whether to buckle up.
"I have given this issue careful consideration and have concluded that the evidence in favor of seat belts is overwhelming," he said. "Seat belts do save lives and reduce personal injury."
Carlin said the move also would be good for businesses because motor vehicle accidents were the No. 1 cause of both lost work time and on-the-job fatalities.
On the license plate issue, Carril said his proposal was a logical follow-up to a law passed by the 1984 Legislature changing the design of license plates to include a combination of three letters and three numbers.
Requiring all automobiles to carry license plates with reflecting paint on both the rear and front would help law enforcement officers identify vehicles and would make nighttime driving safer. Carlin said.
Medical malpractice is expected to be one of the most hotly debated issues of the session, and Carlin
devoted part of his legislative message to urging lawmakers to reject caps on damage awards to malpractice victims.
Such caps have been suggested as one way to curb the soaring cost of malpractice insurance — a cost that physicians is forcing them to abandon high-risk procedures, retire early or quit their practices completely.
"I am struck by the stark reality that many of the proposed solutions ignore the larger picture and simply seek to limit the recovery rights of medical malpractice victims," the governor said.
Instead, Carlin proposed changes aimed at finding and punishing doctors guilty of malpractice and reducing the surcharge that physicians must pay into the Health Care Stabilization Fund.
He called for reorganization of the state Board of Healing Arts, which has been accused of lax policing of the medical community. Under Carlin's proposal, two investigative positions would be added to the board, whose chairman would be a physician who would work full time.
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