Tutors earn extra cash helping struggling students
Rv DAVE TOPLIKAR
Staff Writer
Grechen Rothrek is able to pay her rent because some students are having difficulty paying their bills.
Kevin Conde has extra beer money because some students are struggling with the new law.
Ned Huston pays his way through graduate school because some students are taking advanced courses.
Increasing numbers of University of Kansas students who are worried about their grades are turning the tutoring trade into a profitable profession.
"It's my bread and butter," Huston, operator of Masterminds, a tutoring and training service, told CNN.
Huston began the tutoring business last year, after he got the idea for it from a friend.
"I wanted to be a free-lance writer, but I
wasn't making any money at it. So, I decided to tutor as a way to use my writing skills.
Huston said he started his business with only a few tutors, but the operation was so successful that he decided to expand. He said he began advertising for tutors and now he has a listing of more than 100 tutors who specialize in 40 areas.
But, Huston said, the standard charge for Mastermind tutoring was $5 an hour.
Alan Martin, a Masterminds math tutor,
said that at that rate, if a student saw a tutor
once a week, he would spend about $70 a semester.
"I don't keep tabs on how much the tutors earn," he said.
"ALMOST ALL students come in for an bus but we said, 'But some in come only before the test.'
Martin said the big rush for tutors was at finale time.
"Sometimes I'll get calls at 12:30 and I
'm the morning and they'll say 'I've been
studying all night and I just can't get it,' so
'I help them,' he said.
Martin said most of his students were freshmen and sophomores who were majoring in business. He said he tutored an average of about eight hours a week.
"I've got more business than I can handle," he said.
Rotbrok, who is not affiliated with Mastersmind, said she had to unplug her telephone at night because of the many calls she received from students.
"Your phone rings all the time," she said.
"ROTHROCK ADVERTISING" in the kingsgate theater, where it was played.
Rothrock said that she liked tutoring and that she spent between five and 10 hours a week doing it. She said she charged $ an hour, but never received any complaints about the price.
courses. She said they switched phone numbers in the advertisement every week so that none of them had a constantly ringing telephone.
"They whole idea is that they're getting personal attention that they're not getting in the classroom or in study sessions," she said.
Most tutors like to have one-on-one sessions with students, but one chemistry department tutor, Art Williamson, said he often used group sessions in tutoring students.
"I DAY HAVE A group of 10 people come over and charge them about 75 cents each so I be making enough money," he said. "My gimick was that I'd start the session at
about seven o'clock and people would drift in and out as they pleased. Then right around 10, when a lot of them started to stumble for the door, looking at us interesting and have them stay longer."
Williamson said he liked tutoring in groups because he could charge the students
"I made $800 one semester, but it was quite a bit of work," he said.
But a lot of tutors can make more money than that. he added.
"I heard of this guy who made $40 an hour to help, kid do a computer science problem."
BESIDES EMPLOYING department
Williamson said University department heads usually put flyers in the graduate students' office boxes to solicit tutors for students who needed extra help. However, he said, if a graduate student is on a research grant he is not allowed to tutor.
tutors, KU offers free tutoring to some students.
The Office of Supportive Educational Services (SES) provides tutoring for students who are disadvantaged on an economic basis or by educational deprivation, according to Richard Lee, SES director.
Whether a student is economically disadvantaged is determined according to a sliding, federally established, low-income class. Whether a student is determined by a student's former environment. For example, he said, if a student had been raised in a ghetto, as opposed to a suburban area, that student would be considered educationally deprived.
Lee said that the program was predominantly for black students when it began. The school's current teacher
See TUTORS page seven
Vol. 88, No. 58
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday November 18,1977
Endowment Association to consider KUAC loan
By DEB RIECHMANN
Staff Writer
A loan to finance proposed Memorial Stadium renovations will be considered by the Kansas University Endowment Association Sunday if the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) board approves its plans to improve the stadium.
An executive committee of the Endowment Association will discuss the loan 9 a.m. Sunday to determine whether the loan should be granted...
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said the more important factors that will influence the decision to purchase a loan, the amount of interest paid on the loan and the effect the loan would have on students next year. Students will pay an increased price on football tickets that will be sold.
The Student Senate voted by acclamation Wednesday night to oppose the ticket incumbent.
A PETITION that duplicates the Student senate resolution opposing the ticket incumbent is now in effect.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Sadat still plans to visit Israel
Mistrial declared in obscenity case
CAIRO-Despite Arab opposition and resignations from his own cabinet, Egyptian President Nawar Sadat said he still would address the Israeli
His actions have strained Arab solidarity, say United Nations representatives from Arab countries. See stories page two.
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—A mistrial was declared yesterday after 18 hours of deliberation by jurors in the obscurity trial of AI Goldstein, publisher of Screw Magazine. The jurors said they could not decide whether Goldstein and his co-founder were ordered to mail obscure materials from New York to Kansas. See story page two.
Legislator violates campaign act
TOPEKA-Kansas Senate President Ross Doyen admitted Thursday that he violated the state campaign finance act in 1976, but he said the violation was unintentional. Doyen, R-Concordia, and Kansas Farmers Union President Dale Lyon have been ordered to appear at a Dec. 14 hearing before the Governmental Ethics Commission to answer charges that they failed to follow campaign finance reporting provisions. See story page two.
U.S. peeved with Cuban actions
State contractors challenge quota
TOPEKA—A state contractors association Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a regulation guaranteeing minority contractors 10 percent of the work financed by the $4-billion federal works program. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of the Associated General Contractors of Kansas, asks for an injunction halting enforcement of the quota for minority-owned businesses.
AMARILLO, Texas—Fort Worth millionaire T. Cullen Davis was found innocent yesterday in the shooting death of his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Andrea Wilborn. The jury reached its decision after the longest murder trial in Texas history.
In a similar suit in Los Angeles, a federal judge has frozen the city's public works grants, worth about $8 million, until the legal questions concerning the government's involvement.
Davis found innocent of murder
Locally...
The suit could affect a large part of the $30 million in federal works projects approved for Kansas units of government.
Priacilla Davis, the child's mother, had testified that Cullen Davis, her estranged husband, had shot and wounded her and killed her lover, Stan Farr,
Committee last week. The petition had signatures of more than 2,500 students.
Heeeeeey! Steve Martin was a neat guy last night in Hoch Auditorium. A sellout crowd hooted at his bunny ear and balloon animals and heard Martin announcement that he would be leaving soon. "I've got them outside, in a sack, hanging from a flagpole. I'm going to blow them up at midnight. . . unless I get my three demands. First, $100,000 in cash. Then a getaway i want the letter 'M' stricken from the English language. I will release the hostages unhulled. See page review six."
At last month's KUAC meeting, a majority of the board favored the proposal, and to ask permission of the Big Eight Conference, dissenting votes came from the four student representatives and one faculty representative, an associate professor of classics and art history.
The proposal was approved by the Big Eight.
The increase could raise student ticket prices by 90 cents, faculty tickets by 75 cents and parent tickets by 30 cents.
The increase could raise the price of a student season ticket from $2 to $3.
Clyde Walker, director of KUAC, reportedly decided to present a less expensive plan to the KUAC board and the Endowment Association.
THE ORIGINAL proposal called for a 2014 Enowment Association to finance the project.
He said that he now wanted to design a plan that would make only necessary changes.
Laura Pinkston, one of four student representatives on the KUAC board, said yesterday she opposed parts of the proposal and the VIP seating and the Victory Club.
if the KUAC board passes the proposal, it could include such renovations as new dressing rooms, improved public restrooms, incision stands and resurfacing of the wall.
Other more controversial parts of the proposal are VIP seating, construction of a concrete and wrought iron wall at the south end of the stadium, changes in the press box and expansion of the Victory Club, a section for Williams Fund contributors.
*STUDENTS WOULD be paying out of
them money, and nothing they
wouldn't be using*. Plaxton is a
name.
Barney McCoy, another student representative on the KUAC board, voiced his opposition to the wall. He said he did not think it was a necessary renovation now.
If such parts of the proposal are deleted, she said, she has an obligation to students to be present.
Richard Porto, treasurer of the Endowment Association, said that the association had not received complete information concerning the stadium proposal.
SEYMOUR SAID it would be premature to discuss whether it would be advantageous to the Endowment Association to lend the money to KUAC.
He said, however, that if a loan were granted, the interest received from it would be less.
Porto said, "Since the association is chartered to benefit the students—and that our only client—the interest would be used to benefit KU."
"It's all speculation because there has been no formal proposal made," he said.
Sun roof
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
After a full afternoon of work on a Friend's house at 1642 Tennessee St., Irving Irving, Overland Park senior, took a short break to watch the set sun. Irving hopes to have
Fire checks completed; flaws found
By LUCY SMITH Staff Writer
The annual inspection of University of Kansas educational buildings was completed yesterday as state fire inspectors were in some buildings, revealing some deficiencies.
Nichols and Moore halls on West Campus, Dyche and Twente halls and the Continuing Education building were inspected yesterday.
Dyche Hall was inspected by Merton Bickman, who said additional direct fire protection had been installed.
Gordon Sailors, who inspected Twente Hall, said he would ask for the addition of fire escapes on the north and east ends of the building.
SAILORS ALSO inspected the Continuing Education building and said the fire escapes ended eight feet from the ground and needed to be repaired so that they would reach the
Nichols and Moore halls were reported to be in compliance with the state code.
He said he also would ask that an alarm system be installed and the unapproved acoustical ceiling tile be replaced with approved material.
This was the second week of the inspection. The five inspectors from the state fire marshal's office will return after the next day, and they will hall, hall, scholarship hall and Stouffer floor.
Watson Library and Hoch Auditorium were found to have major deficiencies.
Deficiencies in most other buildings were minor or nonexistent.
Watson Library was inspected Tuesday and Wednesday of this week by Hickman, who determined that the library had a number of major deficiencies.
"I MGING TO expect a lot to be done," Hickman said. "The travel distance is considerable from the stacks to the exit, and the emergency exits aren't marked."
He said he would recommend that emergency lights leading outside be inside the stairs and the other two stairs.
Hickman said he also would ask that changes be made on the enclosed stairs in the northwest corner of Watson to bring them into compliance with the state code.
The main exit in the front of the library is not always operable from the inside,
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Kansan posts deadline today
Today is the deadline for applications for the positions of editor and business manager of the spring Kansas.
Applications are available in 105 Flint Hall; the Student Senate office, 108B Kansas Union; the dean of men's office, 109B Kansas Union; the vice president office, 220 Strong Hall. Applications should be turned in at 105 Flint Hall by 5 p.m. today.
Changing class rank required for some loans
Bv DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
University of Kansas students who plan to renew student loans next year may be in for some surprises, Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid, said yesterday.
The Higher Education Assistance Foundation (HEAF), which guarantees students loans from banks, and the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP), which lends money directly to students if a bank does not lend them. In federal law in the amount of money they can lend or guarantee to a single student in an academic year, he said.
Limits set by the federal government are $1,500 a year for freshman, $2,500 for other undergraduate and $5,000 for graduate students. A student can borrow no more than $7,500 in his undergraduate period and $15,000 during his entire college career.
The problem, Weinberg said, lies in the interpretation of "academic year."
SO STUDENTS WHO have borrowed the limit set by the HELP or HEAF will not be eligible for loan renewals until they have enough hours to move to a higher grade said.
The old federally insured program, which was replaced in Kansas by the HELP and HEAF programs, interpreted an academic year to be a 12-month period for programs interpret an academic year as a transfer from one academic level to another.
As an example, a student must have 60 credit hours to be classified as a junior by the University. If the student has fewer than 60 credits and has borrowed the $2,500 limit during his sophomore year, he is not eligible for a HELP loan until he attains 60 credits.
Paul Lomardo, director of HELP, said that the HELP program interpreted the law as a change in grade to help assure that students with HELP loans make progress.
THOUGH THIS CHANGE has not taken effect, Lombardo said, HELP was trying to stay ahead because it was not sure when the legislation would become law.
If the Office of Education's legislation to change the interpretation does not become law, then HELP can change back to the 12-month interpretation, Lombardo sid.
Weinberg said that the interpretation was good in that it assured a student's progress. But he said, it discriminated against students who were forced to take a low number of hours and students who dropped classes.