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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, February 14, 2000
Senior awarded Javits fellowship
By John Audlehelm
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Brian Tongier, Lawrence senior and sociology major, has won a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for as much as $25,000 a year for four years of graduate study in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Tongier said he would study sociology in graduate school and probably would specialize in organizational policy and research.
"I've applied to about 11 places right now, so it's really open," he said.
He is not considering staying at the University of Kansas. Instead, Tongler said he was looking seriously at Princeton University, the University of California-Los Angeles, the university of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Indiana at Bloomington.
Javits fellows receive federally funded need-based cash stipends for as much as $15,000 a year; the graduate school of the student's choice receives $10,000 a year for
tuition and fees. Tongier is the fourth KU student to receive the fellowship since the program began in 1985.
"I am happy to congratulate Brian in winning a Javits fellowship." Chancellor Robert Hemenway said in a statement to University Relations. "He is an outstanding scholar with a strong commitment to community and others."
Brian ranks with the finest undergraduate students that I have had the pleasure to work with in my 28 years at KU," said Robert Antonio, professor of sociology and Tongier's adviser, also in a statement to University Relations.
Tongier attended the University of Minnesota his freshman year but transferred to KU as a sophomore. Tongier has worked with Habitat for Humanity for six years and was an intern at Kansas Legal Services in Topeka. He won a summer 1999 undergraduate research award to examine how state governments define the success of welfare reform.
Serving on juries mandatory for all county residents
Student status doesn't lift duty
By Mindie Miller
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
When Leslie Klosterhoff found a letter in her mailbox last semester summoning her to Wichita for jury duty, she did what a lot of students would do — she called her father to see if
— she called her father to see if it was a mistake.
"it was surprising," said Klosterhoff, Hutchinson senior. "I always assumed they wouldn't send notices out to students because of their schedules."
Her dad told her that full-time students could be exempt from serving on juries. So she found a place at the bottom of the summons where she could enter a valid excuse for why she could not serve.
"I wrote that I was currently a student at the University of Kansas and said that I couldn't serve because it wouldn't fit into my curriculum," Klosterhoff said. "I'm graduating this year,
She hasn't heard anything from the court. But other University students called to jury duty might not be so lucky.
so class is too important to skip."
"The bottom line is, the fact that you're a student is not sufficient grounds for you to get out of jury duty," said Braxton Copley, staff attorney for Legal Services for Students. "You can be fined up to $100 per day unless you can show reasonable cause for not showing up."
students are eligible to serve jury duty in Douglas County if they are registered to vote here or have a Kansas driver's license with a Douglas County address.
Douglas County district court administrator Linda Koester. Vogelsang said jury pools were randomly selected by a computerized case-management system. Then the court sends out a juror questionnaire and a summons to each person selected.
District attorney Christine Tonkovich said that although potential jurors were welcome to request exemption, most students were deferred rather than excused.
"I would expect students would be passed to another month," she said. "If they get called in April or May when finals are coming
up, they might be passed on until the summer."
The University policy for students called to jury duty says that because it is a civic responsibility, the University will not ask that students be excused from serving. If a student's request to be excused is rejected by the court, University policy requires the student to contact the dean of the school in which he or she is enrolled. Policy requires instructors to allow students to make up assignments and exams missed because of jury duty.
However, if the jury trial on which a student was sitting went long enough to have an adverse effect on the student's performance in class, he or she would be allowed to withdraw from the class without penalty. The withdrawal includes a full refund of tuition and applicable fees.
"The policy recognizes that we, as a University, need to make accommodations for students who have been called to fulfill this civic duty." Copley said.
The district court's policy is to dismiss students if serving on a jury would put them in academic leopardy.
Tonkovich said most jury trials in Douglas County lasted from one to three days. The longest
one she could remember lasted a week and a half.
A separate policy for faculty members and other University employees called as jurors or witnesses in trials mandates that they be granted leave with pay. They also are allowed to keep the modest rate — $10 per day — that the court pays all jurors.
But Klosterhoff said juror's pay would not have been worth the drive to Wichita.
"I would have done it," she said. "The only problem with doing it is that if it's held over for trial, and you're selected to be on a jury, then you're on call. If that happened, I'd be up a creek."
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Juggling work,studies not easy task for today's students,numbers show
The Associated Press
Like many high school graduates, Daniel Vallez aspired to a college degree. But it's been a long road since high school graduation in 1992. Army basic training. Two community colleges in Pennsylvania and California. Finally, the University of Colorado at Boulder.
There, a corporate internship juiced his resume but slowed his progress. A jugger of jobs, Vallez once felt tempted to chuck school altogether — for boxing. He lost half a year switching schools: on paper, a dropout.
College, Vallez said, is about finding your path. His ranged far and long, reflecting an increasingly varied college experience for thousands of students.
Now Vallez has added coursework for a master's in engineering while completing a bachelor's in business. He expects to reach for those diplomas when he's 27.
Experts say college is no longer four
years at one alma mater. Since the mid-1970s, it takes an average of five years to earn a bachelor's degree. A majority of college students attend two schools or more. Some discover college isn't what they expected or want. Many quite to work full time, go abroad to study, get married. And then, like Vallez, many return. They're called "stopouts."
A federal survey begun in 1980 followed 10th graders until 1993, to about age 30. An analysis found that, among those who had attended a four-year college, 63 percent hold at least a bachelor's degree. That's a fuller picture than the often-cited college dropout rate: Roughly 40 to 50 percent of students fall to finish in five years.
"The concept of dropout in higher education is thoroughly pass," said Clifford Adelman, a senior research analyst at the Education Department in Washington. His study "Answers in the Toolbox" released last year exploded popular notions about college attendance.
people are in and out of the system in a long period of time. That is our new pattern of life," Adelman said.
This trend is largely explained by the increasing availability — and necessity
— of a college degree.
The "higher education system has grown tremendously in 30 or 40 years," said Professor Vincent Tinto, chairman of the higher education program at Syracuse University.
There are more options and more students, including many with less money and less educational preparation than in previous generations. In fact, many can only afford college by alternating work and school. Some attend less costly two-year community colleges, then transfer.
School also can take longer when students switch majors and need to earn more credits. Some undergraduate programs, such as in pharmacy, require five years or more.
The 1991 Student Right-to-Know Act requires schools that receive federal funds to report how many students complete degrees within six years. U.S. News & World Report uses the six year cutoff to rank schools in its annual report "America's Best Colleges."
While patterns of college attendance are changing, the ideal of a relatively straight college route persists. Yet, with a nod to the newer trend, the benchmark is now six years for a bachelor's degree.
The Associated Press
Prisoner seeks $1 million for lost confiscated property
TOPEKA — A former prison guard convicted of sex crimes against children claims the state owes him more than $1 million for a lost coin collection.
Albert Brinkman, serving time in an Arizona prison, said Kansas agents improperly seized his coin collection and then lost most of it. His petition, filed Thursday in Shawnee County District Court, seeks the return of the coins or more than $1 million in compensation.
Brinkman was convicted in March 1997 of two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy, two counts of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a minor.
Kansas officials aren't contesting Brinkman's allegation that the state is responsible for his missing property. They just don't know what they owe him.
Brinkman, 44, provided state officials with an itemized list of all the coins and estimated values, but a legislative committee that considers claims against the state
said it needed more than just his word. His attorney, Brian T. Johnson, said Brinkman never had the collection appraised or insured.
There was no individual inventory of the number or condition of the coins contained in the 16 books of collectible coins listed on the Kansas Department of Revenue evidence sheet.
the legislative committee recently rejected Brinkman's request for $1.7 million — the value he placed on the missing coin collection.
The department assumes the confiscated property was stolen during an overnight robbery of its property room Sept. 16, 1996.
Although Brinkman won't be eligible for parole until 2028, he had hoped to use the coin collection to provide for his three sons, his lawyer said.
Johnson said the problems stemmed from an inventory done on the property seized from Brinkman's Leavenworth home on March 4,1996.
"He has no other way to support them," Johnson said.
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