University Dally Kansan Tuesdav.March 5.1974 3 Law Students Provide Legal Aid for Needy By NANCY SMITH BY NANCY SMITH Kansan Staff Reporter Third-year law students from the University of Kansas are bringing the benefits of legal assistance within the reach of the community, resident residents, include some KU students. Linda Sieffle, Lawrence law student and a student director of the Douglas County Legal Aid Society, said yesterday that the functions of the society are to provide legal services to poorer residents and to provide additional experience to KU law students. The Legal Aid Council, 84% Indiana Street, is staffed, in part, by 22 inters from the School of Law. The interns receive three hours of credit for their work. Students who have completed two years of law school are eligible to sign up for a law degree. The two student directors are chosen from five secondary students who are selected during the spring semester to be Legal Aid research assistants. The assistantships are like management trainee positions, Sleffel said. Two faculty directors, who are attorneys and members of the Karsas and Douglas County Bar, supervise the interns' work. Gayle Sternberger (Joseph J. David), associates professor of law. Eleven Lawrence lawyers act as supervising attorneys to the interns. As third-year law students, the interns are certified to represent clients and practice law under Kansas Supreme Court Rule 213. Only persons with comparatively low maximum income, varying with individual characteristics. Legal Aud serves mainly members of Douglas County's welfare community and student communities at KU and Haskell Indian Junior College. During the 1973 calendar year, 1,400 persons contacted Legal Aid with problems. Many received informal help, such as ad-hoc medical care; only 698 were officially accepted as clients. Many persons who contact Legal Aid aren't accepted as clients because they don't meet the financial eligibility directors set by the society's board of directors. "We have a bit of difficulty determining KU student eligibility because it is hard to tell whether a student is financially independent." Sleefel said. If the parents pay tuition and other major expenses, but the student has a part-time job and supports himself on a day-to-day basis, it can be a dilemma. She said. More than 350 KU students made inquiries through Legal Aid in 1973. Skeffee Cottonwood Program Offers Janitor Service By ANN GARDNER Kansas Staff Reporter Each morning, four to eight adults arrive at the Jayhawker Towers apartment complex to dust furniture, sweep floors and perform other interior tasks. There is nothing extraordinary in what they do, but the fact that they are physically or mentally handicapped adults from this country makes this job especially important for them. Cottonwood, Inc., of 3145 W. 31st, is a training and educational program for teachers in the district. According to Gary Condra, director of Cottonwood, about nine clients are employed for janitorial service in Lawrence. Towers, clients are employed by other Towers clients are employed by other Thief Threatens Rape A 21-year-old University of Kansas junior was threatened with rape by an unidentified intruder early Sunday morning in the Pierson Police Department to a Lawrence Police Department report. The man apparently entered several other rooms in the sorority and took a total of about $100 from purses. Many of the students were outraged and hung up following Saturday's Rock Chalk Revue apartment complexes, a local motel and private residents. The woman told police the man didn't molest her but threatened to shoot her if she screamed. She said the intruder left after she talked him out of raging her. The man was described as a Negro, about six feet tall with short, bushy hair. The idea of employing Cottonwood clients for janitorial work originated in February 1973, when clients were hired by Douglas County as night jantitors for the county Condra said that this service was terminated last fall because it conflicted with the lawn-mowing service offered by Cottonwood. He said that by switching to daytime work hours they had been able to expand the program to include more jobs. Conda raised he thought that customers were satisfied with the work that Cottonwood clients were doing. He said Cottonwood had several long-standing customers and he had been forced to turn down customers. Ed Church, president of Lawrence Property Management, which manages Jayhawner Towers said he had been very pleased with the work done by Cottonwood "It's an excellent program," he said. "I really believe in it." "I wouldn't use them if it didn't make good economic sense and if I didn't think it would," she said. said that only about half of those were eventually accepted as clients. Besides the janitorial service, Cottonwood clients also earn money by working on sub-contract jobs with industries in the city. Most of these contracts are for small hand labor jobs such as folding cardboard and sanding wood. Quite a few students who have income above the maximum for eligibility use Legal Aid simply as a referral service, she said. Clients are paid for their labor on a piece rate basis. The referral service performed by Legal Aid involves such agencies as the Consumer Protection Agency, the Consumer Protection Division of the attorney general's office, and the Affirmative Action Program. There follows a $$ charge for all cases accepted. Referrals to social agencies such as Alcoholics Anonymous, marriage counselors and mental health clinics are also provided in the realm of Legal Aid Services. Stefel said. Everyone who comes in is charged a dollar for the initial interview, during which information on income, asset and liability situation is requested. Sleff said she thought KU students were pretty much aware of the Legal Aid's Most cases involving KU students deal with landlord-denied problems, divorce, traffic violations, possession of marijuana, problems and occasionally, misdeadmanes. Housing problems are the most common, according to Sleiffel. Legal Aid also handles them. A FREE Info Packet with Sample Resume & Letter Will Be Available - Committing pools - Fully draped apartments - Central Air Conditioning - Complete electric kitchens - Optional furniture - Parking at your door - Carports available - Convenient location with Gibson's and Falley's within easy walking distance - Hourly bus service -2 Swimming Pools PARK 25 in Summer or Fall. It's a fun place to live A PROGRAM OF THE DEAN OF MEN'S OFFICE ATTENTION. "Creative World" Daycare Center—Children ages 2½ to 12 years. Open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Full or half days. Pre School classes. Certified teachers. All new educational and play equipment. Hot lunches. "Creative World" phone 843-2359. Make your reservations now for renting or leasing at Park 25 Office 2510 W. 25th Call 842-1455 Very few Legal Aid cases go to court, Sheffel said, and most court appearances are for misdemeanors or divorce. Most students in KU courses don't involve KU students, she said. Legal Aid interns conduct basic legal education courses at Lawrence High School and Haskell, in addition to their interview and case work. Funding for Legal Aid is derived mainly from the KU School of Law, county revenue sharing, the KU Student Senate and the United Fund. Use Kansan Classified Cold that killed, backbreaking toil, the great Sioux uprising of 1842. Welcome to the promised land. Every Eve. at 8:00 Sat.-Sun. Mat. at 2:00 Max von Sydow Liv Ullmann. PG The New Land Hillcrest Every Eve, at 7:20 & 9:45 Sat., Sun. Mat, at 2:15 Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous than alive on honest cone Beautiful. Frigid. She is called a Snow Queen. 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