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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014
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CAMPUS
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University investigates scam
YU KYUNG LEE
news@kansan.com
The group of women claiming to be from the Children's Joy Foundation were not approved to be on campus Monday.
University policies require outside organizations to partner up with a student organization and get approval before they can come and solicit donations on campus.
Neither the University Events Committee nor the Union Events Services had any record of such approvals.
They also violated campus policy by walking around and approaching students for donations. Organizations that set up at the Union need to
remain behind a table. These women were walking around and approaching students to ask for donations.
"When we had discovered
"We did some research on the group and determined that it was fraudulent."
LISA KRING Events Services director
that they were there, we asked them to leave because we had not approved them to be there," said Lisa Kring, Union's Events Services
The group was asked to leave repeatedly before they left the Union, Kring said.
director.
"We did some research on the group and determined that it was fraudulent," Kring said. "We notified our staff to be watchful of such solicitation going forward and notified the public safety office on campus."
While the Children's Joy Foundation is a legitimate non-profit organization, it is unclear whether the group who came to campus on Monday and solicited donations is part of the foundation.
The Office of Public Safety is looking into what happened. "The bottom line is
whenever anybody feels that someone is not supposed to be here on campus, we will be glad to come and investigate, whether they are soliciting or just acting strangely," said Chris Keary, assistant chief of police services. "At that point, we will determine if they have appropriate approvals to be where they need to be. They may not be against the law but against the policy."
The Children's Joy Foundation has not yet confirmed whether the organization had volunteers soliciting donations on campus on Monday.
Edited by Alec Weaver
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members, which accounted for $50,150 of the full proposal.
Last year, Alternative Breaks added five additional weeklong sites and more weekend sites. Sitz says the organization has maintained that level this year, but has reached its limit.
"We can maintain this current level of basically non-funding,
"We're really grateful for the (proposed) increased director salaries," Sitz said. "But we think it still under-represents how much the directors work and we're very disappointed that core wages were not addressed at all."
but we really don't think that our current level of capacity will be able to fully accommodate all of the growth that we foresee happening." Sitz said.
Of the 20 core members who volunteer to work for Alternative Breaks,11 work two or three other jobs.If their positions were considered partor full-time jobs, they could devote more time to Alternative Breaks,Sitz said.
Alternative Breaks has added a new event this year to cultivate growth. JD Stier, leader of the nonprofit organization the "Enough Project," will visit campus in early April to talk about his experiences with advocacy. Parker said the purpose of the event is to educate people who have and have not attended a break about advocacy and service learning.
Student Senate will make final funding decisions for all registered student organizations' proposed line allocations in two weeks.
"I think we're really trying to engage the KU community in a lot of different ways, not just from our breaks," Parker said.
- Edited by Blair Sheade