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Legal Services offers tax help for students
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. Legal Services for Students offers free tax help for KU students
The University's Legal Services for Students is holding 41 free workshops to help students file taxes before the April 15 deadline.
The workshop dates and times can be found on Legal Services' website, legalservices.ku.edu. The workshops are free to students, paid through tuition fees.
"Part of the reason why I think it is good to do [taxes] yourself is that this is the easiest time to do this for students," said Jo Hardesty, director of Legal Services. "Most students think their parents can do it for them, but it is a valuable skill to learn how to do [taxes] yourself." In 2014, these workshops helped 1,600 students, Hardesty said.
Legal Services provides free software for students with income under $60,000 to use to file taxes. Students can go to the workshops for help with the software or access the software online through the Legal Services website.
"There are lot of different education credits and deductions that are available
to students that they're not aware of," said Zach Lyman, a third-year law student from Manhattan, Kan., who helps students at the workshops. "So when we help them we make sure they save as much money as possible."
Taxes must be filed by April 15, but students can benefit from filing early. Tax information is required for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and students can potentially get more aid if the FAFSA is turned in before March 1, according to KU's Financial Aid website.
Lyman said the Affordable Health Care act will make some changes to the way taxes will be filed this year.
If a student's tax situation is complicated, Lyman said students can make an appointment with an attorney.
[Law students who help file taxes] are all pretty well-prepared and we do the research before the [tax] season starts," Lyman said. "So we're pretty well-versed and can handle most questions. Health care will be a little bit of a change this year, but for the most part, [taxes] are pretty similar from year to year."
Business school creates program
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"They [KU Med] identified a need for some additional training in business topics within the nursing community because of the administration responsibilities in a management role that you just don't learn about when getting a nursing degree," Byrd-Stadler said.
Administrators from the School of Business met with Tammy Peterman, chief nursing officer of the University of Kansas Hospital, and Chris Ruder, vice president of Patient Care Services. During the meeting, course topics were decided, as well as the professors who would teach them.
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The School of Business has put a nurse manager training program into motion at the University of Kansas Hospital (KU Med).
"Business Concepts in Healthcare" is a nineweek program that began in January. Although the hospital remains separate from the college, the program is taught entirely by University professors.
David Byrd-Stadler, the director of corporate and community engagement in the School of Business, said KU Med approached the school with the idea.
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"It's not so much teaching as it is sharing information through presentation," Welch said. "The nurses know they won't be tested on this, but they're still eager to learn."
While there's no doubt these nurses are learning, Peterman said he believes the exchange of information is going both ways between KU Med and the School of Business.
Peterman and Ruder are actually participating in the program themselves. Peterman said there's no guarantee the program will be recurring.
School of Business Teaching Fellow and instructor Kelly Welch has been teaching concepts like understanding financial statements and examining fraud.
Each week is a different seminar, with subjects ranging from finances and strategic leadership to communication.
areas and came up with examples in ways to tie the business concepts to nursing leadership," Peterman said.
The program will continue through the beginning of April, and whether or not it will return next year remains unknown.
"The learning goes both ways. The School of Business is getting a feel for our side of things, as well." Peterman says.
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Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL and author of the book "American Sniper," holds a weapon in Midlothian, Texas. Kyle and his friend were fatally shot at a shooting range southwest of Fort Worth, Texas on Feb. 2, 2013.
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MICHAEL AINSWORTH/ASSOCIATED PRESS Patriot Guard Riders prepare to form a procession for Chad Littlefield during his funeral in Midlothian, Texas on Feb. 8, 2013.
Jury seated in slaying of 'American Sniper' author
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STEPHENVILLE, Texas — A jury was seated Monday in the trial of a man charged with killing the former Navy SEAL depicted in the Oscar-nominated movie "American Sniper," with the judge estimating no more than two dozen people were dismissed from service because of publicity about the case.
Ten women and two men will serve as jurors for Eddie Ray Routh's trial, which starts Wednesday with opening statements. Routh, a former Marine, is charged with capital murder in the deaths of 38-year-old Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend, 35-year-old Chad Littlefield. Kyle and Littlefield were trying to help Routh when prosecutors say he shot them at a Texas gun range in 2013.
The movie based on Kyle's memoir as a celebrated sniper who served four tours in Iraq has grossed nearly $300 million. In response to the attention paid to the Kyle case, officials called in more than four times as many potential jurors as they would for a regular trial. Yet it took just one day to seat the panel, after a screening process last week
Judge Jason Cashon denied defense motions to delay the trial or move it to a different county and noted how few potential jurors were dismissed because of pretrial
Simply reading Kyle's book or seeing the movie — which ends with a depiction of Kyle meeting Routh, followed by footage from Kyle's funeral — weren't grounds for dismissal. Instead, potential jurors were asked if they could set aside what they had already heard.
narrowed the jury pool.
"It's hard not to have knowledge of this case," Erath County District Attorney Alan Nash said. "It's pervasive."
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ROUTH FAMILY, ERATH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE/ASSOCIATED PRESS Eddie Routh, a former Marine, is accused of killing Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield on Feb. 2, 2013.
Routh's attorneys plan to pursue an insanity defense. Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty. He faces life in prison without parole if convicted.
Family members have said Routh, 27, struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder after leaving the Marines in 2010. The small arms technician served in Iraq and was deployed to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Kyle took Routh to the shooting range after Routh's mother asked if he could help her son.
About two hours after Kyle, Littlefield and Routh arrived at Rough Creek Lodge and Resort on Feb. 2, 2013, an employee discovered the bodies of Kyle and Littlefield at the remote range.
Kyle made more than 300 kills as a sniper for SEAL Team 3, according to his own count and earned two Silver Stars for valor. After leaving the military, Kyle volunteered with veterans facing mental health problems, often taking them shooting.
Authorities say Routh drove to his sister's house in Kyle's truck, telling her and her husband that he had killed Kyle and Littlefield.
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