University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 8, 1972
Kansan Photo by BOB GAYNOE
Local Residents Criticize KU's Dominance of City
Dean Taylor Plays Coach Ordinarily dean of women at KU, Emily Taylor donned a baseball cap Friday to coach a softball team comprised of members of the pom-pom squad. The game, against a team made up of 15 women, was sponsored by the Board of Class Officers at Lake Perry. Other features were bicycle races and, of course, beer drinking.
BY GARY NEIL PETERSON Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas does not and never has paid property taxes in Douglas County, according to Darwin Rogers, a law professor at the university has for many years been criticized by local residents for receiving police and fire protection. However, with the help of a lawyer in Newark, a portion of the city's expense has been offset.
Just how much of this expense is paid by the university counterpart, or by the college tabulare. But some speculation can be offered by a study of the costs.
In the official handbook of the university, it says an in-state student's personal expenses per year are about $400 and the out-of-state student and international student's is about $46. Based on enrollment figures, then the total could be put at $7.48 million.
IN ADDITION to the student expenditures, all or part of which are financed by the Lawrence business, the University paid almost $33 million employee wages in three separate years 1971. This figure does not include those salaries paid to students working at the residence hall.
Vietnam Vets on G.I. Bill Need Jobs, Loans to Meet Expenses
By RICHARD BUSTIN Kansan Staff Writer
A Vietnam era veteran using educational benefits under the G. I. bill to attend the University of Kansas for nine months will, if he is single, have to obtain an FAFSA. If he meets his educational expenses.
If the same veteran were
married to a woman who had an
additional $1,965. If he were
married and had one child, the
veteran would require an
additional $2,940.
These figures represent the difference between an estimated student budget, used by the department to determine financial need during nine months of school, and the total amount of educational benefit checks received by the student during the same time period.
The University, in constructing the budget, uses the cost of University housing, $85 a month, not including utilities, and not the real cost of off-campus housing. According to the Lawrence Building, the average rent of an apartment is $117 utilities not included.
TO MAKE UP the difference between what a veteran needs for schooling and what he gets, many people open. One is the part-time job.
in February former Major Bob Pulliam reactivated the LawrenceJobs for Vets in the job incase since its formation in June, 1971. The purpose of the committee was to find full-time jobs for returning veterans not enrolled part-time jobs for veterans
attending KU. This was to be accomplished through a veterans board preference in cooperation with Lawrence merchants
Wes Wante, Jobs for Vets committee public relations committee committee committee had definite programs which are to have at the end of the year.
ED BRUNS, Leawed freshman and Campus Veterans president, and the only student he had to answer was disappointed that the committee had taken so long to get organized and questioned its ability to aid student veterans this summer, and sent this late in the school year.
"Many veterans will be leaving
the program in the fall to look for
part-time jobs, the impact of
the programs will have worn off," he
Loans, another avenue of financial assistance, are available from Lawrence banks. These banks borrower maintain either a savings or checking account with the bank. The loans are for a short time only and usually must be made by a bank creditor in which they are made.
United Student Aid Fund Loans, or government issued loans, are available only at banks participating in the program. Many Lawrence banks were in the program for many reasons, according to Vance Wenger, Lawrence National Bank vice-president.
from the program because of the amount of paperwork involved in establishing a loan and because students had a very low return. Under the program, students could borrow money for four years of college at six per cent interest. Payments were made inside after the student's graduation.
WENGER SAID that banks voluntarily removed themselves
Wenger said Lawrence National Bank, one of the few banks still in the program, usually makes a student Aid Fund loan only to graduates of college or university. A KU student needed this type of loan, the student should contact his hometown bank.
The voice of concern has beer,
raised by some Lawrence
authorities. They say that although KU pays
no property taxes, the city still is
willing to be "kicked around," as
he said in a statement. The city
remain anonymous, put it. She
said that for vast amount of time,
she trusts that truck because of its size,
"totally unnecessary" except for
fires that might occur in
the neighborhood.
THE OFFICE of Student Financial Aid distributes Loans. This loan is similar to the Fund loan in that it becomes payable after graduation, may pay up to four years of college education, and Veterans Administration benefit checks are considered as income, though these checks are not required by the federal or state governments.
According to Jerry Rodgers, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, this is the reason Rodgers did not take the loan, do not receive as much aid as they initially request. Rodgers said veteran's need was determined by subtracting the estimated student expense budget.
FAR MORE RESIDENTS realize the tremendous asset KU is to the community, according to Odd Williams, president of the Lawrence chamber of commerce of the KU Alumni Association
Legislation now before the United States Senate would increase the monthly benefit a veteran receives 14 per cent.
Williams said that without KU, Wichita would not be a city that it is. It also pointed that the city would not enjoy the high standard of living that it has.
Economic indicators of this
economic prices and rental fees. The cost of a two-bedroom apartment in Kansas City is $185.00 per month and $125.00 for one-bedroom. In Kansas City, comparative living units run $155.00 and $85.00, according to the Kansas City Apartment Service figures.
FOOD PRICES in Lawrence run higher in than Kansas City. A quick look at grocery shelves in Lawrence will show a one-to two cent hike in prices here over Kansas City's food markets.
When a general complaint was aired by citizens at the city commission meetings in late November, a state law least one commissioner, Clark Morton, who said that city income had to be shifted from the taxayer to user and that tax-free services may be provided for services they received.
The battle continued through August 1968 when the city tried to
KU Majority Favors Repeal On Marijuana
In a vote of 452 to 81, a majority of the less than 600 University of Kansas students who voted in the student opinion poll last Wednesday were in favor of the conviction in a laver of criminal penalties for the possession and use of marijuana in the state of Kansas.
pass a wheel tax which would have been a tax on those who use the street. However, the measure was overwhelmingly defeated.
427 of 534 students voting also agreed that all persons convicted of the possession and use of firearms immediately pardoned and that persons currently serving time in prison for such conduct should be released.
The poll also asked students whether student fees should be required, the system and whether students would favor a raise in students fees (by not more than the $2) if necessary to support a campus
Three-hundred twenty-two students supported a carrying campus bus system for fees while 190 voted against it. The vote was 272-242 in favor of raising student fees if necessary and import the campus bus system
CITY COMMISSIONERS Nancy Hambleton and Jack Rose and Mayor J. H. Emick said they have already existed today that has existed for a long time and they said that the only viable solution was for the state to pay a certain percentage of the cost of police and fire protection.
Such a solution was worked out by the state of Iowa for its state capitol, where the student's solution was adopted by Lincoln, Nebraska. There, students who have cars in the city are required to wear a city sticker, as are the residents
Jonathon Paretsky, Lawrence Sternberg. You have the question of protection sticks still down to the fact hat KU pays its dues by its mere
During the fiscal year 1970, the farm received approximately $400,000 for water and sanitation services, and an additional $110,000 in fiscal year 1971.
Fraternities and sororites do not escape personal property taxation. With the exception of a few exceptions, the delinquent for 1971's taxes, a total $116,165 was paid to Douglas County. That is about $3,500 paid by each organization in 1971 as well as about $3,000 apiece paid in 1967.
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