6A= THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY,APRIL 9,2002
Students falsify e-passports
University officials discover downloaded forms doctored for enrollment
By Meredith Carr Kansan staff writer
Some students have been found falsifying e-passports to enroll this semester.
Cindy Derritt, associate university registrar, said because the e-passport was in electronic form now, it was easier to download and make unauthorized changes, such as deleting holds and changing enrollment times. Officials at the enrollment center noticed the fake passports because some had different fonts, Derritt said, while other e-passport information on the falsified passports did not match up with information in the enrollment center's database at the door of the enrollment center in 151 Strong Hall.
She said most students who had falsified passports did so to clear holds — financial obligations to the University that stall enrollment — because of
financial issues or just to see if they could get away with falsifying the passports.
"In the past, students would falsify their permits so they could get better enrollment times, but we haven't seen much of that this semester." Derritt said.
The e-passport, the new online version of the permit to enroll, contains student enrollment information such as enrollment dates and times as well as whether the student has any holds. As KU moves closer to online enrollment, this enrollment period marks the first time students must download e-passports, as well as Academic Record Tracking System and course schedule forms.
The registrar's office would not say how many students it had found who had altered their e-passports. But Jane Tuttle, administrative assistant for the Office of Student Life, said by reviewing the number of students who falsified permits to enroll last semester, she expected that about 12 students would falsify their e-passport by the end of enrollment.
enrollment:
Students suspected of tampering with the document undergo an investigation by the enrollment center, Tut-
le said. If the student is found guilty, a letter is issued giving the student 20 days to come forward. The student may also choose to have a hearing. If found guilty by the student disciplinary committee for enrolling with a falsified document, the student will be dropped from all enrolled classes and be forced to wait until everyone has enrolled to re-enroll in classes. The incident will also remain on the individual's nonacademic University record for six years.
The disciplinary committee is made of two unclassified faculty members and one student, Tuttle said.
She said students who had been accused in previous semesters had avoided the disciplinary hearing by talking to her directly.
talking to her directly. "It's a matter of integrity, and I don't think some students realize that," Tuttle said. "Part of that is because it's hard to look an adult in the eye and say, 'Can you believe what I've done?'"
Enrollment started Friday, March 29, and ends Friday.
*Contact Carr at mcarr@kansan.com.*
This story was edited by Sarah Smash.
Contact Carr at mcarr@kansan.com.
Optional campus fees made payable online; 300 respond
By Lauren Beatty
Kansan staff writer
Students may not be able to bypass long enrollment lines, but they can save time by signing up for optional campus fees online.
signing up for optional campus fees Greg Wiley, optional campus fees administrative specialist and Westwood graduate student, said all 11 options available on the traditional paper form were available online this semester. Optional campus fees include parking passes, yearbooks and bus passes.
books and bus passes.
Wiley said the online sign-up has received a positive response so far.
"After we sent out a mass e-mail on Friday afternoon, 300 students signed up over the weekend," Wiley said.
Students can still sign up for the optional fees in Strong Hall and the fees are still billed with tuition.
Wiley said he had only received three of four e-mails with questions about the online form. He said the convenience of online option sign-ups was what drew students to the site.
"Now you can sign up from home." hesaid.
"After the enrollment process, people are tired of being at Strong Hall or they have to go to class and it gives them another option."
Charee Pitts, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said she usually ordered her parking pass through the Parking Department, but might try to order it through the online sign-up this year.
"That would be better," she said. "It would save someone a trip."
Erik Petersen, Minneapolis junior, signed up for a bus pass yesterday at the optional campus fees table in Strong Hall. He said he didn't know he could sign up online, but would have had he known.
online, but would have made "It's convenient for the student," he said. "We need to move in that direction."
Wiley said Organizations and Leadership, the office that sponsors the optional campus fees sign-up, had been working on getting it online for three to four months.
months.
"We wanted to have it this year before enrollment went online," he said. "We wanted to get on the ball and get ours up and running."
Students can sign up for optional fees until Wednesday. April 24. To sign up online, go to www.ku.edu/~options.
Contact Beatty at Ibeatty@kansan.com.This story was edited by Andy Gassaway.
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