TUESDAY,MAY6,2003
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 3A
NEWS
Quiero dulce
Kelley Weiss/Kansan
Carmen Vieya, Hutchinson senior, swings and misses last night while trying to hit a piñata. About 70 people gathered to listen to Mexican music, eat food and hit the piñata for the Cinco de Mayo celebration at the courtyard of the Jayhawk Towers.
Fire injures student in Kentucky dorm
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. Students at Western Kentucky University began final exams as scheduled yesterday, even though part of campus was a crime scene as authorities investigated a dorm fire that critically injured a student.
Katie Autry, a freshman from Pellville, remained in a hospital burn unit in a medically induced coma.
She was injured during the
fire that started Sunday morning. University spokesman Bob Skipper said she also had puncture wounds he described as superficial.
An official with the state fire marshal's office on Sunday described the fire as a crime scene, but referred calls yesterday to university officials.
Skipper said he could not comment on the investigation, but added that every possible cause of the fire was being considered by investigators.
The Associated Press
New plan to punish late tuition payment
Dropping from class no longer a penalty for missing deadlines
By Lauren Airey lairey@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Starting next fall, students will not be dropped from classes if they don't pay their tuition on time. Instead, they will be charged non-refundable late payment fees every month until the tuition is paid.
Richard Morrell, University registrar, said students could benefit from the change because they would not have to "beg" for readmittance to their classes.
"We spend a lot of time dropping people out of classes and then putting them right back in," he said. "It just seemed to be a bad way to do business."
At her first semester at the University of Kansas, Emily David was dropped from her classes for not paying her tuition on time. David, Independence sophomore, had to petition to re-enroll and get permission from each of her professors and their deans.
"They sent a letter to my dad, but he didn't get it," David said. "I found out one day I wasn't enrolled in any of my classes anymore."
Students who fail to pay their tuition and fees by Aug. 15 will be assessed a non-refundable $100 late payment fee. Students who still have not paid in full by Sept. 15 or made arrangements to pay installments will be assessed another non-refundable $100 late payment fee.
As of the third month of nonpayment, a monthly 1.5 percent
default charge will be assessed to all unpaid tuition and fee charges on an account until the charges are paid. Students will not be able to add hours, enroll in future semesters or receive a transcript until all charges are paid on the account.
Morrell said the late fees were justified.
"If students do forget to pay, there is a penalty," he said. "That's the way it works in the bigger economic world."
The fees policy committee ran some studies and found that almost 75 percent of students who were dropped from their classes re-enrolled for the same semester. The committee also surveyed members of the Association of American Universities, to which the University of Kansas belongs, and found that few schools dropped students for not paying tuition.
"Most of the intuitions are doing it the way we proposed," Morrell said. "We found out that's the common method. We proposed it to the provost's office and they approved it."
Morrell sent an e-mail to students yesterday about the new policy and most of the student response has been positive, he said.
Although David successfully re-enrolled in all of her classes after she was dropped from them, she said it was a much better idea to charge a late payment fee.
Students can pay their tuition and fees in person, by mail, in installments through Academic Management Services or online with an e-check, Discover card or Mastercard.
Edited by Lindsay Hanson
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