Wednesday. March 3. 1993
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Help available for filing taxes
Legal Services, Lawrence firms can aid students
By Terrilyn McCormick
Kansan staff writer
Adjusted gross income, taxable interest income and earned income credit may be as incomprehensible to some students as a foreign language.
Bartlett Disability
With the April 15 Internal Revenue
Service tax filing deadline approaching,
several Lawrence agencies are
offering help for students having diffi-
culties filing their income taxes.
Legal Services for Students gives KU students free consultation and help in filling out tax forms. Students must make an appointment. Currently, the wait for consultation is two weeks, said Jo Hardesty, director of Legal Services for Students.
"We are absolutely swamped with students coming in with tax problems right now." Hardesty said.
Legal Service also offers help for international students who are filing income tax forms. The organization is the only accounting service in Lawrence that has knowledge about the special help that international students need in filing their taxes, Hardesty said.
Students who do not want to wait for an appointment at Legal Services may go to one of the three Volunteer Income Tax Advising centers in Lawrence. VITA centers offer free consultation and help in filling out forms. No appointment is necessary. The centers are at the Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St., Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Indian Center of Lawrence, 1423 Haskell Ave. Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m; and Hashinger Hall, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
What information is needed to file .
There are also accountants in the Lawrence area who can help students with income tax questions for a fee.
All W-2 forms from every employer the student has worked for in the last year.
Know your status: Are your parents still claiming you or are you claiming yourself?
Anyone who has a savings account, bonds or stocks must report interest.
- Locate the proper forms to use. Most students use the 1040EZ form or the 1040A form. These can be obtained from the IRS, Dillons stores, VITA sites, libraries, and banks. Legal Services for Students has state forms for surrounding states.
Fill out forms and file them by April 15. However, if you are getting a refund you do not have to file by the deadline.
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Health officials emphasize sleep
student has too many priorities, that's exactly what will happen. The student won't be as efficient."
"If you burn a candle at both ends, it is going to burn out faster than if you burn it at one end," Yockey said. "If a
Yockey said students should plan their schedules to include adequate sleeping time.
"Most people take better care of their cars than they do their bodies," he said, "because cars come with instruction manuals."
Yockey did not advise using stimulants to stay awake. Caffeine distorts students' perceptions and makes them think they are performing better than they actually are, he said.
Modernt exams have arrived, which means increased hours of studying and decreased hours of sleep for students.
agreed the average adult should get eight hours of sleep.
"There is a relationship between continuity and performance," Miller said. "A person functions best if the sleep is continuous."
Taking 30 minutes each day to exercise also will make a student more efficient, he said.
David Miller, director of the Sleep Disorder Center at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Topeka,
That could mean more sick students, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Sleep deprivation often is associated with illness.
"The best way to get mono is to pull an all-nighter," he said.
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Kansan staff writer
Legal Services for Students would like to say,
Thank You
By Vicki Bode
amount of sleep and when that amount is not obtained, the immune system is affected, he said. The most common health problems caused by sleep deprivation are mononucleosis and stomach problems, such as nausea.
to everyone that supported us during our student senate funding hearing.
"We have found that some people may need only three hours, but some people need 20 hours," Miller said. "These are extremes."
Yockey emphasized that there was no substitute for sleep.
Each person needs a minimum
"During midterms the number of ill students increases," Yockey said. "The biggest increase is right before finals, but midterm is the dress rehearsal."
Cnattapping during class is not beneficial to a student's body, he said.
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