University Daily Kansan, November 4, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Arson and assault charges filed against Topeka man
Willis Seville Vance III was charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court with one count of aggravated arson and two counts of aggravated assault in connection with a fire Tuesday at a residence at 1233 Pennsylvania St.
A preliminary hearing for Vance, who is from Topeka, will be at 11:15 a.m. on Nov. 11.
The complaint charges that Vance committed aggravated assault by using a firearm. A police report said that one of the occupants of the house heard four gunshots as he and the other occupants were leaving the house through the front door to escape the fire on the back porch.
A mother, her five children and a nephew escaped uninjured from the fire. The fire caused about $22,000 damage to the house, which the owner had estimated was worth $25,000.
Residents to view downtown plans
Vance is being held in Douglas County Jail on $25,000 bond.
The two companies with proposals for downtown redevelopment will be presenting their plans to the six Lawrence neighborhood associations at 8 p.m. Monday.
The presentation will be at the South Park Recreation Center, 1141 Massachusetts St., following a meeting of the Oread Neighborhood Association.
John Stainbeck, the architect for Sizerler Realty Co. Inc., Kenner, La. will represent Sizerel. The Sizerel plan calls for a retail shopping center in the 700 and 800 blocks downtown, east of Massachusetts Street.
Town Center Venture Corp., a local group, entered the redevelopment last month competition with a plan to close the 600 block of Massachusetts Street and build a mall between Vermont Street and the alley east of Massachusetts Street.
The Lawrence City Commission is scheduled to pick one of the two developers Tuesday night to be the official downtown developer.
Policeman testifies in forgerv trial
A F' police officer testified yesterday in Douglas County District Court hat a student told him he had forged four checks that belonged to another student.
Richard Rosenshein, a KU police detective, testified during the preliminary hearing for John Joseph Bristow, Leavenworth freshman, that the statement was made during questioning at by KU police.
Bristow, a resident of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, is charged with one count of burglary of Timothy Scott McTague's room at JRP and with four counts of forging McTague's checks for $25.20 each. The checks were dated Oct. 18, 20, 21, and 22.
Rosenshein said that he had interviewed Bristow on Oct. 27 and had requested samples of his handwriting, which Bristow gave voluntarily.
Rosenhein said that he then compared Bristow's samples and Bristow's registration card from his residence hall with the four checks.
ASK to discuss legislative agenda
The Associated Students of Kansas, the state student lobby organization, will meet this weekend in Emporia to discuss their lobbying agenda, which they will present to the State Legislature this spring.
Mark Tallman, the group's executive director, said that ASK members would discuss several lobbying possibilities at their two-day legislative assembly, which will begin at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Emporia State University.
He said that of particular interest to ASK members would be the issues of merit pay for teachers and new national legislation on financial aid.
Tallman said that on Sunday, state Rep. Jim Lowther, R-Emporia, will speak to the ASK legislative assembly.
ON THE RECORD
TOOLS WORTH about $1,730 were stolen sometime between 8:30 p.m. and 11:50 p.m. Wednesday from a car parked in the 1000 block in Massachusetts St., police said. Burglar entered after breaking a back door window frame. Police said they have a suspect.
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Oklahoma man charged with mail fraud
Case involves student-loan payments
By Staff and Wire Reports
A federal grand jury has indicted an Oklahoma man accused of defrauding two Kansas schools and colleges, and universities in 10 states, by collecting but withholding payments on federal student loans through his collection agency.
KU officials said yesterday that KU was not involved in the action, but a spokesman for the U.S. District Court in Tulsa said that Emporia State University and its college are among the schools that were allegedly defrauded.
Grand jurors returned a 16-count indictment Wednesday, naming Jon V. Chase of Skiatook, Okla., and Collegiate Recovery and Credit Assistance Programs Inc., of which Chase is president.
John Pittenbarger, manager of
general accounting, said that the University of Kansas did not use Chase's agency, but that it did use two other collection agencies to help it collect delinquent payments on National Direct Student Loans, the type of loan in which Chase's company specialized.
Marvin Burris, Regents associate director for budget, said that those agencies, Credit Adjustment Co. of Wichita and North American Credit Services Inc. of Overland Park, were contracted by the Board of Regents to provide NDSL debt collection for Regents schools.
After a school has failed to collect an account, it turns the account over to one of those agencies. Burris said the agencies handled 2,790 accounts, at least 80 percent of them for NDSLs, in 1982.
KU SENDS AN average of 25 accounts a month to the collection agencies, Pittsburghbarger said, out of more than 10,000 active NDSL account.
If one of those agencies fails to collect the account after a year or so, or indicates that it has no hope of
collecting the account, the account is returned to the school. The school may continue its collection effort or give the account an agency for a "second referral."
Chase's Oklahoma company was hired on a second referral basis by Emporia State and by Mid-America Nazaren.
Pittsburgher said that such loans returned to KU would go to the other collection agency under contract by the state. If that failed, KU would return the loan to the federal Department of Education so that it could be taken off the University's books. The DOE would then continue the collection effort.
OFFICIALS AT BOTH Emporia and Mid-America said they had received good service from the company until the team stopped. Many stopped returning collected money.
and will return them to the school. He said he did not know how much money might be owed to Emporia State by the collection agency, and would not know until the school had verified the agency's figures.
John Stephens, business manager at Mid-America Nazarene, said his school did not have a large amount of loans that he could pay off. He know how much they might be worth.
John Blaufuss, Emporia State comproller, said, "We turned to them for deadbait accounts. Some of them had been totally inactive for years. They actually did an excellent job collecting for us."
The company has about 42 Emporia State loan accounts now, Blaufuss said,
IN OKLAHOMA, ATTORNEY NEW
Mike Turpen had filed a lawsuit against Chase's company on behalf of Northeastern Oklahoma State University in Tahlequah, southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford. Ohio State University in Alva and southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant.
Turpen's lawsuit alleged that the company had collected but withheld more than $33,000 from the four universities.
In Wednesday's indictment, Chase was accused of defrauding colleges in Oklahoma. Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Ohio
Budig wants student help with academic review
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said yesterday that KU administrators would study ways to involve students in the Board of Regents next academic year.
I am convinced that students can play a meaningful role in the academic review process," he said in an address to University council members.
Students were not involved in the Regents review process that last month led to Regents action that eliminated several degree programs at KU.
Commenting on other actions taken
by the Regents last month, Budig said he did not think the Regents resolution discouraging universities from asking for new programs, especially graduate programs, threatened existing graduate programs.
KU FACULTY MEMBERS have expressed concern that the resolution indicated that the Regents favored strong union action at the level of graduate programs.
However, Budig said he did not interpret the resolution in that manner.
"I believe the Regents are saying that this is not the time to expand graduate programs unless there is a compelling need," he said.
The Regents are committed to
maintaining high quality graduate and professional programs at KU, Budig said.
"I am certain that the Regents recognize and respect the fact that KU is and must remain a comprehensive institute of higher learning," he said.
Budig also expressed optimism that the University's proposed fiscal year 1983 budget would be well-received this year, as it is reviewed by the State Legislature.
"We have a defensible budget which enjoys strong support by the Board of Regents," he said.
million over the 1984 operating budget of $94.3 million.
Budig said that because the state's financial reports reflected an improving state economy, he hoped that some of the cuts would be budget in 1983 would be restored.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET calls for an 11 percent increase of more than $10
"We believe we do have a chance for reinstatement," he said.
Fiscal reports for the first quarter of fiscal year 1984 ending in September showed that the state's general fund estimates by $7.2 million, or 2.1 percent.
However, the flow of revenues into state coffers has been increasing. The general fund was down by $19.6 million at the end of August.
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