THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 10 Friday September 6 1946
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KU to accelerate collection of bills
By DEB RIECHMANN
Staff Reporter
Collection of overdue bills and unpaid bills at the University of Kansas will be accelerated during the next 10 months, because the university is facing business and fiscal affairs, said yesterday.
Recommendations made by Richard Brown, legislative post auditor, in a 1976 report of management of accounts considered in decisions by KU, Nitcher said.
"By the end of this fiscal year (ending June 30, 1979) we hope to have many of the auditor's recommendations in place," he said.
The recommendations call for a more centralized system of collecting student-incurred parking fines, library fines, delinquent housing payments, health service charges and bad checks written at the Kansas Union.
Currently the office of the comproller allows Watson Library, Watkins Hospital and KU parking services to collect fines through individual billing.
**LISTS OF** students who have not paid their bills are given to the comproiler's office for collection at the end of each semester. The only exception is parking services, which continues its own collection measures.
The names of students the comptroller's office cannot collect from are given to a custodian.
Under a centralized system, the time that a student would have to pay his bill before his name was given to a collection agency would be shortened.
To help speed up the process, the University has hired North American Credit Services, Kansas City, Kan., and Credit Adjustment Company, Wichita, to collect unpaid fines and bills. The agencies receive 30 percent of each fine they collect.
On Aug. 28, unpaid fines at KU totaled more than $313,000, compared to last year's total of $256,700, according to John Hack, manager of student accounts.
A large part of the unpaid bills came from a large kinsberg Hospital. Although students are often required to pay the rent, they
allowed to enroll, more than $46,330 still
remained unpaid at Watkins for
the remaining days.
At the same time last year, about $35,000 was owed for health service at KU.
About $233,400 remains to be paid for miscellaneous fines, including residence taxes.
As of Aug. 28, $14,707 remained unpaid from students who lost library books and about $1,600 was unpaid for library book purchases. More than $4,000 more than last year's unpaid fines.
Bill Dollar, chief engineer for Lennox Industries of Dallas, designers of the air conditioning and heating systems, said the solar collectors would provide 65 percent of the energy needed for heat during the winter period, or 60 percent of the cooling during the summer.
The solar unit will be left on permanently after all checks are made. Scarborough, a harbour, is one of the most beautiful places in England.
Craig McCoy, University comptroller,
said he favored a more centralized
collection, which would eliminate a period
of time to deal with errors in the
comptroller's office is not required on annual times.
"Our solar system works," Scarborough said. "But we're still checking our control systems."
Solar-heated water can be more readily transferred to heat, which results in morses use of solar energy during the winter. Heater systems for heating water or cooling systems would be available if needed.
TOTAL COST of the project was $350,000.
K part of this project for site
preparation and installation costs.
Donald Kearns, director of parking, said he did not know whether parking fines, now collected separately, would be included in a more centralized collection effort in the city.
PAYING FINES is important to the University, he said, in order to maintain the same degree of services in various departments.
Stouffer Place, the married student housing apartment complex, was one of five test sites selected nationwide by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for testing solar heating-cooling equipment.
The parking service is updating its address file and plans to have a new computerized billing procedure in full operation by next fall.
If health service charges, for example, are not collected, services might have to be cut back for the hospital to stay in the clear, be said.
IF SOMEONE does not pay a fine in about four or five months, he said, a collection agency or the comprroller's office might be more successful in collecting.
Kearns said the new system would be more efficient and attitudes toward paying fines and toward the parking service would be more positive.
"I think it is fair," he said. "They owe the debt."
Solar power begun at Stouffer Place site
"I don't think it's right that a student who comes in two days before enrollment, pays his fine and gets his slate clean should have his card on his card when he goes to enroll," he said.
Staff Renorter
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Nickister, Stouffer Place resident, said, "I couldn't tell the difference between the solar system and the auxiliary system of cooling.
After two months of construction and installation, the solar-cooling system test site at Stouffer Place was powered yesterday by heat from the sun.
Don Whipie, coordinator for installation of the system for the University, had said earlier that NASA would monitor the effects of the new lunar lander with Will take over paperwork of the project.
Steve Scarborough, program site manager, said yesterday that about 4,506 square feet of solar panels had gathered in the 12-unit Building 1 apartment complex.
However, he said if a fine was delinquent for several months it probably should be disposed of.
The cooling system uses a turbine Rankine engine powered by solar-heated water. This is the first use of a Rankine engine in a solar-heating project.
"We're running about 76 degrees in our apartment so it's working pretty well."
Water heated from the solar panels is mixed with a fuse that vapors into a steam. The steam then powers the Rankine turbine, which drives the engine to turn a motor. The water is then cooled in a cold
Dollars said the solar-powered heating and cooling system worked in the following manner.
To heat the apartment, he said, the heated water from the panels travels directly to hot water coils. Hot air is then blown through the furnace.
water terminal coil and is blown out as cool air through furnace vents.
Water from a 1,000 gallon storage tank will be used when the sun does not supply a sufficient amount of energy to propel the engine.
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Potter paddle
The KU crew team took to Potter Lake yesterday to practice some stationary rowing.
They said they are practicing on campus to let students know they exist. They will be practicing again Saturday during the football game.
Some rent referral fees returned
Rv.IOHN P. THARP
Staff Writer
Four KU students were happier yesterday morning when they found out they were getting back $10 each—money that they hadn't received.
Sherri Byard, Topeka junior; Vickie Ellman, Kansas City, Kan.; freshman; Sharon Montague, Topeka sophomore, and Laurie Wolley, Kansas City, Kan., each paid $10 in July to a rental referral service. Byard and Montague shared a $20 policy, as did Ellman and Wolley, with the Lawrence City Property Rental company.
The company has been closed since late July and was investigated by the Douglas County District Attorney's
Even though the district attorney's office reported last week that no crime had been committed by Lawrence City Property Rentals, and its owner, Robert E. Sfoefeld, Topika, the business remains closed after having rented an office July 12 at 1112 Massachusetts St., from which it sold policies in Lawrence.
"THEY LEFT." Montague said, "and nobody knew where they were. They gave me about three listings, but they got them straight from the paper, and none were current.
"They never did one thing for us, and I never expected to see them or our money again."
But Montague and the three others who had given Seefield's company cash for virtually no rental listings in return, each received a check yesterday delivered by the University Daily Kansas and signed by Seefield.
Scofield, contacted in Topeka, agreed to refund the money of unsatisfied Lawrence customers who were found
complaint about not receiving the full rental referral service guaranteed by the contract she had signed. She first said that there was a problem.
"I expected to put in a complaint, and nothing would happen," Walley said. "But then I was surprised at first because consumer affairs sent me a letter and detectives came to talk to me, and the paper came to talk to me."
Wolkev was the only person who had made a formal
"I haven't heard anything from the other agencies."
THE OTHER agencies include the district attorney's office, which got the investigation from consumer affairs investigators.
The Douglas County Sheriff's office was looking into the matter, a deputy said. The Kansas Attorney General's Office has been investigating the formation about the business practices used by his company, Linda Jeffrey, an assistant attorney general in the county.
Susan Hannah, assistant director at the Consumer affairs office, and yesterday that she had been unable to get in touch with Scofield. She also had received some information from the other agencies involved in the investigation.
"Craig Stancilife in the district attorney's office told me Scofield wasn't in the state and couldn't be found," Hannah said. "The attorney general's office couldn't get hold of him either."
STANCLIFFE, an assistant Douglas County district attorney, is on vacation and could not be reached for
However, LJ. Kenneth Harmon, in charge of the detective division at the police department, said he had been unable to find Scofield when he investigated the matter for the district attorney's office.
A sheriff's deputy said last week that Scofield had not been found by the sheriff's office either.
Jeffery, whose office is in Topeka, said yesterday she had no idea where Scofield was, but she had sufficient evidence for "allied violations of the Consumer Protection Act." For her attempt to get some money back—for Topea residents
"I want refunds mainly for those in Topela," she said,
"because it doesn't look like many individuals were aware or paid money to Lawrence City Property Rentals in Lawrence.
"There were more people who paid money in Topeka than Lawrence." At least seven persons paid Scoddle's business account.
Beverly Richard, who works in Lawrence, said she had paid the fee and had not received any service. However, her check was discovered by Scotfed's former landlords, Mr. Carson Underwood, who were they cleaning up their building.
RICHARD LAMBORN, Lansing junior, said he had paid for the service with Jim Sioan; a friend, and did not get anything from the company. However, he could not find his solicite, and Soefold would not return the money without it.
But after the Kanan found Scofield last week and reached a refund agreement with him, four students got
"I think it's ridiculous that all those agencies couldn't and Searchfell with all the stuff they know and their funders."
Ellman, who said she joked with Wolkey that they would probably be "ripped off right after we signed the policy," said he had been asked to look at the document.
Ellman said, "Ten dollars is very important when you're paying for college on your own."
Staff Photo by TRISH LEWIS
Sidelined
Carrie Potopoulos, Pridie Village senior, is not used to watching other players tunit. But the No. 1 singles player for KU is at least for now with injuries and has been forced to stay home.
Enrollment unaffected by easy access decrease
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Reporter
Enrolment in the University of Kansas easy program decreased this fall, but the decrease should not lower KU's total executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
"Our guess right now is that we'll be at the same level as last year," Shankel said. "We anticipate there still might be a few late enrolments in easy access. I think we'll have more students at the Regents Center this year than last year."
Enrollment in the easy access courses, which are held on weekends and at night, dropped from 260 students last fall to 183 students who enrolled Aug. 27.
SHANKEL SAID he thought the
SHANKEL day” was one factor in the low
low government.
He added that the administration would be studying possible problems with this technology.
"We really don't have a very good assessment of why we had the drop," Sue said.
"We'll have to take a look at what happened and whether we have saturated one or not."
In addition to KU's easy access program, Lawrence Unified School District 497 offers continuing education classes for Lawrence residents.
One possible reason for the decline in enrollment was that KU offered many of the same programs this year as during past semesters, he said.
Johan Ames, director of continuing education for SAF 499, said SAO students had been taught how to use the device.
"There are two separate sets of interests that we are filling," Shankel said. "I view no particular one as more important."
AMES SAID enrollment closed today and
at 40 courses had been offered this year.
Hankel said he did not think enrollment in USD 499 education programs contributed to that decline.
However, he said he did not think there as a substantial increase in the number of students.
Shankel be thought publicity for the program could have been more extensive. He said the University mailed an announcement of the book and advertised in newspapers and on radio.
"We didn't spend as much money on advertising this year," Shankel said.
He said he hoped an investigation into the problems with this year's enrollment could
"We might be able to make some ad-
justments by spring semester." Shankel
By MARY ERNST
Survey seeks legal needs
Staff Reporter
Finding what will best serve clients of a new student legal services program is the goal of a survey designed last night by the Legal Services Board of the Student Senate.
Beam-Ward said the survey also was
Legal services, a prepaid legal service to be offered to University of Kansas students,
Mark Beam-Ward, chairman of the board,
said the survey was designed to find out
where students had gone in the past for
services in Lawrence, so the board could
make a better decision about the kind
of services to provide.
Routine legal services and counsel will be available to every student who has paid the student activity fee. All students enrolled in more than six semester credit hours pay the
intended to show local attorneys that legal services might not take much business
A REPORT prepared in August by Jeffrey Arnold, administrative assistant to the legal services program, showed that almost 80 % of lawyers did not know where to turn for legal services.
Judy Kroeger, an ex-officio member of the board, said many students were not aware there already was a Legal Aid Society in Lawrence.
Beam-Ward said many students were not able to go to Legal Aid because it could help them.
"Legal Aid' takes into account whether you're supported by your parents," Beam Ward said, and "they also don't like to let us take care of them as indigent as indigent (needed financial help)."
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