Tuesday, October 9, 1979
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122 students use legal services
Statistics compiled by student Legal Services indicated that an increasing number of students are taking advantage of KU Legal aid programs.
A total of 122 students went to the Student Legal Services office last month for help in legal matters that included landlord/tenant problems and aggressive problems and consumer problems.
Steve Ruddick, supervising attorney for Legal Services, said yesterday that the numbers were "pretty encouraging."
Of the 122 students interviewed by the
Student problems brought to the office included 17 landlord/tenant cases, 4 administrative (immigration), and 4 consumer (contracts).
office during September, 85 were accepted as clients and 37 were rejected.
Rudick said he had to refuse a number of students because of the limitations placed on him by Phase I of the program, which required students representing in student courts (in Case II).
The Legal Service is in the first of three phases. At this time, Ruddick said, he is
allowed to advise students on legal matters. to prepare legal documents other than tax returns, wills, and trusts, to aid in negotiation, but not in litigation between adversary parties, to motivate documents, to conduct research to incorporate nonprofit student organizations.
Phase II services will include all the services under Phase I, and will allow them to work independently. Those who are charged with a criminal misdemeanor or those who need a civil suit will be charged.
Bargaining yields no contest plea, Southard awaits judge's sentence
A Lawrence man originally charged with kappa rapine and aggravated sedomy plea, now charged with aggravated sedomy Friday after plea bargaining with the Douglas County District Judge.
Rondel S, Southard, 20, 408 Indiana St. will appear in Douglas County District Court Oct. 23 to face sentencing on the charge of attempted aggravated sodomy.
Southern and a companion, Robert W. Saundard, died on May 19 at a douglas Douglas county farm after an 18-year-old Lawrence woman accepted a ride from them as she was leaving the hospital.
Douglas County District Attorney Mike Malone said the outcome of the Brown trial Sept. 28 influenced the state's decision to uphold Sullivan's guilty plea to the single charge.
Brown was found guilty of one count of rape and one count of kidnapping. The 11-woman, one-man jury acquitted Brown of a second rape charge.
During Brown's three-day trial, the judge ripped from Brown and Southeast and was driven to an area outside Lawrence where he was convicted twice by Brown and sodized by Brown.
Malone said that the case against
Southard was not as strong as that against Brown. "We didn't have the medical evidence we had against Brown," Malone said.
Malone said he would press for the maximum sentencing in the 2014 Southard jail in prison. The original charges of kidnapping and aggravated sodomy each included a felony conviction.
Malone said that Brown's attorney fired a motion for a new trial Tuesday, a standard procedure in sexual assault cases. If the motion is denied when Brown appears in court Oct. 12, a pre-sentence investigation and date for sentencing will be set.
Easy money ads yield no payoff
Bv DOUG WAHI
Staff Reporter
"Earn money at home" advertisements frequently seen in the classified sections of newspapers are not the easy money schemes they profess to be, Leslie Hawlings, deputy attorney general for the U.S. Justice Department division in Topeka, said yesterday.
The ads usually read something like
"Earn as much as $500 stuffing 1,000 envelopes with our circulars. For information contact..."
Ads like this are known as pyramid schemes, according to Rawlings.
One of the complaints, from a Eudora woman, was resolved. She was reimbursed the $10 she invested in the scheme.
The Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association has had three complaints about pyramid schemes in the last month, two of which referred to the attorney general's office in Toronto.
SOMEONE ANSWERING an ad might be instructed to send, for instance, $10 to a company.
Pyramid schemes try to get people involved in money-making ideas, not to sell a product, but only to get the ball rolling and more money circulating, Wraals said.
The company would in turn instruct the individual to run his own ad, soliciting more money, and then send the money collected from the ad to the company.
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part of the money received from respondents to his ad.
The scheme is profitable for the company that initiates it, Rawlings. People pay for a money-making idea but get only one idea and to induce others to buy the same idea.
"An operation begins with one person and recruits other people for that operation, not for sales purposes," she said.
The ads are called pyramid schemes because a corporation or company uses a pyramid scheme to get the money. The people at the bottom of the pyramid probably will get nothing and will have a bad experience.
"Mathematically, it would be impossible to make money in the operation of the sheer number of people involved," Rawlins said.
She said it was difficult to prosecute a pyramid案 because often a product was sold as a seemingly legitimate cover for recruiting more people.
RAWLINGS SAID pyramid schemes were illegal because they deceived consumers. She said the number of people at the bottom made profit impossible at that level.
She said her office was investigating a company that allegedly sold vitamins as a cover for a pyramid scheme. The difficulty in identifying the company did not legitimately sell the vitamins.
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Because he represents all students, Ruddick said that his office tries to act as a student in student conflict cases.
"We can advise the students where they can go for help or refer them to a lawyer if they need one," Ruddick said.
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3. ) One-eighth of the participants will recruit three or more people and probably will not break even.
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Margaret Berlin, student body president, said the number of students using the services more than met her expectations.
"Sophisticated pyramid schemes mean hundreds of thousands of dollars for the people who begin the operation," Rawlings said.
2. ) 50 percent of the participants will run their own pyramid scheme ad, but will not get responses.
SIFE SAID she did not know how much money pyramid schemes brought in, but she did have figures, compiled by her office, of the failure of entry into a pyramid scheme.
1. ) The vast majority of participants have a 10 percent or worse chance of recovering their initial investment.
4. Less than 1 percent of the participants will recruit enough people to break even.
The off-campus housing board established by the Student Senate last spring would not be able to give legal advice to students having problems with their landlords, she said.
Berlin said that she would like to expand the Legal Services to Phase II by next semester.
Although it was agreed to wait until a full year was over before Phase II went into effect, Berlin said she thought the program was ready for Phase II now.
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However, until more funding is available to hire another attorney, she said. Phase II should be gradually brought into the program.
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"I'd like to see the attorney handling just light litigation," she said. "He could handle just misdemeans."
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Bernil said that it would be more fair to the students if at that time the attorney would not be tied up in heavy litigation so he would spend his time helping more students.
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However, she said, the decision would be made by the Student Legal Services Board and Student Senate.
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Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Oregon.
FTE represents the number of 15-hour course loads KU students' enrollment compiles.
In previous years, KU budget requests were based on the full-time equivalent enrollment for each university.
Undergraduate FTE is figured by dividing the total number of undergraduate hours by the average student course load, 15 hours, according to the office of admissions. Undergraduate average course load for graduate student students is 12 hours. The average for law students is 12 hours.
BILL SHILLE, director of institutional research at Emporia State University, said the increase in full-time equivalent enrollment at that institution would prompt additional funding requests if the Legislature rejected the formula plan early enough.
"They haven't really accepted formula funding, and they haven't rejected it," he said. "By the time we find out whether they
this fall is 12, 087, up 267 from last year. At KU this fall is 13, 294, up 174 from last year. At IU it is 18, 100, up 180. Wichita State University is 10, 615, 221 higher than last year. Pittsburgh State University's FTE is 4, 603, up 25 from last year. State University has 5, 177, an increase of 5 percent.
Fort Hays State's FTE was not available yesterday, but Fort Hays was the only Rogens institution to expect a decrease in enrollment.
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