Tuesday, September 12, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
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Program offers low-cost tutoring
Bv Jennifer Valadez
Kansan staff writer
Whenever a student is struggling in a class, a sensible option is to find a tutor. However, with some private tutors charging as much as $15 per hour, money becomes an added difficulty.
For University of Kansas students seeking extra help, there is a cost-efficient option.
Beginning this semester, the KU Student Development Center is offering low-cost tutoring groups in basic general education courses for $65 per course per semester.
The groups are being offered in the following courses; Spanish 104, Biology 100, Chemistry 184, Economics 104 and 142, and Math 002, 104, 115 and 116.
Ern Griggs, assistant director of the student development center, said the course sessions would be divided into tutoring groups of three
to four students and would be led by a peer tutor. The groups will meet for one-and-a-half hour sessions twice a week for 12 weeks.
we hope to reach the students in an effective and understandable method," she said. "Some need more time out of the classroom to master it."
Griggs said, on average, private tutors charged from $10 to $15 per hour. Going through the development center, she said, would be about $3.50 per hour for the 24 sessions.
"Financial waivers will be available for those who qualify." Grigsgs said.
Griggs said the center usually helped freshmen and sophomores but that all students could use the tutoring services.
The center provides screening and training for the program's 14 peer tutors, Griggs said. "They're not just there to make some money, but to do a job for which they have been trained," she said. "It needs to be a guided
experience so that the student can learn."
Jason Crowther, Wichita sophomore and staff member for the program, said he had tutored last year before working for the low-cost tutoring program. He said although tutors must adhere to expectations with the program, they were able to conduct their sessions in a way they found effective.
"It's great that Erin trusts us enough to do what we think is best," he said.
All tutoring sessions, with the exception of four being held in residence halls, are conducted in Wesco Hall. Grigsgs said five of the 25 groups available up and running.
"We're really excited about the program so far," she said. "It's filling a need for some students on campus."
For more information contact the Student Development Center, 22 Strong Hall, or call 864-4064.
- Edited by Amy Randolph
Kansas Supreme Court picks up case
Continued from page 1A
Wilson said the district court believed the officer had detained Pritchett in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures.
The state is appealing the case because it thinks the detention was proper and not in violation of Pritchett's Fourth
Amendment rights.
"The case is pretty much straight forward." Wilson said. "The facts are the facts, and the law is the law. We agree on what happened that night, though there is some dispute about what was said and in what order the things were said."
Strole said he hoped the ruling would set a precedent.
be resolved," he said. "Is looking young or appearing underage by itself enough for reasonable suspicion to detain a subject and ask questions? The second question is, even if you have reasonable suspicion, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld that a person doesn't have to cooperate. No one can be compelled to turn over their ID or answer questions."
"Two main questions need to
Strole said holding someone and asking their name and age, using force or arresting someone was compulsion.
Wilson said it would take anywhere from one to three months after the Supreme Court heard the case for it to make its ruling.
Pritchett was not available for comment.
— Edited by Amy Randolph
Scientist's release delayed as case fizzles
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The expected release of Wen Ho Lee was delayed Monday as prosecutors and Lee's defense team haggled over a plea deal that would release the jailed Los Alamos nuclear scientist.
U. S. District Judge James Parker gave no reason for putting off a scheduled court hearing until Wednesday.
"I must regretfully say that we cannot proceed with the hearing this afternoon," the judge said. "There are some issues that may require some amendment to the plea agreement."
Lee's daughter, Alberta, left the packed courtroom in tears and her mother, Sylvia, appeared dazed.
Defense attorneys declined to comment on the delay, as did Justice Department officials in Washington.
Under the deal described Sunday by government sources, Lee was expected to drop allegations that he was targeted because he is Chinese, claims included in a lawsuit against the FBI and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Justice. His attorney in the case, Brian Sun, said Monday that the lawsuit is "still viable."
According to the sources, Lee had agreed to plead guilty to only one of 59 counts accusing him of violating national security. His sentence was to be the nine months he already has served in solitary confinement.
In exchange for his freedom, Lee was expected to explain what he knows about seven computer tapes he was accused of downloading. Lee — whose defense contended he was targeted only because he is Chinese — has insisted the tapes were destroyed at the lab. His willingness to explain in more detail what happened was described as the turning point in 2-month-old plea discussions.
"The issue here is — are we getting the tapes back and we find out what happened to those tapes? I think that is the key," said Energy Secretary Bill Richardson at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., before the postponement was announced. "The plea bargain enables us to get that information."
The three-year case began as an offshoot of a Chinese espionage case and led to accusations that the 60-year-old Lee had downloaded the "crown jewels" of U.S. nuclear weaponry and might be poised to give them to a foreign power.
The government has since backed down from nearly all those charges. Government sources said Lee agreed over the weekend to plead guilty to one count of unlawful gathering of national defense information, aid federal investigators over the next six months and drop the claims that prosecutors went after him because he is Chinese-American. Lee is a naturalized
Supporters of Lee: http://www.wenhoolee.org
Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov
Los Alamos National Laboratory:
http://alamos.nationallab.gov/address:
U. S. citizen who was born in Taiwan.
http://lanl.gov/worldview
"He deserves a national apology," said John Vance, a safety engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The president of the United States should call him in and apologize on national television for the damage that's done."
Lee was fired from his Los Alamos job in March 1999 and nine months later was formally accused of downloading restricted nuclear data to unsecured computers and tapes. Lee has been jailed since Dec. 10 and faced life in prison if convicted of all 59 counts.
For the second time, Lee's neighbors had to scrap plans for a welcome-home party. Homes were decked out in American flags, red, white and blue ribbons and signs of support and welcome.
"It's devastating," said Jean Marshall, Lee's next-door neighbor. "Can you write the sound of tears?"
She added: "Our enthusiasm for his homecoming has not dimmed. I believe that America is watching, and I think justice in the end will prevail."
TOPEKA — The state's highest court has been asked to settle a long-running tax dispute that could cost the nation's largest grocery retailer millions of dollars.
The Kansas Supreme Court heart arguments from attorneys yesterday in the dispute between The Kroger Co. and the state Department of Revenue. Kroger operates 69 Dillons grocery stores, as well as Kwik Shops, in Kansas.
A key legal question is whether fending off a hostile takeover attempt is part of a company's normal business. The dispute between Kroger and the department is about how expenses associated with preventing a takeover are handled under tax law.
The justices reviewed a case involving the company's Kansas income tax statements for five years, starting with 1989. The amount in dispute is more than $10.5 million.
The company contends that the department overstepped its legal authority in levying its income tax assessment. Its attorney, John H. Wachter, of Topeka, said the agency was essentially expanding the income tax law on its own.
"To uphold this assessment would allow the department to create a tax law," he told the justices.
The department's attorney, James Bartle, said the agency acted within the law and court decisions, including a 1994 ruling from the Supreme Court.
He also noted that Kroger would pay no income taxes for the five years if the court sided with the company.
Tax dispute may be costly for Kroger Co.
"The average guy out on the street making $25,000 is going to pay more in taxes than did Kroger," he said.
The Associated Press
The tax case was the first scheduled for argument during the court's 2000-01 term. The justices could issue a ruling late next month.
Kroger operates more than 2,000 grocery stores and almost 800 convenience stores nationwide. During the first quarter of this year, it reported more than $14 billion in sales, and it files income tax statements in 38 states.
In 1988, the company borrowed $4.1 billion to fend off a hostile takeover attempt. It spent most of the money — $3.3 billion — to pay its stockholders a special dividend.
In 1987, the annual dividend for stockholders was $1.05 per share. In 1988, it was $49.50.
Bartle argued that the unusual nature of the transaction meant that the company's interest costs from the borrowing, about $400 million a year, didn't occur in the normal course of business. That means those expenses couldn't off-set its Kansas tax liability.
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