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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, August 21, 2000
Campus legal services offers advice
Attorneys help solve problems for little,no fee
By Veronica Rosas Special to the Kansan
Students with legal problems ranging from landlord-tenant relations to drunken-driving charges can find help at Legal Services for Students at 148 Burge Union.
Legal Services for Students has three attorneys and six legal interns on staff. The service is usually free.
Michele A. Kessler, associate director of legal services, said
that the problems students presented usually involved in landlord or tenant conflicts, traffic violations, minor-in-possession citations, drunken driving, and possession or use of false identification.
Wendy Rohleder, Plainsville third-year law student, has been a legal services intern for almost a year. She said when a student came into the office, an intern would meet with the student, consult a supervising attorney, then meet with the client again and offer advice and discuss options.
In landlord and tenant conflicts, students may have found something wrong with the apartment or may not have received their deposit. If the landlord sues the tenant, legal services will represent the student for a $15 paperwork fee, Kessler said. She said that legal services will represent the student in court for landlord conflicts or consumer-related cases.
Kessler said that some cases at legal services were domestic.
"With the diversity of the KU population it's not all traditional-aged college students," Kessler said. She said sometimes students needed information on divorce or custody issues.
Kessler said legal services also gave advice to student who had been assaulted, but often advised the student to consult a private attorney as well. If a student has been accused of a violent crime, he or she could seek advice from legal services, but the student would be referred to a private attorney. Legal services also
ofters advice on sexual harassment cases. Kessler said.
Kessler said legal services would provide counsel for writing a will, estate information and third-party medical decisions. It also gives legal advice for taxes, copyrights, patents and fundraising projects.
If a student has a conflict with another KU student, Kessler said legal services could not help because it would create a conflict of interest.
When legal services cannot represent the student, it helps the student find an attorney if one is needed, Kessler said. Students are referred to the Kansas Lawyers Referral Service, which offers the names of attorneys in the area.
—Edited by BriAnne Hess
Computers, food to be accessible all night at Union
Bv Veronica Rosas
By Veronica Rosas Special to the Kunsan
Construction of a 24-hour computer lab and convenience store will begin this fall on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
David Mucci, director of the Kansas and Burge Unions, said that the 50-computer, 1,500-square foot lab will be located where the Union's business office is and that the convenience store will replace the Union's candy counter.
The Union's plan is to have the computer lab and convenience store operating by spring, Mucci said.
convenience store operating by spring, located David Johnston, marketing coordinator for the Kansas and Burge Unions, said that the Union was used a lot when it was open 24 hours during finals but that students did not have access to a convenience store, a computer lab or printing services. Now they will.
Mucci said that Mailboxes, etc. also may be open 24 hours.
"If people want to study in the lounge they've got convenience items," Johnston said. "They can get Cokes. They can get candy. They can get microwaveable food — whatever. They can have computers accessible 24 hours a day."
"It's a nice, central location," Neufeld said.
Jesselyn Neufeld, Olathe senior, said the addition of the new convenience store and computer lab was a good idea, especially for finals. When Neufeld worked on group projects during finals, she met her group at the Union.
Neufeld said it was convenient when the Union was open 24 hours during finals but that she and her group would have to go off-campus for services such as printing.
Building another 24-hour computer lab on campus had been discussed for a few years. One plan that was later rejected was to replace the Union's Jaybowl with a cyber cafe, which would have included a computer lab and a coffee shop.
Johnston and Mucci said that another plan was to put a computer lab on the Union's third level at the northeast corner of the food court but that the plan would have been too expensive.
The computers for the new lab will be provided by Academic Computing Services, said Silky, ACS help-desk manager and lab manager
Edited by Chris Fickett
On-campus jobs abound
By Brandy Straw
Special to the Kansan
Sara H. Hill, Arlington, Texas, junior, works in the main reception area for the department of student housing. She said she worked on campus because it was convenient. Her job lets her go to school in the morning, work in the afternoon and study in the evening.
Students at the University of Kansas can earn money between classes through part-time jobs on campus.
KU jobs include inside and outside work, office work, computer-related jobs and maintenance work.
There are hourly positions, work-study positions and some salaried positions.
"Everything you can imagine," said Ann Hartley, associate director of University Career and Employment Services.
Jobs pay $5.15 an hour or more.
A position listed that required computer skills listed in July paid $8 per hour.
The employers who hire the most students are the libraries and the department of student housing. Hartley said.
The libraries employ 300 students each semester, said Barbara Woodruff, assistant personnel officer for libraries.
Students working in the libraries can be found shelving books or behind counters.
In the circulation and reserve departments, students check in and out materials, input records onto the library computer system, sort books and help patrons. The fines department hires students to keep records, collect money for overdue books
Watson Library has 20 different departments that hire students.
and search for missing books. These positions start at minimum wage, but a few pay more because they have more responsibility. Woodruff said.
The department of student housing employs students to work in the residence halls, scholarship halls, Jayhawker Towers, Stauffer Place, the dining centers and the academic resource centers in the halls, said Teresa Krambeer, student employment coordinator for the student housing department.
Academic resource assistants check in and out library materials and help organize and display library materials. Other student housing jobs are custodial assistants and dining services assistants.
Desk assistants coordinate hall tours, answer phones, issue keys, distribute mail and respond to emergency situations. Security monitors patrol residence halls.
Skilled-trades assistants work with full-time employees maintaining the halls. They paint, landscape, and repair electricity, air conditioning and plumbing.
Dining, custodial and maintenance positions begin at $6 per hour. Other positions with the department of student housing begin at $5.75 per hour.
The department of facilities operations hires students in custodial and maintenance positions. Custodial duties include trash removal, sweeping and mopping, and buffing floors.
Lawn maintenance workers mow, pick up trash, shovel snow and landscape. Building maintenance workers change incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs on campus or clean and service motor-pool cars in the garage. All positions are paid $5.65 an
hour, unless the hours worked are before 6 a.m. or after 6 p.m. Then students can earn $5.90 an hour, said Glennnett Corel, office assistant for the department of facilities operations.
Hilltop Childhood Development Center hires students to be teacher aides, assisting classroom teachers with different activities, such as art projects or field trips. The job pays minimum wage, said Sara Barth, program director for the center.
On-campus jobs have advantages beyond earning extra spending money. Most employers are willing to work around class schedules and final exams, said Gail Rooney, director of career services.
Heather McReynolds, Amarillo, Texas, senior, works as a student assistant for career services. She said the offices were usually pretty flexible.
"They'll let you off when you need to study," she said.
Career services posts jobs on the web at www.ukans.edu/~upc, and outside its offices at Room 110 in Burge Union. The listings indicate the type of work, qualifications, salary information, number of hours required and whom to contact.
If the positions don't seem interesting, don't despair, Rooney said.
"I encourage students to keep looking," Rooney said. "The positions are constantly being updated."
The final step is to go to the office posting the position and complete an application.
Career services has its Student Employment Fair at 9 a.m. Aug. 22 on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
— Edited by Ben Embry
Quirky queries rumor control occupy KU info
By Nick Krug Special to the Kansan
KU Info was swamped. Twenty calls an hour were coming in about Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams.
Was he really going?
The Associated Press created one of the biggest rumors in KU Info's history when it reported that Williams intended to announce that he was leaving to coach the North Carolina Tar Heels.
"When you start getting a few similar calls in an hour, you know that something is stirring," said Jessica Zahn, Wamogo junior and KU info operator.
The University of Kansas Athletics Department and Sports Information either didn't know or wouldn't say whether Williams was leaving.
susan Elkins, program director for KU info, said she contacted the Laurence Journal-World and CNN, both of whom told her Williams was leaving.
"So we were also telling callers that he was leaving." Elkins said. "It wasn't until around 12 noon that we found out that it was all a rumor. We feel badly about helping to create rumors, but we tell what we know."
When most people think of KU Info — the University of Kansas Information Center — they think of the easiest means of getting information about the University, answers to trivia questions or other queries that someone might be too embarrassed to ask a friend, such as, "Where is Wescoe Hall?"
But KU info's first priority hasn't always been answering quick questions.
The information center was created in 1970 — a year when campus shootings, the Kansas Union fire and the Vietnam War were creating student unrest on campus.
Now, KU info serves more as an encyclopedia for students, faculty, the Lawrence community and people around the world rather than a rumor-control center.
But rumors do present themselves in all shapes and sizes. When a particular calling trend takes place, it is documented on a notecard and placed in the KU Info rumor box for record-keeping. The box contains rumors ranging from student deaths to school cancellations.
"People all over the world from other countries call us to find out the basketball schedule or who won the game because KU Info is one of the big phone numbers that everybody remembers after they leave." Elkins said.
A recent falsity of devastating proportions to the male population was the rumor that Britney Spears was planning to attend the University next semester. The same vicious lie is floating around Kansas State University.
Some rumors are downright horrific. Elkins said, "One of the major rumors that comes about every three to four years is that a Wichita gang will come to KU on Halloween to decapitate sorority girls and then place the heads on the front lawn of their sororities," she said. "Not only students, but many parents have called in concerned about this one."
A harmless rumor that generates a significant amount of calls is that the new fall break begins this year.
"Although the fall break is not scheduled until the year 2001, we've received many calls from not just students, but many faculty members as well, who are confused about this issue," Elkins said.
KU Info has come a long way since its inception. Although its operators may sometimes be misinformed, they remain some of the few on-campus information providers in the country.
Have a question? The number is 864-3506.
— Edited by Mindie Miller
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