Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1985
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Grube said the business undergraduate program started checking student records during the add-drop period and finished a little over a week ago. To speed up the pro-gram, more resources are needed, he said.
Unruh admitted that he should have read the timetable carefully but complained that his adviser didn't inform him about the requirements.
"I thought the adviser's signature meant that it was OK," he said. "The advising system needs to be overhauled."
Most disenrolled students are prebusiness students who have various problems, he said. In many cases, their situations changed since they enrolled last spring because they failed classes or didn't fulfill promises to complete the requirements by going to summer school, Grube said
Grube said, "Advisers give the best advice they can, but the ultimate responsibility is with the student."
Tollison said the only way to avoid the disenrollments was to change the University enrollment procedure, so students who hadn't fulfilled the requirements were screened at enrollment.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said no other school had similar problems.
"It is possible to program the computer to check requirements at enrollment," he said. "We're working on it now."
'By April 1986, we hope to have
that program, but the same thing could happen in enrollment for the spring semester."
Thompson, who also is director of veterans services, said veterans would have their benefits cut if their training was from full-time to part-time student.
But Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid, said students relying on federal loans didn't need to be enrolled; they remained at a full-time student.
Weinberg said some students now might have problems fulfilling the requirement of being a full-time student, which was to pass 12 credit hours per semester. But the students could continue to receive federal loans next semester if they explained to the financial aid office why they didn't complete 12 hours this semester, he said.
"If they are less than half-time students, the loans become due and payable," he said. "But if they go back to school within the grace period, they won't have to start payments."
Weinberg that being less than a full-time student was economically draining even though students didn't lose their loans. Though a student may have as few as six hours; the days of going to school stay the same.
Unruh said he now would have to go to school an extra semester. But he said he was going to turn in an appeal of the decision.
AT&T hearing ends quickly
The Associated Press
TOFEKA — A hearing on AT&T Communication's request to refund $8.3 million to its customers and reduce rates an additional $2.3 million concluded quickly yesterday as state utility regulators whipped through the remaining list of witnesses.
AT&T has asked the Kansas Corporation Commission for permission to refund the long-distance fees and reduce rates to better compete in the rapidly expanding long-distance telephone market.
under advisement and will issue a decision later. A public hearing on the matter will be at 1:30 p.m. today in the commission's offices on the fourth floor of the state office building.
The commission took the case
During the hearing, smaller long-distance telephone companies trying to move in on AT&T territory told the commission they would be driven out of business if AT&T were prematurely released from state regulation.
The rates and refunds would affect long-distance calls made within Kansas between the three long-distance service areas, generally the 913 and
316 area codes and the Kansas City metropolitan area.
AT&T has proposed refunding, via customer credits, $3.48 million for 1984 overcharges, $2.39 million for 1985 and reducing rates $2.34 million.
The KCC staff, which represents the interests of Kansas residents in general, has suggested deeper cuts: $4.273 million refund for 1984, $3.66 million for 1985 and a rate reduction of $3.53 million.
And AT&T wants to raise rates charged for private line services by $1.6 million, or 24 percent.
Protests disrupt police hearings
From Kansan wires
PHILADELPHIA — Heavy security and interruptions by protesters marked the opening yesterday of commission hearings into the fury of the shootings in radical urban MOVE in which 11 people were killed and 61 houses destroyed.
"Murderers, murderers," shouted one man who later was escorted by police out of the hearings before the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission. "The line must be drawn on this. You killed all those subjects."
after police dropped a bomb on it. the tire was allowed to burn out of control for more than an hour, destroying 61 rowhouses, leaving 250 people homeless and causing more than $10 million in damage.
and the May 13 siege, seven adults and four children died in the fortified MOVE house in a fire that began
About a dozen officers were posted outside the studios of WHY-TV, which broadcast the WHY lives, and plainclothes officers lined the walls inside the auditorium.
Mayor W. Wilson Goode, who will testify before the panel, appointed the 11-member commission to probe the city's attempt to serve warrants on four members of the back-to-nature group and to evict the group from its fortified west Philadelphia rowhouse.
Commission chairman William Brown III had barely begun his opening statement when he was interrupted by one protester who shouted: "This is a racist cover-up. There should be indictments now."
The hearings began the lengthy process of trying to pinpoint the events that led to the May 13 conflict and examined the history of MOVE, whose mostly black members use the surname Africa and disdain the use of modern conveniences and conventional hygiene.
Ninety minutes later, three protesters broke into the testimony of former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Joseph O'Neill and called the hearings a "whitewash."
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of refuge along the eastern Mediter ranean coast.
Tanfores
Official sources said Syria, Lebanon and Cyprus refused to accept the hikers.
attest of the Americans who had been on the Achille Lauro cruise were among about 600 passengers who disembarked in Alexandra, Egypt, before the Palestinians seized the ship about 30 miles west of Port Said. Reports indicated that about a dozen Americans still were aboard.
In a radio conversation with Lebanese port authorities, the pirate gang's leader demanded negotiations with Israel.
He shouted: "We will hit any ship, any plane that tries to approach us. This is Omar, the hijacker of the Italian ship. I want to speak to Beirut port authorities."
When port officials identified themselves, Omar said: "I want to negotiate. I want to negotiate with Israel. I want you to convey this message. I want to negotiate with Israel. That all, I want to break off of now."
Cairo newspapers said the gang leader identified himself shortly after the hijack as Omar Mustafa, code-named Abu Rashad, but nothing more was known about him.
The commandos claim to belong to the Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a splinter group opposed to Yasser Arafat, leader of the more mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization.