University Daily Kansan, December 5, 1980
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Students
working illegally because they use social security numbers. Most students are caught after an acquaintance or co-worker tips the IPS on a person is working without a permit, Geil said.
Bahman said that was what happened in his case.
"The fear that someone will turn you in is the fear that you need the money, your work anyway," he said.
One student, who has no work permit and did not want to be identified, said he was forced to get a job with an off-campus manufacturing house whose his parents did not have money to send him.
"They are not employed," he said.
Students can apply to work part time on the campus through the office of foreign student affairs. Full time undergraduate students must complete a half semester before they are eligible for on-campus work, and a graduate student enrolled full time is eligible to apply for an on-campus job immediately. Students are restricted to 20 hours a week during the semester and may work more hours during breaks and holidays.
The student said he tried unsuccessfully to find on-campus jobs that would not require a work permit from the ISN. He had not applied for a job at the university. The immigration service rarely lets Irianans work."
OBTAINING A WORK permit from the INS is more difficult for students, Gell said. Students must document the financial ability to pay tuition and board before admittance to the
United States is granted. In order to be granted a work permit after being admitted for study in the United States, students must show that a certain change has occurred in their financial situation.
"A student who has his government shipship would probably have no trouble in a work with a worker."
Work permits are not broken down according to ethnic groups, Gell said.
"But I believe few Iranians have been given work permits in the last two years," he said.
Jeff Saadi, a former Tehran graduate student, said Iranian students who need to work believe the risk of deportation is there whether they work illegally or not. Saadi, who works with an on-campus research group and received both his undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Kansas, said many students think they are in a no-win situation.
"If they do not have the money to pay tuition, they're subject to deportation, and if they work without permits to get money for tuition, they're also subject to deportation," he said.
Geil estimated that about 20 percent of the foreign students in the United States violated their status by working without permits. The severe backlash against their status were more apt to be apprehended.
"It is no secret that Iranian students are being watched closely," Coa said.
THE WEEDING OUT OF Iranian students who were in violation of their student visas began last year when President Carter ordered that the status of the more than 50,000 Iranian students in
the United States be checked. The Iranian project, as INS officials have termed it, is an ongoing search to find Iranians who have violated their status by failing to enroll in a university, taking less than a full-time course load or working without a permit.
Despite the intensified hunt for Iranian status violators, Saadi said he believed that about 60 percent of the Iranian students worked without a permit.
"They would rather continue their studies than go back home at this time," he said.
oant said the turmilor in Iran had made many students insecure about their future.
"I iframans are called back to fight," he said, they would not hesitate to go. But things are so mundane that we don't even know what to do.
Returning Italian students would not be able to find work or finish their education in Iran, he said. A friend, who recently returned to Iran, told Saadi that Iran had closed the universities.
"The universities were closed," he said, referring to the destruction of a threat to the stability of his Islamic regime.
Saaid, who has a masters degree in engineering, said that he had been waiting since graduating in May for a return of political and economic stability in Iran so that he could go home.
Mohammad Amani, Mashhad graduate student said that his academic performance has decreased to zero since Iran's war and political crisis.
"I probably won't find a job if I go home," he said.
AMANI SAID HE would like to stay in the United States until Iran became more stable but did not think he could get an extension to stay in the country. He said he planned to leave next
litigation, said he was hopeful that he will be able to stay.
Amani, a petroleum engineering student, said he was not sure what the future held for him.
"My lawyer told me that I might have a better chance of being put on probation if the hostages are released," he said.
Bahman, whose deportation case is in
Bahman was recently granted a work permit by an immigration judge.
"I think my getting the permit is a good sign," be said.
Council
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- The Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals will replace the Board of Parking and Traffic Court. The duties of the board will remain the same.
same:
* Classified staff members will be placed on the Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals and the Judicial Board.
In other action, the council passed the final examination schedule for the Spring 1981 semester.
Because of a possible change in the Commencement date, the council delayed action on the matter until it was sure of Shankel's Commencement decision.
*The Advisory Committee on Campus
Advocates, who advises the university omphibians.*
*A national database.*
Monday to Sunday, Commencement will be Monday, May 18.
Shankel rejected a recommendation from a Special Commencement Committee that would have approved the nomination.
At the Faculty Council meeting following the University Council, faculty discussed the necessity for University Faculty executive committee continuity.
George Worth, FacEx chairman, said that based on his own experience, he thought something had to be done to guarantee an orphan transfer of power from one chairman to the next.
HE SAID that sometimes in his position, he thought he was "acting and talking like a new boy on the job."
FacEx also unanimously endorsed a resolution against the faculty family fee for the use of Robinson gymnasium.
Worth said, "The more pressure that is put on the executive vice chancellor, the more likely he will be to remove the fee."