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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Students pay more than $400 in campus fees
CASSIDY RITTER
@cassidyritter
At the end of your lease, you are told you owe an additional $800 for damages. The security deposit has been used to clean and paint, but the carpet also needs to be replaced and holes in the walls must be fixed. Instead of receiving a return on the security deposit, you are told to give more money.
This is an example of a landlord versus tenant dispute that could be brought to KU's Legal Services for Students, according to Jo Hardesty, director and managing attorney for Legal Services.
Help from Legal Services is one of 15 services students pay as part of their required campus fees. For 2014, students pay a total of $450.04 in fees on top of tuition fees. These fees include $90.50 for the Recreational and Fitness Center, $63.30 for the Student Union, and $14.50 for Legal Services.
LEGAL SERVICES FOR STUDENTS
LEGAL SERVICES FOR STUDENTS
According to Hardesty, students bring in a copy of their lease along with any documentation. Once the documents and lease have been looked over by an attorney at Legal Services, the landlord is contacted for justification as to why they are keeping the student's deposit and asking for more money. Information is shared and disputed until a settlement is agreed upon. The student, attorney at Legal Services and the landlord go to court if no agreement is made.
In 2013, Legal Services saw 240 landlord-tenant cases. A landlord won't return a student's security deposit or wants additional money from the student to replace carpet or repair holes in the walls. When a discrepancy is present, the student takes his or her case
to KU's Legal Services for Students.
Landlord-tenant disputes are just one example of the services covered by the $14.50 fee that students pay per semester for Legal Services. Most of the cases seen by Legal Services are landlord vs. tenant, traffic and misdemeanor, or taxes, Hardesty said.
The required campus fee also pays for Legal Services' entire budget. This includes renting their building space in the Burge Union, staff salaries and paying for law students to work there, Hardesty said.
Cases brought to Legal Services are seen by second and third-year law students and/or an attorney. Four full-time attorneys, one part-time attorney and four students work in the office. Hardesty said they helped 3,057 students in 2013. That means about 13 percent of students use this service, even though all students pay for it each semester.
RECREATIONAL AND FITNESS CENTERS
Students on the Lawrence campus pay $90.50 towards a Recreational and Fitness Center fee. Mary Chappell, director of KU Recreation Services, said the fee allows students to use the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center, along with the sports complex at 23rd and Iowa streets, Adams Campus Outdoor Education center at Clinton Lake, the pool and courts in the Robinson Center, and the new tennis and sand volleyball courts. The money students pay also go towards salaries, operations, equipment, maintenance, a sport club fee and to help pay off a bond debt. The bond debt paid for a track and new courses in the recreational center in 2003. In order for students to get
FIVE CAMPUS FITNESS FACILITIES
In order for students to get the most out of their money,
they need to use Recreation Services 10 to 12 times a semester. This means going to the gym, swimming or playing volleyball a minimum of three times per month.
Alex Gunn, a junior from Topeka, works out at the recreational center two or three times a week. Gunn said the recreational center is definitely worth the $90.50 fee considering he paid more than $100 for a summer membership at another gym with fewer amenities.
KANSAS UNION
Students also pay a $63.30 fee for the Student Union, which is a combination of four fees from the University Registrar.
There is a fee for the Student Union building ($41.00), Student Union renovation ($13.80), Student Union activity fee ($5) and KJHK fee ($3.50). The majority of the money from these fees goes toward daily maintenance and operations, but also pay for 24/7 streaming on KJHK and
many activities provided by the Student Union, said David Mucci, director of the Memorial Unions.
BREAK OF THE FEES:
- Student Union building: daily maintenance and operations for the Kansas Union and Burge Union.
Student Union renovation: Mucci said this fee is for "emergency repair and improvements." One example Mucci said was the Chiller replaced in the Burge Union this year costing $450,000.
Student Union activity fee: JJ
O'Toole Curran, director of the Union Programs Office, said this fee "completely (goes) towards event planning and funding." There are about 250 events a year covered by this fee.
- KJHK: This $3.50 fee allows KJHK to run 24/7, maintain their online stream and app and also provides the equipment needed to run a radio station. They are also able to host two event during welcome week said Margaret Hair, program coordinator for KJHK.
Edited by Drew Parks
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Becca said by following in the same career path as her father, she often feels pressure to succeed.
"It is not pressure I get from him. It's pressure that I put on myself," she said. "I'm an extremely competitive person, and so I definitely am driven to become just as successful in my engineering career as he is."
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Ray Segebrecht thought he wanted to be a reporter, so he graduated with a degree in journalism. He liked the idea of getting to know all sorts of people, especially those with a story of overcoming struggle. Then he changed his mind. He decided to become
a doctor, like his father, and now is in his second year of medical school at Kansas.
Ray thought being a doctor would allow him to incorporate his passion for helping others and his ability to engage with people about their problems and needs.
"When it comes to medicine, in a way I am interviewing people everyday, and also having a very real role in trying to resolve their problems," Ray said. "You start broad and work your way down to the essence of the issue."
Ray's father, Stephen Segebrecht, has a practice in Lawrence and specializes in otolaryngology, which focuses on ear, nose and throat conditions.
"He's a great doctor with an incredible mind for medicine, and I want to live by his example," Ray said. "It's something to aspire towards."
For his part, Stephen said his greatest fulfillment comes from helping his patients.
"Taking care of sick people and making them well, whole [is the best part]," Stephen said. "Whether it is trauma, chronic infections or removing tumors, I get to relieve their suffering and provide comfort."
Ray, who plans on focusing his career in internal medicine, has taken classes from professors who were in medical school with Ray's father, who graduated from the University Medical Center in 1980. Stephen said he thinks Ray would make a good teacher after some real world experience.
"Ten years from now, I would ideally like to see Ray teaching at KU School of Med as a clinical professor," Stephen said. "He would make a phenomenal teacher. I just think that would be so rewarding. He has the patience and a real gift for teaching."
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Girl missing for 12 years found with mother in Mexico
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas girl reported kidnapped 12 years ago was found near Mexico City with her mother after authorities received a tip, and the mother was quickly flown to Texas and jailed on kidnapping charges, investigators said Wednesday.
The FBI and Mexico authorities said 17-year-old Sabrina Allen, whose case was twice profiled on the television show "America's Most Wanted," was found Tuesday night in Papalotla, Tlaxcala. She was 4 years old when she, was reported missing by her father in 2002, after she vanished following a weekend visit with her mother.
"She's in pretty bad shape as far as my understanding," her father, Gregory Allen, said during a news conference with the FBI and Austin police on Wednesday. "She was not living a regular life. She has not been going to school."
The teen and her mother, Dara Llorens, were flown back to Texas early Wednesday. Llorens is now jailed in Austin on an aggravated kidnapping charge and being held on a
Allen said he has not yet seen his daughter, but said he knew what his first question would be: "I'm going to ask her if I can give her a hug."
$300,000 bond. It was not immediately clear if Llorens has an attorney.
six months after the girl was reported missing, a friend of the mother's told the FBI that he had dropped Llorens and her daughter off at the international bridge in Laredo and that he believed she went into Mexico.
U. S. and Mexican authorities said that she and her daughter had been living in an apartment and that Llorens initially put up some resistance when she was arrested by Mexican officers. But investigators released no other details about the arrest or about how long they believed she had been in Mexico with her daughter.
Allen had hired a private investigator to help find his daughter. He said authorities were recently tipped by a confidential informant, but he declined to give more details. Allen also recalled one trip where he spent a month walking through neighborhoods handing out flyers about the missing girl.
Allen said his daughter was meeting with a therapist, but he and authorities declined to say where she was staying.
Allen has since remarried and had more children. He said they only know they have a sister who has been missing for years.
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