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Grants counter tuition costs
University releases 20 percent of tuition-increase revenues to financial aid
By Kyle Ramsey
Kansan staff writer
University officials announced in July that they would follow through with their promise to devote 20 percent of the revenue from this year's 25.2 percent tuition increase to financial aid.
Janet Roeker, assistant director of financial aid, said the University awarded 3.700 grants to undergraduate and graduate students on the Lawrence campus. The grants total $1.72 million.
The KU Medical Center issued $500.00 in grant funds.
To be considered for the grant, students had to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA. Along with meeting federally set academic guidelines, the main factor the department considered was students' financial need.
"They had to have been impacted by the tuition increase." Roecker said.
Undergraduates received a maximum of $500 for the 2002-2003 academic year. Graduate students could
receive up to $400
Roecker said most students who received the grant qualified for the full amount — about 94 percent of undergraduates and 91 percent of graduate students.
Matt Seger, Newton junior, said the tuition grant helped him meet the increased cost of attending KU.
He received the maximum grant amount of $500, but that still wasn't enough. This left Seger seeking other aid.
"I didn't really have any major worries about coming back to KU," he said. "I knew I needed a little more help."
Seger secured an additional loan, but said he would work harder this year for more scholarships.
"I know it will keep going up," he said.
This was a concern Roecker couldn't quell.
Roecker couldn't say whether the tuition grants would continue in coming years. She said that depended on decisions made by the Board of Regents.
The Regents originally asked state universities to submit a five-year budget plan outlining the increase schedule throughout that time. But after cuts in state funding and uncertainties with its budget's future, the state agency reneged on its original request and asked the schools to narrow their plans to one year only.
"We'll just have to wait and see what happens with the Regents," Roecker said.
In June, the Regents approved the tuition-increase figures presented by Chancellor Robert Hemenway in May. The 25.2 percent increase raised the credit-hour cost to $97.55 for Kansas-resident undergraduates and $337.45 for out-of-state students. The increase in tuition and fees adds up to a $300 increase overall for resident students enrolled in the standard 15-credit-hour semester.
Contact Ramsey at kamsey @kansan.com. This story was edited by Matt Gehrke
FRIARS POINT, Miss. (AP) Five law enforcement officers were shot during a bloody 36-hour saga that ended Sunday morning with the arrest of one man in the small Mississippi Delta town of Friars Point.
The Associated Press
Mayor Herbert Thomas said none of the five officers was killed, and the man suspected in all five shootings — as well as in the shooting of a man on Friday — was in custody.
Friars Point Police Chief Anthony Smith had been trying to arrest Patrick Harper in connection with that Friday night shooting when the chief was shot in the neck on Saturday, allegedly by Harper, Thomas said.
Smith was hospitalized Sunday in satisfactory condition at The Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn., nursing supervisor Jackie Smartt said. The other officers were reported to be in satisfactory condition or better.
5 police officers shot, suspect arrested
After the police chief was shot, officers from the Coahoma County Sheriff's Department were called in and tracked Harper to a nearby home in Friars Point, a town of about 1,400 people 200 miles northwest of Jackson.
"The suspect took the officer's radio and handcuffs and his gun and he started making demands that he wanted all the police cars except for two to
leave."
**Herbert Thomas**
Mayor of Frers Point, Miss.
As officers tried to enter the home early Sunday, just after midnight, gun-shots rang out, and both Friars Point officer John Martin-Harris and sheriff's deputy Victor Randle were shot, Thomas said.
With Harris hurt and apparently taken hostage inside the home, police units from surrounding counties, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and the Mississippi Department of Corrections were called in.
"The suspect took the officer's
radio and handcuffs and his gun and he started making demands that he wanted all the police cars except for two to leave," Thomas said.
Around 3 a.m., officers wearing bulletproof vests and armed with shields used a battering ram to bust through the door, said Mississippi Department of Corrections officer Kenny Scott.
Scott was hit in the thigh, and sheriff's deputy Neal Mitchell was also wounded.
"We got the door opened and that's when the shots started," Scott said.
"There was gunfire exchanged all throughout the night." Thomas said
Around 5:30 a.m., Harris called from inside the home and the officers discovered that the suspect had slipped away.
An hour later, officers had Harper's grandmother's home surrounded with Harper inside. After two more hours of negotiations, Harper surrendered, Thomas said. He was being held at the Cohoma County jail.
It wasn't immediately clear what had led to the shooting Friday night of the Friars Point resident, Doyle Hunter. He was shot in the face and shoulder and remained hospitalized Sunday, said his cousin, Teanna Bell.
Geocaching a tech-driven treasure hunt without the treasure
The Associated Press
That technology and a love of the outdoors have spawned a new game called geocaching — pronounced geo-cashing — that is an adventurous game for people who own hand-held geographical positioning satellite receivers. Players use GPS receivers to find caches hidden by other players, and all use the Internet to tell of
LIBERAL — Many have participated in an old-fashioned scavenger hunt, but aficionados have used satellite technology to bring the game into the 21st century.
their experiences with the hidden caches.
Once someone logs onto geocaching.com, they can punch in a zip code and get a listing of all the registered caches within 100 miles of that zip code, according to Mann.
"It's fairly new in this area," said Gerald Mann, a geocacher who lives in Liberal.
"People go out and hide a cache, and they note the location with their GPS — the latitude and longitude—and then they list those coordinates on the Internet at geocaching.com," he said. "Other people then plug that location into their GPS units and go out and try to find the cache."
"It combines a family outing, hikin-
a, a scavenger hunt — it's like a
sophisticated treasure hunt," he said.
A hand-held GPS receiver costs anywhere from $100 to $450, and will get you within about 20 feet of the hidden cache, according to both men. But then it takes observation and actual search to find the cache.
But those expecting to find real
"It might be in a tree trunk or stump, or hanging in a tree and you have to find the string that lets it down." Mann explained.
treasure may be disappointed, because the actual cache is usually a water-tight container which contains several inexpensive items for those who discover its location — not gold or gems.
"There's usually six or eight items in there — like a rain gauge, pens or calendars, state quarters — just little stuff. I put these little wooden cars and trucks in one of mine." Mann said. "And the rule is if you take something from the cache, you have to replace it with something."
"There's also usually a log book to write down your name, the date, who
was with you, and a little about the cache  if you had trouble finding it or if you enjoyed the hunt," he added.
Once a cache is found, it is then logged on the Web site with comments from the person who found it — using care not to give away the actual location — along with the total caches he or she has found, and the name — or handle — the geocacher uses.
"Everybody goes by handles—like the old CB days," Mann said. "My handle is Coyote2."
Mann presented an Internet remark made by someone who found one of his caches. It reads, "June 1 by
...great job! I passed the location several times and then told my to look closer. There it was! I was just so happy to find it, I took nor left nothing. Thanks for the fun."
kerenrugade (308 found). You have to be very proud of this one. I would be
Geocaching started about two years ago, according to Mann, when the U.S. government released several GPS satellites for public use.
"In the summer of 2000, the government freed up these satellites that had been used by the military. There were 24 satellites around now where everybody can use them." Mann said.
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