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Man denied admission to KU was jailed for not leaving hall
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
Kevin Rogers arrived at the University of Kansas two days before classes started this fall, intending to enroll as a graduate student. He talked to administrators about enrolling and was given overnight space in a residence hall.
A week later, he was in jail for refusing to move out of the hall. He stayed there 30 days because he could not pay bond.
Rogers, who has been talking to lawyers, said last week that he was arrested for not being a student before he had a chance to become a student. But University officials said Rogers had misunderstood their efforts to help him by waiving procedures.
Rogers, 30, said from his home in St. Louis that he wanted to enter the special studies program for graduate students in the School of Education when he arrived Aug. 24 in Lawrence.
After being told he didn't meet the requirements of the graduate programs he wanted to apply to, Rogers said he thought officials enrolled him as a non-degree-seeking student. He went on an enrollment card with an education plan's stamp and set about preparing for his enrollment time Sept. 4.
But University officials said Rogers never was admitted.
Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education, said that privacy laws prevented him from discussing exactly what happened to Rogers. But Bailey did say it was possible for a student to receive an enrollment before looking for classes while his application was being reviewed.
People do not actually become
students until they are admitted to a program. Bailey said.
After getting his enrollment card, Rogers walked over to McCollum Hall the evening of Aug. 24 and spoke with Mr. Rowe, a student busing, about getting a room.
Stoner said Rogers showed up after regular business hours and said he was a student who had no place to stay for the night. Although it wasn't regular procedure, Stoner let Rogers use one of the temporary rooms reserved for such cases, on the condition Rogers return the next day with proof that he was an enrolled student. Rogers agrees with that account.
Stoner said the proof he needed was confirmation of enrollment from an admissions counselor.
Normally, students must be admitted in a program before they are given a contract for space in a residence hall, and must be enrolled before they are given space in the hall, Stoner said. Contracts state that rooms are for regularly enrolled, full-time students.
Stoner said he let Rogers in the hall for the night because the housing office tries to make exceptions some times to be sensitive to students' problems.
Stoner said it was just good policy to trust students rather than turning them out into the street for not having followed procedures to the letter. Usually, everything works out, he said.
But this time, it didn't.
Stoner said that when he checked Aug. 25, he found that Rogers wasn't a student. Rogers said things would come out that day. Stoner let him stay.
told Rogers he had to leave because he wasn't a student. All departments Rogers had dealt with said he wasn't a student and wasn't going to be a
That day, Stoner said he told Rogers that he had until Aug. 30 to leave the temporary space in McCollier's home. "We're still there," Stoner called the police.
The same thing happened Aug. 26,
Stoner said. And Aug. 27.
Rogers said he wasn't worried about the police, because he thought they would help straighten things out. But Rogers mistakenly thought that his enrollment card was proof of admission and that it gave him the right to remain in the hall.
It didn't.
So when KU police arrived that evening, Rogers was arrested on criminal trespass charges for remaining in McCollum when he had been told to leave. Rogers said that although police gave him the option of leaving voluntarily before he was arrested, he had nowhere to go.
Finally, on Aug. 28, Stoner said he
Unable to post 7500 bolt, he spent
as days in jail. He was released.
September 29.
While he was in jail, he said he missed his enrollment time and an appointment to find out about financial aid.
After his release, the state agreed to drop charges against Rogers after he made a $62.79 reimbursement to McColum for the time he spent there. Rogers made the payment Oct. 7.
Rogers said he didn't have hard feelings toward the people he dealt with
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His lawyer in Lawrence, John Frydman, said that possible legal action was still up in the air.
Stoner said that although mistakes might have been made in Rogers' situation, they were all in his favor.
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