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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Wednesday
October 29,1997
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Vol. 108 • No.50
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Sports today
The next opponent for Kansas football coach Terry Allen's team is a school from his home state coached by his friend and former coach.
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Eighty-eight military officers from 75 countries visit the School of Journalism to receive a tour of "The University Daily Kansan." The group, which visited yesterday, is in the United States for a yearlong course at the U.S. Command and General Stuff College at Fort Leavenworth. Photo by Kevin Gorek/KANSAN
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Foreign officers tour campus
By Mike Perryman
Kansan staff writer
Eighty-eight military officers from 75 countries invaded the University of Kansas campus yesterday morning.
The officers, with ranks from Captain to Colonel, was split up into several small units and led by five U.S. Army escorts across University soil. The men talked to faculty at the University and visited the School of Journalism.
The tour was sponsored by the Office of International Programs and the school and was an attempt to expose them to the First Amendment, the media and democracy.
The officers came to Fort Leavenworth in early June to attend the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. They will return to their countries early next summer.
In addition to the University trip, the group will visit U.S. Army bases, businesses and a nuclear power plant. During the summer, they visited Kansas State University's agriculture program.
Provest David Shulenburger welcomed the officers and remarked about the media and
democracy during lunch at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
Shulenburger said it was a wonderful topic for the officers to learn more about.
"I can't think of a group of individuals that would benefit more from this type of experience," Shulenburger said.
Among the 88 international officers were representatives from Sweden, Germany, Canada, Albania, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Egypt, Korea, Greece, the United Kingdom and several other countries, said Ellen Bogdan, U.S. Army escort.
"These are some of the best officers and representatives from their respective countries, and that's why they're here," she said. "We are trying to expose them to American culture, society and institutions, and the University is a part of that."
Most of the men speak English fluently as a third or fourth language and close to 45 percent of them will be general officers or heads of states, so it is important that they know something about the American society and how it works, she said.
The officers came to Stauffer-Flint Hall to visit
"The University Daily Kansan" and to see how the media worked at the University level.
Tom Volek, associate professor of journalism, said it was important to expose the officers to the First Amendment and to the American media.
They get an idea of how journalism works in America, and the student newspaper is one way to show them, he said.
Bogdan said that most of the officers were impressed with the independence of the KU paper and how it was student directed.
Maj. Roman Pineda Rivas, Venezuela officer, said coming to the University was an excellent opportunity.
"The University needs to continue to have programs like this one," he said. "I learned a lot about the freedom and importance of journalism and how the students get involved in the media. This is good."
Maj. Johnson Ondieki, a Kenyan officer, said his experience at the University was interesting and informative.
"It's a pity that we will only be here for one day," he said. "We all come from very different societies and political systems, and we need to learn more about each."
Envelope scheme stuffs students in postal prank
By Mary Corcoran
mycorcoran@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Earn $300 weeklv!
Want to earn extra income in your spare time while at home? If so, then there is an easy way to make money by working out of your home and in your spare time. The program consists of stuffing envelopes. You can make at least $300 for every 600 envelopes you stuff.
The Law
Fliers like this are tacked up on walls
Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341
"Mail fraud is a scheme or artifice which uses the U.S. Mail to obtain money or property by means of false or fraudulent representations."
all across campus. Each may have slightly different wording, but the concept is basically the same: Make easy money quickly.
Of course, this sounds a little too good to be true. And it usually is. Madonna Sheen, Olathe junior, saw a flier hanging on a bulletin board in Wescoe Hall, and her curiosity was piqued. Skeptical but willing to spend 32 cents for a stamp, she sent a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the listed post office box.
The person who owned the post office box then sent Sheen a brochure. The brochure broke down how much money she would earn per stuffed envelope.
According to the brochure, Sheen would earn 50 cents per envelope, and the more envelopes she stuffed, the more money she would make. The brochure said the postage was provided. Sheen said
After reading the brochure, she mailed in the required $12.50 processing fee and waited to receive her envelopes. The brochure said the envelopes, stuffing and stamps would arrive within four to six weeks of receiving the fee. Sheen said.
Instead of envelopes, she received another brochure.
Sheen said the new brochure told her that the envelope-stuffing company did not exist. Instead, the brochure told her that the real way to make a lot of money was to tack up a flier reading "Earn $300 weekly!"
The brochure also contained addresses for classified advertisement sections of well-read magazines and urged her to place similar envelope-stuffing advertisements.
"I'm really upset," Sheen said. "I can't believe I fell for that."
The flier also stated that the envelope-stuffing offer was not mail fraud because the person sending the mail had provided Sheen with a way to make $300 weekly.
However, the United States Postal Service defines mail fraud as any criminal scheme where the postal system is used to obtain money or anything of value from a victim by offering a product, service or investment opportunity that does not live up to its claim.
"If they are advertising something that they are not giving, then that is fraud," Bob Rolands, postal worker at Jayhawk Station, 1901 W. 31st St.
"Even if they offer a way to make money, that is not what they originally advertised and that makes it fraud." Rolands said.
Sgt. Chris Keary of KU police said he never had seen the fliers before. He said the first thing the police department would do if it got a report about mail fraud would be to contact the area postmaster.
The flier itself is not illegal. Only after a person sends money to the post office box for a service that does not live up to its claim does the scheme potentially become fraudulent.
Rolands said the postal service would have to fully investigate any mail-fraud claim. However, he agreed that the circumstances surrounding the fliers sounded worth investigating.
"I would recommend that they call a postal inspector and explain the situation. If it is happening through the mail, it needs to be investigated." Rolands said.
Parking ticket appeals don't delay enrollment process for students
By Tim Harrington tharrington@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
At the office, the electronic hold is flagged, telling the computer that the hold in question no longer exists, pending the outcome of the appeal, Hultine said.
Students appealing parking tickets need not make a mad dash to the parking department to get holds on their enrollment permits lifted.
Every Friday, new holds and parking ticket appeals are sent to the registrar's office. The holds either appear on an enrollment permit or are canceled if the student pays or wins the appeal.
Once a student appeals a ticket, it is electronically transmitted to the registrar's office, said Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking.
A problem with the operation arises when a student appeals a parking ticket before the 10-day grace period for appeals expires but after the permits to enroll have been sent out with holds printed on the permits. This means that
the student's permit will show a hold when there isn't one.
Students in this situation must take their permits to enroll to the parking office to receive a departmental stamp. The stamp shows that the hold has been temporarily suspended due to the appeal.
"I don't hear about it very much," Hult tine said. "When it happens, though they can come in and we won't make them pay."
"If the hold is on the permit to enroll when we send it out, then the student needs to go get a stamp from the department," Brenda Selman, associate registrar, said.
Though the departmental stamp requires a trip from the enrollment center in Strong Hall to the parking department, appealing a parking ticket requires only the push of a button.
This is necessary because the enrollment center is not lenient about holds.
Online appeals can be made to the parking department at its web site, located at http://www.ukans.edu/~parking/.
"If the hold is on the permit to enroll when we send it out, then the student needs to go get a stamp from the department."
Students also can call or go to the park
Brenda Selman associate re
associate registrar
ing department to set up appeals. Students can file for a personal-appearance appeal or a written appeal.
"The written appeal takes three to four weeks for a decision," Hutline said. "A personal appearance shouldn't take that long."
What students can expect from the appeals process is the appointment of a lawyer and a trial heard by three judges.
The lawyers for the defense and prosecution are both first-year law students, and the judges are second-year law students.
The trials are held in Green Hall.
Many students routinely ignore the four traffic-control boots on campus, and no tickets or fines are issued for these violations. Photo by Dan Elvasky/KANSAN
Violators annoy gate watchers
Kansan staff writer
mcorcoran@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Mary Corcoran
Every day classes are in session, the University of Kansas shuts down Jayhawk Boulevard between 7:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. And every day more than 100 vehicles illegally drive through the booths and onto campus, gate attendants say.
The only vehicles allowed to drive on Jayhawk Boulevard between those hours each weekday are state service vehicles, emergency vehicles, people with campus-access passes and KU on Wheels buses.
Donna Hultine, assistant parking director, said the main reason vehicles were restricted on campus was to
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