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Few students demand to see files
By KENNA GIFFIN
Staff Writer
University of Kansas students haven't yet descended in hordes upon administrators, demanding to see their confidential files, documents and accounts of family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act provides that present and former students have the right of access to educational materials within 45 days after access is requested.
The act is better known as the Buckley amendment, after Sen. James Buckley, Cons. R-N.Y., the bill's author. The bill went into effect Jan. 1, 1975. Some confidential letters filled before that time, including letters of recommendation, still is confidential.
ADMINISTRATORS WHO deal with confidential records, such as those in job placement, say few students have asked to see their letters.
Earl Nehring, chairman of the department of political science, said yesterday few students were interested in seeing their files. The department doesn't even have a written statement for students who wish to waive their right to see their confidential records. Other administrators structors usually understood whether recommendations were confidential
POLITICAL SCIENCE students may see their confidential files, but the files are screened first, he said. Letters written before Jan. 1, 1975, would be removed before the files are opened because they are still considered confidential.
Herold Regier, director of the School of Education placement bureau, said the
majority of education students had waived their rights to see their files. About 100 students exercised their right of access within the last year.
He said professors probably weren't influenced in writing recommendations even when they knew students could see the letters. Although some departments strongly urge students to waive their right to placement because the appropriate placement bureau didn't, be said.
One advantage for a student knowing the content of his recommendations is that he can judge how to approach job searches and interviews better. Regier said.
GLY, DICK, dean of admissions and records, said the Buckley amendment hadn't affected the central records administration. Strong Hall are permanent records, which are transferred to students' transcripts. There are no confidential records because the University doesn't require letters of recommendation for admission to the University.
The Buckley amendment regulations did create a considerable amount of paperwork for the Office of Student Financial Aid, Steps II, associate director of the office, said.
ANY INFORMATION the office has on a student can be shared among offices within the University, but students must fill out forms approving the release of the information to anyone outside KU that may need the confidentiality of student and parental records, he said.
Buckley amendment took effect, Weinberg said. The reasons why a student receives less financial aid than he thought was right, or doesn't receive any financial aid, are explained to the student in writing by the financial aid office, he said.
There haven't been any student requests for access to financial aid files since the
The amendment hasn't made life any more difficult for the University Relations Division of Information, which writes press releases about KU students and activities.
LARRY KNUPP, director of the information division, said his division didn't usually try to get student permission to use information about them unless parents'
names and addresses were used. Then the student is asked to sign a form giving their name.
Students who are on an honor roll can call the information division if they don't want that information sent to their hometown and send it automatically if they don't call, Krupp said. Graduating students can choose whether their graduation is announced by indicating their preference on the application for graduation and they fill out the semester they graduate.
When the privacy act was passed in 1974, the Office of Student Affairs prepared a list of student records at KU. The list describes the nature of students' nature and the nature of access policies.
KU credit union has open house
The KU Federal Credit Union will celebrate the opening of its new office in 101 Carruth O'Leary with an open house between 9 am. and 3 p.m. today.
Class to see British plays
This winter students at the University of Kansas and other institutions can take advantage of a seven-day tour to London for a visit to a criticism of contemporary British theatre.
"The purpose of the tour is to give students background in current British theatre, criticism of British performances and to study actual British production techniques." John Bush Jones, associate teacher, English and course instructor, last week said.
The credit union, a nonprofit savings and loan agency for faculty and staff members, was housed in the basement of Strong Hall moving to Carruth-O'Leary last spring.
The 15-year-old credit union offers its members free life insurance, payroll deduction on loan repayments, annualization of the faculty payroll program, in addition to low interest loans. Janet Sterns manager of the credit union, said yesterday.
About 1,200 faculty and staff members belong to the credit union, she said.
"We'll see a range of British plays- classical, early modern, newly received music."
Each student planning to participate pays
$200 for round trip tickets and stays at the
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Performances will be conducted by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Ballet and the English Stage Company, and the English Stage Company of the Royal Court Theatre.
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The combined course and tour, the first of its kind at KU, is scheduled to begin Dec. 31 and return Jan. 8. Aside from attending plays in London, there's also the possibility of seeing plays in other parts of England. The tour, sponsored by the English department, is a three-hour credit course offered for both undergraduate and graduate students.
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The tour will be opened for all students, including those in adult education. Adult education students will participate in only the tour.
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