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The University. Daily Kansan
Tuesday, September 1, 1998
Eve Bradley, Shreveport, La., senior dances in a performance by the Unity Hip-Hop Dance Troupe. The dance troupe will be auditioning new members today and tomorrow. Contributed Photo/KANSAN
Hip-hop troupe holds tryouts
Kansan Staff Writer
By Mariana Paiva
Students are welcome to jump, kick and move their hips today and tomorrow at the Frontier room in the Burge Union.
The Unity Hip-Hop Dance Troupe will choose 10 dancers this week for its 1998-99 season. The group invites students with no previous professional experience to participate as well as dancers from all genders and races.
faces.
"We want everybody to be involved," said Eve Bradley, Shreveport, La., senior. "I love seeing that we have people from different races in our group."
Bradley founded the troupe two years ago because she was not satisfied with the classical dance classes.
Bradley said that people tended to think only African Americans danced hip-hop, but that her troupe wanted to show this was not true.
She only requires student members be enrolled at the University of Kansas, be talented and look forward to going to practices.
The audition will start at 7 tonight, and candidates will sign up and learn hip-hop pieces for two hours. Tomorrow, members of the troupe will choose dancers based on how the candidates perform the pieces they learned the night before. The final stage will be an interview with each of the candidates who had passed the dance test.
Ngan Vuong, Wichita junior,
said she had no experience in
hip-hop when she tried out two
years ago.
bradley said practices usually took place every Tuesday and Thursday, but it could change depending on everybody's schedule.
"I loved to dance, but I found out hip-hop is more like my style," Vuong said. "I encourage everybody to come and participate. People just need to have the right attitude to dance hip-hop."
Vuong said the troupe performed in a variety of places in Lawrence depending on invitations they received from other organizations and businesses. In October, the troupe expects to organize a talent show in which each member will be able to present a hip-hop piece.
The troupe asks candidates to wear proper dress attire for the tryouts including comfortable shoes.
For more information contact Eve Bradley at 864-8121 or Ngan Vuong at 832-9597.
New bill eases financial aid duties
By Chad Bettes
Kansan staff writer
Congress recently eased those reporting restrictions through 1999.
When Congress passed a bill giving some students and their families tax relief, they also passed some hefty reporting requirements for universities.
restrictions on college tuition."
"I'm delighted, and I think it's an appropriate decision," said Diane Del Buono, director of student financial aid. "There hasn't been a lot of guidance regarding the Taxpayer Relief Act."
In the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, education-friendly provisions such as Lifelong Learning tax credits and Hope Scholarships were created for university students.
The bill placed a burden on universities to report certain financial information to the Internal Revenue Service. The required information includes students' and parents' Social Security numbers and the amount of money
paid by each student for education apart from scholarships and grants, Del Buono said.
The IRS needs the information to ensure that tax filters take the correct tax credit, depending on their educational and financial situations.
Called the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act, the legislation relieved universities of their responsibility to report the information to the IRS through 1999.
to the IRS through 1995:
Chris Johnson, associate director of student financial aid, said she hoped Congress would find a way to enact a self-reporting system. In that system, students and their families would be responsible for providing the IRS with the required information.
required information. Del Buono is not planning on the reporting being permanently repealed. She said plans are underway to make sure the University is in compliance when the reporting requirements take effect.
Offices of financial aid, general accounting, the registrar, computer services and internal
auditing will be involved in the compliance effort. They currently are looking into the logistics and cost of what is involved.
logistics and cost of what is involved.
"KU is going to make an effort to go beyond what is required to make it easier for students and to provide information to families," Del Buono said.
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This year, the University will begin providing part of the requested information. Each student will receive a 1098-T form, which will include information about the University, the student and the student's classification in school. The IRS also will receive a copy of the form.
Tom Hutton, director of University Relations, said the situation was not surprising or unusual when dealing with Congress.
"They have good intentions, but they sometimes work out the details later." Hutton said.
"They have good intentions, but they sometimes work out the details later," Hutson said. Phil LaCerte, press secretary for U.S. Rep. Vince Snowbarger, said the congressman supported both bills. LaCerte said he was not sure when Congress would revisit the subject.
Online book buying becoming more available
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University Book Shop plans to offer online pre-ordering within the next month and is still unsure of when it will sell textbooks online, said Mike Lammers, University Book Store manager.
MILL Muggy, owner of Jayhawk Bookstore, said his store plans to begin selling textbooks online, but he is unsure of how useful such a service will be to students who live close to the bookstores and could avoid shipping and handling costs.
"If thought that in the future we will
offer online book buying, but I don't really see that being very
practical for students," Muggy said. Muggy said the online textbook competition had not been able to offer the full selection to students.
He said Varsity Books, another online company, required students to know more about their textbooks than the author and title.
One company, Amazon books, sells books online. But Muggy said Amazon books is a trade book company, which means it carries a greater discount, but it only offers general novels and reference materials.
"I have been at this website for over an hour, and I haven't even gotten a chance to order a book yet." Reid said. "I tried to enter both the title of the book I was ordering as well as the author, and neither of those worked with this site."
Students have another option when purchasing or selling their books. The KU Book Exchanges (KUBE) is a free, non-profit organization that was started last spring for
He said the process could be difficult for students who did not know the International Standard Book Number of their textbooks.
students at the University of Kansas. Written assessed.
may add books to the library.
"I think the book exchange has been a really good idea," said Seth Hoffman, Lenexa junior. "I think more people should use it because the selection of books will continue to improve."
Students can buy or sell their used textbooks through KUBE. The website lists the titles of books, their costs and the name of the student they may contact if they are interested in purchasing any textbooks. Students also may add books to the list.
The site's address is
http://www.ukans.edu/~kube
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