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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 8, 1968
KU gets $2 million in fees
KU has collected $2,805,217.34 in student fees for the spring semester, Charles M. Burrows, associate comptroller in the KU business office, said Thursday.
Burrows said the figure would not be complete until KU collected fees from 1,579 sponsored students. Sponsored students are those on academic and athletic scholarships, foreign students and those enrolled in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps.
A partial breakdown of the collected fees shows $2,141,623.42 in
incidental fees used by the University for salaries and operating expenses; health fees amounting to $246,574.10 go to Watkins Hospital; and $146,605.20 in activity fees help support the KU Athletic Department, the University Daily Kansan, the International Club and other campus activities.
In addition to these fees, $116.-
431.50 will go to the Kansas Union
and $19,456.00 collected for hospitalization insurance will be
Bickford defines fee policy
KU has no authority to waive, postpone or remit fees once a fee payment schedule has been set up, said Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents.
KU's fee payment schedule is set up so a student has 18 calendar days to pay his fees before his enrollment is dropped. If fees are not paid by the eighth calendar day after classes begin, a $10 late fee is charged.
If a KU student is unable to pay his fees, his only recourse is
to get a short term loan from the student financial aid office, which Jerry Rogers, assistant director of financial aid, said is easy to get.
Students who are on the monthly University payroll, such as graduate teaching assistants, have been able to make their first payment of the semester when the first checks come out. This policy was set up by the business office because teaching assistants do not receive their first paycheck until after the fee payment deadline.
turned over by KU to Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Burrows said, in addition to required fees, $10,210 was collected for Festival of Arts tickets. The remainder of the student fees collected would be divided among the smaller campus and University organizations.
Legal pot is just wishful thinking
"Marijuana legal" blared the leaflet, citing a "court case" to prove it—and the husband and wife team of distributors were happily passing out free "joints" with each leaflet.
But Linda and Joe Durgan, Lawrence residents, were apparently violating no law when Lawrence police stopped by to check the Thursday afternoon activity on the campus.
The joints were only roll-your-
own tobacco cigarettes. The court
case cited in the leaflet, a special
"extra" of the Screw, was bogus.
Student census could aid county
If students at KU, Baker University and Haskell Institute were included in the 1968 Douglas County census, it would mean additional funds for the maintenance of city streets and county roads.
State tax funds are returned to the cities and counties on the basis of population. If students were counted in the census, Douglas County would have an estimated population of 60,100. Lawrence would have an estimated population of 47,674. The 1967 population figures are: Douglas County—42,615 and Lawrence—30,901.
Including students would mean an additional $137,260 in returned tax money to Douglas County. This is about a 50 per cent increase above the 1967 refund of $277,390.
Darlene Hill, an employee in the county budget department, said the funds returned to the county would be used to maintain county roads and to reduce tax levies.
City Manager Ray Wells said the funds returned to Lawrence would be used to maintain the city streets and to reduce the property tax levy.
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The county commission voted to include KU, Baker and Haskell students in the census last August. However, Darwin Rogers, county assessor, says he will not count students in the census.
Rogers based his refusal to count students on a July 19 letter, from Attorney General Robert C. Londerholm to Lewis Carter, chief attorney for the state property valuation department, which reads: "The Kansas census has historically counted residents only." However, Rogers said he had no idea how the students would be counted.
Walter Kampschreeder, county commissioner, said. "If there was no revenue involved, there wouldn't be any controversy about including the students."
Kampschroeder said the inclusion of students in the census would be on a voluntary basis. The student could decide if he wanted to be counted as a resident of Douglas County or as a resident of his home county.
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The commission referred the problem to County Attorney Dan Young Wednesday. Young said he has not reached a decision yet. The Kansas Legislature enacted a Senate bill last April 14 directing the State Board of Agriculture, which compiles the state census, to comply with federal census regulations in 1970 and thereafter.
In the 1960 federal census, students were counted in the county and city population.
Sunday 10th March
Jean-Luc Godard
Will Be at The University of Kansas
Presenting
Midwest Premiere of 'La Chinoise'
7:00 p.m. Followed by Lecture/Discussion 8:30 p.m.
Hoch Auditorium - Admission Free