Tuesday, February 27.1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
3
Letters to the editor
Fee policy is unfair to student
To the Editor:
Now that I have shelled out another $399 in non-resident fees to the University, I want to complain about it. I suppose the reason out-of-state students are charged higher fees is because neither they nor their parents have paid state taxes in Kansas to support the educational system. Well, so far there's nothing wrong with this.
But what gets me (in the bank account especially) is this: a legal resident of Kansas might still have to pay non-resident fees. And the University readily admits this. The Kansas State Board of Regents regulations (88-3-3) state in part: "However, a student's actual residence, in fact and in law, is not necessarily synonymous with his residence 'for fee purposes' under K.S.A. 76-2701 and under these regulations inasmuch as a legal resident of Kansas may nevertheless fail to qualify as a resident 'for fee purposes'."
My wife and I have been living at this same address for nearly a year and a half—it is now our "domicile"; we pay Kansas taxes on our incomes; we are going to file our tax returns as Kansas residents; and next fall we will register to vote as Kansas residents.
This year will probably be the last year we can register our car in good old Nebraska. Yet even though we can legally be considered as Kansas residents, I still have to pay non-resident fees.
Non-resident graduate students who have assistantships with the
University are automatically granted resident status. In a way the University is discriminating (that magic word!) against me for not having an assistantship.
Now hold on to your hats, Grads—I'm not saying that you shouldn't be granted resident status for fee purposes. But I think it would be much easier to logically support a policy of granting resident status to legal residents of the state than it would be to support the policy of declaring some graduate students as residents just because they have assistantships.
The policy of the University is very clear: screw the students
out of every possible dollar. If this weren't so, then how could I be a resident for tax purposes and at the same time a non-resident for fees purposes? The state comes out ahead in both cases.
Someone began to see the light when the policy concerning female Kansas residents who marry non-residents was recently changed. That was the first step, and I hope that the second step—letting residents be residents—will soon follow. It would be a much more equitable policy.
One final note: by referring to the "University," I mean KU, the Regents, the Legislature, and anyone else involved in this related policy-making area.
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