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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, April 25, 1986
Bad-check penalty may rise
By Lori Polson
Staff writer
Students at the University of Kansas soon may be paying more for writing bad checks.
Under a plan proposed to the Board of Regents, the cost of writing a bad check at KU would increase to $10 beginning July 1. The University now charges $8 that they receive a returned check.
John Patterson, University comproller, said yesterday that the increase was supposed to be an increase in students from writing bad checks.
"I don't think it's a revenue
generator," he said. "We want to discourage people from writing bad checks."
Tom Rawson, Regents director of financial planning, said the Regents would vote on the issue next month. The Regents always asked the Regents for financial changes the month before they vote on the issues, he said.
The University receives from 1,000 to 1,500 bad checks a year from students paying all types of fees. Patterson said.
"We get returned checks from students paying tuition to students paying library fines," he said.
estimated that about 6.5 percent of KU students wrote bad checks to the University during an academic year.
The new plan should raise about $2,300 in extra revenue for the University. Presently, KU gets
about $9,500 from returned checks.
The money is divided among Student Health Services, Parking Services, the Division of Continuing Education, the University School, the Compromiser's Office, and the Office of Student Housing.
Attendants block KCI entry
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — About 30 flight attendants on strike against TWA locked the entrance to the company's overhaul base in a demonstration yesterday, backping up for more than an hour, police said.
About 20 police officers who responded to the scene initially were told there were several hundred people present, said Bill Stewart, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department.
Flight attendants and about an equal number of sympathizers delayed workers arriving at the overhaul base near Kansas City International Airport, 110th Street and Amity Road, around 6 a.m., police said. The demonstration broke up about two hours later.
The demonstrators stood in the street and used police barricades to block the entrance to airline's maintenance base. Stewart said.
Traffic was unable to exit off the 112th Street exit ramps from Interstate 29, backing up highway traffic for more than a mile in both directions during the morning rush hour. R.M. Pitts of the Highway Patrol
However, the strikers moved the barricades and eventually cleared the street at the request of officers, Stewart said. The demonstrators, their sympathizers and the motorists remained orderly, he said.
No strikers were arrested, though one driver was arrested for refusing to move his vehicle from an intersectionset nature, and bond at the scene, Stewart said.
"To inconvenience the traveling public is not in anyone's best interests," he said.
The protest showed a total disregard for the traveling public, Larry Hillard, TWA spokesman in New York City. He interviewed a station in a telephone interview.
The head of the Kansas City local of the flight attendants union said that the protest was not organized by union leaders but apparently was the result of a decision made by individual union members.
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