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Seniors who are planning to graduate in May must fill out an application form for a degree, said Pam Heyden, a college undergraduate services office.
By Sarah Davis
She said the application form allowed the administration to keep records.
forms in early February for May graduation, students can be alerted to any problems that might exist with their requirements for graduation.
"We want to know which students will be graduating which semester." Houston said. "If they don't fill it out at all, they won't graduate."
She said students would have to wait until August to graduate if their forms were not completed and submitted before May.
Houston said a common problem was that many students were not aware of the 40 junior-senior credit classes that were required of all majors.
By completing these required
The University of Kansas is unusual in that students may pick up their diplomas at Strong Hall the day they graduate instead of having them mailed later, she said. But this is possible only if students turn their application forms in early so diplomas can be ordered on time.
Because graduate counselors check all information pertaining to
The application asks for information such as the name students want to have on their diploma and addresses where they can be contacted.
each student's requirements beforehand, the completed form is the last item needed for graduation.
Rich Morrell, University Registrar, said using the applications was an efficient way to check graduation requirements.
Information about the degree applications is in the timetable and a letter sent to all students during pre-enrollment.
she wanted to offer as much assistance as possible.
Houston said the college went to a great deal of effort to send the letters, but because students needed to understand a lot of information,
"Students only graduate once, and they only get one shot," she said. "We want to do anything to help them."
Mark Montgomery, Huntsville, Ala., senior, said that he had filled out an application.
Applications can be picked up or turned in to 108 Strong Hall or to each school's dean's office.
"I knew I had to do some paperwork," Montgomery said. "But not this exactly."
He received assistance during a graduation check, he said, but he did not know earlier that graduating seniors needed to fill out a form.
Natural gas settlement grants refunds
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The settlement of a price-fixing lawsuit against natural gas suppliers will result in millions of dollars in refunds or credit to customers of KPL Gas Service and UtiliCorp United Inc.
The KPL refunds — totaling $122 million — will average $70 for each customer during a period of 20 years, or $3 to $6 a year, said Tom Taylor, representative of the Teopa-based company, which is the area's largest natural gas distributor.
He said residential customers and small commercial customers would receive credits on their bills rather than refund checks.
The KPL refunds and credits will not start until February 1992, and the plan must be reviewed and approved by regulators in Kansas and Missouri.
Both companies' refunds stem from settlement last year of suits against Williams Natural Gas Co. and Oxy USA Inc., both of Tulsa, Okla., and the Amoco Production Corp. of Chicago. Those companies were accused of creating a monopoly and fixing natural gas prices.
UtiliCoP of Kansas City said it would refund $6.6 million to customers in Missouri and Kansas, with the proceeds to be fully paid by October 1992.
souri and Kansas. The settlement for all plaintiffs was estimated at $432 million.
The price-fixing case originally was brought by KPL and later was joined by other plaintiffs; UtilCorp, Kansas Gas and Electric Co. of Wichita, Farmland Industries Inc. of Kansas City and the states of Miss
Taylor said KPL's 444,302 customers in Missouri would receive $64 million during the next 20 years.
In Kansas, 453,639 customers will receive more than $88 million in refunds, he said.
The Missouri Public Service division of UtilCorp will issue $4.8 million worth of bill credits.
Soldiers freeze sperm before gulf deployment
--cans, said Patricia Harrell of Xytex Corp. in Augusta, Ga., not far from Fort Stewart.
The Associated Press
The sperm bank reporting by far the most calls was the Fertility Center of California in San Diego, which has received 200 to 300 calls since last fall, its director, Sharon Coe, said Monday.
NEW YORK  — Some soldiers bound for the Persian Gulf are leaving frozen sperm samples behind and are calling to inquire about the practice.
"It think it gives both husband and wife peace of mind at a time when they sorely need it," Coe said. Perhaps 100 of the callers have come in to have their sperm frozen, she said, at a cost of $300 to $400 for collection of samples, testing and a year's storage.
She said frozen sperm could be stored until midnight, an annual event. The prices range $75 to $100.
A check with sperm banks in states such as Georgia, Texas, Kentucky and North Carolina, where U.S. mammals are most abundant, had most received some inquiries.
Kay Gibson of the Center for Fertility and Reproductive Research at Vanderbilt University said the center had received perhaps 10 calls from military personnel, some based at Fort Campbell on the Kentucky Ten
We've probably had about 20
Some authorities encouraged the practice and said they hoped that news articles about the donations to military personnel would word to other military personnel.
"In 1866, this was proposed by an Italian monk, that men who go to war should be able to store their semen while they're gone," said Jerome Sherman, the reprobate council of the American Association of Tissue Banks.
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Sherman, an anatomist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, said he thought the military should provide the servicemembers.
Not everyone agreed. "It's a morbid belief that they'd want to store sperm before they went to Saudi Arabia," said Sacy R. Stephens, an obstetrician who operates a sperm bank in Dallas."
Charles Sims of Los Angeles, one of the founders of the California Cryobank, said, "It's something to consider for anyone in a high-risk occupation, and combat is a high-risk occupation."
Sims said there was virtually no risk of birth defects or other abnormalities in children conceived with frozen sperm.
■ KU Accounting Club and IRS is having Volunteer Income Tax Assistance meetings at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. today in the Kansas Union.
The University Foundation will have Donald Worster, KU professor of history, speak at noon today on the topic of the Church's involvement in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
KU office of study abroad will have a general information meeting at 1:30 p.m. today in 3 Lippincott Hall.
Watson Library will conduct tours at 3:30 p.m. today.
Organization of Adult Knowledge Seekers (OAKS) will have a meeting and a financial-aid speaker at 5 p.m. at Alceve A in the Kansas Unger
■ KU Gamers and Roleplayers will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Party Room in the Burge Union.
■ Amnesty International will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
SUA will feature the movie "Malcolm X" at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union. SUA Gallery in the Union Building done by industrial student students.
KU Pro-Choice Coalition will meet at 7 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
Student Association of Graduates in English will have a lecture by Robert Con Davis, titled "Freud, Lacan and the Subject of Cultured Studies," at 8 tonight at the Pine room in the Kansas Union.
Police report
More than $19,000 in jewelry and silverware was taken from a home on Belair Court sometime Monday, Lawrence police reported. The victim reported the property stolen at 11 p.m.
- Cash, change and a box of baseball cards valued together at $940 were taken from the Red Hot Garage, 733 New Hampshire, between 6 and 10 p.m. Sunday, Lawrence police reported
A car parked on the 2000 block of University Drive had paint remover poured on it sometime Sunday night. The damage was estimated at $1,000.
A KU student's driver's license and KU bus with pass was lost or stolen at the Snow Hall bus stop at Monday. KU police reported
A 60-inch table with a laminated top worth $100 was removed from a locked room in Watson Library on Wednesday afternoon. KU police reported
Correction
- In a Page 12 article in yesterday's Kansan, the information given was incomplete. The telephone number for Reservist information line is 865-5119
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