University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 20, 1990
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Call for help with those taxing W-2s
By Sandra Moran
Kensan staff writer
For KU students who are having trouble filing their taxes, help is only a phone call away.
The Internal Revenue Service offers several services, including toll-free numbers that students can call to ask questions about general tax information.
Tele-Tax, a 24-hour automated information service, offers information on about 140 tax subjects. These include refund and tax return information. The toll-free number is 1-800-534-4477.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance,
an IRS program, is available to KU
students from noon to 4 p.m. and
from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays
and Thursdays until April 16 at the
Kansas Union.
KU Student Legal Services also offers free advice to students who need help preparing tax forms before the April 15 deadline.
Michele Kessler, staff attorney for the services, said that the service offered tax advice, but that the three staff attorneys did not actually prepare students' tax forms.
"We're not like HAR Block where you bring in all your stuff," she said. "We sit down and go through it line by line."
The service is free to all students enrolled at the University of Kansas.
Kessler said that after making an appointment, a student should bring a W-2 form and bank statements showing interest earned throughout the year. Students also should find out beforehand whether they were claimed as deductions by their parents.
For more help, students can call an IRS tax assistant at 1-800-424-1040 weekdays during business hours. In addition, they can call 1-800-424-3676 to order IRS tax forms and any of about 100 tax publications.
One of the publications available, "Student's Guide to Federal Income Tax," was written for college students and explains federal tax laws.
It helps students decide whether income from wages, tips, scholarships and fellowships is taxable and whether tax should be withheld from their pay.
New social welfare course will focus on aging, elderly
By Sandra Moran
The School of Social Welfare's newest course will deal with an old subject.
Kansan staff writer
The school is creating a course on aging for Fall 1980, said Jan Jess, assistant director of field practicum of social welfare. It will supplement the graduate concentration in gerontology and will provide an introductory course about aging.
Gerontology is the study of aging and the problems encountered by the elderly.
Jess said the class was a restructured version of an existing gerontology course. The new course will be more comprehensive and will be offered to students who are not in the school. The course, Aging in America: Challenges in the Future, will be open to seniors and graduate students.
She said the school surveyed students before restructuring the course and found that only six people were accepted in taking the original class.
Jess said that she helped restructure the course and that she would be the instructor. The course will focus on the social, biological and psychological aspects of aging, in addition to the role of the family.
Edith Black, assistant dean of the school, said interest was so low last semester that no gerontology classes were offered.
"What we hope is to get more interest," Black said. "It's interesting that students don't seem to be responding."
She said the school was applying to the University of Kansas to have the course fulfill a social science requirement for undergraduates interested in taking the course.
Professor pleads case for abortion
'Group harm' would result from repeal
Ann Cudd arouses the pro-choice viewpoint on abortion as part of the Western Civilization lecture series.
By Carol B. Shiney Kansan staff writer
Keith Thorne/KANSAN
Abortion should remain an option for women, a KU professor said yesterday during lecture arguments for abortion rights.
"Women as a group are harmed when abortion on demand is not available," said Ann Cudd, assistant professor of philosophy.
Cudd up讲到 about 60 people in Wescoe Hall. Her lecture, "Arguments for Abortion Rights," was the first in a series of three lectures for the Western Civilization Program Lecture Series Spring
In one argument, Cudd said that when abortion on demand was not available, women would suffer more pain. They would be denied legal protection.
Group harm, she said, occurs when members of a group suffer because of their membership in that group. Cudd said examples of group harm to women included employment discrimination and
"Enforced pregnancy, it seems to me, is also a group harm to women," she said.
Enforced pregnancy occurs when abortion on demand is not available. An example of one harm caused by enforced pregnancy is employment discrimination against women who become pregnant. Cudd said.
She said if women could not control whether to take the pregnancy to term, then they were subject to discrimination. Enforced pregnancy also causes women to see themselves as less than moral adults, Cudd said.
"Moral adults get to consent and decide in personal matters," she
said. "If pregnancy is enforced, this right to consent is taken away."
Cudd also said that group harm violated equal protection from the state. "Therefore enforced preg-marriage is more effective protection of women," she said.
Cudd cited section one of the 14th Amendment, which states, "... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
In another argument for abortion rights, Cudd discussed the "personhood debate" — whether a fetus is a person.
"If it can be shown that the fetus is not a person with philosophical and political rights, then it would follow pretty immediately that women who are pregnant with fetuses could abort them," she said.
body even to save another's life.
In a third argument, Cudd discussed the competing rights debate. She said that a person owned her body and that no one had a right to invade a person's
The fetus uses its mother's body to sustain its life, Cudd said. "Therefore, the fetus has no legitimate claim on the mother's body," she said.
After the lecture, Krista Syrup,
Lenexa junior, said she agreed
with Cudd. Syrup is a student in
Western Civilization 234.
"It's a good argument," Syrup said.
Azhar Shah, St. Louis junior, said he thought that Cudd's arguments were clear and concise.
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