University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 16, 1989
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Conference unites black college students
Career fair scheduled
by Cynthia L. Smith Kansan staff writer
The black experience extends beyond history books. It includes today's college students.
"I am the Black Experience" is the theme of the 12th Annual Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government, which begins today at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
"It's an inspiration to go," said Ardra Tippett, conference correspondent secretary of today and one of the black students of today are the leaders in this thing we experience is the black experience.
The council is comprised of black student organizations from the Big Eight universities. It was formally established in 1978 at the University of Missouri.
Conference participants include students and faculty from area universities. Kelie Paris, Black Student Union president, said the major were from universities that attended the conferences were undergraduate.
More than 20 KU students are at the conference.
One of the conference's goals is to ensure the future success of black students at universities where Black students are a major part.
Students will discuss the environment for black students at their campuses.
"We come, we tell each other what we've done that has succeeded and what has failed." TOMMY C. HOWARD
Company representatives will seek both interns and permanent employees at the conference's career fair. Last year about 60 students competed in the conference's career fair at Kansas State University.
The 1989 career fair will include Procter &
Paris said that attending the conference might help her find a summer internship.
Gamble Co., Texas Instruments and IBM.
The council decided not to invite companies who indirectly supported apartheid.
"You get to meet prospective employers," Paris said. "That's how the conference gets the corporations to come in. They tell them they have gathered the creme de la creme of black students at the Big Eight Schools."
"We decided this year not to deal with anyone who has holdings in South Africa, because a race of people can only remain oppressed by their own willingness," Tippett said. If we unite as a people, we can defeat anything."
tions on Big Eight campuses. Member organi-
zations annually pay $100 in membership dues
"I think it's important so we have some stability and security." Timmett said.
She said that the KU BSU was solely financed by Student Senate and that increased conference financial reserves could provide alternate for their allocation by Student Senate was reduced.
A lack of financial, emotional and social support is the main reason black students who belong to minority groups fail.
Tippett said that in about five years, the money could be used to award scholarships to black students at universities with predominately white student bodies.
"We want to say, 'We believe in you. You can succeed,'" she said.
Tippett said that attending the conferences inspired and motivated her
"I feel like I can save the world." she said.
Confused collegians able to get tax service
by Steven Wolcott Knsan staff writer
The dreaded April 15 federal income tax filing date is fast approaching, and for students ignorant of the process, there are several places to turn for help.
There are all the tax services that guarantee you a refund and promise to go and hold your hand if you're audited. But these cost money, and why pay when you can get something for free?
On campus, Legal Services for Students, in 148 Burge Union, can answer your tax questions.
"Any student who has pain in fees this semester can make an appointment and get help," said Jo Hardesty, director of Legal Services. "Our attorneys will sit down with them and show them how to do the forms."
"We are not like HR R Block, where people just drop their stuff off and leave. We try and teach them how to can do it on their own next time."
Taxes make up the majority of the office's work in the spring semester. Hardesty said. Legal Services has those for foreign students, including those for foreign students.
"We encourage all foreign students to come to us for tax advice." Hardesty said. "Foreign students are in a real different situation, and we are one of the few places in town that has the correct forms."
Hardesty said that Legal Services, in conjunction with the Office of Foreign Student Services, in 112强 Hall, would be conducting a study on the impact of from 3:30 to 5 p.m. March 9 in the Daisy Hill Room at the Burge队
"We give all kinds of tax advice." Hardesty said. "Even if you already have your forms done, you can call us with questions."
This is the second year that some forms of financial aid are taxable.
Photo illustration by Dan Startling/KANSAN
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of the office of student financial aid, said that all scholarships, whether administered by the University, private foundations or anyone else, now were taxable.
"It is only scholarships; this doesn't apply to grants or loans." Weinberg said. "This year, thank goodness, the IRS put instructions for students in the tax booklets. They did not do that in 1987."
The instructions are on page 22 of the 1884 1040A/1040EZ tax booklet. Most students with scholarships
will not have to pay extra taxes because the Internal Revenue Service allows students to subtract the cost of tuition, books and other course-related expenses from school income. It doesn't make einberg said. What's left is taxable.
The IRS has several toll-free hot lines.
If you have a tax question, call 1-800-424-1040. Wear the IRS makes an error in answering your tax questions, you are still responsible for the payment of the correct tax. However, you will not be
charged any penalties.
If you are an accounting major, or
generally a whiz at taxes and have
already sent yours in, you can check
your refund by your refund by
calling 1-800-5544-3477.
The KU Accounting Club offers free tax assistance through their Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, or VITA, at several locations throughout Lawrence and one on campus.
If you have a question about your Kansas tax form, you can call 913.771-7350
Harold Cook, professor of business and the club's adviser, said that the VITA program was mainly for area colleges. The students still were eligible to get help
The on-campus session is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays by the fourth-floor study booth at the Kansas Union.
"The program is made up of student volunteers from the club who have received training from the instructor." No, that's too much. "And well, and it's done on a walk-in basis."
Ritual sets house fire
by a Kansan reporter
A fire during an initiation ritual at Sigma Chia fraternity early yesterday morning caused an estimated $800 billion in the Barr, Lawrence Fire Marshal
No one was injured in the fire, which started about 5:45 a.m. The fire occurred in a first floor closet and there were no injuries conduction a pledge仪式 ritual.
The ritual began about 12:30 a.m. when fraternity members woke pledges one by one and had them in the closet, said John Gatti, house president and Topeka senior. A mirror had been set up in the closet with a lighted candle in front of it. A sheet was taped to the wall behind the mirror. Fraternity members read an initiation passage to the pledges who were looking at themselves in the mirror. Gatti said.
Barr said the fire began while fraternity members were out of the closet preparing to wake up another pledge. Fire investigators speculated that the members shut the door to the room, and then moved the sheet to blow into the candle flame.
Gatti said, however, that he did not think the door had been closed. He said the linen probably became from the wall and fell into the flame.
A sprinkler system, which was installed in 1897, extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived at the scene. Barr said.
Updated fire code gets city approval
by Carrie Harper Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission unanimously approved an update of the Uniform Fire Code without controversial measures on Tuesday.
Maj. Rich Barr, Lawrence Fire Marshal, said that several amendments were deleted from the adopted code so that affected groups would be to meet with the Building Code Board and the Fire Code Board of Appeals.
The distinction between the definition of a level and of a story was eliminated from the adopted code. The requirement for sprinkler systems in new housing projects of three or more levels, as written in the ordinance, also was removed. Barr said.
The sprinkler systems requirement for organized living group dwellings, like fraternities and sororites, also was deleted. Barr said that an appendix requiring that existing water systems be upgraded was removed as well.
Commissioner Dennis Constance said that the appendix would have made the other provisions retraced, and include the higher-risk structures.
"The appendix is the area of controversy," Constance said. "There is no reason to wait on updating the bulk of the code."
At Tuesday's meeting, Mayor Bob Schumm directed the city staff to meet with concerned groups and attempt to work out a compromise by the March 28 City Commission meeting.
Constance said the mayor set a deadline so the issue would not drag on and so the new commission, which takes office on April 11 after the general election, would not have to start at step one on the issue.
The adopted fire code will be presented again at Tuesday's meeting. If approved, it will be published and become law. Constance said. Ary Deng, an assistant attorney general deadline will be presented as an ordinance to amend the law, he said.
Drug labs will expand
Company donates research dollars
Kansan staff writer
by Jennifer Corser
Korean staff writer
Much like an arrow should hit the bull's eye, a drug needs to hit the right organ.
Next year, the University of Kansas will begin research ways to improve the way drugs reach their targets in the human body, said Elias Michaelis, chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. of Topeka, has given KU $490,000 to help establish the Higuji Biosciences Centers of Excellence, which will include a center for drug delivery research.
Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. is a state-sponsored corporation that seeks to market university research.
The money also will be used to plan three other centers as part of the
"This will enhance the Centers' ability to find researchers and help administrative people carry out research plans," he said.
Higuchi Centers, Michaelis said. These centers will research drug design and metabolism, molecular engineering, and immunology and neuroscience. The centers will be completed in the early 1990s.
The first bioscience research center, the Center for BioAnalytical Research, was established in 1883 and will become part of the Higuchi Centers, said Howard Mossberg, de药学 Pharmacy. The center is in the Higuchi Biosciences complex on West Campus.
For the past six months, researchers have wanted to expand the Center into the High昌 Centers to cover bioscientific areas. Mossberg said
Michaelis said the corporation's money would help bring the centers into existence.
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“It’s a way of organizing what is going on and starting a few projects that otherwise would not be done,” Mossberg said.
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