Tuesday, April 5, 1983
Daily Nebraskan
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By John Koopman
Having trouble with your 1040A short forth? Don't
know the difference between a dividend and an
exemption? Oi maybe you just don't want the
responsibility of making a mistake and getting a very
nasty letter from the Internal Revenue Service.
Don't worry. You can get help and you won't have to
sell plasma to get enough money to pay for professional
tax preparation.
Since the beginning of the semester, members of the
UNL accounting honorary organization, Beta Alpha Psi,
have been providing lee tax help to university students.
The accounting students will continue the service until
the April 15 filing deadline.
Donna Pospisil, a senior accounting major, said the
service is a part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
program coordinated by the IRS. It is identical to the
tax help offered at the Gateway mall and other locations,
Pospisil said.
"The VITA program gives us (accounting students) a
little experience working with tax returns," she said.
Pospisil said Beta Alpha Psi members must maintain
a certain number of points in order to remain active in
the organization. These points are earned through working
with the VITA program and with other services,
such as tutoring.
Pospisil said that the majority of the tax help involves
out-of-state and foreign students. For out-of-state
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students, she said, she must figure a student's income tax
by reading the stale tax form.
"It really makes me appreciate Nebraska's easy form,
she said.
Although she has given guidelines for some itemized
deductions. Pospisil said that most people who have
complicated tax returns go to pr5fessional tax preparers
for better advice.
She said that two members of Beta Alpha Psi are
available from 7 to 10 every Monday and Wednesday
night in the Nebraska Union. As the April 15 deadline
draws nearer, she said, more students have been taking
advantage of the service.
Judy Gangler, VITA coordinator for Beta Alpha Psi,
said that everyone who assists in the program must go
through IRS training and pass an IRS-administered test.
The test and training are designed to incorporate some of
the common problems found in various groups of people,
Gangler said.
She said the Beta Alpha Psi members provide the
service for no other reason than the experience it
provides. She said VITA volunteers are not allowed to
take money for their services.
Josie Ortegon, a sociology graduate student, said she
has used the service for the last two years. She said the
service was fast and friendly and a "good deal" for
students.
Ortegon said she has never prepared her own taxes.
"I've never tried. I suppose I probably could do it,
but it's easier and safer this way."
Shorts
David Lhrcnfeld, biology professor at Cook College,
Rutgers University, will speak about sources of hope in
the environmental crisis at 7:30 p.m. today in the
auditorium of the Nebraska Center for Continuing
Education. 33rd and Holdreee streets.
Lhrcnfeld also will conduct an ecology seminar in the
Hast Union at noon Wednesday and a discussion on the
biology of human sex differences there at 10 a.m.
Thursday. He is at UNL as part of a Visiting Scholars
Lecture Series sponsored by the NU Department of
Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife.
Four energy experts from throughout the country
will speak about alternate forms of energy production
at a public forum at UNL Thursday. The 7:30 p.m.
forum will be in the Centennial Room of the Nebraska
Union. A question-and-answer period will follow. The
forum is sponsored by the UNL Student Chapter of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
African. . .
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After the fashion show, UNL students
Tess Mobate, Alabi Kolade, Femi Kotoye
and several students from the Nigerian
Students Association in Omaha performed
traditional African dances. Members of the
audience followed the generous Nigerian
tradition of placing coins and bills on the
foreheads of the dancers, often dancing a
little in the process.
After two African films, O.O. Fafowora,
Nigerian ambassador to the United
Nations, spoke about Africa and the
United Nations. He said that although
more than one-third of the U.N. nations
are Afiican, their power is inhibited by
the veto power given to any member
nation.
He called attention to the economic
needs of Africa, where the annual per
capita income is as low as $200 in some
countries.
"Africa is by far the richest continent
in raw materials, and yet it is the poorest
continent in the world," he said.
Fafowora also addressed the arms race
issue, saying that the African countries, as
nonaligned nations, have sought to bridge
the gap between competing countries by
encouraging communication. The respon
sibility for disarmament, however, rests
on the superpowers and nuclear states,
he said.
Police,
Report
The UNL Police Department received
the following calls and complaints from
7 a.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday.
12:38 pjn. - UNL police assisted
Lincoln police with an injury and accident
at Cotner and Holdredge streets.
6 p.m. Stereo equipment reported
stolen from car in Parking Area 1 on 17th
and K streets.
7:40 p.m. - Pickup truck reported
stolen from Parking Area 1 on 19th and
Vine streets.
2:06 a.m. - Attempted theft reported
from cars in East Campus Auto Pool;
four people arrested.
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will speak at the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society
banquet Friday. The banquet will begin at 6:30 p.m. in
the Nebraska Union following a 6 p.m. initiation
ceremony for new members.
Gross will talk about human exposure to synthetic
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