IRS deadline brings tax rush
By June sobczyk
Staff Reporter
As the deadline to file taxes ap
proaches, preparations are being made
to ensure that things run smoothly.
The Internal Revenue Service has
extended the filing deadline to Monday
because April 15 falls on Saturday.
To prepare for the rush of getting
tax forms in the mail on time, the Main
Post Office is extending its hours on
Monday.
Susan Frink, spokeswoman for the
Main Post Office, 700 R St., said she
expected a rush on Monday.
“There is always a rush every year,”
Frink said. “We get several people
who wait and mail their forms on the
last day.”
Frink said window service at the
Main Post Office would be available
until 10 p.m., and curbside collections
would be taken until midnight.
The post office isn’t the only place
in Lincoln that feels rushed at tax
deadline time. Tax preparation ser
vices also are experiencing a rush.
Leota Janousek, who works for
Associated Tax, said business had
picked up in recent weeks.
“We’ve been very busy and
rushed,” Janousek said. “We’ve been
booked up solid on appointments, and
we’re busy waiting on people to get
their tax information back to us.”
Bob McKitterick, quality control
supervisor at H & R Block, said his
office had been busy, too.
McKitterick said some of his cli
ents were students, but most were not.
“A lot of people we see are just
people who don’t like to do taxes
themselves,” he said. “Some don’t
understand how to do them.”
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students also are preparing for the tax
deadline.
James Vanderloop, a senior biol
ogy major, said he felt pressured to get
his taxes done before the deadline.
But, he said, he was relieved he fin
ished earlier this week.
“I’m getting back about $384,”
Vanderloop said. “But I thought I was
going to get about $500.”
Vanderloop said he was going to
use his refund to pay for summer
classes.
But not all students waited until the
week before the deadline. Dave Howe,
a senior business major, did his taxes
in February.
“I did them early because I wanted
my refund,” Howe said.
Jodi Hammer, a sophomore busi
ness administration and English ma
jor, also said her taxes were Finished.
“My mom did them for me,” Ham
mer said. “She usually does.”
But Hammer said she was disap
pointed because she made too much
money and had to pay taxes. She ex
pected a $500 refund.
Hammer said she had planned to
use the refund to go to Mexico for
spring break. Instead, she spent spring
break reviewing her tax forms to see if
her mom made a mistake.
“I called tax help centers to see if
my mom did them wrong,” she said.
“But they said she did them right. At
least I get $44 back from the state.”
Graduates must fill out loan exit forms
From Staff Reports
Students receiving degrees from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
in May who have federal student
loans must fulfill exit requirements
with the Office of Scholarships and
Financial Aid.
If students fail to attend, holds
will be placed on their academic
transcripts, diplomas and any fu
ture registration at UNL.
Federal regulations require all
graduating students to attend an exit
presentation if they received one of
the following forms of assistance:
Federal Stafford Loan,
unsubsidized Federal Stafford
Loan, Federal Perkins Loan or Fed
eral Supplemental Loan for Stu
dents (SLS).
Sessions will be held at the
East Union April 17 at 9 a.m.,
12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. They will
be held in the City Union on the
following days: April 18 at 12:30
p.m., April 19-21 at 9 a.m., 12:30
p.m. at 4 p.m. Room locations
will be posted.
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Fall class to feature
prominent speakers
By Catherine Blalock
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln will introduce a new course this
fall that features U.S. Senator Bob
Kerrey and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Robert Coles.
The English Department will offer
English 298, special topics — stories
and human experience, as a pilot
course. The department will offer two
sections that will combine into one
when guest speakers visit.
“The purpose of this class is to
really get students to feel that creative
expression of language, present and
past, offers useful information to their
lives now and indefinitely,” said
Stephen Buhler, associate professor
of English.
Kerrey and Coles, depending on
their availability, are scheduled to
speak throughout the semester about
their experiences. They will relate how
fiction stories helped them cope with
real-life situations.
Kerrey will speak about his time in
office as well as about his experiences
in Vietnam, said English department
chairman Stephen Hilliard.
Coles was chosen to speak because
part of the idea for the course was
taken from his book, “The Call of
Stories: Teachingand the Moral Imagi
nation.” Kerrey was chosen because
he was involved in a similar class that
Coles teaches at Harvard University,
Buhler said.
Next month, Coles and Kerrey
will visit UNL to help plan the
course. About 30 students have reg
istered, and each section allows 35
students.
Federal grant will fund
local mentoring program
By Erin Schulte
3tatt Reporter
The Lincoln Action Program has
been chosen to receive a $180,000
federal grant to sponsor a youth
mentoring program.
And the University of Nebraska
Lincoln will be one of the main re
cruiting sites for the mentors.
Lincoln Action Program was one
of more than 500 applicants for the
grant. LAP provides support services
to about 150 “at-risk” youths, who are
usually referred by school counselors.
LAP will use the grant to hire a
mentoring coordinator and to sponsor
activities for junior high and high
school students and their mentors, said
Holly Buckendahl, the education out
reach program director for LAP.
LAP expects to choose around 60
mentors from UNL, Nebraska
Wesleyan University, Doane and
Southeast Community College and
some local businesses and service or
ganizations.
Mentors will be given interviews
and background checks. After men
tors are hired, the program will match
them with compatible students.
LAP will hire a mentor coordinator
to do final planning, but Buckendahl
expects to work with certain classes at
UNL.
The money will be used over three
years, Buckendahl said. Mentors will
help with schoolwork and take stu
dents out for fun social activities.
Buckendahl said the program’s main
objective was to prevent drop-outs
and enhance academic performance.
“I am very excited,” Buckendahl
said.
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counsel, said neither shop owner had
a legal leg to stand on.
Nebraska law states that if a person
buys stolen property, he or she has no
right to demand money from the right
ful owner, Wiltse said.
Bartu bought the instrument Feb. 3
from a woman who was arrested on a
charge of stealing the property from
UNL that same day. He checked the
serial number to see if it was stolen, he
said, but no record showed up until
three weeks later.
John Gill, UNL instrument techni
cian, checked out the instrument to
Gale Tvrdy, along with two tenor saxo
phones. Gill believed Tvrdy, a former
UNL student, was a student. Tvrdy
has since entered a pre-trial diver
sions program.
Gill would not comment on the
school’s instrument check-out policy.
Generally, students sign their name
and student number and pay $10 to
receive an instrument and a locker.
Gill would not comment if the policy
had changed.
Bartu said he paid Tvrdy $110 for
the saxophone. He now says he will
file a lawsuit against her to get the
money.
Bartu said the lawsuit was a slap in
the face. He had offered police the
instrument from the start, he said, but
no one, including UNL Police who
came to take a report on the property,
would take it.
UNL Police Sgt. Bill Manning said
that if Bartu would have offered to
return the property, the officers would
have taken it. But there was never an
offer to return the instrument without
condition, he said. Manning would
not comment further.
