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University Dally Kansan
Wednesday, February 11, 197
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Indian complaints
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"I'm sure it wasn't intentional, but maybe an oversight." Burress said.
This problem was solved about 18 months ago, he said, when University officials went to the central BIA office in Albuquerque, N.M.
BROWN SAID that to receive aid from both BIA and KU's Office of Student Financial Aid, Indian students must apply to both offices. The University doesn't guarantee that BIA will match the amount provided for each student by KU, he said.
Jerry Rogers, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said Indian students an excellent financial program through ALT "that wasn't available to other students.
Sometimes students who hand in applications late make excuses about why.
THERE IS no special program from his office for Indian students, he said. They have to apply for on a regular schedule, and if not on time, they will not get on their financial, not ethnic, background.
Also, some minority groups have problems with the applications forms for financial aid, Rogers said, because their parents may not have had much education, and the forms are long and difficult to fill out.
A STUDY BY the Office of Affirmative Action showed that Indian students in fiscal 1975 years comprised less than one per cent of the applicants for federal aid from the Office of Financial Aid. It also showed that Indian students received less than one per cent of all allocated federal funds, which didn't include their own BIA grants.
One Haskell student described the trouble he had setting financial aid.
"We can't award a certain number of scholarships or aid to each ethn group." *K.*
MARTIN LEVIER, a Potawatomi-Kickapoo Indian in his third semester at Haskell, said that he was accepted to KU last October. He took his forms into the gymnasium and took them out (i.e., and the forms were then sent to Shuwnee, OKa, where Leviere said, he was OKa.
To be eligible for aid from the BIA, a student must be at least one-fourth Indian.
His eligibility was proven at Shawnee, Levier said, and his forms were sent to the A regional office in Anadarko, Oklah. LaRue said he hadn't heard from the office since.
Charles James, regional director of the BIA office in Anadarko, explained why some delays may occur in the government agency.
"We have to establish a control on financial aid or else it gets completely out of hand."
"We have to go through bureaucratic procedures," James said, "because we never have enough money for all the applicants.
ACCORDING TO Burgesk, Haskell
students permit education in KU,
social work at KU.
Will Coleman, supervising counseling psychologist at Haskell, said that KU also attracted Haskell students in prelaw studies and fine arts.
Not all students want to go back and help their people at their reservations; he said.
they go back and help their people at their resorts in Andalusia. According to a study he did at Haskell, Coleman said, 98 per cent of Navajo tribe migrants in the north have vocational vations to their people, but 30 per cent
of Creek tribe members want to return to their reservations.
THE CREEKS, are one of the five tribes who are no longer concentrated on ranching.
Coleman said that not all Haskell students did well at KU, and he knew of Haskell students who had not done well at KU.
"It depends on the individual," he said. Some of our students can go there to KU.
Baker University and KU don't have enough people who understand the ways of Bakers.
"At a higher education level, there should be more humanism, more understanding," Coleman said. "On the whole, I think the difference between KU and Haskell is improving."
OTHERS AGREED with Coleman about the growing relationship between KU and Haskell.
Pat Melody, instructor in speech and drama at Haskell, said frequent visits from KU theatre faculty had helped build interest in theatre and drama at Haskell.
Many Haskell students go to KU and major in theatre, because of a good relationship established by KU faculty members, said Melody, who received undergraduate and master's degrees in theatre at KU.
BURGESS SAID, "We've always had people who wanted to be messy, but we knew that the pieces together."
One of the "pieces" is the Community College Transition Program, the result of cooperation between KU's Office of Admissions Affairs and Haskell's administration.
The program, originally designed to give students from small rural high schools a two-week summer orientation at KU, was created to include junior college students, Burges said.
IN THE NEW program, students who stayed at KU during the summer could gain eight hours of credit, he said. One good part of the program, Burgess said, was that the attendees the summer orientations were not obligated to attend KU in the fall.
14 All Haskell students who attended the 1975 summer session are now at KU, he said. About 30 students are expected to participate in the program this year.
"The person who has been instrumental in helping native American students has been Vice Chancellor Balfour," Heap of Birds said.
Burgess said a different attitude at KU awards Haskell accounted for the improvement.
THERE HAVE been three native
American students, including Flores,
who began their studies at Yale.
Most NAA members said KU was becoming more helpful, but many complained about the transition from Haskell to KU.
Dawna Riding In, Gallup, M. N., junior, and a Pawnee-Wichita Indian, said that she last 38 hours when she transferred to KU's football team because "the courses weren't equivalent."
There is a totally different atmosphere in KU classrooms, compared to Haskell," she said. "Here, students compete for attention. At Haskell, nobody talks at all."
BROWN SAID, "$Some Indian students
form a class, and they are
forced to be by professors."
Another problem for Haskell students coming to KU is the image of KU being compressed. The image is
Robert Dumont, Kellog, Idaho sophomore and a Flathead Indian, said some people had told him that going from Boys Town to Oxford"
"I stayed out of school for a year because everybody told me how hard and bikU KU
"ITHINK there's a lack of awareness of what's going on at Haskell," he said.
The courses at Haskell are comparable, if not better than at KU, said Dumont, who said he had a 3.7 overall grade point average.
was," said Secondine, who has a 4.0 average after one semester at the University.
Brown, a prelaw student majoring in
"People think Indians get a free ride through school, when we really don't," he said.
There is also a misunderstanding about the Indian student's finances, he said.
journalsism, said, "KU" overblowed, and Haskell's underrated."
BURGESSaid one problem at KU was the University's fail to adopt the new public higher education institutions, in which each student were split between the BIA and the institution.
To pay college costs, the Indian student has to "fight through the BIA," he said.
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