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Vol. 95, No. 132 (USPS 650-640)
GSL forms delayed by federal changes
Tuesday, April 16, 1985
By JEANINE HOWE Staff Reporter
Applications for guaranteed student loans are about two weeks late in arriving at the office of financial aid and the delay could cause problems in August when students need loan money to pay fees, the associate director of financial aid said last week.
Jeff Weinberg, the associate director, said most GSL applications were processed in two to three weeks. But with the delay in sending the application, the system could be flooded with applications.
The applications are late because Congress is considering changes in the GSL system, Weinberg said. Earlier this year, President Obama managed the eligibility requirement for the loan.
Loan applications usually are available to students at the end of March or by the first week in April. Weinberg said. In the last few weeks, hundreds of students have stopped by the office to pick up applications only to find they are not available.
Students may have to wait six to eight weeks after they have applied to receive their loan checks. Some students' loan checks might arrive in late August or September — after they have paid fees for the fall semester.
HE SAID THE financial aid office probably would try to defer fees for students whose loans had been delayed because they hadn't been able to pick up applications earlier.
"Students would be the victim of federal delays in Washington," Weinberg said. "If students couldn't apply, the University would try and adjust."
Now, students whose families have incomes of $30,000 or more are ineligible for loans unless they show special need. Reagan suggested raising the credit to $29,500
WEINBERG SAID the financial aid office had called the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administration in Washington, D.C., about twice a week for the
last three weeks trying to find out when the forms would be ready. He said he had received responses of "soon" or "next week."
Dennis Martin, assistant director of the NASFAA, said he didn't know why the delays had occurred, but he said they hadn't been told Congress' discussions on the GSL program.
Martin said the forms probably would be ready to distribute to colleges and universities sometime this week. But Weinberg said it would take at least another week to add another section to the application that would request information for University use.
GSL APPLICATIONS for the 1985-86 school year list the family income restriction as $30,000. Martin said. But he and Weinberg said the restriction could charge because Congress was still debating legislation dealing with student financial aid.
If changes were made, Weinberg said, he didn't think that they would take effect until October.
Not everyone would be affected if the income level changed. But while changes are being considered, all students and loans are indirectly affected.
"All GLSs are hostage to their (Congress) agreement," Weinberg said. "If it was resolved tomorrow, it is still a delay. They (the applications) ought to be out now."
Weinberg said guidelines for the GSL program were reviewed by Congress each year.
Weinberg said he hoped that application would be ready by finals week. He said that even if applications were ready by May, students might not receive money by August.
Weinberg said the financial aid office had started asking students to stop by the office during final week to pick up applications. Or, if the applications were not ready by the time students left for the summer, students would be asked to leave their names and addresses so the forms could be mailed to them.
Becky McGranahan, an operations worker for the athletic department, paints lines on the javelin field in preparation for the Kansas Relays. McGranahan worked yesterday to prepare for the decathlon and heptathlon events, which will open the Relays tomorrow. See stories and photos, pages 8 and 9.
Two athletic budgets could solve dilemma
By CECILIA MILLS Staff Reporter
An Athletic Department budget dilemma will be resolved today if two department budgets for fiscal year 1986 are approved at the Board of Directors. University of Kansas Athletic Corporation
For the first time, the board is expected to be asked to approve two budgets: one that includes income from a proposed $2 increase in the student activity fee and one without the increase, Tony Redwood, KUAC chairman, said last night.
The board is scheduled to meet at 3:30 p.m in the Burge Union.
STUDENTS PAY THE ACTIVE fee each semester with their tuition. The fee was $4.50 per student.
The activity fee finances non-revenue sports at the University. All sports except football and men's basketball are non-revenue sports. The proposed $2 increase would generate about $40,000 more each semester for non-revenue sports
The two budgets scheduled to be presented to the KUAC board today had to be drawn up because the Student Senate first approved the $2 increase and later rescinded it.
But before Senate changed its mind on the increase, Cancellor Gene A. Budig approved it and sent the proposed increase to the Board of Regents for final approval. The
Regents plan to consider the increase at their monthly meeting Thursday and Friday in
The Athletic Department decided to draw up two budgets so it would have a budget that had been approved by the KUAC board no matter how the Regents voted on the $2 increase. The KUAC board must approve the department's budget.
After the Senate reversed its vote on the $2 increase, William Easley, student body president, said he met with Budig to try to reach a compromise. Easley said the Athletic Department had been told not to count on the increase but not to rule it out.
REDWOOD SAID approving two budgets was the easiest way to deal with the problem. If only one budget was approved and it wasn't possible to choose another budget, another brief report would have to be.
Easley said he would present a proposal about the $2 increase to the Senate at its meeting tomorrow. He declined to elaborate on the proposal.
automatically become invalid, Redwood said.
If the two budgets are approved at today's meeting, the one that differs from the Regents' decision on the $2 increase will
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said that the $2 increase was reasonable and that he hoped the Regents would approve it.
New budget is accepted by officials
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
KU faculty and an administrator said yesterday that they were pleased with the fiscal 1986 budget for the University of Kansas approved last week by the Kansas Legislature, but they said the Legislature should have allocated more to KU.
The Regents schools include the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
On Saturday, the House and Senate recommended an operating budget for the University of about $170 million. The budget, part of a $855 million bill that includes for all Board of Regents schools, is expected signed by Gov. John Carlin later this week.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said he had been pleased with the KU budget request.
"I AM PLEASED with the Regents' efforts to improve the salaries and fringe benefits for faculty and graduate teaching assistants," he said.
Under the budget plan, unclassified staff would receive a 5 percent increase in salaries for fiscal 1986, which begins July 1. The staff are faculty and graduate teaching assistants.
He said, however, that in the future, levels of financing must increase to maintain the capacity of a firm.
Sidney Shapiro, president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said he thought the course had provided adequate raises for faculty.
"We will try to interest legislators in examples of the problems we face in the future. he said "The current levels of anger are helpful, but they aren't enough."
JAMES CAROTHERS, president of the James Carothers House in pay to faculty should have been larger.
"The 5 percent increase is at a maintenance level at best," he said. "We need three or four years of a 7 percent increase to get us in line with our peers."
Carothers said faculty at Regents schools competed with teachers at elementary and secondary schools for money from the Legislature. He said elementary and secondary school teachers had received better salary increases in the past three years.
He said KU officials would have to continue to educate the Legislature about development.
"We have to continue to make a case for higher improvements for KU." Carothers
SHAPIRO ALSO SAID he thought the University was falling behind other uivers.
See REACTION, p. 5, col. 5
Kansas vote on liquor law set for 1986
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Kansans may face some bewildering changes in the state's liquor laws, thanks to the efforts of the 1985 Kansas Legislature.
At the heart of the change is the proposed amendment to the state constitution passed by lawmakers Saturday that could end the state's 104-year-old ban on liquor by the drink. The proposal now will go to the voters in the November 1986 general election.
ATTEMPTS BY THE Legislature to raise the drinking age for 3.2 beer were defeated last year. But the matter was taken out of lawmakers' hands in the summer when the federal government issued a mandate requiring states to comply with a uniform drinking age of 21 for all alcoholic beverages or lose a portion of their highway aid.
Also tied to the liquor question is an issue left over from the 1984 session — whether the state should raise the legal drinking age for 3.2 percent beer to 21.
But, in negotiations win votes for the liquor resolution in the House and Senate, the resolution picked up a handful of companion designed to get tough on drinking abuses.
GOV. JOHN CARLIN said Saturday that he intended to sign the entire drinking package. The liquor by the drink amendment does not require a state permit and will go straight to the state's voters.
The drinking-age bill passed by both houses on Saturday would raise the legal drinking age for 3.2 beer to 19 on July 1 and to 21 by 1987. Those who turn 19 on or after July 1 would have to wait until their 21st birthdays to drink 3.2 beer.
If the liquor-by-the-drink proposal is approved by a majority of state's voters,
See DRINK, p. 5, col. 1
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Michelle Stelting, Topica senior, dresses up like Madonna to attend a movie "Desperately Seeking Susan." The movie stars Madonna and features her.
Local material girls adopt Madonna look
The Madonna look is a feminine street look originated by the highly successful pop music star. Her image is characterized by tousled hair, layered black clothing, granny boots, studded leather bracelets, lace, rhinestones, earrings and beads.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
"I love it, it's wonderful," said Jim
Grims, owner of Headmasters, 100 Vermont St.
Madonna has pouted squeaked and writhed her way to the top of the charts — and into the world.
Grimes said he was an expert because he dated a Madonna look, alike.
Most women students haven't crossed the borderline yet, but touches of ghetto glamour have appeared on campus in the form of lace anklets, bows and tangles of jewelry.
"By day this girl is an MBA," he said, "but at night she wears leather and face."
MADONNA APPEARS in her first starring role in the movie, "Desperately Seeking Susan," which opened Friday at the Hillcrest Theaters. Ninth and Iowa streets. The movie may provide the excuse needed for material girls to adorn their bodies with Madonna
But shopping for ghetto garb in the Bible Belt isn't easy.
TOM COOK, Wichita sophomore and an
"We did have some lace anklets." Fangman said, rummaging through a basket of lace anklets.
A request for Madonna wear at Mister Guy, 920 Massachusetts St. was greeted with blank stares. The spell was broken when Tom Hussey came to see Madonna and badpressed Madonna with Cindy Laumer.
"They must have all sold," he said. "They rolled down and had a ruffle on the top. The young girls bought them to wear with their pumps."
employee, said that he would like his conservative girlfriend to dress like Madonna. But Fangman said the look was better left off the streets.
Two other stores on Massachusetts Street sell some of the accessories that make up the Madonna look Natural Way Fine Gifts and Exotic Jewelry, 820 Massachusetts St. carries a high tight granny boots, and The Etc. Shop, 732 Massachusetts St. sells fingerless lace gloves and rhinestone jewelry.
A GLASS CASE displays an array of black stuffed items, such as bracelets, tights or pants.
"The best I can tell is that these are used for bondage," said Ann McKercher, an employee, as she pointed at two heavy black leather wrist bands.
But Lawrence's Madonna mecca is Cleo Nothing. 11' W. Ninth St.
Lal Ann Kooh, Hesson senior and employee at Natural Way, said, "I don't like Madonna" (Madonna).
A jumble of cruifex earrings and black plastic bracelets, which Madonna wears by her mother.
And a good pair of scissors would transform any of the clothing into the Madonna look, McKercher said.
Lawrence clothing store employees said Madoma look accessories are popular with women.
However, most KU men said they weren't crazy about their girlfriends resembling Madonna. They said they wanted their girlfriends to dress . . . well, like virgins.
"I'm old-fashioned. I like traditional, conservative dress, like sweaters, dresses and slacks," said Mark Griffin, Overland Park parkhomore.
Kelly Patrick, Fairway senior, said he didn't want his girlfriend to dress like Mimi. "She was really cool," he said.
"Maybe at home." he said. "There's a place for everything."