University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Poor grades may cost students aid
By JAN SHARON
Staff Reporter
If averages indicate future trends, about 5 percent of the KU students who receive financial aid will lose that aid next semester because they fail to meet the standards of the office of financial aid or of student financial aid said yesterday.
Jerry Rogers, the director, said that past years, about 5 percent of the students who received financial aid make satisfactory academic progress.
However, Rogers said he could not predict exactly what percent of students would lose financial aid for next semester.
SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC progress is measured using the number of semesters students have attended the
University of Kansas, the cumulative number of credits they have obtained and their cumulative grade point average. Rogers said.
*for example, a student who has been in college four semesters must have a minimum of 42 credits and a minimum of 30 credits to continue receiving (palliacal) aid.
In the past, Rogers said transfer students were required to have maintained a 2.0 GPA at their previous institution.
That GPA requirement is higher than the 1.3 average the office requires for freshmen. The GPA requirement increases as students advance at the University. Seniors are required to maintain a GPA of 2.0.
However, new federal regulations require that all transfer students must be considered for financial aid if they have need, regardless of their records
at previous colleges, he said.
THE NEW FEDERAL regulations also require that all colleges set a maximum time frame in which students must complete their programs. That time frame then must be divided into increments, Rogers said. At the end of each increment, the college must determine whether students have completed a minimum percentage of work.
The new federal regulations took effect Jan. 1, 1984.
The federal government decided to require that colleges set such standards because an investigation by the Department of Education revealed that some very well received financial advisers very low grade point averages. Rogers said.
"The whole program is badly needed," he said, "but it isn't easy to administer."
Sometimes mitigating circumstances are involved. he said.
Rogers said, for example, that some students who had attended college for a year chose to wait a semester before continuing their education.
STUDENTS MAY MAKE a written appeal to the office if they believe they have a good reason for their failure to complete an academic progress, Rogers said
Financial aid personnel, however, often think that those students are still studying, and therefore assume that they will be more proficient on academic progress during that time.
Because KU already had standards of satisfactory academic progress that agreed with the new federal regulations, only minor changes had to be made in the administration of financial aid for transfer students, Rogers said.
Caucuses will show Mondale's chances
Kansas Democratic caucuses, will be held Saturday, will show "whether main line Americans are buying what Walter Mondale has to say," a member of his national campaign staff said yesterday.
By TODD NELSON
Staff Reporter
Tom Sheridan, the staff member, spoke in the place of Mondale's son, William, who was scheduled to speak at the University of Kansas but became ill yesterday morning campaigning in Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas Democrats will have the
opportunity Saturday to vote for national convention delegates in 117 local unit caucuses across the state. The voting will eventually lead to the selection of 26 of the state's 44 delegates.
Democrats in Virginia will select 78 delegates in caucuses Saturday and Monday. In Montana, voters will choose 25 delegates this weekend
More than 60 people attended the speech, sponsored by Momentum, a registered student political organization at the Council Room of the New Jersey Union.
MONDALE WILL FACE a strong challenge in Kansas because many see
Sen, Gary Hart, an Ottawa native, as the state's favorite son, Sheridan said.
But Mondale's victory in Tuesday's Illinois presidential primary, Sheridan said, has once again given the former vice president the edge in the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Devon Allison, a Monday campaign field worker who will be in Lawrence through the state, said he'd have to delegate his vital now. It's going to be a fight to the finish.
Sheridan said Monday's experience, 12 years in the Senate and four years as vice president, and his consistent stand on issues during his career gave him
more credibility than Hart
more male candidates. "I WANT a Gary-completely," Sheridan said. "If Gary Hart ran for president in 1992, I might work for him, but he's not ready now."
However, in response to Hart's success in the new Hampshire primary, Mondale has altered his campaign message. He has switched to television commercials, Sheridan said.
"We started the Mondale campaign with very little media," he said. "We found out from Gary Hart that you can win with media and nothing else."
KU to offer residents a sample of academia
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
The program, called K.I.T., will begin today and will help people "keep in touch" with new ideas and concepts at the University, the coordinator of the program said yesterday.
Because many area residents are unable to study full time at the University of Kansas, the KU division of continuing education has recently begun a program to help with touch with the academic world.
The program is designed for people of all ages and backgrounds who want to learn, said Beulah Duncan, the coordinator and program manager for the adult life resource center.
"We're doing this because we want to get people on campus," she said.
In the afternoon, participants can take guided tours of the Spencer Art Museum. The Natural History Museum and the Anthropology Museu
EACH MORNING, participants will attend two-hour sessions dealing with Italian Remainance at the K. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center classes will be taught by Louis Michaels of architecture and urban design
Michel said his classes would not
be travelogues of Italian cities, but would incorporate up-to-date information on the Renaissance.
"I want to see growth in these five weeks," he said.
"I provides validity for people who want to keep in touch," Michel said.
Although no texts are required and no tests will be given, he said, much of the material in the sessions is taught from his regular University classes.
DUNCAN SAID K.J.T. grew out of Eiderhistor, a national program in which people over the age of 60 spend a week in the summer living in residence halls and attending special classes at KU.
Response to Elderhostel has been good, she said, and many people in the community who could not participate in Elderhostel have expressed a desire to be involved in a similar program.
K. L.T was designed to give those people an opportunity to become involved, she said. Although a majority of the participants are from Lewisham, attending from Leedsonworth, near Carlow镇, Baldwin and Topeka
Michel also taught a class on the Renaissance that received favorable reviews at Elderhostel last year. Duncan said.
"My dream," she said, "is that we'll have one of these classes every semester."
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Top two ladies from each semi-final will participate in Finale Show on April 20. NO LOSERS everyone receives a prize for making it to finals. All judging by Coors Co. representatives.
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You can register at the Douglas County Courthouse
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This is your chance to vote for the Democratic nominee for president. Twenty-four delegates will be chosen for Douglas County at the 2nd Congressional District Convention. Questions? Call David Berkowitz 843-8147
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