University Daily Kansan, March 6, 1984
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Financial aid increases will not match higher tuition
By JAN SHARON Staff Reporter
Despite a 16 percent tuition increase at the University of Kansas next year, the federal government plans to increase financial aid at the university more than the amount it received this year.
National Direct Student Loans and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants would benefit from the allotment. The federal College Work-Study program would suffer a loss.
Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said recently that many students would have to rely more heavily on Guaranteed Student Loans and other sources as a result of the small increase in financial aid
TUTION WILL INCREASE $41 for in-state students and $9 for out-of-state students next spring.
The 1 percent increase is tentative, he said.
The financial aid office will know the exact amount it will receive by June.
If the federal government sticks with the planned 1 percent increase, KU will receive $2.87 million for the 1984-85 school year, about $30,000 more than was awarded last year.
Those figures might change, Rogers said, but KU's allotment should closely resemble the amount tentatively proposed by the government.
"It could be less, but it's unlikely," Rogers said.
Because of the increase in tuition, he said many students will have to turn elsewhere for financial aid.
financial aid.
Most students who have received federal aid in the past, and who find that they are short on money next year, will be able to get loans through the Guaranteed Student Loan program, Rogers said.
Guidelines under the GSL program are not as stringent as those of other federal programs. Students only must fall within the income
Some programs are available through the state, including work-study. Those funds may be available to some students, Rogers said, but the state program has not been fully developed yet.
limitations set up under the program.
He said that he did not know how much scholarship money would be available for next year, but that the amount usually increases each year.
"WE WOULD LIKE to be able to package everybody with just what they need," Rogers said. "Even if we could do that, we would still have a percentage of people who think they need more money because they don't get their expected family contribution."
Financing for the federal College Work-Study program has tentatively been decreased. The NDSL and SEOG programs are both scheduled to increase, he said.
The work-study program may be cut by
$104,360, from $727,570 last year to $623,210 this
year. On NDSL funds has been
tentatively increased from $1.6 million to $1.8 million.
The federal government puts a ceiling on the amount of money the office lends to students based on the amount of money the office has in cash. The managers who have had loans in the past, Rogers said.
Last year the government gave the University $4223 in new capital for the NDSL program. Roberts
SEOGs have also been tentatively increased by 50% last year's $477,621 allotment. Roegstad said.
OTHER UNIVERSITIES in the Big 8 also had slight increases in their tentative financial aid allotments for next year. Oklahoma State University's funds will increase 1.9 percent, and the University of Nebraska is expecting an increase of .3 percent.
However, not all the universities will be getting increases.
Tentatively, the University of Missouri will
have an 8.6 percent decrease, and Iowa State University will have a 1.2 percent decrease from last year.
George Brooks, MU's director of financial aid,
said the amount was going to be insufficient.
"It's going to be an extremely difficult year," Brooks said. "There's just not enough money to go around."
Jerry Sullivan, ISU's director of financial aid, said that the federal financial aid allotment the university received this year was not enough and that next year's allotment would make the financial strains on students more difficult.
ISU has about two-thirds of its financial aid tied up in loans. Sullivan said.
"WE DON'T EVEN come close to meeting need," he said. "Ever that in which we meet the need."
Rogers said the government determined the budget using a formula that took into account students' expenses, tuition and the amount of financial need they had.
Charges to be filed today in rape case
By the Kansan Staff
A 20-year-old KU student arrested Saturday on charges of rape, aggravated sodomy and unlawful restraint is expected to be charged today in Douglas County district court, a County Judicial office said yesterday.
The suspect was scheduled to be charged yesterday in connection with the incident, which occurred Friday at Jajawahkower Towers, 160 I W 15th St.
The victim, also a KU student, reported the rape at 4 a.m. Friday. The victim reported that the rape occurred in the suspect's apartment, KU police said.
The suspect remained in Douglas County Jail late yesterday, Lawrence police said. He has been held since Saturday, with bond set at $35,500.
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Towns in Kansas, England flip over their pancake race
An English legend says that on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday in 1445, a busy Ousey housewife was cooking pancakes to get rid of fat before Lent. She was interrupted as church bells trolled for a Shrove Tuesday service — when people confessed, or shrove, their sins.
LIBERAL — This small town on the Kansas plains today renews a 35-year-old rivalry with the tiny village of Oney, England, in an event that celebrates people who wear their stuff together in the morning.
By United Press International
Since then the pancakes have been flipping. Liberal leads in the series 19-14. Linda Carey of Olnney won last year's trans-Atlantic competition with a time of 1:06.4 minutes.
"IT AFFORDS THEM (residential ratepayers) the same opportunity that the big utilities have with their corporate attorneys," said State Sen. Pafe Leonci Jr., D-Wichita.
The woman ran from her home to the church while still flipping her pancake in the griddle. A Liberal
"Whether we beat Liberal or not will depend on whether they produce some 18- or 19-year-old sporty young female who is a sports champion in her school or something. The last time they won it was with a girl like that who ran the course in less than a minute."
businessman read about the legend, perpetuated by a race among the women of Olney, and challenged the town to a race in 1950.
Senate Democrats joined forces with a handout of their Republican colleagues yesterday to support an amendment to allow, and in some cases to force, an incentive pay for local intervention in utility rate cases by residential consumers.
Feleciano said if the bill became law, residential ratepayers could have a stronger voice in any rate increase cases stemming from the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, expected to begin operations in spring 1985.
"The entrants are already training, running through the streets at night," said John Hanson, organizer of the Oloe race.
TOPEKA — Kansas consumers who want to protest a utility's request for higher rates but cannot afford legal representation could be granted financial assistance by the state under a bill endorsed by the Senate.
As amended, the bill would authorize the KCC to provide financial assistance for the costs of legal intervention by Kansas residential utility customers in rate increase cases. Currently, nearly any party can intervene in a rate case before the KCC, but most that do represent industry, utilities or cities.
A final vote is set for today.
Bill gives legal aid to rate protesters
By United Press International
Senate Minority Leader Jack Steinger, D-Kansas City, who tacked the amendment onto a routine bill dealing with the Kansas Corporation Commission, said it would give consumers a greater voice in the decision-making process on utility rate cases.
The KCC would be required to provide financial assistance in cases where the intervening party represented an interest that otherwise would not be represented adequately by the intervening party had inadequate financial resources to participate effectively in the hearing.
"The question is, who do they represent?" he said.
STEINEGER SAID he did not understand why the majority of Republicans in the Senate opposed it.
Senate Majority Leader Robert Talkington, R-Iola, said testimony during committee hearings indicated that the bill would result in higher rates for utility customers. Steinger acknowledged that the cost of providing legal services for ratepayers would be passed on to consumers, but that the corresponding increase in rates would be small.
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CITY COMMISSION THROWS IN THE TOWEL
As one, during the last eleven years, who has come to admire the Catholic Church for refusing to bend before the trendy and nonsensical, I've been shocked by its local devotees' shameless attempts to camouflage what amounts to an invasion of a beautiful neighborhood.
City Commissioner Angino claims the awesome St. Lawrence Catholic Center would add stability to its surroundings, but, perhaps because stability is "the strength to stand or endure . . . without material change", no one else audibly reached this conclusion after considering the inherently transforming 392-seat church, expanded student center and 98-space parking lot.
How, one wonders, have those forgetful few who accuse the area's inhabitants of being unwilling to compromise (the neighborhood's residents still would welcome a 224-seat church) reacted to Commissioner Shontz's discovery that the 1,400 square feet which constituted the area of the recently removed 100-seat chapel had mysteriously reappeared in the basement of the proposed church?
While no one in the St. Lawrence contingent confessed to understanding how the 1,400 square foot transplantation occurred, this display of professed confusion paled alongside four city commissioners' inability to see that the hypertrophied complex being discussed was exactly the kind of disruptive entity they are bound to reject.
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