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University Daily Kansan, January 24. 1984
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Aid to students at KU falls $5.1 million
By JANICE SHARON Staff Reporter
Students will have to tighten their belts because of a drop in available financial aid, the director of student financial aid said yesterday.
In the last two years, the University of Kansas has had a $5.1 million drop in financial aid. This accompanies a nationwide $2 billion drop in financial aid.
The drop was reported in a study by the College Board, a non-profit organization that provides educational services for colleges.
the Ford Foundation, the decline in aid resulted from many students being declared ineligible for Social Security benefits because the federal government is phasing out a program that provides benefits for students aged 18 to 22.
According to the study, financed by
OTHER CAUSES ARE new restrictions on guaranteed student loans and a decline in the use of veterans benefits.
The bite will get worse because next year tuition and fees will be raised from $1,068 to $1,150 for in-state students and out-of-state students. Rogers said.
The biggest change at KU was in the GSL program. GSL benefits at KU decreased from $20.7 million to $12.1 million since new restrictions placed on the recipient's income went into effect, and the director of student financial aid.
All federal grants and the college work study program also had cutbacks.
students, Rogers said. However, he said, there are more opportunities for students to get financial aid because of the availability of guaranteed student loans to students who meet the requirements.
KU SCHOLARSHIPS AND national direct student loans have increased slightly, which also could provide an increase in student aid.
National Direct Student Loans are awarded through the University, which
collects payments from the recipients.
The money KU collects goes into a revolving account from which more loans are made.
Most students have been repaying their loans, Rogers said, so KU has not experienced a big drop in the amount of loan money available.
Students at KU receive about the same percentage of aid from grants as they do from loans, he said, but there are many other factors in the number of loans over the past few years.
The College Board study said that nationally, grants and loans each provided 48 percent of student aid. The college program accounts for the other 4 percent
KSU prof made threats, colleague says
By United Press International
MANHATTAN — A colleague of a man who could become the first tenured professor to be fired in Kansas State University's 120-year history testified yesterday that the professor's efforts to gear for the safety of another educator.
Keith Lynch, assistant professor of forestry, also told members of a special faculty committee that grievances and a lawsuit filed by Ben Mahaffey, associate professor of forestry, inhibited his department.
Mahaffey was suspended and recommended for dismissal in September 1983 on charges of professional incompetence. Because he is a tenured professor, Mahaffey has the right to appeal the action. Mahaffey is still on the Kansas State University payroll although he is not teaching.
A FACULTY COMMITTEE reviewing the case will make a recommendation to K-State President Duane Willis for decision on the dismissal will be final.
Mahaffey has filed three faculty grievances since 1979 and also filed a petition in 2008.
university administrators.
"I resented the fact that for every action in the department, we had to stop and think. 'Is this going to influence the latest grievance?' or 'Is this going to affect the civil lawsuit?'" Lynch testified.
Shortly before the third grievance was filed in March 1981, a confrontation involving Mahaaffey made Lynch afraid. The court ordered the arrest in the forestry department, he said.
Lynch said he entered the department office one day and saw Mahafey and the other professor in a heated argument.
"I remained in the secretary's office in the result that it might end in blows." Lynch testified. Mahaffey had told the judge that he would "get him," Lynch said.
LYNCH TESTIFIED THAT HE had built up a gradual dislike for Mahaffey which probably began when Mahaffey called him a "so-called Ph.D."
Lynch had opposed a proposal made by Mahaffey during a 1981 departmental meeting, and Mahaffey became angry saying, "I can't believe such a remark from a so-called Ph.D." Lynch said.
Science advances could be good or bad, scientist says
By YASH BHAGWANJI Staff Reporter
Advancements in molecular engineering might offer medical miracles but might also cause calamities as great as a nuclear war, a scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said yesterday.
Eric Drexler, a scientist in the Space Systems Laboratory at MIT, said that molecular engineering technology could cause a calamity if people with ignoble motives obtained the technology.
Dreyer told about 50 people in Haworth Hall that molecular technology would bring great benefits in the fight against wared of its possible destruction.
Drexler said that by properly manipulating protein molecules, genetic engineers would soon be able to control the effect of biological systems.
THAT DESTRUCTION COULD include upsetting the world's ecological balance and altering the human immune system.
He said that the possible social problems of changing the biological structure of cells should be carefully examined.
Creation of small molecular ma
Drexler quoted Kevin Ulmer, another scientist, who said that protein engineering "represents the first major step toward a more complex system of engineering when would allow us to structure matter by atom"
chnines that would be used to manipulate molecules could begin by designing proteins that would direct chemical reactions, he said.
Beyond that point, Drexler said, the arrangement of the atoms would form the core of a "self-replicating system," and from this the molecular machines could create virtually anything.
Since the molecular machines could replicate, they would eliminate fabrication limits in industry. They would make production cheaper, he said.
THE USE OF THIS technology will also bring dramatic applications in computer circuitry, he said.
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1984-85
RESIDENT ASSISTANTS must be sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student for 1984—85 academic year
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ASSISTANT RESIDENCE HALL DIRECTORS must be graduate or fifth-year student for 1984-85 academic year
SCHOLARSHIP HALL DIRECTORS must be graduate or fifth-year student for 1984--85 academic year
All applicants should evidence above-average academic achievement, residential group-living experience, and availability for the entire 1984 - 85 academic year.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1, 1984.
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