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University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1983
About 40 percent of applications incorrect Student mistakes delay Pell Grant distribution
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
The Pell Grant Program could be more efficient in processing student applications if fewer forms required corrections, a member of the National Commission of Student Assistance said yesterday.
Dave Irwin, a commissioner from Seattle, said that last year 40 percent of the 5.2 million Pell Grant applications students because they needed corrections.
This delayed the processing of each application by about two months - preventing many students from paying college fees at enrollment, Irwin said.
Jerry Rogers, KU director of student financial aid, said that a substantial number of KU's 2,406 Pell Grant students have their checks by fall enrollment.
"OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM at registration is always the Pell," Rogers said. "We never have any problem with the other programs in which we make the awards."
Rogers emphasized the time problem involved in the Pell Grant program.
"If a student files their application on June 1, it will be six weeks before their application is returned to them," Rogers said. "If they need to correct it, they will send it back on July 7 and another six weeks for the corrected report."
"By then, they won't have a check at the school to pay for enrollment."
BUT THE WAITING is not over even after the six week wait. Rogers said the students then must send the corrected report to the school. Once the University has it, the financial aid office must process the amount of the award.
Then the amount of the award is sent
to the business office for approval and the Board of Regents office in Topeka, which makes a check for the student and sends it back to the University.
Rogers said that some applications had to be sent back to the students two weeks later.
The National Commission for Student Financial Assistance will make 22 recommendations to Congress and to President Reagan Oct. 26 for improving federal financial aid, including suggestions for the Pell Grant Program.
Iwain said the commission was appointed by President Reagan and Congress to study financial aid policies and recommend changes in the programs.
THE COMMISSION HOPES that Congress will accept its recommendations for improving the program by having financial aid administrators edit and check the students' forms before the forms are sent back to the
Pell central processor in Santa Monica. Calif., Irwin said.
"This will cut down on the paperwork and the frustration on the part of the operator."
Irwin said that editing and checking the forms would let students know earlier whether they were eligible for aid.
Although Rogers agreed that such revisions would improve the program, he said he thought students could be trained using the school to process the information.
"Our computer system can calculate the Pell index," he said. "We can handle it without sending it back to California."
Rogers added that the financial aid office already helped students fill out
Irwin agreed that Rogers' recommendation to make the funds campus-based was a good solution, but he said he thought it was not feasible now.
John Paul praises Cooke for dedication and devotion to church
By United Press International
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II yesterday praised Cardinal Terence Cooke for his dedication and devotion to the church and said he joined the faithful in the Archdiocese of New York in praying for the late prelate.
The pope personally announced the death of Gospes. 82 to 120 follow hisbishops
attending a synod at the Vatican on the subject of reconclamation and in the mission of the church.
In a telegram to Bishop Joseph T. O'Keefe, auxiliary to the archbishop of New York, John Paul said, "I am closely imbedded in prayer with the entire Archdiocese of New York at the death of Cardinal Cooke.
Cooke
"I thank God for his dedicated ministry and pray that the example of his devotion to the church may inspire the faithful for years to come.
"Upon the cardinal's soul I invoke eternal rest and peace in God's kingdom in the company of our blessed mother Mary and all the saints."
The pope expressed his condolences to the American church in a second telegram to Archbishop John R. Roach of Minneapolis-St. Paul, president of the U.S. National Conference of Catholics, who is in Rome for the synod.
"I offer my fraternal condolences to you and to all the bishops of the United States."
John Paul said. "His pastoral charity and apostolic zeal has been an example to us all."
Cooke, spiritual leader of nearly 4 million Roman Catholics and American head of the church's anti-abortion battle, died yesterday of leukemia in the shadow of his beloved St. Patrick's Cathedral.
The cardinal, who had been archbishop of New York for 15 years, died 41 days after it was announced that he was dead. He was 87 years after he suffered a serious setback.
"Terrence Cardinal Cooke, 10th bishop, seventh archbishop, fifth cardinal of the See of New York and vicar to military service, Veterans Administration hospitals and government service overseas, completed his work on earth and was called home by Almighty God to heaven this morning.
Oct. 6, 1983, at 4:45 a.m.," the Rev. Peter Finn said in a formal announcement.
Finn, spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said Cooke "died peacefully in the shadow of his beloved Cathedral of St. Patrick."
Cooke, confined to his official residence behind the cathedral since it was announced Aug. 26 that he was terminally ill was spiritual leader of the church and the local borough which comprises three of the city's boroughs and seven upstate counties.
Cooke was the American leader of the church's fight against abortion, pressing for legislation to ban the practice and serving for 10 years as chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities.
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The administration's refusal to provide feed "makes me feel like our government's just sweeping us into a crack," he said.
Senate OKs drought relief to aid livestock producers
By United Press International
Rep. Bill Alexander, D-Dark., told the panel that "the secretary of agriculture should hang his head in shame" because the administration has provided too little relief in dire circumstances.
WASHINGTON — Unhappy with current drought relief, the Senate yesterday approved legislation that would order the secretary of agriculture to provide emergency feed and drought-striken livestock producers.
A House panel also approved legislation to help producers whose pastures have been scorched and destroyed. A livestock feeds damaged by drought
BENTSEN COMPLAINED THAT producers have been forced to liquidate 60 to 70 percent of cattle and sheep herds in a drought-striken West Texas area, yet the government pays $48 million a year to store 83 million bushels of damaged crops. More than 21 million bushels are stored in Texas, where livestock producers badly need it.
The House measure also would make individual farmers eligible for federal emergency disaster loans, scraping a regulation that requires an entire county to be declared before individuals can get loans.
The Senate unanimously agreed to the relief amendment, which Sen. Lloyd Bentzen, D-Texas, attached to dairy and tobacco legislation. It would require the agriculture secretary to sell damaged government-held grain at reduced rates.
"The sad thing about this bill is the fact that we have to pass it," said House Agriculture Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Texas. "I deeply regret that we are in the position of ordering the secretary of agriculture to take obviously needed steps which he already has full authority to take but has so far refused to take."
THE PANEL APPROVED a $500 million ceiling on emergency救 aid to make it "clear this is not an option" for the company said Re. Thomas Coleman, R-Mo.
The House panel acted following a hearing in which legislators and ranchers criticized the administration to ease the impact of the drought.
The emergency feed aid would be restricted to sustaining basic herds. In areas where the government holds grain in a disaster reserve, it would be sold to producers at a favorable price. Elsewhere, producers would receive funds to help them buy grain for feed.
More than two years of dry weather in the livestock producing area of West Texas has produced "one of the most devastating droughts in any area," said Duane Lindsey, a Texas rancher from Rankin, Texas.
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But Everett Rank, administrator of the department's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said reopening the feed assistance program to help the most devastated areas would require help from the agency about the nation which he estimated would cost $1 billion to $1.5 billion.
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