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University Daily Kansan, September 27, 1983
Self-supporting students may face stricter aid rules
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
Students who declare themselves financially independent from their parents may face stricter eligibility requirements in two years, KU's director of student financial aid said yesterday.
Jerry Rogers, the director, said that the U.S. Department of Education last spring proposed more detailed requirements of independent student要求 officials hope to approve new requirements by the 1985-86 school year.
The plan, which was discussed last weekend at the Kansas Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators' fall conference in Hutchinson, would require requirements for 18- to 21-year-old students who declare independent status.
THE NUMBER of single independent students is increasing, according to a report released by the Washington.
D. C., office of the College Board, a non-profit educational association for colleges and universities. The report estimated that single independent students younger than 21 have traditionally performed poorly on the 90 percent independent students, and 90 percent have been married and older than 21.
Of the students nationwide who applied for financial aid in the 1973-74 academic year, 14.8 percent were eligible for independent status. That number increased to 43.4 percent in the 1980-81 school year.
The number of independent students has also increased at KU, according to statistics from the financial aid office. In the 1973-74 school year, 15 percent were independent students. The number of independent students increased to 29 percent, or 2,204 students, last year.
"SOMETHING needs to be done," Rogers said. "Too many people are qualifying the letter of the law without
Rogers said that many students who qualified for independent standing did not use it because their parents declared the students as a tax exempt.
being totally independent from their parents."
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He said that other students declared themselves independent from their parents so they could get more financial aid while their parents continued to give them money.
To be eligible for independent status this year at KU, a student must not have lived with his or her parent for more than six weeks in 1982 or 1983. The student cannot have lived with his or her parent in 1982 or 1983, and thus the student's parents cannot have claimed the student as an income tax exemption.
INSTEAD OF those three requirements independent students at KU must now meet, the proposal by the Department of Education would increase the number of requirements to 32.
"I'm against the 32 questions program. Things like that turn people off. It would just be too difficult to administer," Rogers said.
"It would increase the size of the form, increase the time to complete it and increase the time to analyze it. So far, what we have now is better."
They hope to change the "need
need to favor students who work to
provide quality education"
Financial-aid administrators are also considering a program that would change the way the independent trusts financial needs are calculated.
ALTOUGH a limitation would remain on the students' earnings, the administrators hope to reward the teachers with a higher standard of living. Rovers said.
"The philosophy behind this is that a person willing to work 20 hours part-time ought to enjoy a better life than someone who does not work."
Drug charge against Baldwin woman dismissed
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
A charge against a Baldwin woman of assisting in the sale of marijuana was dismissed yesterday during a hearing in Douglas County District Court.
Judge James Paddock said he would make a decision later on a charge of murjana possession against another judge. The Dukin residence was bound for trial.
Paddock dismissed the charge against Terri Ann Hieronymus-Sohl, 30, saying that the evidence presented during the preliminary hearing did not
establish probable cause that she aided and abetted in the sale of marijuana
Paddock said he would rule later on whether Glen Norman Sohl, 30, would be bound over for trial. On Oct. 7, he would be sent to the trial date for Eric Louis Swainz, 32.
THE THREE Baldwin residents were among five people arrested late Aug. 29 after 20 officers from the Lawrence Police Department, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department and the Kansas Bureau of investigation raided a marjuana field about 14 miles southwest of Lawrence.
Officers confiscated about 600 plants in the raid. The plants were worth an estimated $1.2 million.
During testimony, James Young, special agent for the KBI, described an irrigation system that began near a trailer-home owned by Glen Sohl that came to within 70 feet of a clearing in which marijuana was growing.
He testified that the trailer home was about 300 yards from the marijuana
Testimony during the trial also revealed that Eric Louis Seiwald was living in the trailer home for about four or five months. Terri Ann Hieronymus-Sohl lived in a solar house about 300 yards from Seiwald.
DETECTIVE Robert Van Hoezen of the sheriff's department testified that
when he searched Seiwald's trailer, he found a yellow legal pad that was used as a ledger to record amounts and prices for seeds.
He also testified that two trailer homes were on Sohi's property, including the one in which Seiwald lived. In the other trailer, he said, the interior had been stripped and drying racks had been constructed.
The preliminary hearing for a fourth person arrested in the raid, Ronald Louis Dejesus, 35, 1331 Vermont St., will be at 9:30 a.m. today in Douglas County District Court. He is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell.
Judge to rule on motions to bar testimony of witnesses in trial
By the Kansan Staff
Stanton Hazlett, attorney for James Chadwick Fourthborn, who is charged with first-degree murder, argued that he may be allowed to invoke marital privilege.
Douglas County District Court Judge Michael Maleon is to rule Oct. 4 on legal motions involving the testimony of witnesses in the case of a man accused of the murder of a 94-year-old Lawrence man.
Hazlett moved that Leona Fourhour not be allowed to testify about any confidential communication she had
with Fourhorn, and asked that she not be allowed to testify about any of Fourhorn's acts that she may have observed.
Hazlett argued that when detectives questioned Fourhour about the death of Harry Puckett, 1109 Delaware St., one of them asked Fourhour whether he could question his wife Fourhour greater than four years ago. That Fourhour did so without the knowledge that he could invoke marital privilege.
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Program sends KU students to home towns as recruiters
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
For the second year in a row, KU students are being asked to help recruit future students for the University.
Kent Kakoura, chairman of the academic affairs committee, said yesterday that the program helped to promote KU throughout Kansas where, especially in places where an office is a KU representative would be unlikely.
The Student Senate Academic Affairs Committee and KU's office of admissions now are accepting applications for the Student Ambassador's Program, which sends students back to the high schools from which they graduated to promote and recruit for KU.
"The office of admissions in an official capacity can only go to so many places in the course of a year." Zakura said. "And these are usually the bigger places."
THE AMRASSADORS receive no compensation for their visit, but Zakura said that most of the 40 employees found the experience rewarding.
"What Kent Zakoura's committee did was to formalize the program." Thompson said. "It really person-
Linda Thompson, director of the admissions office, said that the program was not unique to KU, and that attempts to start the program here had been unsuccessful until last year.
The ambassadors who are selected will participate in a four-hour training session before they visit their alma mats on Nov. 23.
Zakoura, a Wichita senior who was an ambassador last year, said ambassadors are instructed to give the students the admissions office's toll-free phone number for any specific questions they may have.
"THE STUDENTS that went out to visit the schools last year were fairly well-grilled that they weren't intended to be experts on facts and figures of the University." Thompson said.
Zakura's method last year consisted of visiting several junior and senior classes at his former high school.
Zakuraara the visits at the high schools were designed to be informal and the method of presenta- tion up to the ambassadors themselves.
"Obviously there were a few questions like, 'What is the best bar in Lawrence?' But those questions were few and far between. Zakura were really interested in knowing what university life was like."
ZAKOURA SAID that a goal of the program was to get ambassadors to as many high schools as possible. Competition for positions as ambassadors at larger metropolitan schools forced the committee to require applicants to meet several qualifications.
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