University Daily Kansan, April 28, 1983
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Endowment Association seeks full-time overdue-loan officer
By AMY CRAIG Staff Reporter
The number of defaults on short-term student loans has forced the Kansas University Endowment Association to hire a full-time employee to collect delinquent loans, an Endowment Association official said this
George Stewart, vice president for administrative services of the Endowment Association, said the association was interviewing applicants for a loan officer, whose main responsibility would be loan collection.
Stewart said he thought someone would be hired next week.
BECAUSE FEDERAL LOAN programs are not being expanded, Stewart said, he expects more demand for short-term loans. The increase in demand also could increase the number of defaults, he said.
Stewart said the rate of delinquent loans had improved since 1982, because the Endowment Association had taken an aggressive approach to loan collections.
Overall delinquencies were down 10
percent last month compared to March 1983. Stewart said.
However, he said, the rate still needs to be lower.
The percentage of students defaulting on loans has increased from 4.8 percent in 1980 to more than 7 percent in 1962. Stewart said of the $2,001,962 awarded, $153,000 that has come due by 2019 and that was to $79,000 that went unpaid in 1980.
STEWART SAID THE Endowment association's goal was to have the development of the new technology.
The short-term loans, which have a 6 percent interest rate and are due in a year or less, are financed by the Endowment Association. The University financial aid office administers the loan program.
Undergraduate students may borrow up to $500, or up to $1,000 with a co-signer. Graduate students may borrow up to $1,000, or up to $2,000 with a co-signer.
contact borrowers by telephone and letters to remind them that their loans were due.
The loan officer also will begin educational and promotional programs for the short-term loans, Stewart said.
When a loan is issued to students, the loan officer will talk to them about their responsibility to repay the loan, Stewart said.
Stewart attributed the default rate to the economy and to students' attitudes.
He said the loan officer also would promote the short-term loan program by making it more visible to students. Many students were unaware that the bank had borrowed money from them and they borrowed from banks, where they paid higher interest rates.
"There is a lot of unemployment, which affects defaults," he said. "To some degree there has been an attitude on the part of student borrowers that repaying their loan is not the most important thing they have to do."
"Many times students may have loans from us and federal loans and other debts facing them. Often there is not enough money from their first job to go around. Many students fail to realize this."
Survey geologists get $50,000 grant
A $ 10,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help scientists from the Kansas Geological Survey buy guns and ammunition, an associate scientist with the survey said yesterday.
The scientists are declaring war on hazardous waste sites, underground cavities, faults and groundwater by developing safer techniques to determine the state's shallow rock formations.
The Kansas Geological Survey is based on KU's West Campus.
"This is the first time the NSF has given a grant to the survey. We plan to use the money to test rifles and Don Steeple, the associate scientist.
STEEPLES SAID THAT BY determining which rifles and bullets produced the highest frequency readings on seismographs, scientists could determine what kind of rocks were located beneath hazardous waste sites.
After a shot is fired into the ground, a vibration reflecting off rock formations is recorded on the seismograph, he said. By determining rock types, in which direction hazardous wastes are most likely to seen underground.
Because of seismic reflections, scientists can gain a clearer conception of rock formations as shallow as 10 feet underground, Steeples said. Previous drilling and dynamite methods were expensive and time-consuming and
could only provide data on formations 100 feet deep or below.
"At hazardous waste sites such as the one in Furley, it could be dangerous to drill down into the nearby rocks," he would add, "or experimentation would be safer there."
OTHER APPLICATIONS FOR seismic reflections from rifle blades include the detection of underground cavities, such as those near Pittsburgh, and shallow lakes in the North American System that goes through Kansas, Steeples said.
"This technique could be also be important in exploration for ground-water. 'Steepes said' five years ago, because we wanted to find water," because we wanted to find water."
On the record
LAWRENCE POLICE ARRESTED a 20-year-old Lawrence man yesterday in connection with the theft of a car stereo from a Lawrence resident's car.
Police say they suspect the man stole a car stereo worth $80 and miscellaneous belongings worth about $250 from car in the 1500 block of Barker Avenue.
Former aide says diary not Hitler's
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — A former aide to Adolf Hitler said yesterday that remarks attributed to the Nazi leader in his "secret diaries," such as the scathing terms used to describe SS leader Heinrich Himmel, did not ring true.
The statement by Richard Schulze-Kossens in the Bild newspaper was one of many that cast doubt on the authenticity of the diaries that the West German magazine Stern says it found in East Germany after a three-year
SCHULZE-KOOSSEN, ONE OF HILFER'S former adjuncts, elicited specifically by the new study.
"I find it completely impossible that Hitler ever would describe Himmler as this deceitful small animal breeder," she wrote. "He would never record Hitler express himself in that way."
Some skeptics who branded the diaries forgeries said they thought the diaries were designed to glorify Hitler or at least improve his image. Others thought they were forgied by the East and thought it was necessary to create dissent among NATO allies.
Stern, which along with London's Sundays Times and Paris Match magazine has the rights to publish the alleged diaries, insists they are genuine.
IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who interrogated top Nazi leaders shortly after Adolf Hitler's suicide, said he also doubted the authenticity of the diaries.
Professors, family featured on CBS's 'Sunday Morning'
A film segment of two KU professors and their family will be featured on the CBS show, "Sunday Morning," at 8 a.m. this Sunday.
Ann Turnbull, acting associate director of child research, said last week that a CBS camera crew spent three days filming her and her husband's family.
Rud Turnbull, professor of special education, said last month that CBS wanted to film his family because of a book, "Parents Speak Out."
ANN TURNBULL WROTE ABOUT what it was like for her to be the mother of her mentally handicapped son, Jay. In addition, she encountered with other professionals.
Turnbull said she hoped the segment.
which would be 12 to 14 minutes long, would be aired on Sunday. CBS told them the segment was scheduled for two days; the changes were always possible, she said.
"I's a real risk," she said. "My impression was that they wanted to take the money."
She had no idea what the subject of the film would be, Turnbull said, because CBS was condensing three days of shooting into about 12 minutes.
"Sunday Morning" broadcasts on Channel 13 in Topeka and Channel 5 in
SHE SAID CBS OFFICIALS were interested that someone could be a professional in special education and teaching, and they answered to raising a handicapped child.
Former pro football star files $3 million suit against NCAA
By United Press International
OLATHE, Kan. — Saying the National Collegiate Athletic Association defamed his character, former college and professional football star Paul Hornung yesterday filed a $3 million lawsuit against the NCAA.
The suit, filed in Johnson County District Court, is identical to one filed by Hornung last July in Kentucky. Both stem from an NCAA decision last year that Hornung and former Georgia Tech and Kansas football coach Pepper Rodgers from being announcers for cable television broadcasts of college football games aired by the Turner Broadcasting Corp.
IN THE SUIT, HORNUNG claimed the NCAA defamed his character and wrecked a profitable business venture.
was given the right to approve announcers. Last year, the NCAA Television Committee decided that Hornung, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1956 while playing for Notre Dame, was too closely identified with the team's victory was a star for the Green Bay Packers during the team's glory years.
Attorney Thurman K. Eldridge Jr. said the Johnson County suit was filed in case Kentucky courts uphold the Kansas-based NCAA's contention that they do not have jurisdiction over the association.
In the contract the NCAA signed with Turner Broadcasting, the association
"He had at least one undesirable public situation while a professional player and the image which he projects or is projected for him does not have any football," the NCAA said in a release when it made the announcement.
THAT "PUBLIC SITUATION" IS apparently Hormung's suspension from football during the 1963 season after he admitted betting on NFL games. Alex Karras, then a player with the Detroit Lions, also suspended that season for gambling.
for garmun. Hormung said the decision cost him a minimum salary of $6,000 a game from Turner Broadcasting, plus income from endorsements, commercials and other sources. The suit asks more than $1 million in actual damages and $2 million in punitive damages.
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A Student's Thought for the Week:
"What you don't know won't hurt you, but it's what you think you know that's sure to get you everytime."
Ignorance is not as dangerous as assumptions and presumptions that masquerade as knowledge.
We must ask questions in order to dispel ignorance and remove masks.
The disciple Thomas questioned and thus gained faith.
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