Tuesday October 4,1977
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Lawrence, Kansas
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88, No.26
New loan program shaky
Rv KEVIN KIOUS
Staff Writer
Late money, a lack of application forms and uninformed bankers have kept Kansas' new student loans from reaching University of Kansas students, Jeff Weinberg, associate director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said yesterday.
Weinberg said the company that administers the program, the Higher Education Foundation of Minnesota, had been late in getting application forms to students and would be late in disbursing money to students.
"They can't even deliver the applications in any orderly fashion," he said. "It's no business to have that."
The Higher Education Assistance Foundation (HEAF) will guarantee loans to students in grades 10 and higher.
Education Loan Program of Kansas
to students who cannot get loans from banks.
who cannot get loans from banks.
The program was approved last spring by Gov. Robert Bennett but was not ready at the beginning of the fall semester because of its approval by the U.S. Office of Education.
HELP WILL be funded by general revenue bonds, which will probably not be issued until December, Weinberg said. Funding so that the program can begin Nov. 1.
KU will be able to make loans to students beginning with a loan under the application process, Weipeng. Weipeng is a 401(k) plan.
Paul Lombardo, director of HELP, said yesterday that the board of directors of his firm had been in contact with him.
Vet benefits called lower than deserved
Weinberg said the biggest difficulty had been the shortage of application forms, which already have been requested by more than 400 students. He said students were told they would be contacted when the application forms arrived.
Veterans who attend the University of Kansas under the GI Bill often pay full tuition but receive only half-time student aid. The former is the student of Carnegie Veterans said yesterday.
BU and received a few application forms, mailed to banks, collected by students and mailed to banks, he received.
soon as possible, although it might cause some difficulties.
Those enrolled in more than six hours pay full tuition, but if they are taking fewer than 12 hours, the Veterans Administration (VA) awards them less than low-duration benefits, he said.
However, a veteran enrolled in at least 12 tuition and possessed full VA benefit is eligible.
A veteran enrolled in a least seven hours pays full tuition of $344,50, but he receives $135 a month VA benefits as a half-time student.
ALL KU STUDENTS who take more than six hours pay full tuition.
The VA considers a veteran a full-time student if he takes 12 hours; a three-quarter-time student if he is enrolled in nine to 12 hours; a quarter-time student less than six hours; quarter-time, fewer than six hours.
Full-time veteran student benefits are
$299 a month three-quarter-time benefits
Lombardo said that the program had a limited number of applications and that they had been distributed evenly among Kapasas financial aid offices.
are $219 a month, and half-time benefits are $135 a month.
James Henry, director of Veterans Services, said the decision to require students taking more than six hours to pay full tuition was a Board of Resents decision.
Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs, said that the KU administration had made its own fee schedule and had not issued it to the Board of Recents for approval.
ZIMMERMAN SAID he thought the decision to require full tuition of students enrolled in more than six hours was made by a teacher who was on the student body and out-of-state students.
"Wichita State University pays fees according to the credit hour, Zimmerman said. "I know that the fee process is not identical in all Board of Regents schools."
However, Ward Zimmerman, director of the N.Y.C. Museum, is not the way in all Regent College sports.
HE SAID forms were not distributed on the basis of need because it was considered impractical to determine how many forms each lender should receive.
I'm sure there was some degree of analysis used," he said.
See BENEFITS PAGE SIX
Lombardo has traveled throughout the state to explain the program to financial aid counselors and other application forms. He said that after a school had officially joined the program it was given 100 forms. He said 10,000 forms were now being shipped from the company's website.
Weinberg said it was difficult to judge how many forms would be needed.
"It's almost impossible for them to know how much the demand will be," he said. "I know there will always be problems with any significant new program."
Another problem, Weinberg said, is an apparent lack of information for the system to respond.
BANKERS HAD called the financial aid office Friday and said they had never heard of HELP and did not know how to handle the bank. They had they received from ULK, Weinberg said.
"We were told all lenders in Kansas knew about the program," he said. "There seems to be a huge problem."
Weinberg said some of the bankers had not heard that the Federally Insured Student Loan Program, which the Kansas Department had been terminated at midnight Friday.
"I would think there would be better communication between lenders and the clients."
Randy Eaton, director of HEAF in Kansas, said yesterday and had her meeting with former CEO of the company.
See LOAN page six
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Impeachment of Young called for
Byrd
Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd was accused by fellow senators of abuse of leadership and Senate rules after efforts to call up dozens of amendments offered by Senator Ted Cruz in the 2016 gubernatorial race by Vice President Walter Mondale. See story page two.
WASHINGTON — Senate opponents of deregulating natural gas ended a 13-day filibuster yesterday, saying lack of support from the White House made it impossible for their delaying tactics. A vote on the bill could come today.
Senate ends 13-day gas filibuster
WASHINGTON—Ten congressmen have introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. Rep. Larry McDonald, D-Ga., who announced the action at a news conference, said Young had made racist remarks and "aligned himself with world revolutionary forces."
The resolution cites 21 points against Young, including his failure to oppose admission of Vietnam to the United Nations, calling former presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon racists and supporting some Communist leaders. See story page two.
Japanese hijackers free hostages
ALGIERS- EJapanese Red Army extremists ended a six-day, 5,000-mile $40 million saga dayday by freezing the last 10 hostages aboard a Japan ship.
Gandhi said the charges were political and refused to post bail. The specific charge against her involves her suspected acquisition of 104 jeeps from private firms for use in electioneering.
NEW DELHI, India—Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was arrested on charges of compasy and corruption. Nine other persons, including four former cabinet ministers and Gandhi's personal secretary, also
At the airport terminal the hostages—12 passengers, including one American, and seven Japanese crew members—happily hoisted the end of their ordeal on the tarmac.
The Algerian government declined to say whether the five original hijackers and their six radical comrades released by Japan had been arrested, given that the attacker was not a national official.
She was escorted from her home by scores of police agents while more than 1,000 people crowded around her.
Gandhi
Gandhi arrested with nine others
The KU band, pompon girls and flag corps will perform Friday on national television in a program before the start of the third game of the American League Championship series between the Kansas City Royals and the Eastern Division champions, the New York Yankees. It will be the Marching Jayhawks' national television. If the Royals advance to the World Series, the band has been invited to perform at the second game and a seventh game, if one is held.
Locally . . .
Schol hall food rebates hashed over
Four of the eight University of Kansas scholarship halls will receive less than they expected in food budget rebates, one will receive more and one hall owes an unexpected deficit, J.J. Wilson, director of bousing, said last night.
Wilson said the six halls operating under the rebate system were Sellards and Douthart, two women's halls, and Batton, one men's Pearson and Stephenson, four men's halls.
HE SAID that the difference between last year's food budget for each hall and the actual amount spent was divided among the 50 residents in each hall. These figures would allow a $2.12 rebate per resident in Battentown, $10.00 in Pearson, $17.10 in Westerville and $10.00 in Cayman Island. Sellards and approximately $15.00 in Douthart. Wilson said.
The six halls operate under a system allowing refunds from a hall's food budget if the residents underspend it by more than $5 a resident.
A controversy developed earlier this fall when officers of each hall tallied their food expenditures from last year and decided that they were under the budget. Housing officials at first believed that the halls had not been to the house, that no rebate checks would be returned.
The other two women's halls, Miller and Watkins, do not operate under the rebate system. Miller and Watkins residents pay a fee to the other halls, but have to buy their own food.
Stephenson, however, overspend its food budget last year leaving a deficit of $17.60 million.
See SCHOL HALL page six
Double Duty
After a rugged game of football, Joe Brannan, New Mexico,
engagement awaits his wife's return. Brannan, a member of
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
the navy intramural squad, the extra duties of babybearing for his five-week-old daughter, Kielly, and the family
Reservoir to be filled gradually to enhance growth of game fish
Clinton Reservoir, which was to be completed last year, might not be completely filled with water until 1981, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman told city and county commissioners yesterday at a reception at Clinton Overlook Park.
Clinton Reservoir is four miles southwest of Lawrence and covers 7,000 acres. When it is completely filled, it will have a 72-mile shoreline.
Col. Richard Curl, Kansas City district corps engineer, said the Kansas Water Resources Board requested that the reservoir be filled in stages over a 4-8-year period instead of allowing it to fill in one year.
Curl told commissioners that the primary reason for slowly filling the reservoir was to encourage the growth of game fish, which will be stocked in the lake. He said flood-control and water commitments would be kept.
CURL SAID that by slowly filling the
reservoir, better conditions would exist for game fish. Unwanted fish such as carp could be controlled.
He said a minimum of land clearance had been done so that young fish would have places to hide. He said tires had been laashed together for the same purpose.
By thus protecting the young game fish, Curl said, the fish will develop better and future restocking can be avoided. Lake Perry was handled in a similar way successfully, he said.
Jim Powers, director of the Kansas Water and Resources Board, said yesterday that the board recommended the 4%-year plan.
He said past experiences of the board, which coordinates state water projects, indicated that stage filling was beneficial.
Powers said the board was trying to meet two goals with its request to the Corps.
"FIRST, WE want to meet all water commitments to the municipalities," he
said. "And second, we want to do things that are beneficial for fisheries to prevent extinction."
He said water from the Wakarusa River and rainfall would fill the reservoir. Should the water exceed the required levels of the reservoir, it would flow through the reservoir's gate at the dam.
He said both goals would be met by the 4+1-year plan. Boating on the reservoir would not be adversely affected because the first boat would be sufficient for boat use, Powers said.
Powers said construction holdups, which have plagued the reservoir from its conception in 1971, would delay the start of the filling process until early next year.
Mayer Marnie Argeringer said
their father, the little city could
do to oppose the gradual rise of
"It's some concern to me that the boots in the economy would be delayed," she said.
Argerisinger agreed with the long-term benefits of the plan as long as flood-control and water commitments were kept, she said.
KU employs' senate considered
Recommendations calling for the creation of a senate for classified employees at the University of Kansas are now being considered by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
The recommendations were made by a task force appointed by Shankel to determine the need for and function of a senate for classified employees on the Lawrence campus.
A classified employee holds a civil service job in which salary is automatically set, said Jim Feldstein, central personnel services director at KU. He said classified
positions at KU ranged from technicians to custodial and clerical personnel.
The task force returned its recommendations to Shankel last week, but he declined yesterday to discuss the task force recommendations. He said he favored the recommendations.
"The classified employees are an important part of the operations of the University," Shankel said. "They haven't had a forum before on matters that are of interest to them. The senate would serve that function."
ACCORDING TO Marilyn Ashton, task
coach the senate, would be open to
their input.
"This is an effort to represent in
She said she thought the senate would not allow employees to become more involved in government.
Felstein said that unclassified jobs were formed on an individual basis, with pay and work hours established for each individual employee. Unclassified positions at KU included faculty, administrators and researchers.
Ashton said that in forming the recommendations, the task force had looked at the current faculty governance system and at governance organizations at other
university government a large fraction of the University population that is now unrepresented." Ashton said.
Sahkul said he didn't think a classified senate would duplicate the functions of the Senate.
"It would have some similarities to a faculty or student senate, but I don't think it would duplicate them," he said. "It would provide information to classified employees, allowing them to discuss proposals that affect them."
Shankel said he would study the recommendations further before making a reply