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Financial aid filing soon
By LESLIE GUILD
Staff Reporter
The crowds fleeing 28 Strong Hall with applications in hand signify that the deadline for filing applications for financial aid for the 1979-1980 school year is just two weeks away.
Katheen Farrell, assistant director of financial aid, said although many applications had been picked up, only a few have been submitted.
"The applications for financial aid must be accompanied by a family financial statement," Farrell said. "And that form must include exact income tax information. So most people can't return the applications and financial statement until they receive their W2 Forms."
Employers are required to send W2 forms during January,
She said most applications were not received until the second week in February.
"WE HAVE TRIED to get the deadline back later into the month, but it has to remain Feb. 15, so that the financial statements can be processed and returned to us in time to make scholarships and loan awards," she said. "So the big rush of applications is usually during the second week of the month."
Farrell and the financial statements were processed in Iowa City and would be returned to the University of Iowa.
Farrell also said she expected the loans to be issued late in the spring semester.
She said most students applied for loans from the Higher Education Loan Program, the Guaranteed Student Loan Program and the National Direct Student Loan Program.
She said all three were awarded on the basis of need. She said loans and scholarships from the University of Kansas Endowment Association were also available through her office. Those awarded on the basis of need or
*"STUDENTS CAN apply through our office to get money from companies lending agencies or from them directly."*
She said for students to receive loans through KU from the Higher Education Loan Program or the Guaranteed Student Loan Program they first had to be refused a loan from a commercial lending agency.
"These loans are federally insured loans, but the applicant must be turned down by their bank or another lending agency before the loan can come through us," she said.
Farrell said students who apply for campus based loans, such as the National Direct Student Loan Program, do not have to be refused by a commercial lending agency.
Although the federal government said recently that some funds for National Direct Student Loans would be cut because of the program's high default rate, Farrell said this would not affect KU.
"The National Direct Student Loans are awarded through this office based on the financial statement of押金."
*WE USUALLY award about $1 million in these loans, but that amount is dependent on the amount repaid by our clients.*
"Throughout the Midwest the default rate is low," she said, "And KU is no exception. Very few students from KU do not pay back these loans, so that keeps the program operating."
Farrell said the federal government sometimes supplemented universities with added funds for the loan
"We do not know yet though, if we will receive any added funds for next year," she said.
KU official says Feb. fuel oil supply ample
Bv DAVID SIMPSON
Staff Reporter
There should be enough fuel oil available to heat KU's Lawrence campus through the month of February, Richard Perkins, director of plant maintenance, said yesterday.
"The University's oil reservoirs are in good shape now." Perkins said. "We have a 10-day supply of fuel oil, and we expect more shipments of oil in the next few days."
KU has been using its fuel oil reserves to heat the campus since Jan. 1, when natural gas service was cut off by the Kansas Public Gas Company in April to permit a ternnable contract with the gas company that allows gas service to be cut off when demand is high. During much of January, KU had been down to a five-day supply of gas for staff and faculty, problems getting additional supplies.
PERKINS said one reason for the increase in the University's fuel oil supply is that demand is growing.
received fuel oil contracts, were closer to
fuel oil could be delivered more quickly.
"The supplier who got a 125,000-callon contract last Thursday was from Kansas City, Mo., and he shipped the oil here immediately." Perkins said. "We also have another supplier of oil now and that's better than in mid-January when we only had one supplier of fuel oil."
Perkins said he had talked to gas company officials last Thursday and there was little chance natural gas service would be resumed soon.
"KU will be on fuel oil for most of February and the orders we're sending out for additional fuel oil are based on this assumption." Perkins said.
SEVERAL DAYS of above freezing temperatures would be required before the gas company would resume service to KU. It costs the University $265 an hour to burn fuel oil, which is twice the cost of natural gas.
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Perkins said the University had been burning fuel at higher rates than usual the last two days. Normally the University burns up to 17,000 gallons of fuel oil daily, but in the last two days it had burned between 18,000 and 19,000 gallons daily.
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Perkins also said he did not expect any problems in getting fuel oil to the campus in
"On our last order there were seven bidders," Perkins said. "There must be fuel oil out there or these suppliers wouldn't be able to supply us." The bid last Thursday had four trucks here
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Cancer researcher studies marijuana use
By RON BAIN
By RON BAIN Staff Reporter
A cancer researcher from the University of Kansas Medical Center, who testified last week before a Kansas House committee about a bill that would permit medicinal use of marijuana in Kansas, said yesterday that marijuana had a long history of medical uses.
"Mirjana has been used for 5,000 years, and has been used medically for a good portion of that time," the researcher. Ronald Stephens, an associate professor of
The bill, which was passed Monday by the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, was sponsored by Rep. Mike Glover, who is a member of the committee taking chemotherapy treatments for cancer or those with glaucoma to use marijuana in therapy. Glaucoma is an eye disease caused by extreme pressure on the eyeball, resulting in partial or complete loss of vision.
He said his testimony mainly was a brief history of the research done on medicinal use of marijuana. Scientific research into it was started. Marijuana was just beginning. Stephens said.
**STEPHENS IS TRYING to determine if** the solution contains the nauseous side effect of chemotherapy.
Glover's bill, which will proceed to the House floor, would authorize the Kansas law that prohibits childbirth in a hospital.
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s of chemotherapy and the thirst.
Stephens said he was conducting experiments comparing marjuania to comazine, another drug that prevents nausea, when he used marjuania prevents nausea as well as comazine.
STEPHENS AID A major problem with chemotherapy SAID that the drugs given to cancer patients cause the patients to vomit. He said marijuana apparently helped some patients take chemotherapy without causing the area of the brain that triggers vomiting.
Stephens said marjiana was a moodaltering drug which, besides preventing nausea, seemed to lift the spirits of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Stephens said his experiments were double-blind tests, in which neither the researcher nor the subjects in the experiments knew which drug the results are recorded and coded, he said, and will be analyzed after the experiments are finished.
Stephens said he thought marjuanja changed a person's perceptions of pain or discomfort rather than alleviated the actual symptoms. Stephens said this effect was similar to the effects of morphine or heroin, narcotics which alleviate pain by changing a person's perceptions of pain rather than relieving it through transmitting pain messages to the brain.
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