University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, December 5.1978
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New law brightens student aid outlook
About 1,100 more KU students will be eligible to receive basic grants next fall because of the recent passage of a middle-income assistance law, Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said yesterday.
In addition, the new law, the Middle Income Student Assistance Act, allows students with an adjusted family income to obtain federally financed student loans.
"Based on a study by the American Council on Education, basic grant awards will increase by 38 percent, if the program continues to receive grants in 1979-80." Rogers said.
rogers had estimated that 2,100 students received $1.9 million in Basic Education Opportunity Grants this year.
The assistance act was signed into law by President Carter in November. It increases the maximum amount students can take on schoolwork $1,000 and makes students with family
incomes between $15,000 and $25,000 eligible for a grant.
IN ADDITION, the new law requires the government to pay the first nine months of interest after graduation on a guaranteed Student Loan Program.
The government, in the past, would not pay the 7 percent interest on guaranteed loans to students with adjusted family incomes; lenders would not make such loans without government financing, students from families with higher incomes did not have access.
The legislation affecting the loan program is effective immediately. It will be operative in the basic grant program after July 1, 1979.
ROGERS HAD said that about $3 million in guaranteed loans would be awarded to about 2,000 students this year. He said the number of loans awarded to students would increase by 60 percent because of the new law.
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University police yesterday reported that audits did an estimated $375 damage to telephone lines.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Police Beat
Police said a car was turned onto its side in the B-zone parking lot, east of Carnuthr-O'Leary Hall. The owner of the car was from Kansas City, Kan.
The incident caused $250 damage and occurred between 8 a.m. and 12:35 p.m. on Thursday.
A car belonging to a Hutchinson man received $125 damage early Sunday when someone broke its rear window with a rock. A student reported the theft of a shotgun.
A student reported the theft of a shotgun
Police said the theft occurred between
Nov. 26 and Nov. 28. The loss was estimated at
$1,000.
and a cassette tape player from his car, which was parked in the Daisy Field
Lawrence police reported that a KU student's apartment was burglarized
The student, Julie McLemore, Topeka junior, 1012 Emery Road, reported that a burglar stole a turquoise necklace, a brown acetate and $4 from her locked apartment.
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