Thursday, November 30. 2000 The University Daily Kansan Section A • Page 5 Financial aid process begins early Students should examine options, apply during break By Nathan Doyani by Naman Dayani writer@kansan.com Special to the Kansan Students needing financial aid face a major assignment during winter break. That is the time, some administrators say, when students should examine their financial aid options and fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Brenda Maigard, associate director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said 51.4 percent of undergraduate students who attended the University of Kansas received some form of financial aid. Maigaard said that in December or January, the Department of Education would send out FAFSAs for the 2001-2002 school year. March 1 is the priority date for many of the scholarships. She said winter break was an ideal time for students to consider their financial aid options and fill out a FAPSA. "That's what I like to refer to as a little assignment over the winter break — to start looking at the free application data for the following year." Maiazaard said. She said students should apply by the priority date because it would help their chances of getting some scholarships from pools with limited funding. "Once those funds are awarded, Priority deadline for FAFSA forms is March 1, 2001. STUDENT FINANCIAL AID Students can pick up financial aid forms at the Office of Student Financial Aid at 50 Strona Hall. For more information or to set an appointment, contact the office at 864-4700 or send an e-mail to osfa@ku.edu. they're gone," she said. "So we encourage students to meet that priority date so that if they are eligible, they can be considered for those limited funding programs." Nicole Perica, Bonner Springs senior and a recipient of federal financial aid, said financial aid counseling was beneficial. "I think it's a great idea," she said. "I have people who no idea on how actually go about paying back something in the right amount of time." The winter break might also be a good time for students to apply for other private scholarships, some of which are described at www.flnaid.org or www.fastweb.com. Both are free. But Maigand warmed students that some scholarship services that asked for money might be scams. "There are some legitimate scholarship searches that may require a small fee, and by a small fee, I mean $10 to $5," she said. "But, there are some searches that are actual scams, and they might charge as much as $800 to $800 to do something like a FAFSA for a student, and those are things financial aid administrators across the nation will help them with for free." Edited by Warisa Chulindra Subleasing a concern for winter graduates Continued from page 1A Apartments, said if Tuckaway didn't allow subleasing, it would lose prospective tenants. "If they have the option of subleasing, they can get out of their leases and on with their lives," she said. But some apartment complexes don't allow subleasing. Mandy Whitehead, manager of Berkeley Flats, said it was company policy to not allow tenants to sublease their apartments. "We have other options if someone needs to get out of a lease early and leave early," she said. Whitehead said if people needed to break the lease, they could pay a fee of 10 percent of the total rent and forfeit their deposit. "That's the least expensive way to do it." she said. Whitehead also said the complex would try to rent out the room after someone left, and whoever moved out could just pay the rent until the next person moved in. Luckey said her apartment also required her to pay a $150 fee to sublease. Kelly said she had to pay $50. Some of the complexes that allow subleasing charge fees for the residents who want to sublet their apartments. In addition, Luckey said she would have to clean the apartment and have the carpets cleaned. "It's just like moving out in August." she said. Luckey said she didn't know whether she would get her deposit back or if the new people moving in would have to pay her and her roommate. Kelly said she and her roommate probably wouldn't get their denosit back. "They keep our deposit money," she said. "If something does go wrong, our deposit is gone." — Edited by Shawn Hutchinson One million ballots shipped to Tallahassee for recounting The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Vice President Al Gore authorized a new appeal to the Florida Supreme Court yesterday, sending his legal team back to the site of one of his biggest legal victories. Meanwhile, about one million ballots from Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties were ordered shipped to the circuit court in Tallahassee, where Judge N. Sanders Sauls will conduct a hearing on the disputed votes on Saturday. Gore approved an appeal to the state's highest court seeking an immediate recounting of disputed votes in the two southern Florida counties that were not included in the totals certified by the secretary of state, two Democratic officials said. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Gore's lawyers in papers filed late yesterday would ask the justices to do one of two things: supervise and direct the counting of ballots themselves, or order a judge in Tallahassee to begin doing so immediately, overturning an earlier ruling. Sauls refused to hear Gore's request on an expedition basis Tuesday. Instead, he set the hearing on Saturday and ordered that disputed ballots from Miami-Dade County be transferred to Tallahassee, the state capital. Yesterday, Bush's lawyers demanded that all the ballots from the two counties be sent, and the judge agreed. The judge would not grant Gore lawyer David Boies' request that the disputed ballots be shipped separately to get there sooner. The Miami-Dade ballots are due at the court by late tomorrow. "Pack 'em up and bring 'em up," the judge said. The ballots will be shipped in police caravans, with both sides sending observers to ride in the convoy. The Gore appeal will ask that counting begin while Sauls considers whether the new number should be added to the official state tally, the Democratic officials said. One official said that the Gore appeal would argue that "delay means the defeat of the right of voters of Florida." The maneuver returns the vice president to a court where the Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hand recounting could continue for 12 days beyond the original deadline set in state law. Gore hoped the recounting would help him overtake Bush's slim lead in the state, but the tallying only brought Gore to within 537 votes of Bush. Gore has been given to contest the figures certified Sunday night when election officials declared Bush the winner of the state's 25 electoral votes. Bush's team asked Sauls yesterday to expand his order and bring approximately one million ballots from the counties to the state capital — and not just the disputed ballots requested by Gore. "Defendants believe that fairness requires, at a minimum, that if the ballots in Miami-Dade or Palm Beach counties requested by plaintiffs are produced, defendants should be permitted to discover all of the ballots from those two counties." Bush lawyers said in a letter to Sauls. With legal papers flying into the courts, developments erupted on every legal front. Among them: ■ Circuit Court Judge Nikki Clark set a Dec. 6 trial date for challenges to results in Seminole County, where a Democratic activist has accused Republicans of tampering with absentee ballot applications and is seeking to have more than 15,000 votes thrown out. If that case is successful, it would cost Bush about 4,800 votes. The Florida Supreme Court extended briefing time until yesterday afternoon to decide whether it should consider the "butterfly ballot" issue in Palm Beach, a claim that voters were so confused by that ballot form they voted for the wrong person. Economy shows signs of slowing The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy slowed dramatically during the summer to a growth rate of just 2.4 percent, the weakest pace in four years, as the Federal Reserve's inflation-fighting campaign began to pinch. The growth rate, down from an original estimate a month age of 2.7 percent, still left economists predicting that the economy can achieve the Fed's hoped-for soft landing, although they expressed concerns about possible risks. The Commerce Department released revised figures showing that the gross domestic product—the total output of goods and services—grew at a slower pace during the July-September quarter than previously believed. Growth in the spring had been a sizzling 5.6 percent. "I still think we are going to have a soft landing, but the cloud on the horizon is getting bigger," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York. "If the Middle East explodes or if the The Fed has raised interest rates six times since June 1999 to dampen consumer and business spending enough to keep inflation under control. Wyss said the last U.S. recession in 1990-91 and two previous downturns in the 1980s and 1970s were caused by soaring oil prices stemming from Mideast tensions. current minor stock market correction turns into something major, then we could get a hard landing." The GDP report showed that housing construction, buffered by higher mortgage rates in the spring, had fallen at an annual rate 10.5 percent in the summer. That was an even bigger drop than previously reported. BEDS • DESKS CHEST OF DRAWERS BOOK CASES unclaimed freight & damaged merchandise 936 Mass. All Shows Only $2 • Purchase This Level 5. 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