University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 7, 1986
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News Briefs
Von Ende sentence to be given Monday
Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, will be sentenced at 10:30 a.m. Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.
Von Ende pleaded guilty Sept. 22 to one count of distributing cocaine and one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
The maximum sentence for these charges is 30 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
U. S. District Attorney Benjamin Burgess said recently that his office would recommend a three-year sentence for von Ende.
Review staff chosen
Van Ende will appear before U.S. District Judge Earl E. O'Connor.
The KU School of Law yesterday announced the 1986-87 staff of the Kansas Law Review.
The new staff consists of: editor,
Reggie Robinson, third-year
Salina law student; managing
editor, Donna J. Long, second-
year Clay Center law student; and
article editors, John T. Steere,
second-year Lenexa law student;
and Dara Lynn Trum, second-year
Lewenworth law student.
The Law Review, which became an official publication of the law school in 1952, is a quarterly publication that critically addresses and gives advice on law.
Last year's Law Review staff selected this year's staff based on grades and writing abilities.
Levi's 501s contest
The Public Relations Student Society of America and Levi Strauss and Co will sponsor a performance by rock band Dow Jones and the Industrials from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. tonight at Cogburns, 737 New Hampshire St.
The event will include contests ranging from modeling Levi's 501 jeans to singing the blues and the Levi's 501 theme song. Soloists and groups are welcome to offer their rendition of the theme song.
Categories in the modeling contest include the most worn, creative, longest, shortest and best modeled pair of Levis 501s. Males and females will be judged separately.
The KU chapter of PRSSA was one of 25 universities that recently won a national campaign to promote Levi's 501 jeans. This qualifies them for a national public relations award.
PRSSA is a student organization that gives students practical experience in public relations.
Dream expert to talk
Barbara Rothermel, national president emeritus of the School of Metaphysics, will give a free lecture titled "Dreams and other Altered States of Consciousness" at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 in Templin Hall.
Rothermel is regional director for the Des Moines, Kansas City, Kan., and Oklahoma branches of the School of Metaphysics, a nonprofit educational and service institute. Rothermel has also written six books, the most recent en titled "Who Were Those Strangers in Your Dreams?"
The Kansas City, Kan., branch of the School of Metaphysics and Templin Hall will sponsor the lecture.
Weather
Skiies today will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. The high temperature will be 60 to 65 degrees. Tonight will be cloudy and cooler with a 40 percent chance of rain. The low temperature will be in the upper 40s.
From staff and wire reports.
KU poets find an audience at open reading
By ATLE BJORGE
White gray smoke from his cigarette slowly spiraled toward the fan above his head, Carl Johnson Banegas peeked through pinched eyes at about 30 poetry enthusiasts.
Staff writer
circ eyes at about 10pm. Elizabeth Barrett Browning might not have felt at home last week at the Glass Onion, 62 W. 12th St. Nevertheless, it was the scene of a poetry reading — actually, of several poetry readings.
"We believe that poetry is an art that practically everybody exercises to some extent," said Bill Volmut, Wichita graduate student and one of the organizers of the reading. "We like to have a forum where
people who write the stuff won't feel bad
plogit.
There are no mistakes.
Mike Mader, Great Bend senior, said he and two other friends last spring started having readings in people's homes after they had gone to a poetry reading called the Beat Poet Bongo Light Show.
"It is open to everybody who likes to read.
There are no rules."
ties, he said.
"We just wanted a more neutral setting, where it could be serious at the same time," Mader said.
But those events gradually turned into parties, he said.
Last week's reading was the second at the Glass Onion this semester. Another reading
is scheduled for later this month.
Having the readings in a public place is good because more people can learn about them. Mader said.
"There was a guy here last time who said he'd lived in Lawrence for 12 years and never seen anything like this," he said.
Several people used the opportunity to grab the microphone and bring their writings out into the open. They read biological poems, a poem about lawn mowers, lyrical pieces, short stories, funny poems and some serious poems.
"I think there are several kinds of people who come to these readings." Michael Johnson, chairman of the English department, said. "There are people who are very shy about what they are doing; people who may or may not be serious, but like to get up and do a show; people who are very serious and like to have an audience.
"Once in a while you hear someone who's really on to something. Something that would be written down and lost otherwise."
George Wedge, professor of English, said that writers don't talk to their teachers, they talk to other writers.
"That is how you learn your craft. That's how you learn taste and discrimination." Wedge said, adding slyly. "You also learn to hate other writers."
KU Pell Grants slowed by errors, bureaucracy
After a family files its income tax forms, it sends corrected figures to the ACT. Often, a family assumes that the ACT deals with corrections in the same way it deals with the original data of students who want a Pell Grant. Rogers said.
It doesn't.
The ACT sends data for an original application for a grant along to Pell. But, the ACT doesn't send corrections to Pell.
Because questions on the ACT correction form differ from those on the Pell form, Pell won't accept corrections from the ACT, Heffron said.
Hefron said that the ACT could change its question format. However, the ACT would have to change its computer program, he said, and the federal government has said it won't pay for the change.
In addition to receiving information from the ACT, Pell also receives financial aid information directly from students.
"The government won't accept them," said Mark Heffron, ACT assistant vice president of financial aid services in Iowa City.
Bill Moran, director of financial aid policy and program development for the U.S. Department of Education, said Pell sent Student Aid Reports directly to students. The report includes the student's financial aid data and the amount of the
student's grant
student's grant.
If the data on the form is correct,
students are instructed to take it to
their school's financial aid office.
Data on the form can be corrected
and sent to Pell.
All the information on the aid report must be correct before students can receive checks.
Moran said whether students applied for a grant directly or through the ACT, they must send their corrections to Pell.
The ACT supplies corrected information to KU. So, if the student doesn't send corrected information to Pell, the ACT and the University's corrected records won't match Pell's aid report.
Because KU doesn't look at Pell information until late in the process, the discrepancy is usually discovered when KU is ready to order a student's check, which is in the summer for most students. The student then must send corrected information to Pell before KU can order a check.
But federal and University officials disagree about the time this process takes. Moran said the process of getting the corrected report to the student — which Rogers said took five weeks — only takes eight days.
In addition, students themselves may complicate the process.
Hokanson received her first aid report in the middle of the summer, she said. She noticed the need for a
correction herself and she sent a corrected aid report to Pell soon after receiving the original report.
receiving
heaven. Hokanson forgot to have
her mother sign the correct report.
"It was an error on my part that it
had to be corrected."
"It was an error on my part that it had to be sent back a third time," she said.
Red tape 'nightmare'
Another reason for the grant problem at KU, Rogers said, is that students don't follow the instructions on their Pell aid report. The report instructs the students to take it to the student's financial aid office. The school cannot order a grant without the aid report.
When students receive the aid report from Pell, they often assume that KU already has received their checks, but that's not the case, Rogers said.
Many students expect their financial aid checks during registration at the beginning of the school year but find that KU has not ordered them, he said.
Heffron said that other universities faced the same problems as KU because students failed to return their aid report form to the school.
"That's just one of those bureaucratic nightmares," Heffron said.
Heffron described the Pell aid report as a voucher, which students can redeem at any school. He said
Pell didn't mail the reports directly to universities because students might be undecided about which university to attend.
However, 90 percent of the students who apply for financial aid already know which school they will attend and where they want their financial aid information sent, Heffron said.
Moran said that of 6 million Pell applicants, an undecided 10 percent was a significant number.
Being able to use the Pell aio report at any school is a fundamental principle of the program, Moran said.
Hefron suggested that Pell send the student's report to one school and allow the student to make necessary changes if the student chose another school.
He said some government officials thought the process of sending the Pell aid report to the student and not the school would reduce the potential for fraud.
But Moran said sending the aid report to the school wouldn't work
"The population is simply too mobile to do that," Moran said.
Mrdan said students who didn't forward their Pell aid reports to their schools did not read the instructions on the form.
He said the government shouldn't have to monitor students' forms.
"These people are college students," Moran said.
Pell program differs
Since the program began in 1972, it has had a policy to send the aid report directly to the student, Moran said.
The Pell program remains separate from other federal financial aid programs.
and programs.
Heffron said Pell was different from other forms of federal financial aid because the government issued checks to the students through the schools.
In other federal aid programs, such as College Work-Study, National Direct Student Loans and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, schools receive money from the government and then make aid awards to students.
These programs have a different origin than Pell. They began locally in the late 1950s without any connections to the federal government.
Today, these federal programs receive a set amount of money from the government, and when that is used up, no more money is available.
unlike these programs, Pell is a creation of the federal government. Pell is an entitlement program Students who are eligible for grants receive them.
The government created the Pell program in 1972, with eligibility determined through a complex formula that is required by law, Moran said.
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