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Wednesday, November 5, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Gareth Waltrip/Special to the KANSAN
City votes on fee raise for utilities
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
While residents awaited early election returns last night, the Lawrence City Commission voted to increase water, sewer and trash collection fees.
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The commission will have to approve the proposal again next week before it can take effect.
Under the proposal for 1987, water rates would go up four percent and sewer rates would go up eight percent.
A homeowner using 5,000 gallons of water a month, who would have paid $15.07 a month in water and sewer fees in 1986, would pay $15.88 under the new plan, an increase of 81 cents a month.
The increase is part of a five-year plan to raise water fees gradually.
The trash collection fee will be raised because of a 22-percent increase in the weight of trash collected in the weight the last time the city raised the fee.
According to a memo sent to commissioners by Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, the collection fee would increase just over 5 percent to $6.26 a month for the minimum residential rate, an increase of 30 cents. Commercial customers would pay a minimum of $8.76, an increase of 64 cents a month.
Wildgen told the commission that as far as he knew, Lawrence trash collection fees still would be among the lowest in the state.
Wilden said the city needed the increase partly because the landfill used by the city had been moved north and also because trash collectors had to pick up and haul more trash.
The commission rejected part of the ordinance that would have required residents to put out their trash before 7 a.m. the day of the collection and no earlier than 7 p.m. the day before.
Student loan default rate low at KU
By BILL RAYNOLDS
KU students default on their federal student loans at a rate more than five percent below the national average, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics.
Staff writer
Bachelor's The KU default rate for the 1985 Direct Student Loans was 4.46 percent for the 1985-86 school year, while the national default rate was 10.0 percent.
Jerry Rogers, KU director of financial aid, said students defaulted on their loans if they failed to make their first loan payment within 120 days of the due date.
average default rate of the Big Eight schools, 4.39 percent. Iowa State University had the lowest default rate, 2.86 percent, and the University of Missouri had the highest default rate, 7.09 percent.
The Big Eight schools are KU, the University of Colorado, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Kansas State University, Iowa State and Oklahoma State University.
the date.
KU's default rate was slightly higher than the
tend to feel good about the school," he said. "These
Rogers said that KU's low default rate may reflect the strong ties alumni kept with the University.
feelings create an incentive for students to repay their loans."
KU grants about 1,400 NDSL loans annually.
Last year, KU loaned about $1.4 million.
Karen Berkley, NDSL accountant at KU, said that KU's low default rate reflected a strong collection system and conscientious students.
When students leave KU, she said, they have an exit interview to review obligations, privileges and repayment schedules.
At least five of the Board of Regents schools ranked below the national default average, and the highest rate of those was Pittsburg State University at 4.64 percent.
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Coalitions make experience an issue
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Special to the Kansan
The moderator was nervous, and the candidates were dressed in their Sunday best.
But the debate between candidates for student body president and vice president last night was more a recitation of party philosophies than a debate.
About 35 people heard the Cheers and Initiative coalitions discuss issues in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. Associated Students of Kansas, the student lobbying group, sponsored the debate.
Cheers presidential candidate Brady Stanton and his running mate, Kelly Milligan, said they had "new blood" in their coalition. However, Initiative presidential candidate Betsy Bergman and her running mate, Stephanie Quincy, stressed their past experience.
Initiative has campus safety in its platform, a problem Bergman and Quincy said was not being solved by the Safety and Security Board proposed by Stanton and Milligan and recently adopted by the Senate.
Quincy said only seven of the 15 or 20 members of the new board showed up at the first meeting.
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