THE FAR SIDE
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 5. 1987
By GARY LARSON
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Edgar Allan Poe in a moment of writer's block.
Campus/Area
8 students fill Senate seats
All vacant Student Senate seats were filled last night, but there is room for new members on Senate committees.
By a Kansan reporter
The Senate accepted recommendations to fill eight seats at its meeting in the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. New senators are: Michelle Roberts, education; Christine Stanek, architecture; Laura Ambler, off-campus; Jon Gregor, resident at large; John Penny, engineering; Pat Warren, Nunemaker; James Westphal, Nunemaker; Lisa Dahl, Nunemaker.
The seats were vacant because of resignations and removals for excessive absences.
Students still may apply to be on any of the five Senate committees: Cultural Affairs, Rights, Finance, University Affairs or Minority Affairs.
Kathryn Anderson, chairman of the Cultural Affairs Committee, said six members recently had been dismissed for excessive absences. Students are dismissed from the Cultural Affairs Committee after receiving three unexcused absences.
Mike Womack, University Affairs Committee chairman, said his committee had gone from having about 65 members at the beginning of the semester to about 27 members at its meeting Tuesday night.
Except for three who resigned and one who transferred to another committee, all were dismissed for having two unexcused absences.
Student Senate drafts 3-week add/drop plan
By BRAD ADDINGTON
Staff writer
The Student Senate could have been mistaken for an editing class last night as it meticulously reworded a resolution in favor of a three-week add/drop period next semester.
The final resolution passed 36-5.
Senate representatives intend to present the resolution at next week's University Senate Executive Committee meeting, where next semester's add/drop policy is scheduled to be discussed.
Roger Templin, Student Executive Committee chairman and Nunemaker senator, called for cleaning up the resolution, which came from the Academic Affairs subcommittee of the University Affairs Committee.
The Senate resolution is in favor of a drop period of three weeks and an add period of three weeks and two days.
The resolution also calls for:
instructors to provide an explanation of what is expected and required of students that semester on the first day of class.
- instructors to provide a syllabus on the first day of class.
- academic departments to urge their instructors to complete Jayhawk Course Source questionnaires.
Michael Foubert, graduate senator, opposed the resolution, saying it would be difficult in some cases for graduate teaching assistants to present a syllabus the first day.
"They are often assigned sections at the last minute." Foubert said.
In other business last night, the Senate:
■ approved a bill that will place a KU student as a non-voting member of the Lawrence City Commission.
But Jason Krakow, student body president,
said, "I don't see what's so terrible about asking teachers to be prepared on the first day."
- approved a bill allocating $1,554 to various student organizations to compensate for recent increases in University telephone costs.
■ approved a bill allocating $3,447 to the Graduate Student Council. The money will be used to finance activities of various graduate student organizations, including the Association of Black Graduate Students, the Biochemistry Graduate Student Organization, the Graduate Business Council and the Graduate Association of Students in Philosophy.
Application errors, late filing delay loans, officials say
- approved a bill allocating $1,200 for supplies for the Senate typing room at Watson Library.
- approved a bill allocating $500 to the Student Senate Task Force on AIDS.
By MICHAEL HORAK
Staff writer
Keith Cook is broke.
4. He paid his tuition only because he got a loan from his parents. Unpaid housebills for the last three months at his fraternity made him decide to go home last week. His car sits idle in his parents' garage because he can't afford to fix it.
For Cook, Topeka sophomore, the wait for his Guaranteed Student Loan money this fall seems to take forever.
b It makes things really hard. "Cook said recently. "There are a lot of things you'd like to do or need to buy that you can't afford. It can cause a lot of problems, especially
for those students who can't work during school."
Cook said his wait stemmed from additional financial aid paperwork he had to complete because of low grades last semester. Still, he said, he was surprised to find out at registration this fall that his money had not arrived.
"Iimagine the feeling: standing in massive lines and then when it is your turn, they say, I'm sorry, we don't have your money, you'll have to go to such-and-such office," he said. "The whole thing is embarrassing."
KU financial aid officials said that delays like Cook's were exceptions and were often caused when students put the wrong information on their
applications or filled out loan applications late in the semester.
"I've had kids stick their heads in here day in, day out, and their money is not here," said Jerry Rogers, director of KU financial aid.
Financial aid officials said that they didn't know how many students at the college still were waiting for loan checks this semester. Checks come in daily.
As of yesterday, about 50 KU students still had not paid their full tuition because of delayed financial aid checks, said Jeff Weinberg, associate director of KU financial aid. But not all of those outstanding checks were GSLs.
Rogers said that most of the time.
Guaranteed Student Loans were held up at the lending institution and not at KU. He also said that sometimes students didn't realize that it took six weeks to two months to process GSLs.
GLSls are low-interest loans sponsored by private lenders, usually banks, and guaranteed by the federal government. Students don't have to repay the loans until after they leave school.
The application process for getting a student loan can be complicated.
Students must first fill out an ACT Family Financial Statement. The information on that form is processed by ACT in Iowa City, Iowa, and electronically transmitted back
to KU.
A computer system installed last summer conduct the electrical transmissions and has speeded up the process. Rogers said.
KU then decides whether the student is qualified for a GSL, and notifies the student by mail. KU transmits its information to the High Education Assistance Foundation in St. Paul, Minn., where the loan is guaranteed.
The foundation then sends a promissory note to a student, who signs it and sends it to the bank of his choice. In turn, the bank sends the GSL check to KU's financial aid office, where it is processed and given to the student.
About 20 percent of KU's guaranteed loans are guaranteed by agencies other than the foundation. In those cases, applications are mailed instead of sent electronically.
KU students have applied for about 4,500 GSLs since Jan. 1.
Jeffery Allen is a credit analyst with Douglas County Bank and deals with student loans daily. He said that because the student loan process was long and involved, there were a number of ways loans could be delavated.
"If something is missing or something is wrong — say you put a check in the wrong box — it might cause a long delay." he said.
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