University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1987
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Making music
After a long day of moving. Kent Oberheu. St. Louis sophomore, relaxes by playing his guitar yesterday in front of Hashinger Hall.
Aid checks may be delayed 3 weeks
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
Students dependent on financial aid have been hit this year with a double-whammy of new, tougher standards to qualify for aid and the late arrival of some checks.
Although most students will receive their grant and loan checks on time, Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said Monday that some checks could be delayed up to three weeks.
The national Guaranteed Student Loan program has stricter eligibility rules this fall, which have reduced the amount of money some students will receive and eliminated some students from the program.
Last year, a student whose family made less than $30,000 a year automatically qualified for the maximum amount of aid. Rogers said.
And for students whose families made more than $30,000, the federal
government determined need one of two ways. One was based solely on income, and the other added family assets, such as land, to that figure. Schools had the choice of using whichever method would give students the best break, Rogers said.
This year, the federal government requires that both income and assets be considered in awarding aid.
Another change - a new way or determining whether students are dependent or independent from their teachers — also has affected aid awards.
Rogers said he did not know how many students would be affected by the changes. The office has processed 3,300 forms so far this fall, which is more than were processed a year ago. But Rogers thinks that by making loans given to KU students will be fewer than those given last year.
ram are new, some students say delayed loan and grant checks are a familiar problem.
Although changes in the GSL prog-
However, Rogers got the delays usually were caused by students who had sent back improperly filled out forms and understood instructions on the forms.
"We can make mistakes, too, but generally students procrastinate or do not understand their full responsibility," Rogers said.
It doesn't help that KU's financial aid office has a staff about two-thirds the size of those at comparable universities, Rogers said.
Rogers said most of the forms would be verified within a week and checks would arrive between one and two weeks after that.
For students waiting for loan or grant checks, Rogers said his office would try to arrange delayed fee payment.
Most of the delayed checks are waiting for verification of information supplied on the student's financial aid application.
He said that he wasn't sure how many students might have to drop out because of a missing grant or loan but said he didn't think many would be forced to do so.
Several students who had not received aid when they expected it said earlier this week that they would be waiting to buy books, making arrangements with banks or borrowing from friends to scrape by until their checks arrived.
Rogers said most students waiting for checks would be able to use money earmarked for other things to pay fees.
"That's easy for me to say, but not easy for them to rationalize if they were counting on that big chunk of money for that big outlay."
Court date planned for student charged in fake license case
Bv MICHAFL HORAK
Staff writer
The last of three KU students who were issued citations last spring in connection with the counterfeiting of driver's licenses at Oliver Hall will appear Sept. 4 in Douglas County District Court.
Julie Rebeka Breuer, Baseher
Julie Rebeka Breuer, her plea,
and a trial date could be.
Six students were thought to have bought false driver's licenses for about $50 each, KU police spokesman Jeanne Longaker said in Mav.
Breuer was charged May 15 with one count of aiding and abetting a dealing in false documents, a class E felony. If convicted, she could receive up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
In other court cases:
Mark L. Bennett Jr., a Topека attorney representing von Ende, said the request to shorten von Ende's term in a lawsuit against weeks ago by Judge Earl O'Connor.
A motion asking the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Kansas to modify the sentence of former KU executive secretary Richard von Ende was denied last month.
"It was our contention that Mr. von Ende had demonstrated good adjustment during incarceration, and he was worthy of consideration for a reduction in his sentence," Bennett said.
Bennett filed his motion Feb. 19.
Bentley is in office P.O. Box 146.
Von Ende was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty Sept. 27 to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and one count of distributing cocaine. He is serving time in the Federal Correction Institute in Fort Worth, Texas.
Bradley J. Smoot, a Lawrence attorney who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of one gram or less of cocaine as the
result of a Lawrence drug bust in January 1986, asked the Kansas Board for the Discipline of Attorneys yesterday not to punish him further for his drug conviction.
Wichita attorney Jack Foch, representing Smoot at a public hearing, told the three-member panel that Smoot had been punished enough.
Focht asked that no action be taken against Smoot. The board has the authority to recommend that Smoot be privately censured, publicly censured, suspended from the practice of law or disbarred.
Smoot worked as a state assistant attorney general for six years and was the president of the Douglas bicilians for seven months in 1986.
The man who pleaded guilty to shooting former KU student Amy Thompson last fall could be given four consecutive life terms when he is sentenced Monday in Jackson County, said Jackson County prosecutor John O'Connor.
He is now working in Kansas City for a real estate development company.
Richard L. Scott of Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty July 15 to two counts of armed criminal action, one count of assault and one count of robbery in the first degree.
Thompson, a 25-year-old graduate student at the time, was shot in the back of the neck last October as she left a Halloween party at 49th and Wyandotte streets in Kansas City, Mo.
The bulble ricocheated up though her neck and into her brain. And doctors had to remove part of her brain to relieve pressure. The injury permanently damaged Thompson's coordination and ability to move and think, doctors who performed the surgery said.
Thompson is now in a Texas reha billion center.
"Quitting is a snap!"
On the Record
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY*
A composite valued at $1,000 was stolen Aug. 14 from the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Lawrence police reported. Damage to a building wall during the theft was estimated at $500.
A radar detector valued at $250 was taken Aug. 16 or 17 from a KU student's car parked on the 400 block of Graystone Street, near Graystone Apartments, Lawrence police reported.
A men's 10-speed bicycle valued at $250 was stolen Aug. 18 from an apartment on the 200 block of Hanover Place, Lawrence police reported.
A 1977 Honda motorcycle valued at $65 was stolen from an apartment in the 1200 block of Louisiana Street on Aug. 15 or 16, Lawrence reported.
A Nikon camera and camera case valued at $290 was taken sometime between Aug. 13 and 16 from a KU instructor's residence in the 1400 block of Applegate Court, Lawrence police reported.
A KU student was the victim of an attempted aggravated armed robbery Aug. 16 in the 400 block of North Street. Lawrence police reported
Lawrence police said the student
was leaving a north Lawrence tavern when he was approached by three males who demanded money, Lawrence police reported. When the student raised his arms to defend himself, he was cut on his arm with a knife. police said.
The student was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
■ More than $500 in cash was reported stolen Aug. 14 or 15 from a KU student while she was staying at the Lawrence Holidome, Lawrence police said.
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