University Daily Kansan, November 4, 1982
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Aid forms expected in January
The University of Kansas' office of student financial aid is still waiting for financial aid forms for the 1983-84 year. The office, a director of the office, said yesterday.
Rogers says the forms were generally available mid-semmeter, but that a legal dispute between the Department of Education and a national student group had caused the two-month delay in writing and distribution of the forms.
He said an official from the American College Testing Program office, which prints and distributes the forms to the schools, told him that KU's financial aid office could expect delivery of the forms the first week of January.
"THEY'RE BEHIND as it is," Rogers said. "So far, I don't think it will hurt us."
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the National Coalition of College and University Students.
The group has challenged the legality of fees charged to federal aid applicants last year for applications printed and processed by private companies, and is seeking to stop the Testing Program and the College School Service under a government contract.
MORE THAN three-quarters of students applying for aid use the forms supplied by the private companies, according to information provided by the Federal government and ACT and CSS process most of the applications. The federal government prints a similar application for which there is no processing fee.
The organization contends that students applying for federal aid only should not be charged a processing fee for using the ACT and CSS forms.
Students using those forms to apply for federal aid last year were charged $6 or more because the Department of Education would not subsidize a fee waiver.
ROGERS SAID he was told that if the ruling was in favor of the student coalition, ACT would seek an injunction could print and distribute their forms.
Caffeine can hurt finals, doctor says
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
Officials at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators office in Washington, D.C., expect a decision on printing the forms from Education Secretary Terrel Bell toorrow, with or without a court ruling.
Students who drink coffee and colas to stay up all night during finals may be hurting their grades instead of helping them, a local physician said recently.
Caffeine can be taken in liquid form, as a coffee, or in pills, such as Neo-Bo.
Martin Wollman, a physician and director of Watkins Memorial Hospital, said a student could hurt his health and be injured by using caffeine to stay up all night.
"The body needs rest, the mind needs rest," he said.
HE SAID THE combination of lack of rest and overuse of caffeine could be a person's reasoning, and therefore prevent him from doing well on a test.
Caffeine pills tend to be more dangerous than coffee or cola, he said, because students do not need to drink a cup of liquid to feel the effects of the caffeine.
Caffeine can cause a person to be more sensitive to such outside stimuli as noises. When a student takes a test, that extra sensitivity could distract him and break his concentration, Wolman said.
A strong cup of coffee or tea contains 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine, and a caffeine pill contains about 100 milligrams.
"Caffeine can be considered as a drug that has effects on body functions. In small doses, it is an accepted mild dose. If the doses, it can be toxic," he said.
NO ABSOLUTE GUIDE exists for determining how much caffeine is dangerous, because only one-tenth the
amount of caffeine that would affect another might be needed for another, he said.
Wolman said the only way to determine how much caffeine was too much was to look out for its possible side effects on each person.
Some people merely feel empty and hollow after taking a large amount of caffeine, he said, but others feel shaky, nervous and unable to relax. He said larger doses would result in marked shakiness, sweating, rapid breathing and pulse, dilated pupils and an upset stomach.
Students have come to Watkins complaining of exhaustion, low resistance to colds and upset stomachs making too much coffee or cola, he said.
HE SAID THE side effects would vanish when caffeine use was stopped.
The convicts, among them six murders and 22 drug traffickers, slipped into their cells Tuesday in the penitentiary at Mazatlan, Sinaloa.
MAZATLAN, Mexico—A group of 32 convicts killed one man, wounded two other people and later fled into Mexico's rugged Pacific mountains in a well organized escaped bid, a Red Cross spokesman said yesterday.
a Pacific resort about 540 miles south of the U.S. border.
Genaro Aztorga, the prison warden,
told authorities 10 of the convicts
overcome three prison guards and
forced them to open cell doors, while
another prisoner distracted Aztorga
in the break.
The 32 convicts飞了 in two waiting pickup trucks, which indicated the prison break was well-planned and had outside help.
unidentified woman in a shootout with police as the fugitives were making their getaway, a Mazatlan Red Cross official said.
The convicts killed a bystander, Salome Mendez, and wounded an
By United Press International
Thirtv-two escape Mexican prison
On the outskirts of Mazatlan, they also shot an unidentified man when they tried to steal his car.
A SPOKESMAN at the Sinaia District Attorney's office said police helicopters were combing the foothills in Sinaia and the surrounding mountains and of Noviht, Durango and Chihuahua in the mountains above the resort.
Grad programs get low ratings
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
GEORGE WOODYARD, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service and dean of the graduate school, said he did not
Some graduate programs at the University of Kansas received below average ratings in a recent nationwide program at 228 universities.
The KU office of graduate studies has received ratings of programs in mathematics and physical sciences and humanities, two reports in a series of graduate programs in 51 fields. The remaining reports are expected this month.
The assessment contains a survey which rates how faculty respondents perceive the quality of the program's faculty, the effectiveness of the program in educating research scholars and students, its improvement in the last five years, the family involvement survey respondents with the work of the program's faculty.
want to comment on the ratings until all reviews were received.
He said it was not fair to compare KU with East and West coast schools.
"Harrard will be Harvard and Berkeley will be Berkley," he said. "It's important to look at how well KU fared with schools around here."
the mathematics and computer science ratings were in the mid-40s, except for a score of 36 in computer science and 39 in mathematics for the program's improvement in the last five years.
Among the ratings in the mathematics and physical science evaluation, the physics program was given scores of 45 or greater for one of one to 100, with 50 being average.
The chemistry department rated slightly higher, with a score of 50 in faculty quality and 53 in the program's effectiveness in educating researchers.
John Davidson, chairman of the physics and astronomy department, said he did not think the survey was a good indication of the physics graduate program because of factors that could not be included in the survey.
Davidson said the difference in size and methods of funding in the nation's physics programs made comparison among them unfair.
The report also rated KU humanities programs in the mid-40s, except for the department of Spanish and Portuguese, which received scores in the 60s.
THE HUMANITIES assessment included English language and literature, music, philosophy, linguistics, German, French, Spanish and French programs.
Robert Bearse, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service and professor of physics and astronomy, said there was a need for further information in the assessment, but that he couldn't make too much of this report."
The study is sponsored by the Conference Board of the Associative Research Council, which includes the American Council of Learned Societies; the National Research Council; the National Research Council and the Social Science Research Council.
He said the ratings should not be used to compare programs.
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