University Daily Kansan, October 1, 1982
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Override of veto may give grant recipients more
A Congressional override of President Reagan's veto of a federal appropriation bill may put a little more money into the pockets of Pell Grant recipients. A new report by Rogers, director of KU's office of student financial aid, said yesterday.
Reagan's veto of the $1.2 billion appropriation bill would have cut funding for elderly and student loan programs.
Now, a student who is eligible for the maximum amount of aid money $1.714 - for the 1982-1983 academy class, would receive $500 for a total of $1,800. Bankers said.
He said many student awards might need to be revised after his office received an adjusted payment schedule from the Department of Education, but he didn't know when the schedule would arrive.
But increasing the awards may cause two problems, Rogers said.
"The students don't need to do anything." Rogers said. "They will be contacted by our office if they are eligible for any additional money."
One problem is that some students might be awarded too much money, and the other is that of making retroactive payments if the payment schedule does not arrive this fall, he said.
Academic awards usually are for the year and money is split between the two.
Rogers said he did not know how his office would handle the revised award if a student did not meet the require- ment of a reasonable academic progress this fall.
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Jayhawk sign monitors KU United Fund goal
The amount of $50,000, the goal for the KU's United Fund Drive, is written above the head of a large yellow Jawhay painted on a sign at the corner of 12th Street and Oread Park. The student serves and serves as a gauge as money comes into KU's drive, the director of the drive said yesterday.
"We've been using those birds on campus since last year," Jo Bryant, director of the Lawrence United Fund Drive, said.
This year's United Fund drive began Tuesday and will probably end Nov. 12, she said.
The 1982 goal for Lawrence is $384,709, $46,412 more than last year's goal.
ED CUNNINGHAM, co-chairman of the business industrial division of the drive, said it would probably be the first major investment in the general state of the economy.
Cunningham said 15 percent of the goal, $57,000, had already been contributed.
"Everybody is surprisingly optimistic though," he said.
Most businesses in Lawrence will
probably contribute to the drive. Cunningham said.
THERE ARE nine separate divisions of the drive in the Lawrence area: the combined federal division, the University of Kansas division, the business industrial division, the residential division, the public administration division, the county government division, the Lawrence Memorial Hospital division and the professional division.
KU$'s $50,000 goal is the second largest individual goal in the fund drive. The business industrial divi-
duct is $38,000, the highest of the group.
Bryant said there had been a drive at KU for 10 years. KU fell short of his $15,380 goal last year when the university contributed $48,022, she
Among the agencies that receive United Fund donations are the Boys Club of Lawrence, Boy Squats of America, Douglas County Association for Retarded Children, Doug L. Campbell Services Inc., Girl Scouts, Penn House, Douglas County Red Cross and Salvation Army.
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Union cool toward rising fuel costs
By MATT BARTEL Staff Reporter
The Kansas Union could be in for a long, cold winter financially because of a 28 percent hike in the price of natural gas, Union officials said yesterday.
City Service Gas Co. will raise its prices to distributors on Oct. 22, Langdon Toland, manager of public land and advertising for the company.
Toland said the increase was necessary because the field cost of producing
"We're not profiting one dime from this," he said. "We're paying more, so we need to charge more."
THE UNION uses steam to heat and cool its building. It comes from a natural gas-fired boiler of the department of facilities operations. The increase in natural gas rates could lead to a corresponding rise in the price of
that steam, Pat Beard, Union maintenance engineer, said.
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, said those costs would have to be absorbed by some other area of of Union operations.
"We always allow for a certain amount of increase in the price of utilities," Ferguson said. But that allowance would not be enough to account for an increase of that size, he said.
An assessment of the financial status of the total Union operation would be necessary to determine whether those costs could be absorbed, Ferguson said.
"Sometimes we can pick up the slack, sometimes we can't," he said. If the Union cannot pick up the slack, it will have to cut costs.
FERGUSON SAID cuts might come in several areas, including advertising of Union events or labor time.
"Cutbacks in the hours of operation or adjustments in prices would be as a
However, Beard said, the Union is not standing still for this.
"We're in the process of replacing all the windows on the south side with thermal-paned glass," he said. The process is the first part of a multiphased program to improve the heating and cooling efficiency of the building.
Beard said the Union also was considering installing a computer to more precisely regulate the temperature and time of operation of its air-flow units, which combine varying amounts of inside and outside air and raise or lower its temperature accordingly.
The Union also will install an electric air conditioning unit by next summer to replace its steam-powered unit, which is designed to enhance the gas-heated steam, he said.
Ferguson said the biggest savings were realized by simply turning off the heat and lights on a day-to-day basis as soon as they were no longer needed.
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