2A Wednesday. June 5.1996 CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Students receive financial aid early By Kathleen McGee Special to the Kansan Getting money to live on will be easier this summer for students who depend on government funds to get them through the semester. Julie Cooper, associate director of student financial aid, said the office applied for relief from federal regulations that require freshmen to wait 30 days to receive financial aid and that require schools to disburse funds in two payments during the summer semester. "It's new and it's simple," Cooper said. "Students will receive one lump sum, one time, instead of having to wait until the beginning of July to receive the second half of their summer funding." Students whose loans cover more than tuition and fees received their entire refund check during fee payment completion yesterday as part of an experimental procedure approved by the U.S. Department of Education. Universities across the nation wrote out proposals for regulatory relief for their students. "We determined six items that we considered were regulatory burdens for our students and wrote proposals for relief from those burdens," Cooper said. The government then decided which proposals would be accepted. In return, the staff would collect data on loan-default rates and other statistics requested by the department. "It's an experimental program," Cooper explained. "We are part of a consortium that received approval for these experimental-site regulatory relief issues." She said that approximately 25 percent of the students enrolled in summer classes receive federal financial aid. Martina Dodson, Emporia junior, is one of them. Dodson, who is enrolled in six hours, said she was glad she could buy her textbooks before July. She said she would buy books and class materials with her refund. But Shawn Mick, Lawrence senior, was not sure that offering single disbursements was a good idea. "If you can budget it right, it's no problem," he said. "If you're going to blow it all on stuff you don't need, maybe two disbursements would be better." Rachel Rademacher, associate director of student financial aid, said that in the past, incoming freshmen had been required to wait 30 days after the first day of classes to receive their funding, which was in one lump sum. The federal government assumed that most freshmen who were going to withdraw from college would do so during the first month. The government did not want those students to find themselves in debt for only a month of school. But Rademacher checked the University's figures for student withdrawal prior to the disbursement date. "For the summer of 1995, only nine out of the 1,229 students withdrew before the second payment," she said. Other students received only half the money allotted to them during the first fee payment completion. That was often just enough to cover the students' tuition, fees and books, leaving nothing for basic living expenses. "Historically, summer disbursements have been double disbursements. And that caused a lot of financial problems for students." Rademacher said. Lenita Richardson, Kansas City, Kan., senior, was delighted to learn that she would receive her entire refund in one payment. Richardson will be studying abroad in Paris this summer. "I couldn't go if I only had half of it. It's nice to have the extra financial security," she said. Fire reignites on roof of Lewis Kansan staff report KU facilities operations employees received some unexpected help Monday when a fire reignited on the roof of Lewis Hall. A 20-by-20 wooden cooler being removed caught fire for the second time that day, prompting the Lawrence fire department to extinguish the fire. Workers were removing the cooler with cutting torches when it caught fire the first time. The employees put the fire out, but it reigned later in the day. The Lawrence fire department arrived about 1 p.m. and took about 15 minutes to put out the fire. Since the cooler was already being removed, no monetary damage was caused to the hall. Sophomore Takehiro Ishino was eating lunch in the cafeteria when the fire alarms surprised him. He said he thought it was a false alarm. About 75 students and employees evacuated the building. No one was injured, but at least one student's meal was interrupted. When I went outside I saw the fire," Ishino said. "I thought, 'Wow, this is real.' This is probably the first real fire alarm I've ever been in." Fire Chief Jim McSwain said there wasn't much danger of the fire getting out of control, but firefighters were glad it didn't spread across the roof. CORRECTION An editorial on page 4A of the May 6 *Kansan* incorrectly reported that the University of Kansas spent $55,000 on campus landscaping last fiscal year. 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