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Tuesday, April 3.1979
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
TODAY: A PRO-PEACE RALLY will be in front of Strong Hall at noon. CLARENCE KELLEY, former FBI director, will speak at 12:30 in 103 New Green Hall, sponsored by the Student Bar Association. THE COLLEGE ASSEMBLY will meet at 4 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
TONIGHT: VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE is available from 6 to 8 in the legal aid office at New Green Hall, sponsored by the law student division of the American Bar Association. A FRENCH AND ITALIAN PROGRAM and dinner will be at 6:30 in the Forum Room. A MUSIC PROGRAM and dinner will be at 7:30 in the Forum Room. A PALESTINIAN JOURNALIST, Hassan Kashf, will speak in the Jayhawk Room of the Union at 7, sponsored by the Organization of Arab Students. The COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will meet at 7 in the Oread Room of the Union. The ECOLOGY CLUB will meet at 7:30 in the Council Room of the Union with guest speaker BRIAN DELLENBERG, the Director of the Reception Hall. A LAMBRA SEMINAR will meet at 9:31 in the International Room of the Union.
TOMORROW: The KU GUNG FU CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 173 Robinson. A TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION introduction lecture sponsored by KU's Students International Meditation Society will be at 8 p.m. in Parlor A of the LEON FLEISHER International Meditation Society. KU GUNG FU CLUB will speak on "Physical Fitness and Living" at 11:46 a.m. at the EMC Center, 1204 Oread. KU KAILING CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlors B and C of the Union. KU GO CLUB will meet in 2C of the Union at 7 John David, trumpeter, will give a STUDENT RECITAL at 8 in Swarthwold Rehearsal Hall. THOMAS SIEGER from 8 in the Forum Room, will give a lecture presented by the Center for Humanistic Studies at 8 in the Forum Room.
Voters go to polls today
The polls opened at 7 this morning for Lawrence votes to decide who will fill three seats on the city commission and three seats on the board in Unified School District No.497.
Polls will remain open until 7 tonight.
Five candidates are vying for three seats in both races.
City commission candidates are Donald Binns, 1402 E. Glenn Drive; Florence "Danny" Drury, 1969 Marvone Rd.; Marc Francisco, 1404 Ohio St.; Jack Landreth, 1709 St. Andrews Dr.; and Robert Schumm, 1920 St. Andrews Drive.
School board candidates are Julehack, 2216 Massachusetts St.; Martha Mastion, 709 Mississippi St.; Charles Oldfather, Route 5; Ronald Schmidt, 2414 Lazybrow Lane; and Mary Louise Wright, 1734 Illinois St.
The city and county did not hold a primary earlier because of the low number of candidates. A primary would have been completed for each six candidates had filed for each race.
Anyone who registered to vote in an earlier election and has not moved is免责。
5,000 students file for aid
By LESLIE GUILD
Staff Reporter
About 5,000 KU students filed Family Financial Statements and have applied for financial aid for next year, Jerry Rogers, director of Financial Aid, said yesterday.
Although the office of Financial Aid has received notification of only 4,700 processed applications, Rogers said he helped a number of who applied would be about 5,000.
"Some students who did apply have not yet been totaled in the number of processed applications that have been reported to our office." Rogers said.
Rogers speculated the delay was because some students' applications were not received at the processing center in Iowa City, Iowa, until after Feb. 27, when the numbers of KU students who had filed were totaled.
Rogers said students who filed applications were being sent their processed information to the KU financial aid office also received a comprehensive list of the need analysis of KU students who filed financial students' budget of aid issued by KU to award.
ROGERS SAID even though the office had received the comprehensive listings, financial awards to KU students would not be made until June.
"We have to get information from high school seniors and from transfer students before making awards," he said. "And for students returning to KU we have to get spring grades. So it's likely awards won't be posted in the spring semester grades are not posted."
Rogers said the length of time between receiving the financial statements and
"This year, through the office of admissions and records, we're able to list data about applicants on a word processor. Students in our program students available much more conveniently."
making awards was improving because of "automated help."
ROGERS AIS the magnetic tape used in the word processor could condense student data, which could be "drawn out" more easily by looking at each individual's file.
Rogers said a preliminary need analysis also was made by KU.
"There's a fantastic number of hours in background work that goes into making the awards," he said. "And part of that is determining each student's need, which is done by looking at his file and making a preliminary need analysis.
"We also have to code students by their high school, county and major because some awards have requirements such as passing a math exam or getting students from particular areas of the state."
Rogers said the student financial aid report was used by some students to find
Rogers said a student could file a corrected form for $3.
errors they might have made when originally completing it.
"This shows them the figures that were used to calculate their original financial need statement," he said. "By this a student can double check to see if any information supplied by him was misunderstood or misread."
Standard for aid strict
"Most mistakes made concern tax information that was reported incorrectly," Rogers said.
"We actually established a standard last fall," he said. "And in order to keep our funding we must be able by it in awarding."
Although obtaining a financial award might seem like a big bussel, keeping it
KU recently has formulated a statement of "reasonable progress," to be used to determine re-awarding of federal financial aid. KU's director of financial aid, said yesterday.
The programs include National Direct Student Loans, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, College Work-Study, Health Professions Student Loans, Law Enforcement Educational Loans, Basic Education Loans, and the Guranteed Student Loan Programs.
Rogers said federal government regulation made a progress standard
ROGERS SAID the standard included both completing a minimum number of credits with a minimum grade point score and completing a maximum number of semesters a student had completed.
For example, Rogers said, a student who wanted to keep a financial award for a semester would have to have his first semester of college, would have to have 24 credit hours with a grade point average.
The minimum grade point average for award renewal was raised last fall one grade point from 1.0 to 2.0 over ten semesters.
"It's not a hard standard to achieve," he said. "So very few students at KU aren't able to abide by it. And therefore, very few are considered on appeal."
Rogers said those students who have lost their awards could appeal in writing.
"WE HAVE A committee of three persons from this office who do check the appeals," he said. "And usually the only exceptions are for students who have qualified extremely extinguishing circumstances."
Rogers said although not many students lost awards because they could not obtain the standard, problems with students were a major challenge in setting school for a semester had occurred.
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"We're working on just how to handle the situation now," Rogers said. "It doesn't seem fair that one student who just sits the semester out can come back and get an award, when a student who might be falling behind gets an award, a semester, because he had lost his award and not completed the standard, might not get an award."
Police Beat
BURGLARY
Lawrence police said $1,600 in cash was stolen from a locked safe at Bucky's D
2120 W. Ninth St., early Sunday.
The police said employees told them that the money had been placed in a lock about midnight Saturday.
The theft was discovered Sunday morning when the assistant manager arrri-
work, the police said. The safe was locked but the money was gone, accordi-
nant that a security guard had been present.
The police said several employees knew the combination to the safe. AUTOTHEFT
Lawrence police said a 1977 Chrysler, valued at $8,300, was stolen Saturday parking lot at the Como Bar, 520 N. Third St.
The police said the car was taken between 2 and 3 p.m. Saturday.
The ignition system was apparently tampered with while the car was left unlock parking lot.
Harris statement is valid
James Paddock, County District Court judge, ruled yesterday that an alleged murder confession given to law enforcement, Harris, 26, Denver will not be suppressed.
Harris is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the November 1977 slaying of Sam Norwood, former manager of W. Woolorth Co. store, 911 Massachusetts.
Harris' defense attorney, Dennis Prater, had filed a motion alleging that Harris was coerced into giving a confession to three law students. The state is being transported to Kansas from Denver.
Paddock ruded that the confess valid because no coercive act taken in the car, because Hari was driving, because Harris knownly wawed to counsel while being questioned. *Harris' trial is scheduled to begi*
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