Thursday, March 8. 1979
University Daily Kansan
Financial aid target of complaint
A KU student filed a complaint yesterday with the Consumer Affair Association and Association of Banking Unions.
The student, Dorothea Scott, Lawrence special student, said she sought the help of financial advisers with the financial aid officials for six months about repayment of a grant that she received.
Scott said she had been asked in September by the financial aid office to repay the $400 grant she received in August because she was maligible.
Scott said she was granted $800 and given $400 for the fall semester when she enrolled. However, she said, financial aid officials told her a month later that she should not have received the supplementary education funds. Instead, because she was not an undergraduate student.
"THEY SAID no students classified as special students who already had degrees in the subject."
Scott said she was classified as a special student because she had to complete some required classes before she could enter graduate school.
"What really bothers me about this is that students have no protection from the mistakes made by the financial aid office in awarding," she said.
"If they make a mistake and award money when they shouldn't, I say that's not right."
Jerry Rogers, director of the office of financial aid, said that he could not talk about the specifics of Scott's grant, but that he was aware of the error.
"By this we can tell what awards should be made," Rogers said. "And if this had been done in Scott's case, we never would have made the award."
ROGERS SAID when students applied for supplementary grants they must list their classifications. He said that special students must complete their classes in bringing their status and educational background.
"It happens," he said. "We check the applications for this type of mistake, but we don't."
But Scott said she was told only to list her classification and that her educational history and special student statement could be compiled into records and records to the office of financial aid.
"It's obvious to me now that that was never done," she said. "And now I have to
Scott said she had been told by the financial aid office that she could take out a short term loan to repay the grant. But she said she didn't think she should have to repay the
grant and she did not want to borrow to do so.
Scott said she was able to stay in school this semester because she was receiving a National Direct Student Loan and a loan from the Higher Education Loan Program. However, she said, even with that money she could not afford to pay back the grant.
Rogers said the money had to be repaid for KU to remain in good standing with federal loan programs.
Senate committees choose StudEx reps
Seven standing committees and one subcommittee of the Student Senate elected chairmen and representatives to the Student Senate executive committee last night.
Chairmen who are senators automatically will serve as voting members of StuDex.
StudEx is responsible for setting the agendas of Senate meetings and acting on Senate business when the full Senate cannot be callled. Only senators can have a vote in StudEx.
The committees that elected non-senators as chairmen also elected members who are senators to serve as voting members of StudEx.
Margaret Berlin, student body president,
and George Gormz, student body vice president,
reviewed committee responsibilities
for the Senate during 21 seminar on Senate budget procedure.
Academic Affairs: Tim Trump, Salina junior and business senator, will serve as
"We won't give up. It will have to be reintroduced at the next Legislature," Harriet Hughes, president of the O-kee-Sha trail Conservation Committee said.
Communications: Bill Venable, Overland Park sophomore, will serve as chairman. Rick Kastner, Wamego sophomore and the president, will serve as a StudiEx representative.
Minority Affairs: Leon Brady, Kansas City, Kan. senator and Engineering Senator. Wash.
Student Services; Melanie Andersen, Salina junior and business senator, and Kent Mecklenburg, Fairborn, Ohio, junior maker's senator, will serve as co-chairman.
Chairman and StudEx representatives for the committees are :
Sports: Jeff Chanay, Tepeka junior and Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, will
THE NEW committee chairmen and representatives to StudEx will meet at 6 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
Although the O-keet-Sha committee was optimistic about establishing the bike trail this year through legislation, other alternatives exist. Huhes said.
ACCORDING TO Dee Boeck, vice president of the O-kee-Sha committee, federal laws may help the committee obtain the land for the bike trail.
Laurie Winterschmidt, Bailleyville senior,
has been appointed Studs' chairman by
the Board.
One alternative is to invoke the Railroad Revitalization Act of 1976 to obtain land for public use.
Student Rights: Rex Gardner, Lawrence junior and Liberal Arts and Sciences
Finance and Auditing  Matt Davis,
Overland Park sophomore and Nunetaker
student of Engineering.
sophomore and Nunemaker 1 senator, will serve as a StedEx representative.
Supporters of the bicycle trail, which would be built on the 11-mile long, 100-foot wide abandoned Union Pacific railroad, could notild not lift the legislative maybe definite them.
Chances for a bicycle trail trail between Lawrence and Tonganoxie were delayed for at least one year last night when the Kansas Senate did not act on a bill that would have enabled the state to build recreational trails on abandoned railroad tracks.
And opponents of the bicycle trail will be willing to go to court, according to Alice Shirk, who owns property along the proposed bicycle route.
Culture'. Bill Scott, Lawrence junior, and Bill Scanlan, Lawrence junior, will serve as a co-chair of the program.
The problem is that there are conflicting state and federal laws over the use of the land.
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"I think the state is going to force us into it. I don't want to see any more land under government control." Shirk said.
The bill, sponsored by Sena. Arnold
Brown, passed last month, proposed this
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last-minute rush to vote on all legislation
that been initiated in the Senate this
opposition and be decided in court, Boeck said.
But a lawal rule indicates otherwise. M. C. Slough, a former dean of KU's School of Law who has studied the matter of the law on Lisa支架 committee, said the Kirsch Revitalization Act of 1978 and an amendment to the law require merce Acts required that abandoned railroad land be kept in the public domain.
But that strategy probably will face
Kansas law states that, once a railroad abandons its tracks, the right of way reverbs to the adjacent landowner, accomodating Potts, Leavenworth county assessor.
Although a provision of the railroad act states that federal law should take precedence over state laws, the issue will probably go to court, he said.
By LYNN BYCZYNSKI Staff Reporter
Bicycle trail supporters vow to keep issue alive
Despite the lack of Legislative action on the bill to permit a bicycle trail, Shark said she did not think the issue had been decided.
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But a federal law indicates otherwise.
"We're only safe until the Legislature is in session again," she said.
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