Thursday, April 17, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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Deficit may slash Pell Grants
By Leslie Hirschbach
With the federal Fell Grant program already $480 million in debt and discharge of federal money expected for fall, some KU students may lose their jobs.
But Diane Del Buono, assistant director of student financial aid, said yesterday that the office would face that problem when it arrived and hoped that Congress could come up with a way to limit reductions.
About $4 million of federal money is distributed to KU Pell Grant recipients each year.
Del Buono said the neediest students still would receive grants. "Pell Grants are sliding-scale awards," she said.
The sliding scale, or "linear-reduction" formula in Pell Grant law, would continue giving grants to the neediest students and reduce grants to the least needy if Congress did not appropriate enough money to provide the full grants for which students匀赁.
Del Buono said the program operated on a point scale. The neediest students got the least amount of points. A student's point total is determined by federal Pell Grant employees.
Previously, she said, students with up to 1,000 points maintained their awards. Now, students with only up to 1,200 points receive awards.
According to the Department of Education, about $369 million more is
needed then the $3.59 billion appropriated for fiscal 1986 to keep the maximum Pell Grant at $2,100 for each student this fall.
In addition, the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction law cut an additional $154 million from the program.
An estimated 290,000 students across the country may lose their grants, and about 500,000 more may have their awards reduced.
Del Buono said she didn't know yet how many KU students the reductions would affect.
"I don't think it will put students out of school," she said. "It will make it more difficult for many students, though."
Prof says housing needs changing
By Grant W. Butler
With the number of single parent and homeless families rising, the United States needs to look for house-raising programs at mid-level, 2%-bath houses of suburbia
One alternative is communal living, said Jacqueline Leavitt, associate professor of the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California at Los Angeles.
About 50 people attended Leavitt's speech last night titled "Designing for the New American Family" in Lindley Hall.
Part of the whole issue I've been
interested in is the shaping of the family and how it affects the environment," Leavitt said.
The changing size and income of U.S families is creating a need for changes in standard ideas about housing, she said. There is a need for the "New American House," which would incorporate private living areas with communal recreational and cooking areas.
The New American House would decrease costs for families and promote a greater sense of community, she said.
"We're looking for something in this crazy environment, where we don't even know our neighbors, and
the New American House answers some of the questions." Leavitt said.
The communal living units which Leavitt has designed would cost about $85,000.
While the cost would make these houses inaccessible for current low-income families, she said, the price could be brought down in time. But this could only happen with government subsidies, unlikely under current budget cutting.
"In low-income housing you only get the price down through subsidies, and with the current administration, the subsidies would have to come from cuts in an unlikely source — the military," Leavitt said.
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