The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday. June 6.2001
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Partly cloudy with a high of 79 and 20 percent chance afternoon thunderstorms. Skies will clear tonight with a low 140.
MONDAY
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Cloudy and scattered showers with a high of 79. Showers continue in the evening with a low of 64.
TUESDAY
Decreasing clouds with a high of 80.
SUNDAY
Increasing clouds with a high of 85 and 10 percent chance afternoon thunderstorms. Sunday night will be cloudy with a low of 64.
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Square: Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Chicago
Paying for college is about to get less expensive for students and families saddled by education loans.
Loan costs to shrink
The Associated Press
Starting July 1, the interest rate on federally backed student loans will be reset to what's believed to be the lowest level since the student loan program began in the 1960s.
Sunny with a high of 81. Thursday night will be clear with a low of 58.
THURSDAY
Interest on student loans will drop to 5.99 percent,
down from the current 8.19 percent, the U.S. Education
Department said Monday. Students start paying off the loans six months after leaving school and typically have 10 years to do it.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly sunny with a high of 81. Friday night will be clear with a low of 60.
"This is the lowest rate in the history of the student loan program, lower than
FRIDAY
The rate for parents borrowing in their own names for a child's education will drop to 6.79 percent from 8.99 percent. Those loans are owed immediately, like credit card debt.
SATURDAY
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Sunny with a high of 81. Saturday night will be mostly clear with a low of 59.
The federal government estimates the new rate will save the student borrower with a standard 10-year repayment plan about $136 for every $1,000 they owe.
Federal student loans are given on a variable rate that's reset every July 1. The new rates reflect long-term interest rates the U.S. Treasury set after last week's auction of Treasury bills.
even the 7 percent in place when the student loan program began in 1965," said John E. Dean, lobbyist for the Consumer Bankers Association, whose members are the largest commercial banks in the student loan business.
"This is the lowest rate in the history
Students who borrow to earn a four-year degree will graduate owing $16,000 on average, said Mark Kantrowitz, an expert on student finance and publisher of a Web site on the topic, FinAid.com.
The new rates apply to loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 1998. A borrower could also benefit from the lower rates by consolidating loans taken before then.
The new lower rate "is a very significant drop," Kantrowitz said.
of the student loan program."
John E. Dean
Lobbyist for the Consumer Bankers Association
rate in the history
Close to 8,000 colleges, universities and training schools are eligible to participate in the federal loan program. This year alone, 5.3 million students and parents took out federal education loans averaging $3,838 each, education officials said.
He estimates someone owing $16,000 and able to consolidate their debt at the new rate could save more than $2,000 over the loan's lifetime.
■ On the Net:
U. S. Education Department information on student aid: http://www.ed.gov/fnaid.html
Crossword
1 Is acquainted with
6 Tap gently
9 Rock
14 Stellar blasts
15 Here in Le Havev
17 Claw
17 Coming forth
19 Irritated
20 Last of a command?
14 Lions' prides?
22 Iridescent gemstones
23 Doled (out)
24 Ginger __
25 Of cities
26 Time limits
23 Shows surprise, e.g.
35 Health resort
36 Ms. Gardner
37 New York river
39 Political refuges
42 Tanguay of vaudeville
43 Dyeing vessel
45 Dirty looks
46 Handed over
45 Precipitous
51 Mal de __
52 Rainwater conduit
54 Harvest haul
57 Fall bloomer
58 Slangy affirmative
61 Spartan serf
62 Privation
64 Licorice flavoring
65 Mess up
66 Pays heed to
67 Added shading
68 Existed
69 Ground grain
DOWN
1 Patella's place
2 Alaskan seapor
3 Ended
4 Child's card game
5 Components
6 Like diapers
7 Yields
8 Cravats
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Solutions
9 Leisurely walk
10 Taiwan's capital
11 Earthenware crock
12 Playwright Coward
13 Terminates
18 Down the dumplings
23 Stunning substance
24 West and Duritz
25 Exhorted
26 Superman in movies
27 Hackneyed
29 Simian
30 Nostrils
31 Six-time U.S. Open winner
32 Pert
34 Lop off
38 Jug handle
40 Being intrinsic to
41 Cogwheel
43 Mosaic piece
47 Make compulsor
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