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Money cut results in students'
scrimping, rejection of UNL
By Mark Hoffman
A $750,000 cut in federal funds for UNL's
1973-74 financial aids program caused
various student reactions.
Some students saw the cutback as a
t statistic to be forgotten or filed in the back"
, of their minds. ' .
But students such as Pamela Barta, Jolene
Drawbridge and Mary (not her rea! name)
knew the cutback was real when they found
they would receive no financial aid this year
from UNL.
These students were caught in the
"middle-class crunch." According to
financial statements colleges ask parents to
fill out, the students' parents were able to
support them in college.
According to the students, this was not
the case. Either their parents could not
afford to put them through college, or the
students did not want to burden their
parents with having to pay their college
expenses, the students said.
Pamela Barta, 18, from Omaha, might
have been a freshman at UNL this year. She
couldn't get financial aid at UNL, however,
so she applied to Doane College at Crete
where she received aid.
Barta, who wants to go to law school,
said Creighton University was her first
choice and UNL her second, but that
selection depended on "the schools that
would give me financial aid."
She sent letters to Creighton, UNL and
Doane asking for financial aid. Creighton
and Doane officials wrote weekly, explaining
what helo they could ehre and talked with
her about her financial situation.
UNL officials wrote one letter, saying
they could not give her financial aid, she
said. She said, "the next time they (UNL)
wrote, the letter was a (preregistration) bill."
Site explained her situation to Doane
College financial aids advisers. Based on her
parents' financial statement, the college
officials said she didn't need financial aid.
Barta said her father, a meatcutter for an
Omaha packing plant, did not have the
money to send her through school.
Doane College officials listened and
reversed their esrlier decision not to give her
money by providing her with s grant, t
scholarship, work-study program and a loan.
Barta said UNL "didn't consider my
situation." Other schools would write back
to talk to her about it, she said, but UNL
didn't.
"It really turned me against the school
(UNL) . . . very impersonal, very told."
Barta was one of about 1,900 students
who applied for financial aid at UNL, but
did not receive it.
The $750,000 cutback and the large
.ilaiiy nebraskan
number of applicants let the UNL Financial t
Aids Office help only those with a high
financial need, said Jack Ritchie, UNL
director of financial aids and scholarships.
About 4,500 to 5,000 students applied
for aid for 1973-74. This was about 500
mora than for 1872-73, Ritchio said, yet
UNL had $750,000 less to work with this
year as comparer to last
He added that 8 new grant program for
freshman, the Basic Economic Opportunity
Grant, helped relieve that cutback by adding
$72,000 to their budget. About $2.7 million
in grants, scholarships, work-study programs
and loans to students with the highest need
thif year, Ritchie said.
Need is determined by the parents' ability
to pay. as determined by a parents'
confidential statement (PCS). Parents of
students applying for financial aid are asked
to f iil out the statement.
The PCS forms are sent to the College
Scholarship Service (CSS), a national college
service which determines how much of
college expenses parents can pay. This Is
added to the amount of savings a student
has, and the total is subtracted from the cost
of attending the college to which he is
applying.
The remainder is the student's need, but
"the federal government is concerned with
parents' ability to pay, and not whether they
do," Ritchie said.
In some cases parents have their money
tied up in farm machinery. Or students will
not ask their parents to pay college costs.
Either way CSS already has subtracted that
abtirty to pay from tne stuaents need.
Mary, a UNL sophomore, said her father ,
would give her about $100 a year, but she
didn't want to take it from him.
Her freshman year, she received aid from
s 1-year regent's scholarship and a
work-study program. Last summer she
learned from the UNL Financial Aids Office
that she had lost both.
"I was so shook," Mary said when she
found out she would not be getting aid.
Consequently, she is taking fewer claw
hours to cut down on tha tuition bill,
watches what she spends and is working at a
residence hall caftteria, the said
She said she thinks she has enough money
for this year and maybe her junior year, but
after that, she's not sure.
if she doesn't have enough, she said, "I'll
quit. I won't go into hock."
Jolene Drawbridge of Omaha might have
been a UNL student, but she couldn't get
financial aid. She attends North Park College
in Chicago.
Her mother said North Park College had
given her financial aid.
friday, february 8, 1974
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