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This man and others across the state last week
submitted nearly 78,000 signatures to Secretary of
State Allen Beermann. If 46,696 are verified a
constitutional amendment to limit the increase in
local government spending to five percent will be
placed on the ballot in November.
Plans for a student credit union, a fund drive and a
university carpool should be completed by the end of
the summer, according to ASUN President Ken
Marienau.
Marierau said he is "90 percent sure" that the
projects will be implemented in the fall.
Students would be able to deposit money and earn a
higher rate of interest than at a bank probably around
five and one half percent. Loans would be made to
students from deposits at less than 12 percent interest,
Marienau said.
He said student organizations would be encouraged
to deposit their money, which would earn interest as
well as benefit students.
All deposits would be insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation.
Marienau said the office would be ASUN organized
and probably staffed by volunteers.
Another project, the student fund drive, is to
encourage students to support the university and to
make improvements students want, Marienau ex
plained. The money raised will be deposited and the interest
accumulated will be used for "purely descretionary
type projects" such as funding a student research
project.
ASUN hopes to get fraternity and sorority pledge
classes to do projects for the fund drive. Attempts will
also be made to get outside business pledges to match
student donations.
A committee to designate use of the money would be
separate from ASUN, Marienau said, to make sure
decisions have no political basis. He said that ihe board
probably would solicit proposals from students for
using the funds.
The carpool proposal would be a "way to serve off
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By Amy Lenzen
College students in Nebraska who attend private
schools would be eligible for more financial aid than
their counterparts in state colleges or universities
under a revised formula for distributing financial aid
money to needy students.
The Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Post
secondary Education Friday approved a new procedure
for allocating State Student Incentive Grants (SSIG)
$340,000 in federal and matching state funds.
The new procedure must be approved by the attorney
general and the governor before taking effect.
The formula was revised because the Legislature
passed a bill in April making students attending private
schools eligible for the funds for the first time.
The bill was passed although Attorney General Paul
Douglas said he believes it violates the constitution
which prohibits giving public money to private schools.
Jack Ritchie, director of scholarships and financial
aids, said that a student attending a private school who
receives the same amount of money from his parents as
a student attending a state supported school, such as
UN-L, would get more financial aid because the cost of
attending the private school is higher.
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The formula for determining need will be the same
formula used to distribute BEOG (Basic Educational
Opportunity Grant) funds.
Under the new formula, one student could receive a
maximum of $1500. If there are more applicants than
funds each grant would be reduced proportionately.
Ritchie said that last year SSIG funds to Nebraska
$490,000 were distributed to all schools, public and
private, in the state. This money was matched by each
institution.
This year the Legislature designated $170,000 from
state general funds to match $170,000 of the federal
funds. A remaining $250,000 of federal funds will be
distributed to all schools as before, Ritchie said.
UN-L students will need to make a special application
to receive part of the matching state and federal funds,
Ritchie said. The application deadline is in September
and application forms should be available by the end of
July, he said.
UN-L's portion of the $250,000 will be distributed to
other students who apply for financial aid.
Whether the amount of money UN-L students receive
is reduced as a result of the new formula will be
determined by the number of applicants for the
program, Ritchie said.
Free drop and add
deadline July 26
The last day of free drop and add for fall registration
is July 26. There will be a $5 fee for processing
dropadd forms after that date.
Drop adds are processed in Ferguson Room 21. 1 to
4 p.m.. Monday through Friday. It will be closed July
17. however.
Each student should bring a copy of his or her class
assignment report, a completed dropadd form (forms
can be picked up at Administration Building 208). the
call number for each course to be added or dropped,
call numbers for alternative sections or courses, and a
pen or pencil.
campus students who have been pretty well ignored,"
Marienau said, as well as reduce the amount of cars in
the lots.
He said an application and explanation of the
program will be run in the Daily Nebraskan this fall.
Applications would be compared and participants
would be given a list of people who would come to and
leave the campus at the same time as themselves.
Marienau said ASUN has approximately 20 other
projects that they are actively working on including
re-organizing the annual migration game. This year the
migration will be to Boulder.
When ASUN designates the migration games,
students automatically get one fifth of all away tickets,
Marienau said. The tickets are distributed by the
athletic department by lottery.
Marienau said organizers will try to go back to the
traditional migrations games of the past and do more
than just get several hundred tickets for students. One
proposal is to establish a pre-game headquarters.
He said they want the game to have a "little more fun
and a little more meaning" than it has in the past few
years.
Another major project of the group is the
establishment of a student advocate group which will
be a spokesman for students at school board, county
board, and city council meetings, whenever educational
issues are involved.
There is "something wrong" Marienau said when
budgets and issues related to student concerns are
acted on with little or no student uigut.
Some other ASUN projects incluJe an investigation
of all student fee money, a study of the regents
structure, a feasibility study of a voting student regent,
and a study of ways to fund speakers.
ASUN will meet July 22, Marienau said, to discuss
and finalize plans for several of the projects.
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