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monday, january 15, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 9
More students to be eligible
for grants under new plan
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By Liz Austin
The types of financial aid available for
UNL students will remain the same for the
1979-80 school year but some may in
crease, the acting financial aid director
said.
Ron Fritz said current recipients may
receive larger awards in areas of federal
assistance as a result of President Carter's
signing of the Middle Income Student
Assistance Act on Nov. 1 .
The legislation will increase the average
Basic Educational Opportunity Grant, and
more students will be eligible for grants,
Fritz said. Under the act, students from
families earning a yearly income between
$15,000 and $25,000 and many independ
ent students now will be eligible.
This year there were 2400 students re
ceiving basic grants totaling $2 million. As
a result of the act this is expected to in
crease next year to 4000 students receiv
ing grants totaling about $3 million, Fritz
said.
"The number of eligible students
doubles while the dollar amount doesn't,
because the additional students will be on
the lower end of the award scale," Fritz
said.
In other words, more students with
higher incomes will be eligible, but only for
small awards, he explained.
But Fritz stressed that these were only
projections because "so much depends on
whether students receiving grants reapply."
In addition, the act will increase funds
available for Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grants and Work -Study.
The act also removes the $25,000 income-eligible
ceiling on the Guaranteed
Student Loan program making all students'
income eligible for federally insured loans.
Banks and private lenders loan the
money to students for a federally insured
loan and the federal government pays the
seven percent interest while the student is
attending school.
To apply for financial aid for the
summer and 1979-80 school year, with the
exception of federally insured student
loans and scholarships, students must file a
financial aid form by Feb. 1.
The FAF and applications for FISLs
and scholarships are available at the
Financial Aid office.
The majority of students receive more
than one type of financial aid, Fritz said.
UNL financial aid deals in a "package con
cept," he said.
If a student is determined to have a
need of $3100 and is eligible for a $800
basic grant, UNL may then award the stu
dent work -study with an earning limit of
$1100 and National Direct Student Loan
worth $1200, Fritz explained.
Fritz added that any employment on
campus is considered a form of financial
aid. He advised any student on financial aid
applying for campus employment to check
with the financial aid officer first.
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Regents .
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He also suggested that if an addition is built some
of the tickets be sold on a per game basis.
Wagner, however, agreed with Prokop's proposal.
"I can't understand how anybody in good conscience
can authorize an expenditure of $575 a seat. . .when we
can build a new stadium for $75 a seat," he said, suggest
ing the board study the matter further.
Simmons described the whole issue as "a problem
where there isn't any good satisfactory answer."
Regent Robert Raun of Minden expressed the opposite
view.
"The idea of moving the stadium off campus leaves me
kind of cold," he said, saying there is "a kind of atmo
sphere," in having the game on campus, near the residence
halls, student union and downtown Lincoln.
In a related matter, UNL Head Football Coach Tom
Osborne received a new title and a salary increase
Saturday.
Assume title
Osborne will assume the title of Assistant Director of
Athletics, and will be the highest-paid coach in the Big
Eight, receiving an $8,000 increase in salary from $36,040
to $44,000 a year with a five-year contract.
Despite Marienau's request that the regents put off a
decision on residence hall rates until next month, the
board approved an $80 increase, from $1335 to $1,415 a
year.
Marienau said because the request came during the last
two weeks of last semester, the Residence Hall
Association and the ASUN Senate were unable to discuss
it.
Housing director Doug Zatechka told the board a de
cision was needed immediately to print contracts on time.
He said part of the halls overcrowding this year was be
cause printing was delayed.
The housing office did not know how fast contracts
would come in and when to cut off upperclass (junior
and senior) contracts to make room for lowerclassmen
who must be housed, he said.
Housing contracts will go up $90 to $1,425 next year
if the regents pass a new rate schedule for university ser
vice employees next month.
Last year the regents raised room and board rates $70,
from $1,265 to $1335.
In other business:
-the regents heard a report from NU General Counsel
Richard Wood that no legal barriers exist for putting stu
dent activity money into the ASUN credit union, but
took no action,
-raised room rates at University Hospital and the
Nebraska Psychiatric Institute,
-approved naming the Poultry Science Building
Mussehl Hall,
-took a position supporting building a regional vet
erinary medicine school in Lincoln.
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