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By Use Olsen
Senior Reporter
An ahempt to eliminate the NU
tractor tCsSting laboratory on East
Campus resulted In the station's
shift of emphasis from a state to a
world farm market, said Kenneth
Von Bargen, chairman of the Nebraska
Tractor Test Board.
Under a bill passed last Monday
in the Legislature, the testing
laboratory should begin administer
ing a- more extensive test series
next fall, said Von Bargen, also a
UNL professor of agricultural en
gineering. However, the proposal must first
be approved by the United States
Department of Commerce and mem
bers of the Organization for Eco
nomic Cooperation and Development,
said Louis Leviticus, chief engineer
of the tractor testing laboratory.
With the hew law, NetrIra could
test tractors that wculd ts sold in
the 28 nations that make up the
OECD.
NU has been testing traders for
sale in Nebracka sir.ee 1010. Tbs
new authorization, wl.irh dta th-3 .
station to diversify its c.Trlf r. Is
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tests. Those tests are accepted
in a number of countries. But the
OECD tests, developed in Europe,
are more extensive and may require
the Nebraska technicians to per
form sone off-site testing besides
regular tests of power and perfor
mance, Von Bargen said.
The NU station is the only official
tractor testing laboratory in the
United States, mostly because Neb
raska is the only state that requires
tractors to be tested and certified
before they can bo sold. However,
the station's test results are re
spected worldwide, Von Bargen said.
The station has the capability to
test about 45 tractors a year. The
average number tested at the sta
tion each year is about 40, Von Bar
gen said. But in recent years, the
number of tractors tested at the sta
tion has slacked off because of the
bad farm economy and other fac
tors, he said.
Leviticus, a UNL professor of
c.?rfcultural engineering, said that a
number cf tractcrs scheduled to be
tested were excluded because of an
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By Pam Alward
Staff Reporter
As many as 70 percent of UNL's 1986
87 student financial aid applications
will be checked for accuracy because
of new federal standards, said Don
Aripoll, director of scholarships and
financial aid.
At congressional request, the U.S.
Department of Education released the
guidelines In March to ensure that
college students aren't falsifying aid
applications to receive extra money,
Arlpoli said.
Between 50 percent and 70 percent
of all people who receive Pell Grants,
Guaranteed Student Loans and campus
based aid will have their aid for next
year verified, Aripoli said. Since 1978,
UNL has checked 3,000 of about 6,500
Dead week comments wanted
ASUN is asking students to stop by
its office during tne next two weeks to
discusV the university's dead week
policy.
As part of a campaign to serve stu
dents better, ASUN is taking com
plaints of dead week violations and
other comments about the week, said
Patricia Sokolik, chairwoman of ASUN's
Communication Committee.
Dead week, which begins Monday, is
designed to give students extra study
time for finals, Sokolik said, and ASUN
wants to ensure that this policy is
followed.
The policy reads:
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Pell Grant applications each year at
t he request of the federal government,
he said. But full-scale verification is
new to UNL, Aripoli said.
Arlpoli estimated that about 90 per
cent to 99 percent of the discrepancies
between incuine reported on aid forms
and income reported on tax forms
result from students' poor estimates.
The discrepancies often arise be
cause the deadline for aid applications
is a month before taxes are due, so
students may not calculate their exact
income until well after they've applied
for aid, he said.
Students with inaccurate financial
statements will be asked to correct
their applications to re-establish their
aid eligibility, Aripoli said. Aid officers
intent to help these students get as
much aid as they can, he said.
O Final exams for full-semester
classes are to be given only at the regu
larly scheduled time as published in
the Schedule of Classes. Any deviations
from this schedule must be agreed
upon by the entire class.
O Only laboratory practical exams,
make-up or repeat exams and self
paced exams can be given during dead
week.
O Projects, papers, and speeches
scheduled for completion during dead
week must have been assigned in writ
ing by the end of the eighth week of the
semester.
Complaint forms will be available in
Vol. 85 No. 145
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Further action will be taken against
the small number of students who
intentionally "fudged" their income
estimates in an attempt to receive
extra aid, Aripoli said. He said he
couldn't specify the form of this action.
"Each discrepancy will be looked
at," he said.
Although the government will save
money by eliminating aid to students
who falsify their applications, Aripoli
said, UNL must pay a "significant cost"
to comply with federal standards.
The costs will include $7,000 In
labor and even more for computer
programs, Aripoli said. But UNL prob
ably will save about that much money
by eliminating campus-based aid to
students who intentionally "fudge" on
their aid forms, he said.
the ASUN office, Nebraska Union 115.
Violations also can be reported to the
Professional Conduct Committee.
Sokolik said that besides handling
reports of dead week policy violations,
ASUN is working on an information
center.
The center will be something all
students can use, she said, but off
campus students will find it particu
larly helpful.
Other projects in ASUN's future in
clude evaluating teacher quality, meth
ods of evaluation and academic advis
ing and researching possible changes
in Nebraska Union food service.
