Dorm bill deferments to continue until aid is awarded
By Jim Beckman
Staff Reporter
Residence hall students who have
not received their financial aid
awards will continue to have their
housing payments deferred until they
receive their awards, said Sue Gilder
sleeve, assistant director of Univer
sity ol Nebraska-Lincoln housing for
business services.
However, only students who ap
plied for financial aid by Aug. 1 will
receive immediate attention said
John Beacon, interim director of the
Office of Scholarships and Financial
Aid.
In August, Beacon said, he real
ized that about 2,800 students who
had not received their awards would
probably not receive aid by the time
tuition and housing bills were due.
Bcaum said tuition payments will
be deferred until Oct. 2s
Awards were delayed by a number
of problems caused by a new software
system being integrated with the old
computer system at the office, Bea
con said.
James Griesen, vice-chancellor
for student affairs, and Doug Zat
echka, director of housing, approved
a letter Beacon sent to students in
August explaining that their housing
and luition fees would be deferred
until their awards were processed.
Beacon then gave the student list
to UNL housing to verify which stu
dents were entitled to deferred pay
ments.
Students who applied for financial
aid in mid-August or later probably
will not receive housing payment
deferments, Beacon said.
“We do realize," he said, “that
Aging research forum commences today
By Bryan Thomas
Suff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln will host the Fifth National Fo
rum on Research in Aging today and
Thursday at the Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education on East Cam
pus.
“One of the main goals of the
forum is to re-emphasize the impor
tance of social support networks to
physical and menial health.” said
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Yeaworth also said that people in
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networks of all people.
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will attend the forum.
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Some of the featured speakers
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Michigan’s Institute of Gerontology
and professor of history at the Univer
sity of Michigan; Reubin Andres,
research fellow and honorary visiting
physician in the Gerontology Re
search Center at the National Institute
on Aging in Baltimore, Md.; and
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knowledge of the law.”
Ellen Campbell, also from the
Family Policy and Regulations Of
fice in the Department of Education
in Washington D.C., said the office
has received “a lot of questions about
it.”
Campbell said these questions
result from unclear language con
tained in the Buckley Amendment.
While the law restricts the release of
student files, it does not deal directly
with the posting of grades.
Even with the vagueness in the
law, there has been some change in
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“I have a recollection that at the
time that (the law) went through,
there was some discussion,” said
Edward Zimmerman, UNL physics
and astronomy professor.
“Prior to that time, some people
had posted grades by name,” he said.
According to Rooker, while
grades arc still listed by name at some
universities, there has never been a
case where a school has had its fund
ing cut. In all cases where complaints
have been filed, solutions have been
worked out with the universities in
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Gildersleeve said all studenis w ho
have not received their aw ards should
come to the housing office 1010 Sea
ton Hall to sign a lormto acknowledge
a deferment of their housing fees.
“We hope that students won't wait
for adeadline but will pay their bill as
soon as their check comes in," Beacon
said.
He also said he hopes studenis
don’t try to deceive the office by
ignoring financial aid eligibility
forms, which may report no need, just
so they can continue to put off their
payments.
Gildersleeve said she would defer
payments for students who find
they’re not eligible for financial aid
and have no other immediate means to
make payments.
Beacon said housing and luilion
payments will be deferred until the
original group of students that applied
before Aug. 1 have been awarded.
About 10 percent of this group
have not received awards yet, he said.
Beacon said he thinks the software,
called the financial aid management
system, will be functioning properh
by next year and will al low fal I a wards
to be sent out by the end of the spring
semester.
“We don't want th is to happen year
after year,' Beacon said.
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