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UNL offices can help
with financial questions
By Julie Naughton
Staff Reporter
Aid for financial newlywed woes
and questions can be found by con
tacting specific offices at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Deb Wismer, office supervisor for
the Office of Scholarships and Finan
cial Aid at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln, urges newlywed stu
dents not to worry about financial
aid.
“Married students can keep any
financial aid that they were awarded
before their marriage, including
grants, loans and scholarships,”
Wismer said.
She said student financial aid is
based on the student’s status as a
dependent or an independent student.
“If the student’s parents claimed
them on their last tax return, they arc
a dependent student. If they were not
entered on their parents’ form, they
are independent/’
Wismer said that each half of the
new couple can qualify for their own
package, which might consist of
grants, loans and scholarships.
“Their award will be based on
combined income and assets,” Wis
mer said.
She said if one half of the couple
has certain benefits -- perhaps a Gl
bill or a disability allowance -- that
person might be awarded a different ^
amount of aid, but independently
each person also still would be eli
gible for aid.
“The fact that you’re married
does not make you ineligible for fi
nancial aid. We look at your FAF
(financial aid form) to determine
your award,” Wismer said.
For married students looking for
affordable living quarters, UNL also
maintains an option of married stu
dent housing units on East Campus,
said Dee Borg, representative for the
Housing Department’s Division of
Student Family/Faculty Housing.
“In order to be eligible, at least
one member of the couple must be a
full-time student,” Borg said, adding
that couples where both spouses arc
full-time students, full-time student
couples with children and single
spouses with children are also eli
gible.
UNL maintains 63 units, includ
ing 25 one-bedroom units, 34 two
bedroom units and four three-bed
room units. Waiting times vary for
the units, Borg said, but with waits
varying between ‘‘afew months” to
two years, she said it would be wise
to place your name on the waiting list
about the same time that you reserve
the church for your vows.
She said that the most demand at
the present time is for the one-bed
room units, which are “very reason
able” at $264 per month, including
utilities. The prices vary for each
unit, Borg said, but the most expen
sive arc the 3-bcdroom units,44 which
rent for $305, plus gas and utilities.”
Contact the Housing Office at
472-3753 for more information on
married student housing options.
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Name-changing brings change-overs
By Diane Brayton
Staff Reporter
A graduate student in speech
communications at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln gave his wife a
wedding present that was a little out
of-the-ordinary.
Chas Koermer, formerly Chas
McAliley, broke tradition by taking
his wife’s surname when they were
married, instead of the other way
around.
“I really did it for two reasons,”
Koermer said. “Her (Koermer’s
wife) mother dared me to do it. I
guess it was a challenge.”
Koermer said he also did it to give
his wife, Janice, a break.
“Why should women always
have to be the ones to go through the
hassle?”
“It didn’t really make any differ
ence to me,” said Janice, a senior
accounting major at UNL. “But it
made it a lot easier on me.”
The Koermers said they looked at
different options, such as hyphenat
ing their two names or keeping their
original names.
“We canned the hyphenating idea
pretty quick,” Koermer said. “It
would be too hard on the kids.”
He said they also agreed not to
keep their own names.
“We wanted to be one in our
names when we got married,” he
said.
Although it is becoming increas
ingly common for women to keep
their maiden names when they get
married, it is unusual for a man to
take his wife’s surname, said Paul
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Hyphenating the names of the
wife and the husband is also becom
ing more common, according to
Michelle Leddon, appointment clerk
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tion.
Of the women who change their
names, I would say about 10 to 20
percent hyphenate them,” Leddon
said.
It is a lot less prevalent for men to
change their names to their wife’s
surname, she said.
“I’ve worked here seven years
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twice.”
Koermer said he was glad he
changed his name, but he wouldn’t
do it over again because of the
hassles it caused.
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