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LINCOLN Schwinn CYCLERY North - -— Sou*1* ~ 1517 No. Cotner 2 LOCATIONS 33?If£™*" 484-6952 “- 48*2101 Microphones end TVs fill room 106 College of Business Administration. Another electronic I classroom will be built this fall in 236 CBA ! Classroom to simulate a working environment ■ By Michelle Cheney Staff Reporter Marketing students will gain hands-on experience in the business world with the addition of a new electronic classroom in the College of Business Administration building,* according to the chairman of the marketing department. Sanford Grossbart said the new classroom will simulate a working environment complete with video cameras, computers and a slide pro jector. He said the electronic devices are used in the working world and he wants students to have confidence in using them. Nebraska students are as intelli gent as other students, Grossbart said, but they are at a disadvantage because they “are not getting an adequate look at the technology being used.” Teachers also will gain from the new classroom, Grossbart said. He said professors will be able to use video presentations instead of rely ing on chalk boards and overhead projec tors. As a result, professors can re wind a videotape if students need information repeated instead of rewriting it on a blackboard. Grossbart said traditional class rooms with chalk boards and individ ual seats hinder learning. He said separate desks are uncomfortable and chalk boards can get erased before a student is finished taking notes. To eliminate these problems, the new classroom will have tables and pad ded chairs as well as a 10-foot screen at the front of the room. The room will be carpeted to con trol noise and will be decorated in blue, light grey and burgundy. Gross bart said these colors are neutral and will not be distracting to the students. The electronic classroom will have a computer terminal, slide pro jector, compact disc player, video cameras and players, an electronic podium and an overhead projector, he said. The room will have only one computer upon completion. Gross bart said he eventually wants to have 16 computers in the room. The Lincoln architectural firm Davis, Fenton, Stange and Darling donated its services for the project. Although their services are free, Grossbart estimates the total cost of construction and equipment at $70,000. He said the business college will spend about $20,00 for the equip ment. A combined total of $4/,o6o came from Vice Chancellor for Re search John Yost and Vice Chancel lor for Academic Affairs Robert Fur gason. Additional money came from private donations, Grossbart said. Grossbart said he hopes the class room will be completed sometime this fall. Financial aid office is students guide From Staff Reports Employees in the Office of Schol arships and Financial Aid can be stu dents’ best guide through the compli cated rules that govern financial aid. “We’ll do everything we possibly can to help them, within the rules and regulations,’’ said John Beacon, di rector of OSFA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “The federal regulations are very complicated,’’ Beacon said. “They’re very specific. We’re on the students’ side ... but we’re also accountable to the auditors.” Changes in OSFA will make it easier for students to gel aid in 1989 90, Beacon said. Computer glitches that plagued last year’s awards have been corrected, he said, and physical revamping has made the office more inviting. One thing OSFA has changed is its work-study program. Work-study students must look for jobs next fall instead of being matched to the work. “It’s going to make the student more likely to be happy in their work’ ’ because students will be more interested in a job they find on their own, Beacon said. r manual aia is nasca on a stu dent’s need. Factors that determine need are student and parent income for the year before an aid request, student and parent assets, number of dependents in the household and number of family members in col lege. A student begins the financial aid process by completing a Financial Aid Form. Students can send the forms to the College Scholarship Service as early as Jan. 1. The priority deadline for CSS and UNL is March 1. Beacon said FAFs can be filed after March 1, but students miss op portunities by filing later. Students still can get financial aid for next semester, even though they missed the priority deadline. But they probably will receive less aid than students who filed before the dead line. The major types of aid for UNL are the Pell Grant, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, State Student Incentive Grant, Uni „J versity of Nebraska Awaid and Tui , _A First-time borrowers get counseling By Diane Brayton Staff Reporter_ _ A new federal regulation re quires all first-lime borrowers of Stafford Student Loans or Supple mental Loans for Students to at tend loan counseling sessions be fore receiving their student loan checks. These sessions, sponsored by the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, began Aug. 18 and will continue Monday through Friday at 8:30 a.m and 4 p.m. in 340 Nebraska Union until Sept. 29. Each session will last less than 30 minutes and will cover aspects of student loans pertaining to re payment, default and the conse quences of default The federal regulation was passed to prevent students from defaulting on their loans. Accord ing to a Department of Education study based on 1986 loan defaults, the current default rate in Ne braska is 8.7 percent According to John Beacon, di rector of the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, default at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is not a big problem. UNL has a de fault rate between 6 and 8 percent, he said. The regulation comes about as a result of the high default rate of trade schools rather than four-year public universities, he said. "The problem is not UNL,” Beacon said. "It lends to be trade schools,” he said. tion Waiver, College Work-Study Program, Perkins Loan and Stafford Loan. Supplemental Loans for parr enls and students also are available. SEOG, SSIG, CWS and Perkins are all campus-based programs with limited funds, Beacon said. Students must file early to increase their chances of getting such aid, he said. After filing the FAF, students will receive an acknowledgement. The student should check it for accuracy, then send it back to CSS. The student then will receive the Student A id Report. The student must send the SAR to the financial aid office to receive any aid. The office then sends out award letters. OSFA has mailed about 7,00() award letters this year, which is ignificantly” ahead of last year’s mailing, Beacon said. The letters are higher quality this year, he said, so they will tend to be more accurate. The awards that students receive often are made up of more than one kind of aid, and the student can accept or reject each type of aid. When OSFA receives the signed award letter, the office gives infor mation to Student Accounts, which holds the awards until the student is billed for tuition. Any awards that give more than cost of tuition are refunded to the student. Beacon said refunds for stu dents who turned in their award noli fications by the early part of August should be out during the first week ol school. Refunds will be mailed to the local addresses. Beacon said students should make sure the UNL records office has their correct address in its files. Both students and parents are expected to contribute to the college education, Beacon said. CSS expects freshmen to contribute $700 or 70 percent of their earnings last year. Upperclassmen arc expected to pay 90 percent of their earnings or $700, whichever is higher. Some parents feel a student should be independent after graduation from high school, Beacon said, and don't provide what the.government says is their fair share. “They’re doing their sons and daughters a very big disservice,’’ Beacon said. Students are considered independ ent for financial aid purposes when for two years they earn more than $4,000 and aren’t listed as depend ents on their parents’ income tax re turns. Other students who arc automati cally considered self-supporting in clude: students who are 24 years old by Jan. 1 of the award year, U.S. Armed forces veterans, orphans and See FINANCE “onTS
