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\ Married-student housing has one-year wait IBy Jennifer O’Cilka Staff Reporter Married University of Nebraska-Lincoln students seeking campus housing and financial aid may have some difficulty. Dee Borg, UNL Student Family/Faculty Housing, said students who are considering marriage should sign up for married student housing soon, because there is a one-year wait ing list. However, Borg said there are some advan tages that accompany the wait for married student housing. All living units are close to campus, about a block from shuttle buses be tween the twocampuses, and they offer couples an all-student community. When married students live in a complex with other married students, they understand each other’s needs, Borg said. The university has apartments located close to East Campus in the University Park Apart ments and several duplexes and four-plexes on Starr St. Borg said one, two and three bedroom apart ments are available to married full-time stu dents and their spouses and to students who are single parents. Currently, students can rent one bedroom apartments at University Park for $269 includ ing utilities. Two bedroom apartments cost about $300 a month. Two bedrooms in the du plexes or four-plexes cost $305 plus gas and electricity and three bedrooms cost $330 plus gas and electricity, Borg said. Borg said all apartments are unfurnished except for a stove and refrigerator. Because the university-owned apartments are full year-round, Borg said she can’t show the apartments to anyone, but pictures and floor plans arc available. John Beacon, director of admissions and scholarships and financial aid, said getting married doesn’t mean a student will receive more financial aid. If the students fill out their aid forms before they get married and are still claimed as a dependent on their parents’ federal tax form, Beacon said they will not be considered mar ried when aid is distributed. In order for two full-time students to re ceive the financial aid married students would, Beacon said they have to be dropped from their parents’ taxes as dependents and must be mar ried when they fill out financial aid applica tions. If students are not married when they fill out aid applications, but are planning to be mar ried, they still must report their current status, Beacon said. That status will not change during the year, he said. If a couple plans to marry during the sum mer, Beacon said, they cannot wait until after they arc married to fill out financial aid appli cations for next fall, because “priority stu dents” must submit applications by March 1. “The couple will have to weigh that against waiting until summer to be married,” he said. Beacon said two full-time students who arc married when they fill out applications could receive more financial aid grants rather than loans. However, Beacon said, if a student’s spouse is fully employed, it is likely that the student still may not be eligible for financial aid. Beacon said the Educational Planning Cen ter, 13000 St., has information about the kinds of financial aid available to married students. The couple should take their budget figures to the planning center to receive an estimate of how much they will receive, Beacon said. Cynthia Rivera, director of the planning center, said students considering marriage come to the center because computers can estimate their financial aid eligibility. Rivera said if the couple wanted to wait until after March 1 to be married, the center would run an estimate of the aid they would receive if they filed before the priority deadline as a dependent and if they waited to file until after they were married. If the student won’t be eligible as a depend ent, Rivera said, it may be beneficial to miss the priority deadline. But wailing too long to apply for aid can force the student into borrowing more money, because most loan money already will have been distributed, Rivera said. Beacon said that after consulting with the planning center, the couple can make an ap pointment with UNL’s financial aid office to discuss available aid. .... — ::: | s:::::: :::: : ||si ! uuMiiUUiliiuMMHUlHMHMIMU Colors Continued from Page 10 other color or strong flowers because lavender “fades out at distances.” Jacobs also cautioned against us ing peach and pink together. “They clash horribly,” she said. How far should brides carry their color scheme? Jacobs said many bridescarry their color schemes right down to their wedding invitations. “If a woman has her bridesmaids wearing ruby-red dresses, she’II ol ten try to have ruby-red accents on her wedding invitations,” Jacobs said. - - :::::::::: .-I:;;;;" :::::::::: “Many brides even try to carry the color scheme down to the candles on the reception table. Rowson said brides may even have the groom and his attendants wear the same colors as the brides maids. “Some brides will have the grooms men wear contrasting tuxes, and some will even have the groomsmen in the same colors as the bridesmaids,” she said. Mothers arcn ’t exempt f rom color coordinating either. “Many brides will ask their moth ers to wear a shade similar -- or contrasting - to her bridesmaid’s dresses,” Rowson said. 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