Aid applicants face delays, cuts
By ANN PORTAL
Of the Emerald
Don’t expect to find a finan
cial aid packet in the mailbox —
at least for a while.
Although the financial aid of
fice is ready to begin handing
out aid, it can't start until Pres.
Reagan’s budget cuts have
been approved. Financial aid
director Ed Vignoul says he has
no idea when that will be.
“We do not know what our
level of funding will be, and we
don’t know when to expect a
valid answer,” Vignoul says.
The federal Department of
Education announced Thurs
day that Congress reached a
compromise on the extent of
cuts in the Basic Educational
Opportunity Grant program.
About 60,000 students will be
eliminated, 40,000 less than
Reagan had recommended
The compromise decision is
expected to end a freeze on
processing applications, but
Vignoul says it could be weeks
before the notification filters
down to the University office.
By March 1 — the priority
funding deadline — Vignoul’s
office had received nearly twice
last year’s number of requests.
The financial aid office had
received 2,000 more completed
applications by last Friday.
Vignoul says it’s too early to
say if requests have really dou
bled, or if students are just filing
their applications earlier.
Students who haven’t yet filed
are probably out of luck, he
savs.
Graphic by Sioux Anderson
in March, the financial aid
office committed itself to notify
ing students of their aid by May
1 Vignoul says he’s now plan
ning to send a letter in the next
few weeks indicating only the
office’s assessment of the
student’s budget, need and
eligibility for next year. But
those letters won’t be the aid
offer.
The delay will be especially
hard on students who applied
for aid for summer session, Vig
noul says.
“That’s really unfortunate.
One of our primary purposes is
to let students know so thev can
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plan for their future.
Aid will go first to students
with the greatest financial need,
Vignoul says. Most of those
students will receive BEOGs,
and any amount cut from
BEOGs by the administration
will be made up from other
forms of aid.
Another common form of aid,
the National Direct Student
Loan, has had its University al
location cut by about $500,000,
Vignoul says. Work study and
supplementary grants are “up a
little” or at last year’s level.
The Guaranteed Student
Loan program for next year is up
in the air, but the Oregon
Scholarship Commission won’t
process applications for next
year until July, says Vignoul. He
says he doesn't expect any for
mal action to be taken on the
program until Oct. 1, the begin
ning of the year for GSL.
Vignoul says University
students who receive financial
aid have a “very, very good”
record of repayment. The
default rate on student loans
has decreased from 21 percent
three years ago to 8 percent this
year,
“God knows it’s a high risk
loan — and it’s money well
spent.”
But when students don’t
repay, it’s “taking bread out of
somebody’s mouth. I think it’s a
moral obligation."
Honesty among applicants
seems to be another problem,
according to Vignoul. Students
cheat on their financial aid ap
plications “more than we’d like
to see,” he says.
But the office’s computer
system compares information
with other campus computers,
and disciplinary action can be
taken when discrepancies are
found, he says.
Such action can include ask
ing that money be repaid,
remanding a student to the
University student disciplinary
committee and canceling a
student’s remaining eligibility.
But “to a certain extent, our
system is built on the integrity of
the student," Vignoul says.
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