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News Grant rules cause chaos By Loretta Carter Of The Print Newer and stricter rules governing the issuance of Pell Grants are the cause of chaos in the Financial Aid Office this term, said Kathy Scheer, Financial Aid co-ordinater. Her office was not notified about the changes until late July and the new rules and re quirements weren’t available until August. This resulted in late award letters and more detailed work for the staff when time was short. Scheer said this resulted in a heavy burden which was felt by both students and staff members. The Financial Aid Office had to validate all the applica tions they received before term. It was necessary to hire a new person for this position on Oct. 4. Scheer said some of the major changes are that all independent students under the age of 23 must provide a copy of their parent’s tax returns for 1984, plus a notarized affidavit of no sup- port to prove their in- dependence. Everyone who was validated also had to pro- vide signed statements in dicating whether they had any untaxed income. All data has to match the original application submitted to Financial Aid. If it didn’t match, it would have to be re submitted, which then took another three weeks for the responses. Scheer said this resulted in 70 percent of the students who were eligible for the Pell Grant being held up. “Next term will be fine, no problem,” she said. However, all students will have to re apply in January. Last year only 30 percent of the Pell Grants were validated. STUDENT GARY MONAHAN is helped by Kathy Shear at the Financial Aid desk. Photo by Dan Wheeler This year it rose to 65-70 per cent. Pell Grants are awarded on need and are the most com mon of all Federal grants available. There are still students waiting to recieve the Pell Grant Awards, she added. There are about 30,000 Oregon students receiving Pell Grants last year. There will be about $4.9 million in grants awarded to the students this year. Students at the College who did not recieve their Pell awards for Fall term because of the delay were given other financial aid through the of fice for tuition and to buy books. The College issued 611 Pell Grants in 1984-85. All finan cial aid programs are being considred for more new regulations nationwide, Scheer added. In pre-season play, Clackamas was 0-6, playing against tough teams. Coach Neshvad stated that he wanted to get the team ready for season play and that he wanted to get all of the frustrations out ahead of time. Now he thinks that the strategy is going to pay off. He says now that the team is relaxed nothing is going to sur prise them. “I predict to do a little bit better than .500 (a little better than average). After the pre season games, I* had doubts, but now I think it is a good goal to try to win seven or eight games. The thing we do not need is injuries. There is not a strong bench and if we have many injuries we’d be in trouble,” Neshvad said. Barlow Hall grows a brand new wing By J. J. Schoessler Of The Print Out of the ashes of the Smuckers fire has risen a new facility adjoining Barlow Hall that should provide a positive learning and work environ ment for the nursing school and the law enforcment train ing classes. The inhabitants of the new addition generally agree it has helped many, in cluding teachers, students and 4 ' OL0055 ? V ' V ■8® SOUTH WING OF Barlow hall during and after construction. Photos by Dan Wheeler administration. The new wing seems to be a better location for all concerned, being cen trally located on campus. “The addition was begun last fall to house the nursing and law enforcement classes,” said Bill Ryan, Administrative Dean of College Services and Planning. Ryan said “The construction is 99.9 percent complete and right on budget. He said the decision to build onto Barlow Hall was a suc- cesful one. “It seems that the added space is needed even more, now that enrollment is up 25 percent by head count and 4.7 percent by full timé student count,” said Gloria Tomlin, secretary to the president. Charlotte Lissy of the nurs ing department was sharing an October 15,1985 office in Clairmont Hall, but now has the luxury of her own office in Barlow. “We have practice equipment built in now and there is more space with the new layout. It feels good to be in the mainstream instead of just being tacked on,” she added. Karen Lever, Community Services and Womens Pro grams Coordinator has her of fice in Barlow Hall. She said she is happy about her new location. Ken Koopman, who works for the public information of fice at the College, moved from Clairmont Hall Barlow after a stop-over in the jour nalism trailer, where they were housed this summer. “I feel like I’m on the pitchers mound again in this new location, and I am interested in talking to students with success stories.” Ken will write these stories of various accomplishments and publicize them through the news media to help pro mote the College. If this sounds like you, drop by Ken’s office arid make a suggestion. Page 3
