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SUN STAR Tuesday, October 15, 2013
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University to assist students affected by shutdown
Elika Roohi Sun Star Reporter Chancellor Rogers released a memorandum on Oct. 2 instructing organizations and offices at the university to go out of their way to make sure the government shutdown would not adversely affect UAF students. While the debate about furloughed employees goes on, students are not being talked about.
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In reality, they may be a part of the population that’s hardest hit. Fifty-two percent of students who live by themselves are below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Those students often depend on financial aid, some of it federally funded. The shutdown has the potential to interfere with that aid.
A Nanook swimmer gets herself ready for the backstroke event. Kurtis Gosney/Sun Star Reporter
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Military students or others who are expecting federal assistance may have problems while the shutdown goes on. According to the memorandum, shared on the university’s Facebook page, Rogers instructed offices at UAF not to drop students from classes for late fees--a policy currently in effect, discontinue meal plans or carry out any other restrictive action that resulted from the government shutdown. This message is one being spread throughout higher education institutions. Many universities across the country are adopting “buffer policies” to make the shutdown easier on students depending on federal aid. For the time being, things at UAF seem alright. “There hasn’t been too much of an impact on students here,” said Julie Parshall, the Associate Director of the Financial Office.
See Page 5 OIT professionals work at their own table offering students free things and information about TechFest on Thursday, October 10. Ivan Kvapil / Sun Star
If a government shutdown can ever be considered fortunate, this one at least came at good time. “If it was a month ago, it would have been a real mess,” Parshall said.
The first 48: UAF students create films in less than two days Annie Bartholomew
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Teams were given three prompts to be eligible for the competition to include a watch, a flashback sequence and the line, “I was born ready.”
On Oct. 4, 25 teams across Alaska attempted to write, shoot and edit a movie in 48 hours. Local production company Frostbite Films and the UAF Film Club joined forces to make a short film in a single weekend, entering it into the Anchorage 48 Hour Film Challenge.
the woods, only to find a family of killers led by Theatre student Theodore Hooker who comes to the door covered in fake blood.
But the film is more than a collection of blood The 17-member “Team and gore gimmicks; it’s Frostbite” worked all a coming-of-age story night on Friday, returning with Hooker symbolically to film at 4 p.m. Saturday. passing the hatchet to his daughter, played by The film begins at middle-schooler Winter local watering hole, the Weixelman. Howling Dog Saloon, where actor Deison Rios She joined the film after stumbles out of the bar her mother, Director and drunkenly enters his of Photography Nanwhite Subaru. Participants met in the nette Pierson, recruited UAF Wood Center on her to be in the producAfter crashing his car, Friday night to decide a tion. “There’s not many Rios looks for shelter at plot, filming location and a cabin in the middle of 13-year-old girls that are cast their five-minute
willing to stay up til’ nine in the morning acting,” Weixelman said, as the youngest member of the team. The filming wrapped at 4:30 Sunday morning with only hours remaining for Frostbite Film’s Marcus Moore to sort through content and edit the picture down to five minutes. Past UAF Film Student of the Year Aaron Gordon worked behind the scenes during his eighth 48 Hour Film Challenge contributing to the camera work, directing and producing the picture. Gordon says the chal-
lenge pushes the team’s imagination, getting them problem solving and thinking on the go. “The team never has everything they need,” Gordon said, “We have to look around and just see what’s currently in our hands and make a movie out of that.”
Last month, the office was processing FAFSA applications and distributing scholarships, a process that would have been hindered by the shutdown. There have been delays in processing Veteran’s Affairs benefits, according to Parshall. “It’s not that things are shut down entirely, they’re just taking longer than they usually do.”
The memorandum was addressed to the Financial Aid Office, Residence Life, “Asleep at the Wheel” was CRCD and Rural Student shown on Thursday, Oct. Services, CTC Student Services, the Office of the 10 at the Bear’s Tooth Grill in Anchorage along Bursar and the Office of International Programs with 19 other 5 minute and Initiatives. challenge films. “Asleep at the Wheel” can be seen on Marcus Moore’s Vimeo page.
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