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Volume 5, Issue 21 漏 Metropress February 23, 1983 Aid check delaxs likely .
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by Carson Reed
Financial aid offices at all three Auraria Schools are gearing up, reluctantly, to start enforcing a law requiring proof of Seledive ~rvice registration from eligible students required to register effective with the 1983-84 academic year. Draft-age males who can't prove they are registered with Selec'tive Servi~ will be ineligible for federal funds, including Pell Grants, SEOG, Work Study, NDSL, GSL, PLU~ Loans, and Colorado Student Incentive -Grants. The financial aid offices of UCD, CCD-A, and MSC, already overburdened with beaurocratic paperwork, anticipate the new regulations will result in aid ilelays for some, or all, of their students. "New regulations never go as smoothly as the government says they will," said MSC Financial Aid Director Dave Elliott. "The first year is going to be the worst."
According to Elliott, the current regulations require draft registrants to provide letters of acknowledgement from Selective. Service before receiving aid. Although registrants are supposed to keep their letters, 路Elliott suspects that many students will have lost "them or thrown them away. '.'~lective Service says it can provide a student with a new letter in two weeks," Elliott said, "but with a full-time staff of only 220 people (as of October, 1982), I really have to wonder if they can meet the demand." "It will 路 definitely end up holding back som_e students' money," agrees UCD Financial Aid Director Ellie Miller. "The regulations give us very little flexibility. We will start enforcing the regulations this summer, and students who don't already have verification letters can expect it to hold up their checks." In addition to delays for draft registrants, the extra paperwork could end up causing delays for
everyone. "We already work overtime during the ru,sh," says CCD Financial Aid Administrator Anna Dominguez. . "Our staff has come to expect long weeks in order to get aid to students on time. This new regulation is going to be a real kicker. It's going to put a strain on the whole system." "There could be a general delay for everyone," agrres Miller. "We're going to do everything in our power to make sure that doesn't happen, but anytime you add work for one part of the office, it's going to spread out and effect the entire operation." MSC's Dave Elliott doesn't feel his office will have any problem processing the new information. "I don't anticipate a heavy new work load," he said. "This should only effect the students who ought to be registered. Th~ bulk of burden will fall on their shoulders." Both MSC and UCO will be requiring proof of registration from
students this summer, but at CCD the pl~ are to hold off un-. til the fall. Administrators at all three schools regard the July 1 effective date as confusing. "We feel like we need to begin enforcement at the onset of summer semester," said Miller. "A mid-semester change would be tricky, so . the best thing to do is play it safe." ''Since the summer term at MSC . spans both sides of July 1, we will be requiring acknowledgement letters from the beginning." Elliott said. "We have to be sure we are meeting our responsibilities." At CCD, "We won't be putting our program into effect until the fall, when students start applying for aid for the 1983-84 school year." Dominguez said. "We hope to use that time to put together an efficient system for dealing with verifications." All three administrators stressed that draft registrants who do not have verification letters Caatinued on page I of
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