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The MSC student newspaper serving the Auraria Campus since 1979

Volume 12

Iaue 12

November 3, 1989

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Students may no longer have to wait six weeks to find out if their student loans have been approved. Susan McGinley, ~istant director of financial aid for MSC, said that with a new program, which should be put into action next spring, Stanford Loans, formerly GSl..s, Guaranteed Student Loans, will only take one day to process. The program would take information from the student's file and transfer it to the computers at CSLP (Colorado Student Loan Program), McGinley said. This shortens the time it takes to put the student loan into the computer manually, get the applications in order, mail them to the lender and receive the results.

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.Seventh Street a 'raceway' Joni Zlgan

The Metropolitan

At one time, when Lawrence Street was still a street, there was no safe place to cross ._ through the traffic. Frustrated students held a sit-in in the middle of Lawrence Street. They got results; the city installed traffic lights. "I personally think that's not a real bad approach," Shirley Marecak said. ~ Marecak is the chair of the Auraria parking and transportation advisory committee, and she is looking for some similar action on Seventh Street between Colfax Avenue and the Auraria Parkway. Several parking lots, the physical plant,

the parking office and the Public Safety Building are in the west side of Seventh Street Parking in the lots, which are some of the cheapest lots, requires students and faculty to cro~ what Marecak calls a dangerous street. "Right now Seventh Street is a 'raceway' - in both directions," Marecak wrote in a letter to Denver's deputy mayor, "with only one four-way stop required (Seventh and Curtis)." Other faculty members also wrote to the city, and it seems that a sit-in may be avoided. While Marecak has not received an official response from the city, she said that she saw black boxes at the intersection that may have

been monitoring traffic. Herb Strain, who performs traffic counts for Denver, said that the city is responding to complaints. "We're going to do a full-blown study on it," Strain said. .Strain said the city has done some machine counts of the traffic and plans to perform some manual counts soon. While the city is taking action now, Marecak wrote in her letter that previous requests had not been responded to this quickly. One student who parks west of Seventh Street asked Marecak for a copy of her letter. She told Marecak she planned to start a o petition concerning the street.

"CSLP is lending us a programmer to help set up the system," McGinley said. "It's a nice gesture on CSLP's part to help us implement this." The process could be handled in one of two ways. One is to take the student's information already in the system and download it onto MSC's computers and then upload it again into CSLP's mainframe system. Second would be to put all of the information on a computer tape and send it to CSLP. Either of these is faster than the current system, McGinley said. "If you can, however, eliminate that time it takes to deliver the tape, it makes it that much faster," McGinley said. "fm excited to see that we're going to get to this this year," said McGinley. "We'rejust at a point that we're ready to do it." Colorado State University in Fort Collins, has had a system similar to this for a year and a half and is the only school in the state that has one, Craig Walker, director of financial aid at CSU said. "CSLP tells us what they need and how they need it," Walker said. "Then we wrote a program that delivered that information. "lt's also more accurate. People don't have to fill out as many forms, we just take the existing information in the datat.e and transfer it on tapes which are sent down to CSLP twice a week," Walker said. D


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