NEWS The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 7 s AID Continued from page 1. the previous application process and to contribute to their child's education is a completely new policy for the Univer- sity. "We never asked for anything from a non-custodial parent (in the initial application)," Fowler said. Failure to fill out the profile will preclude the University from awarding non-federal funds to the student. "If a parent refuses to comply with our application process, the student will be packaged with federal aid only," Fowler said. If a non-custodial parent refuses to comply with the process, the student will not receive non-federal funds unless the student informs the Finan- cial Aid Office that special circum- WI REESS Continued from page 1 Aside from dorms and outdoor areas, wireless Internet covered only about 58 percent of the major build- ings on campus as of last summer. Some information technology administrators estimate wireless Internet will span the entire cam- pus by 2008 or 2009. In the Business, Law and Engi- neering schools, widespread wire- less development began in 2000. In LSA, the University began deploying wireless networks in its buildings a little more than a year ago. The discrepancy in coverage stems from each school having the autonomy to develop its networks as it sees fit, said Andrew Palms, the University's director of infor- mation technology. "Wireless follows the same model as any other financial expenditure of the University," Palms said. With no central initiative to dic- tate deployment, it's up to each school to determine what role wire- less Internet will take for them. For the Business School. which stances exist. "The student is responsible for informing the non-custodial parent that he or she must complete the non-custo- dial profile application," Fowler said. Michigan Student Assembly Presi- dent Jesse Levine said the new policy "sounds troubling" "I can see how some would think that this policy change could hold non-custo- dial parents accountable, but in practice it seems to me that this policy change is likely going to hurt students," he said. Other public universities have cited a variety of reasons for choosing not to use the profile. The University's Financial Aid office may grant exceptions to requiring the non-custodial parent to contribute, though according to Fowler, this would only occur rarely. Students who would like to appeal the financial aid award must contact an installed one of the first wireless networks at the University in 1997, equipping its buildings with wireless Internet was an early priority. Ed Adams, chief technology offi- cer at the Business School, said as the curriculum began encourag- ing students to use laptops during classes, the school's administrators pushed for the expansion of wireless Internet. "Because we have very old facili- ties, wired jacks weren't feasible," Adams said. "Wireless was just a good fit." At a cost of about $60,000, the Business School has installed all their buildings with coverage. Other schools have done the same, seizing the need for wireless Internet access early on. LSA decided to wait. LSA's path to wireless LSA's wireless strategy hinged on deploying the technology once it matured to the point that it could be installed on a wider scale for a cheaper price, said Michael McPher- son, special counselor to the Uni- versity provost. McPherson, the former direc- tor of information technology for LSA. said once the demand for advisor to appeal the decision and sup- port their appeal with documentation requested by the advisor. The appeal will then be reviewed by the Office of Financial Aid's Special Circumstances Review Committee. According to Kay Lewis, the Uni- versity of Washington's financial aid director, the decision to use the profile depends on the amount of non-federal funding the university has to disburse. "Since the bulk of our aid program is coming from federal sources, we use the federal form," Lewis said. The University of Alaska-Anchorage does not use the form either. "It's not worth the hassle and the cost to the students," said Ted Malone, financial aid director at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. "The number of blended families today prompted us to consider the most fair and equitable way to treat these the technology became apparent in 2004, administrators decided to begin deploying a network in their school's buildings. But with the declining state bud- get funds, McPherson said LSA's wireless development "has gotten cut, just like everything else." "Whether you think that's a prob- lem or not depends if you think it's a high priority to have a wireless net- work on campus," he said. After spending $175,000 to install wireless Internet, LSA still has a long way to go in its bid to outfit the largest school on campus with the technology. "In LSA, there is more of a conserva- tive approach just because of the sheer size," said Ron Loveless, senior man- ager for LSA information technology. "Due to competing projects for limited funds we cannot place (wire- less) into all LSA buildings, class- rooms and grounds space between the buildings at one time," he added. "The cost to do so would be in the millions of dollars." Each wireless Internet router costs about $1,000 to $1,200 - far more expensive than the wireless routers available for homes. But more users can connect to it and its signals span families who have children in college," Fowler said. Previously, the University only used the FAFSA to award aid, which asks for the income and assets of the fam- ily unit. If the parents are divorced, the family unit can refer to a parent and a stepparent, or just a single parent. "We frequently get complaints from stepparents who feel they should not have to provide their income and asset information for their stepchild when the biological parent is asked to provide nothing," Fowler said. "Using the financial information from both biological parents will put an end to these complaints." According to Fowler, another ben- efit of the profile is that all students will get more accurate financial aid award estimates, because the infor- mation required by the profile is more detailed. farther. Loveless said LSA has been installing wireless networks incre- mentally in the commons and meeting areas in the buildings that students frequent. This year, LSA plans to deploy a wireless network in the Undergraduate Science Build- ing, the renovated LSA building and possibly even the Dennison Build- ing. "In the ideal world with unlimited funding, I would put wireless across all of LSA," Loveless said. "At the Business School and some of the other schools they have it all across. But we just have pockets of it." LSA sophomore Jim Schreiber said that while the pace of wireless development has been slow, stu- dents need to realize the difficul- ties in deploying a wireless network effectively. Schreiber, who is part of a com- mittee of 'faculty members and administrators that makes recom- mendation on technology to LSA, said the costs of rapidly deploying wireless across all LSA buildings would be "astronomical." "There is a list of things that we can spend money on. Would the stu- dents benefit the most from this?" MINOR Continued from page 1 tory for all students. The subject matter of the seminar is still under discussion. The minor will not necessitate an appli- cation, but prospective students will need to have their plan approved by the director of the International Institute. "The minor will be more for people doing comparative work for different countries or regions," said Susanne Koc- sis, academic program officer for the International Institute. "A lot of the work that students will be doing will fall under the categories of human rights, interna- tional development, and international security and development." Because classes will come from differ- ent departments across campus, Kocsis hopes CICS's design will get students to study their regions from different perspec- tives. "It's deliberately designed to be very flexible so we can get students from dif- ferent disciplines," Kocsis said. "Other than the language requirement and the seminar, there aren't any other specific courses that will be required." GOGLE Continued from page 1 "brittle," she said, and many are print- ed on acidic paper that will eventually degrade. Digitization also protects against the possibility of disasters, Coleman said. She cited Hurricane Katrina, which sank Tulane University's primary library in 9 feet of water, and the Khmer Rouge regime, which destroyed 80 percent of the Cambodian National Library's vol- umes in the 1970s. In spite of the benefits of digitization, Google's decision to copy the Univer- sity's 7 million volumes for the Google Book Search website has been criticized because of the revenue Google gains from it. The company only excerpts copy- righted books - it doesn't release their full text. But critics are angry because the company sells advertising on the website. Groups like the AAP accuse Google of Kocsis also noted that new professors will be hired, but probably not right away, because CICS is waiting to hear whether it will receive a grant from the U.S. Depart- ment of Education. The grant, which could be awarded next spring, would provide CICS with several million dollars to help fund the minor, including the hiring of new professors. For now, CICS will not limit the number of students that can declare the minor, unless there is more interest than the program can handle because of its small administrative staff. "Right now we're not limiting it, but we're expecting a very big response. There might be (imposed limits) if we get an overwhelming response," Kocsis said. Because the University is the last Big Ten school to offer a program in interna- tional studies, Butler said she hopes the minor will help the University remain competitive. "It's a perfect complement to any edu- cation," Yahkind said. "If you're political science, English literature, cultural anthro- pology - there's no discipline that I can think of that wouldn't be complemented well by the minor,"'Yahkind said. profiting from copyrighted material without the permission of the author. Coleman said the website benefits publishing companies because it stimu- lates book sales. "I can't understand why any book- seller or publisher, especially scholarly presses with such narrow audiences, would oppose an approach that all but guarantees increased exposure," Cole- man said. The project will bring information to people who have no access to comprehen- sive libraries like the University's. Cole- man cited the example of the University of Liberia, with its limited and poorly maintained collection. The library's three Internet-enabled computers would give it access to far more volumes than the students could previously obtain for research, she said. "Google Book Search, with the books of the University of Michigan, makes all that possible," Coleman said. "It takes the corpus of human knowledge and puts it in the hands of anyone who wants it." the michigan daily PICK UP THE PACE!! Housing for 2006-07 is running thin. We still have l and 2 bedroom apartments as well as efficiencies remaining. Call to make an appointment or stop in and sign a lease today!! 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