The Griffin: volume 51, issue 16 - Feb. 27, 1981

              USA president Dan Ryan, who Jeanne Duncan, class of '81, was retained as a senator by a 16-0 vote of the senate body after attributing her absences to her job which she now has left. Mary Gibbons, managing editor of Azuwur, was elected to the position of alternate for the class of '82 by a 13-0-3 vote of the body. She replaces Claudette Petrozelli who was installed as a senator replacing the removed senator Dawn Coutts. Chris Quinlan, class of '83, resigned stating, "the body hasn't done anything" and "it was in my best interest." by Wally Piotrowski The February 24th meeting of the undergraduate student assembly (USA) saw the retention, replacement and resignation of senators. The original draft contains a pre-Labor day start, with a two week Spring break in April and commencement on May 22. The second draft contains a post-Labor day start. This calendar shortens the number of class days and may jeopardize student financial aid. The academic deans and academic vice-president soundly rejected this draft. The prayer is as follows: (continued on Page 5) Claudette Petrozelli, new senator for ClaSS Of 1982 —photo by WCP National Survey Reveals Undergrad Loneliness Ronald Reagan announces proposed education cuts. Stockman, whose suggestions will be incorporated in President Reagan's budget proposal to Congress, also wants to cut entirely federal support of NDSL's. Now the four percent loans are awarded to students when the students' schools agree to put up 10 percent of the money needed. The government would then put up the remaining 90 percent at favorable interest rates. If the Stockman plan is approved, students and parents will have to pay the regular market interest rates on the loans, which at this writing is at about 20 percent. banks charge other customers (continued on Page 10) Finally, Stockman wants 286,000 students cut from the Pell Grant But Stockman wants the federal government to phase out its supports of NDSL's in 25 percent increments over the next four years. Millions of other students will be touched by Stockman's recommended cuts in Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL), National Direct Student Loan (NDSL) and Pell Grant (formerly Basic Educational Opportunity Grants) financial aid funding. libraries programs Under the Stockman plan, in which the government underwrites loans to students and parents at low interest rates, money would be provided only after remaining sources of aid were accounted for in determining a student's need. The government would also drop "in-school interest subsidies." Under the current system, students repay back loans for tuition at nine percent interest rates, while the government pays the difference between nine percent and the regular interest rates The preview, distributed to members ot congressional budget and appropriations committees, advocates undoing much of the Middle Income Student Assistance Act — a measure that took the Carter administration two years to navigate through Congress — by Helen Cordes WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - Making good on promises to try to re-structure and cut back on federal education programs, the Reagan administration wants to reduce its support for education by 20 percent by 1982, and in the process sharply decrease financial aid to disadvantaged, minority, and middle-income students. Those are the highlights of budget recommendations made by Officials of Management and Budget Chief David Stockman in a confidential preview obtained by the Washington Post. making campuses architecturally accessible to disabled students), and money to help desegregation bilingual education and school USA Discusses Three-Year Calendar Proposals Specifically, Stockman wants to consolidate some 57 school aid programs into two "block grants," which would be given to state and local authorities with few strings attached. The local politicians could spend the education grants largely as they saw fit. Virtually all the special aid programs for low-income and minority students would be included in the block grants. Among the programs are $3 billion in Title I aid, SI billion in handicapped student aid (which helps pay for One legislator, Rep. Carl Perkins (D-Ky), chairman of the House Education-Labor Committee, vowed to "use his last breath," to defeat the budget cuts, says one of the congressman's aides. and replacing most college programs with two huge block grants. Reagan Proposes Education Cuts Weiss says the loneliness is compounded by the fear that "I'm the only one who feels this way." An incoming student will look around and see others happy and surrounded by friends, and will feel like a failure in comparison. Weiss told Seventeen magazine that young people idealistically expect to have many deep, lasting relationships. Failure to realize these hopes can lead to depression — another part of loneliness. Older people, with a lifetime of experience, tend to- be more realistic, however, and are not affected as deeply as teen-agers. In This Issue... Hall Chooses Canisius —page 16 fp - * f <£*$ i 'Executive in Residence' —page 8 Commencement Speaker Chosen —page 3 "We surveyed all different age groups, from 18 on up, and our results suggested that there was more loneliness among the youngest people," Weiss says. He explains that older teens begin to feel alone when they can't find substitutes for the emotional security previously offered by home & family.(CPS) — Eighteen-to-20 yearolds are probably the loneliest people in America, at least according to studies done by Dr. Robert Weiss of the University of Massachusetts-Boston, along with Dr. Richard Maisel. The final draft also contains a post-Labor day start with classes ending before the Christmas holiday and final exams in the first week of January. The Spring 1982 semester would begin the first week of February with commencement to be held the first Friday of June. The Senate also brought up the three calendar proposals, from which one will be picked and used for the next few years. will choose his replacement, stated that the students do have an input in decisions concerning the school and that the problems the Senate now faces can be solved. Quinlan replied that he doesn't want to put the time into solving the problems. The Senate tabled the calendar issue until the next meeting to give the senators a chance to review all three proposals and then make a decision. The Senate approved a resolution, 12-2-2, brought to the floor by Rick Suchan, class of '82, which makes it mandatory for a prayer to be recited before each Senate meeting. Mary Gibbons, new alternate for Class of 1982 -photo by wcp