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The Sou 'wester Vol. 80 No. 4 Rhodes College Thursday, February 13, 1992 1 Weeden Discusses Proposed .. Changes To Financial Aid Policy by Brent Moberly "and the fact is that most parents are On Wednesday, February 4, Art going to school at home in the com- I Weeden, director of financial aid, met munity and paying very close to public with the student assembly to discuss school costs." Because there is a small proposed changes to the school's number of students who fit into this financial aid policies. category, this change will not affect According to Weeden, the changes many students. The effect on the few are necessary to offset the growing im- students who do fit into this category, balance between student needs and however, will be substantial because funds available. Weeden said that for of the importance of the "number in next year, student needs will exceed college total." available funds by 378,000 dollars. He "Another thing that is being con- estimated that by 1999 this difference sidered," Weeden said, "is not to will be over 2 billion dollars if changes allow a zero contribution from a are not made to the current policy. parent. In other words, to have a The imbalance arises because the minimum contribution from the rise in funds available to financial aid parents - say two hundred dollars." programs has not been enough to off- Weeden rationalized this change by set the rise in the cost of an education. usual- The amount of money that students are saying that a student's parents able to apply to their education from ly contribute about two hundred outside sources, such as off-campus dollars to the student's education scholarships, has remained relatively anyway through miscellaneous fixed over the past few years. There expenses. has been a slight rise in the amount of The third consideration is to place funds available from federal aid pro- a limit on all merit scholarships except grams, but it has not risen enough to for the Moore and the Bell- Director of Financial Aid Art Weeden describes to Student Assembly the current funding imbalance in Financial match the increased cost of education. ingrath/Hyde scholarships at one thou- Aid. One of the proposed remedies is abolishing "zero contribution." In other words, the funds available to sand dollars below tuition. students are not adequate to cover the Weeden also mentioned that the col- costs of education. lege may put a cap on home-equity Michta Addresses Future Of Eastern "Our policy has been to attempt to values at three times the parent's in- meet 100% of the need," Weeden come. He said that this would help Europe In Seidman Lecture said, but he indicated that there will people who have seen a rapid rise in be changes to this policy. He stress- the value of their property while still by J. B Cormler the extreme amounts of foreign invest- federation around the Russian core and ed, however, that the changes will not retaining a fixed income. On Tuesday, February 4, at 8:00, ment. Fifty percent of all foreign in- he may lose popularity due to the hard- affect currently enrolled students of the Weeden stressed that all of these Dr. Andrew Michta presented the first vestment in Eastern Europe is going ships of winter. Furthermore, one college; he said that the changes will changes are proposals and that even if of this year's M. L. Seidman Town into Hungary. can't reform a state if one doesn't first affect the students of next year's they were enacted, they would only be temporary measures to suppress the Hall Lecture Series, discussing "The When looking at the Balkans, know where it should be going. freshman class. Post Communist Successor States: Michta says that the picture isn't very Michta then proceeded to make Weeden said that the college is con- rising imbalance between available Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union pleasant. Yugoslavia is fragmented; some predictions about what he felt sidering three major changes to the funds and costs until changes are made in the 90's" in Hardie Auditorium. He Romania admits to having manipulated would happen within the decade. He financial aid policy: in the federal financial aid policies. discussed just about every aspect of the its election in 1991; and Bulgaria is feels very optimistic about the The first would be to not allow Students are concerned that changes region and posed some interesting struggling to come to terms with its Triangle. The key to their success will parents to include themselves in the in the financial aid policy will lower challenges and questions regarding the communist past. There is strife and be the new German state. Germany "number in college" total. Weeden the academic standards of the college. future of the region. He also gave his conflict throughout this region and the has vested interest in their success in said that Rhodes is one of the few They feel that academic ability, not estimation of the future of Eastern developed core of Western Europe order to contain the migration of the private schools that still allow this. wealth, should be the prime factor in Europe. doesn't really care. The low-level poor, which has already started to "The number in college figure is the the selection of students for this Michta stated before beginning his violence in the Balkans poses no threat happen-Russians move into Poland as most powerful figure," Weeden said, university. lecture that he was speaking on the of global war, so Western Europe can Poles move into (former) East Ger- future of the Union of Soviet Socialist afford to ignore the situation. many as East Germans move into Republics, but the recent changes in Then there is the Commonwealth of (former) West Germany. SRC Constitutional Changes Proposed the area altered his topic slightly. Independent States, which is really a In the Balkans, Slovania and Croatia by Chris Emanuel 5) Defines who is allowed to attend Michta claimed that Eastern and confederation. Michta claims that this will probably take Yugoslavia's place Central Europe was the place of successor to the Soviet Union is in the Pentagonal/Hexagonal group. Several revisions of the SRC con- meetings. origination for the two world wars as heading nowhere. Russia claims to be This was originally created in 1989 stitution have been proposed. These 6) Creates a new statement for well as the Cold War. The Cold War dominant, but doesn't have the and composed of Italy, Austria, changes have been approved by the ad- entering students to sign. ended with the reunification of Ger- military to back up that claim. Ukraine Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugo- ministration but cannot be adopted 7) Clarifies who must take the many, since, Michta claimed, the is printing its own currency in spite of slavia; Poland joined later. This group without the approval of a majority vote prescribed oaths during trials. USSR was only a great power as long the fact that Russia claims that their is trying to restore the infrastructure of the student body. This vote will take 8) Remove any provisions for as Germany was divided. ruble is the only legal tender. And then of the region. It now has about 100 place when the new SRC President is character witnesses. there is the question of nuclear projects elected. The purpose of this article is He categorized three separate areas underway including the build- 9) Clarifies the role of the Counsel. in Eastern Europe: the Triangle, a weapons. Yeltsin wanted Russia to ing of a new North-South expressway to summarize the proposed changes term coined in 1989 to describe have them all, but Ukraine felt that this and the laying of fiber optic cable. which are as follows: 10) Furtherdefines what is meant by Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary; was unacceptable. This leaves Ukraine The tragedy of the CIS is that Russia 1) Provides for two secretaries in- a quorum. the Balkans; and the USSR successor with a greater nuclear capacity than is excluded from Europe. Germany is stead of one. These changes have been thoroughly states. He then discussed the situation either France or the United Kingdom. valiantly trying to aid Russia because 2) Changes "freshmen" to "first discussed and I believe greatly of each of these three areas. This all points to a progressive it recognizes that should Russia be cut year students" throughout. strengthen the existing constitution. If Michta stated that the Triangle is the deterioration of the system. off from Europe, it would not only be 3) Shortens terms of the faculty and there are any questions about these most successful region of the former Michta claims that it will all hinge difficult to deal with, but would also administration advisors from two changes or if you would like a copy Soviet bloc, claiming that by the end on the decision of the senior military pose a greater threat. It is in Europe's years to one. of the revised constitution sent to you, of the decade they will be full officials as well as Yeltsin's ability to best interest to see the CIS fragment 4) Provides for the dismissal of please contact me at 726-3069. Copies members of the EC. Of these three, keep popular support. The military because as a divided group, it would Council-members after two unexcus- of the original and revised constitu- Hungary is the most successful, due may force Yeltsin to gather the con- pose less of a military risk.

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