SpartanServing the San Jose State Daily UniyersitY Community Since 193.1 Volume 88, Number 25 Thursday, March 10, 1977 Phone: 277-3181 Proposed student loan cuts could affect 2,500 at SJSU By David Willman CSUC Dean of Student Services lowest delinquency rates." Besides using the collection Cutbacks in the National Direct Sumner B. Gambee, coordinator of White said one reason money is agency, White said his office Student Loan Program (NDSL) financial aid programs, said not returned is because students reclaimed $7,000 in loan repayments could affect 2,500 SJSU students if Congress is moving toward rein- think they do not have to do so. "The through an agreement with the state congress does not reinstate the stating the NDSL. only way students can now avoid Treasury Department. program to the federal budget. "We have been extensively in repaying their loans is to take a White explained he sends a list of touch with Washington officials," teaching job in a hardship area," delinquent students to Sacramento, SJSU has the largest NDSL Gambee said from Long Beach. White said. and any tax reimbursement the program in the state, with students "The House subcommittee o .1 ap- White said the federal govern- student may have coming is borrowing $1.3 million. propriations for labor, health, ment has always reimbursed all of diverted to SJSU. education and welfare last week the unpaid money in such instances. White said the program works campus financial Jack White, voted to appropriate $300 million for In cases of disability, death and only for students remaining in aids office manager, said the NDSL the program." bankruptcy, SJSU is out the entire California, and is hopeful a similar program here relies heavily on Override fight amount of the loan, White said. plan is adopted on the federal level. annual contributions from the Gambee added he is preparing federal government because the for a possible override fight if state matches only 10 per cent of the President Carter vetos NDSL fun- federal total. ding. NDSL loans of up to $2,500 are While White is confident Congress will preserve the NDSL S.J. airport movie: now given to students with extreme financial need. The 3 per cent in- program, he said his office is doing terest loans are usually required to everything it can to collect be payed back within 10 years, White payments from delinquent borrowers. Emmy possibility said. The NDSL was placed in "After the 120-day grace period, jeopardy last month when President we wend a letter threatening the By Doreen Carvajal flabbergasted when he first learned Jimmy Carter asked congress to student with legal action," White "Airport '76. Destination '86" of the awards. abolish the $300 million loan said. "If there is no response within is not the name of the latest catas- "It took a lot of energy to program. Carter said spiraling 30 days, we turn it over to our trophe movie. produce, but it fell together into a of work. repayment default and bankruptcy collection agency, General Credit Produced by the SJSU urban fairly creditable piece that it wasn't so rates can no longer be absorbed. Corporation of Los Angeles." planning department, the t.v. docu- Perhaps the fact SJSU is now getting one-third of mentary analysis of San Jose's air- polished and plasticized gave it an authentic quality," Rothblatt said. the federal money it received last White said the SJSU loan fund port transportation has won the Best fiscal year, White said. He added loses one-third of all money of West award for informational Kurt illo.nn gathered by General Credit. public television programming by The movie's intent, he said, was federal officials were distressed by to portray four alternatives: airport the 36 per cent loan repayment Students who refuse to pay back the Western Educational Society for their loans are required to pay all Telecommunication. expansion, growth limitation, shut delinquency rate at SJSU. down and site transfer. Just one of the crowd Payments are delinquent when court costs, attorney fees, the loan The film is being considered for itself and all interest due. White Viewers were encouraged to vote Although this tender photo suggests an intimate rapport between one man they are 120 or more days past due, an Emmy and an American Institute on the alternatives through news- than 200 said. and one feline, this man spent last weekend in the company of more White said. of Planners award and may be the paper ads and solicitations during of these creatures. See page 5 for story and photos. start of a communication trend for Average delinquency "We plead with students: we the course of the program. The discussing metropolitan issues, SJSU's 1976 delinquency rate was to re-schedule their payment results were disappointing however, offer according to its project director, 10th highest in the 19-campus CSUC but some will not Rothblatt said, because only about schedules, Donald Rothblatt, system, with 2,217 non-payments, "It's 100 people responded to the poll. A lesbians' day cooperate," White said. Rothblatt, Urban Planning De- according to White. pathetic. I recently contacted a "Women Together" is today's from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m in the S.U. partment chairman termed the Rothblatt attributed the results to "Last year 65 students declared former student in New Jersey and he theme for Women's Week. Umunhum Room. award winning movie, "a multiple- the film's competition the night it bankruptcy on us," White said. "We started crying over the phone." Lesbian Spirituality will be Three lesbian films will show used to have only three or four a advocacy approach for solving was previewed on channel 54: June 6 discussed by Zalima Xochiquetzal from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the E.U. year." metropolitan issues." The movie at- election night coverage. He said the and Helen Holtz from 9:30 to 10:95 Almaden Room. Higher delinquency tempted to discuss various airport method of viewer polling was a.m. in the S.U. Umunhum Room Phyllis Lyon, co-author of The NDSL program here will Dennis Fusi, senior ad- alternatives in an objective manner probably not the most effective. In A panel on the lesbian and society "Lesbian Woman," will speak on become completely dependent on ministrative analyst for CSUC and then solicited viewer opinion. the future polling will probably be will be held from 10:45 a.m. to noon "Lesbian: Past, Present and loan repayments if federal money is auxiliary organizations, said most conducted by telephone interview, in the S.U. Guadalupe Room. Future," from 3:30 to 9:30 p.m. in cut-off, White said. CSUC campuses in large urban The project was produced mainly he said. the S.U. Loma Prieta Room. areas have high delinquency rates. through volunteer effort. Urban Further productions are planned Barbara Grier will speak on The Berkeley-Oakland Women's "We expect 9950,000 to be paid planning graduate students re- by the urban planning department if "Neither Profit nor Salvation" from Chorus sings tonight at 8 in the S.U. back this year," White said. He "Large metropolitan campuses searched the program and public adequate funding can be attracted. noon until 1:30 p.m. in the S.U. Loma Ballroom. After the concert, added he doubts many new students have higher rates because it is television channel 54 employes Rothblatt said. His students are cur- Prieta Room, members of the audience are invited will be given NDSL loans if congress easier to get lost in those areas," carried out the production for the rently researching the issue of San A lesbian sexuality workshop to share their musical talents with does not approve the necessary Fusi said. "On the other hand, Chico program. Jose's open space for a possible with Barbara Arms will be held everyone. funding. State and Fresno State have the Rothblatt said he was completely movie. Senior citizens 'treated like garbage' 'Don't get old' 93-year-old woman warns By Alan Janson Aging is a constant process that they are protected and shown a eluded. tell us what it's like," she contended. not with the living conditions of the because I'm too radical," she said. for most leads to old age. Yet how direction in life, according to Millen. Millen enjoys reading and She heard that instead of the Catholic Women's Center where she "I never had much use for Nixon many people consider that when "But people are pushed into re- believes everyone should keep in- "pearly gates," one passes through lives but with the dirtiness of the he didn't amount to a hill of beans." they are young? tirement," Millen exclaimed. "They formed. She said that reading helped a tunnel and said she was disap- neighborhood. Millen doesn't believe that Ford "Don't get old," warned 93-year- aren't prepared for it." keep the mind young. pointed. She said a friend of hers no longer was much better. old Isabelle M. Millen. "It isn't the "You have to rebuild your life While looking through a maga- However, she thinks one should wants to visit because of the trash Her hope for the future is that golden years." over again," she said. zine, she said how much she liked look on the bright side of things, outside. Carter put people to work, which she The white-haired, blue-eyed Millen, who has a son living in the pictures. which includes the next life. In protest, Millen wrote a letter to believes would cut the number of Millen is one of the residents of the Sunnyvale said she would never "When I come back in my next Millen also indicated she might Mayor Janet Gray Hayes suggesting crimes.