OBSER VER Volume 16, Number 6 College at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York April 15, 1992 CONGRESS USG PROPSES CONSIDERS HIGHER EflSINGLIMIT ACTIVITY FEE ON RID By Anastasla Damlanakos The United Student Government met on FArr-"B"f agteagMsa—^-^: .- April 8th to discuss several proposals. The agenda included the first draft of the new Constitution, plans for Senior week, a proposed increase of the student activity fee, and future plans for the the Student Lounge. Although many senators did not attend, =_= z —"•fir ~* • • » • this meeting was crucial in deciding the budget for USG. The Student Activity fee may be increased up to $75 by Fall 1993. "We desperately need the money... it would make the quality of life at Fordham a little p*«r« »j ««j Locke The Council also announced allocation of beds in the donn bit better", said Freshman senator Mike Murray. A petition for the increase has to be signed by 15 percent of the undergraduate student body ( 265 students) before it goes into effect. COLLEGE COUNCIL DISCUSSE The Student Lounge will be furnished will a VCR , a television.and a a stereo sound system if the Fall budget allows. QUINN MEMORIAL The Senior Week cruise will cost $60 per Sheila Harris beds which students can choose on a fust .ticket. Plans to name the Lowenstein Library after come first serve basis. the late Dr. Gerald M. Quinn, Dean of CLC, CLC was allocated 295 out of the 400 beds phmtm by Roy Loekt and the status of the new Lincoln Center that were asked for, said Bristow, and along By Sean Gallagher Dormitory were some of the topics discussed with the pooled beds, CLC should have from G.R.E. Computes at the College Council meeting on April 2. 350-375 beds. He said that one of the criteria t Legislation now in a Congressional for allocating pooled beds is based on the committee has the possibility of increasing The College Council, announced its plans to have a plaque in honor of the late Dean distribution of full-time students on each By Rebecca Sausner financial aid to students at CLC, according The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) will to Mark Goldstein, Associate Director of Quinn. An unveiling ceremony of the plaque school's campus, which we have more of. is scheduled to be held on the first CLC will have floors 3-8, the 9th and 10th be available in a computerized format, Financial Aid. beginning in October 1992. The format of "Every so often the government looks at anniversary of his death, Wednesday floors are the pooled beds, and floors 11-20 November 11,1992 at 4 p.m.. are for the graduate students. the test is being designed b'y the the whole financial aid component in Educational Testing Service (ETS) and terms of the basics, from filing to the After Quinn's death there was "a Organizing Freshman life was another topic spontaneous outpouring" of suggestions of relating to life in the Dorm. Having faculty will be available at 400 Sylvan Learning allocation of it [aid] and they see what, in Centers across the country. the past few years was wrong about it, what what the University should do to members working with Freshmen in groups commemorate Dean Quinn, said Edward J. that dealt with certain themes, such as The computerized format that will be needs to be changed," Goldstein said of available in the fall is an exact copy of the the reauthorization of the Higher Bristow, Acting Dean of CLC. A committee service/volunteer work, was one of the ideas met and decided to make a request to the brought up at the meeting. standard pencil and paper version that will Education Act, which covers most federal be given at the same time. 'In this linear student aid programs. Congress last looked Board of Trustees of the University to name "It's a way of underscoring to incoming the library the Gerald M. Quinn Library, he students what makes us different than other form, the questions proceed in a at the financial aid system in 1986, said predetermined order, just as on the paper Goldstein. The reauthorization process is said. institutions," said Michael Marine, Assistant Professor of History, after the meeting. version. Research on the 1,200 students influenced by the fact that it is an election "With its "encyclopedic quality, it's most who participated in the pilot studies year and the country has been in a appropriate for carrying Gerry's name," The Council also announced its plans to showed students scores were comparable recession, he said. Bristow said. develop links between CLC and the Alvin between paper and pencil tests and the Both houses of Congress have been Another topic discussed was the allocation Ailey American Dance Center, which is linear computer test. of beds in the dormitory, which is slated to located on 61st Street near Amsterdam involved in looking at the system of aid to Another type of computerized GRE is college students. The House of open in Spring '93. Out of the 861 beds in Avenue. It is hoped that by January "93, CLC the 20-story dorm, which will house grads students, and the Dance Center's students, tentatively slated for release in September Representatives overwhelmingly passed a of 1993. In this format, the questions are bill that would raise income eligibility for and undergrads, 18 are for handicapped will be able to take courses at each other's students and 38 are for residential assistants campuses. CLC students can take courses at selected by the computer, based on all students to receive grants and loans to whether you answered the previous $49,000. The vote took place on March and faculty, said Bristow. This leaves 805 the Dance Center through the theater program beds, and there is an additional 110 pooled or as electives for credit. question correctly or not. The questions 27th and signaled the beginning of the keep getting harder, until you answer final phase of reauthorization. The Senate incorrectly. The next question is easier, voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill and so on. The computer is able to test on financial aid in February. Both bills are around this level, each question now in committee to work out a NEW YORK'S RAUCUS determining your score more precisely. compromise. Congress wants to institute "This test allows for less of a standard the changes by 1993, "but as anything in deviation, allowing it (o be a far more politics you're going to have squabbles," CAMPAIGN : accurate test.",, said Fred Danzig, Vice Goldstein said. He said it was more likely President of Product Development and that any changes would take effect in Research at the Stanley Kaplan test prep 1994. CLINTON WINS, JERRY SPINS, center. The House bill raises the amount of The linear version of the test will money a student can receive, and at the & TSONGAS DECIDES TO GET OUT eventually be phased out in preference to same time widens the pool of students that By Cecil Harris the computer adaptive version. However, are eligible for Pell Grants, said Goldstein. eligible Democrats chose not to vote at all. the pencil and paper version will not be "In the past few years to receive a Pell Arkansas governor Bill Clinton revived a Clinton won in each of the five boroughs completely phased out in the foreseeable Grant has been petty much difficult," said flagging campaign and significantly with Brown placing second, more than future, said Danzig. unproved his chances of capturing the Goldstein. The House bill would raise the 100,000 votes behind. Clinton beat This test will also be about $45 more than current limit on Pell Grants of $2400 to Democratic presidential nomination by Tsongas in the suburbs, and outdistanced winning the New York primary on April 7. the standard linear version, though fee $4500 in 1994, when the changes are Tsongas in the upstate counties by roughly waivers will still be available for hoped to take effect, said Goldstein. Clinton received 41 percent of the vote, 100,000 votes financially eligible students. The The Senate bill takes a similar approach defeating runner-up Paul Tsongas, the Clinton's hard-fought New York win computerized test will provide greater to Pell Grants, but it does not raise the former Massachusetts senator who capped an evening of important victories flexibility in scheduling, immediate score maximum a student can receive as quickly. suspended his campaign last month. for the candidate, who had lost to Brown reporting to examinees, faster reporting It would be raised slowly and would reach Tsongas got 29 percent of the vote to in Connecticut three weeks ago. Clinton time to institutions, and a shortened $4800 in 1999. The House bill also allows Brown's 26 percent. The remaining four also won in Wisconsin and Kansas on April period between registration and testing. percent was split among former Irvine, CA 7, increasing his overall delegate count to an inflation index to be attached to the Students who are not computer literate maximum grant. Goldstein was not mayor Larry Agran, former Minnesota 1,267, leaving him 878 short of the 2.145 senator Eugene McCarthy, Nebraska delegates needed to win the Democratic may feel more anxious in this situation. optimistic about the changes saying, "I Neither computerized version allows you don't believe the government has the senator Bob Kerrey and Iowa senator Tom presidential nomination. Harkin. Kerrey and Harkin remained on to check your work, or to go back and funding for it right now." A week before the New York primary, change answers.