Misleading Parents' Statements Result in Financial Aid Cuts Despite
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MPUS Vol. 95, No. 18 Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. — Tuesday, September 28, 1971 Misleading parents' statements result in financial aid cuts Ely JOHN TAYLOR ments were then compared with State Income Tax reports, and, based on this, a formula was used Scrutinization of parental financial statements, to determine the student's need. leading to several "eye-opening" discoveries and It is discrepancies between the two reports consequential cuts in student aid is mainly respon- which led to cuts. According to Cathie, some of sible for the lower amounts of grants and loans the reports did not mesh; some parents stated received by some students, according to Walter they made less than they actually did. Some re- Cathie, Director of Student Aid. ports may have been merely miscalculated, but A $300 rise per student in college expenses others he claims were "blatant misrepresenta- necessitated a re-evaluation of student financial tions" and some "out and out frauds". LIBRARIAN MARGARET MOSER need by the Student Aid office. Since it was finan- Even allowing a 5% variance for the expected cially unfeasible merely to grant the additional income and the actual income, Cathie is able to sum to all students on aid, a total of some $210,000, produce substantial proof of incorrect declara- Cathie's office compared estimates for past years tions. He has an impressive list of at least two dozen such cases and quoted on example of a Despite overcrowding, $10,000 declaration for an actual income of $19,000. This last case may serve as the basis of a court case by the college. new library is far off In past years, all reports were used, but never checked as closely as they were this year. By MIKE TROMBLEY question that the situation is bad," Cathie emphasized that the college has not To anyone who has spent half she said in interview. "Not intol- changed its policy on determining the amount of an hour feeling his way down the erable but bad. We have no room student aid needed and that the formula used is of the nation's murky stacks in Reis Library, for books, readers or staff. Ev- a natural one followed by 90% hoping the muggers haven't been erywhere we are badly, if not dan- universities and colleges. Further, he added, the driven inside by the rain, the in- gerously, overcrowded." total amount of aid given by the college had ac- adequacy of Allegheny 9s present Several years ago the college tually increased over last year. library facilities is self-evident. established independent science Many students were upset that they had re- Unfortunately, relief is a long way libraries in Carr and Carnegie ceived cuts in aid from the college despite the off. Halls and recently Miss Moser $300 rise in fees. Of those receiving notices According to apublic statement and her staff have begun to file of aid cuts last year, approximately six of an m ade by President Pelletier at the books in the basement of South original 30 to 40 students returned to protest beginning of September, the col- Hall, a space allotted to her by the cuts after having his individual case ex- lege is fiscally unable to make the administration when over- plained by Cathie. further capital expenditures in the crowding in the Reis basement Cathie stated that the amount of aid given near future. Pelletier's statement became critical. Students must makes it possible for the student to attend the was backed by Treasurer Allen request these books with permis- college, but does make it "tight" for the par- Edwards who said that, because sion slips at the main desk in Reis ents and so he also tries to find them part- of the tremendous financial drain and wait, often a day, forbooksto time jobs on campus. on building funds for the construc- be delivered. He claims his office has "tightened up" on student jobs and although hiring students is still tion of Allegheny's new 4.1 mil- When Miss Moser became head ti lion dollar College Union, the col- librarian she reorganized the left to the individual departments, he has been fairly successful in encouraging the employment lege could not even begin con- present collection in Reis for eas- struction of a new library until ier accessability, but rearrange- 'of those in student aid. He maintains there is AID DIRECTOR CATHIE no great difference in wages paid, and in de- 1975. ment has a limited effect and Trapped in the age-old econo- things are going to get worse. with claims of actual income at the end of that year. fense of the Athletic Department, which came mic bind are Allegheny's stu- Working condisions for the li- A more than 5% variance between the two state- under attack last year, he claims that all but two of those working are on financial aid and dents, and its head librarian Miss ments existed, adjustments were made to compen- that one of those two received aid last year. Margaret Moser. "There is no See LIBRARY, P. 8 sate for over- and underawarding. These state- Versatile Gregory lectures here tonight cation, Gregory said of the Klu By JEAN BRILL mother that their family was "not poor, just broke." The difference Klux Klan, "They're out of date. They must be the only ones in Dick Gregory, comedian, civil was important to him, even then. the country who don't use colored rights leader, author, and write- In high school, Gregory dis- sheets." Nor did he indict only in Presidential candidate, contin- tinguished himself in athletics the South. "The only difference ues his coast-to-coast lecture and gained a scholarship to South- ern Illinois University, where he between- Mississippi and Mary- tour at Allegheny this evening land," he said, is that one wears with a speech on "Social Prob- set records in track. After time a sheet and the other wears a lems — Social or Antisocial?" in the army, and working in the gray flannel suit." Gregory's lecture, which initiates post office — where his attempts at humor were not appreciated and the college's 1971-72 Public E- Authored two books vents Series, will begin at 8 pm got him fired — he took his rou- tine to nightclubs, gaining little in the new Campus Center Audi- Gregory's new activism pro- recognition and less pay. A per- torium. duced two books, the most recent formance before servicemen in being "Sermons." The earlier Known for 'integrated humor' the Roberts Show Club was suc- volume, an autobiography carries cessful and from there Gregory the title "Nigger" along with this Gregory has won wide respect- went on to play such recognized dedication to and about the au- even William F. Buckley, Jr. is establishments as the Chicago thor's mother: "The next time one of his fans- for the way he playboy Club. she overhears the word 'nigger' has treated the subject of racial she will know someone is talking Turns to civil rights prejudice with a humor that con- about my book." ceals none of the subject's ser- In 1961 Gregory was almost ex- Gregory's present lecture tour iousness. He has always been clusively a comedian, but this was started in Waterville, Maine,in- known for "integrated humor," to change. With success and wider eludes Tuesday's appearance at which he is credited with invent- travel came a desire to aid the Allegheny and terminates in San ing in 1961 at a Chicago club,. black cause directly. After re- Diego, California. Such activity There he broke the long silence turning from a trip to Hawaii, has cost him time and money, as surrounding the race issue, and he resolved to turn his hand as one interview with "Holiday" ma- replaced it with a flip but ser- well as his talent to the civil gazine reveals. He explained on ious "line" that only later be- rights movement and was soon this occasion that he must sacri- came popular. leading demonstrations. In 1963, fice lucrative job offers "for the he outraged Mississippi officials sake of the movement." Then he Scholastic athlete by protesting that state's use of turned to his manager who as- Gregory's stardom (and then literacy tests as a device to keep sured him he was broke. This he has been before and he may be a- /#4 prominence) did not come easily. blacks from registering to vote. gain: broke, never poor. Born in 1932, he was told by his Never forgetting his original vo- DICK GREGORY Page 2 CAMPUS Tuesday, September 28, 1971 The new dropouts Allegheny College does not make it into the national news media very often, so it must have come as a blow to publicity-conscious ad- ministrators to find that when Time magazine did get around. to mentioning the school, as it did in the "Education" section of yes- terday's issue, it was as the last known campus address of a "volun- tary dropout" who had become "disenchanted" with higher educa- tion. "The average guy can get his liberal arts education by reading in his spare time," declared Allegheny drop-out (and former Campus editor) Roger Klotz. Adding insult to injury, Klotz was the only permanent drop-out mentioned in the article, as a kind of after- thought to an examination of the increase in (less completely disil- lusioned) students who "stop out"—drop out of college temporarily to gain experience. It is a significant increase, Time reports, and a puzzling one to parents who accepted as dogma and reverently passed on to their children the belief that a college diploma was the gateway to social and (especially) financial fulfillment.